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In the land of #facism born when colonializers came to turtle island hundreds of years ago - #MutualAid is how my #Indigenous family survives

I can't work since becoming homeless a year ago

I'm a #caretaker 24/7 for my mom in a small hotel room, she's 72 and has dementia

I have #CPTSD and chronic illness undiagnosed giving me dietary needs that I shouldn't have to explain

Can you spare anywhere from $1-$50 today? It adds up

paypal.me/SabiLewSounds

consider this a #introduction i guess

i'm not new to fedi. if you recognize who i am; good for you. but don't speak of that person

if not, then this post is for you

idk what i will be posting, i guess mostly shitposts or random daily things. i used to post art on fedi but the interest wasn't really there so i stopped.

to keep it short: i cw only things commonly considered to need a warning; i will not cater to your triggers unless we are friends

my posts are not an invitation for evangelism of any sorts, debates or discourse unless *explicitly* otherwise stated; spare yourself the need to disagree with me. i want this to be my comfy echo chamber

i am doing my best to recover after a severe identity break and an attempt to take away my own life so i vibecheck potential followers

friends that recognize me from my past lives will be accepted here as always

im open to chat i guess, youre free to dm me or something especially if we have stuff in common

i value actions over words, if your activism ends at "don't say mean words" then we don't share the same goal of liberation; i will value more a person with a harsh language but one that actually has the interest of the oppressed in their mind, rather than someone who sanitizes their language yet still resorts to oppressive tactics

hope that helps, some tags to position myself where i am:

#disabled #actuallyAutistic #madPride #madLiberation #cptsd #videogames #art #pokemon #retro

The US #school system is deeply flawed.

Why do we force #children to sit still for 8 hours per day? Force them to wake/sleep against their brain's natural cycle (sleep is when #memories form and for kids, neurodevelopment too).

Sometimes we even throw #medications at them to force this #compliance.

And if a kid is #neurodivergent, this is extremely toxic. e.g. I am NOT OK, the public school system has given me #cPTSD, and stunted my intellectual development.

We need to do better for all #kids. And banning #books is not the right way to do it.

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Essentially that's what my #AbuseCulture model does. It addresses those beliefs, not just within an individual survivor, but for all of us, in how we help abusers with our language, beliefs, preferences, in who we choose to defend, in our moral systems, in our laws and biases.

I've taken what I've learned from my own abuse recovery and therapy of many years, my studies on psychology and trauma, but most importantly, from learning about cults, high-demand groups, coercive persuasion, and religious trauma recovery, and merged those into a unified theory.

There really isn't much difference between domestic abuse and cult membership.

And cult recovery involves deconstructing those beliefs, making yourself aware of them so that you can consciously choose which to keep and which to throw away.

I've been out of Mormonism for 24 years, and I still find beliefs I have not been aware of this whole time. I've been away from my worst abuser for almost a decade, and still find beliefs he instilled in me that I have not yet examined.

The undue influence techniques used by cults are almost identical to those used by abusers and manipulators. These techniques are used at the societal and political levels as well, and can also demonstrate how racism, sexism, etc all work.

I can't tell you specifically which beliefs you have in you, but I can show you the purposes they serve... there will be beliefs about who you can and cannot trust, what you should be afraid of, what punishments await you for misbehaving, and a couple dozen others. Knowing that framework can guide you through discovering your own induced phobias, milieu control, and thought-terminating clichés.

(Brief plug for my book, Recovering Agency, which outlines 31 manipulation techniques in context of Mormonism, but that can be applied elsewhere.)

#ReligiousTrauma #Abuse
#PTSD #CPTSD #cults #MindControl