"It is always difficult to realize that you have dysphoria — that the constant, low-grade pain you carry has a name, and could be managed, rather than just being the base conditions of your life."
Oof...
#drDevonPrice #trans #nonbinary #dysphoria
Orlando Jones, playing Mister Nancy in American Gods, gives a rousing speech below deck on a slave ship bound for the Americas, says Angry gets shit done.
" #Anger is what some psychologists call an approach-motivated emotion: it drives people forward and facilitates conflict. [...] you need a lot of energy to make dramatic life changes, learn new skills, confront mistreatment, and claim for yourself the life you really need. " #feminism #drDevonPrice
"If you have no social power, no understanding of where your suffering comes from, and no connections to people that respect you, then falling into #despair is emotionally sensible. It reflects your lack of options, and how unsafe and aimless any attempt at #rebellion would be."
#drDevonPrice #trans
The dangers of diagnosis
"when RFK Jr uses this registry of Autistic persons for whatever nefarious purposes that he has in mind, it is those hyper-visible Autistics who will be targeted first and suffer the most."
#autism #asd #resist #aspergers #drdevonprice
open.substack.com/pub/drdevonp...
A chart of a staircase depicting supposedly “vanilla” sex acts like making out and PIV sex on the bottom, with increasingly “racier” activities like roleplay, blindfolds, Dominance/submission, and taboo kinks more toward the top. The grey area in between is illustrated by a dashed line. The taboo area at the top is illustrated by "The Scary Zone" as a black and red circle.
Once again #devonPrice explains my frustrations better than I've ever been able to myself. The popular idea of the Vanilla-to-Kinky Staircase is so annoying.
This graphic is used to illustrate the faulty logic in the article: drdevonprice.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
#drDevonPrice #vanilla #kink
