Today's crab is: patiently waiting and polite

lesbian flag color-picked from this crab...

hate when couples say ‘we’re pregnant!!!’ both of you? prove it

his and hers matching pregancies

THIS ISNT ABT ‘cis’ mpreg ITS ABT TRANS MEN BE QUIET

My friend who has a gyno dad tells the best story about a couple (cis woman-trans man) who both tried in vitro fertilization and the guy got pregnant, and they were talking about it in the lobby when a cishet couple started getting weird abt it and said sth about it being "unnatural". Her dad heard and was like, "UNNATURAL? EVERYTHING WE DO HERE IS UNNATURAL, God didn't wanna give you guys a kid as much as he didn't want to give one to this couple! And you all came to me for the same thing! WE ONLY DO UNNATURAL!!! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU CAN LEAVE!" and to this day I've never respected a doctor more.

I talk to many people who say things like "oh I have trauma but I don't have PTSD", but then when I talk to them a little more I realize that they most likely do, they just can't recognize it as such due to how lacking PTSD awareness is, even beyond the whole "it's not just a veteran's disorder" thing.

The main reason they think they don't have PTSD usually has to do with flashbacks and nightmares, either they have one but not the other or have neither. But here's the thing, those are only two symptoms out of the 23-odd recognized symptoms. Flashbacks and nightmares are two of the five symptoms under Criterion B (Intrusion), which you only need one of for a diagnosis. The other three symptoms are unwanted upsetting memories, emotional distress after being reminded of trauma and physical reactivity after being reminded of trauma (i.e. shaking, sweating, heart racing, feeling sick, nauseous or faint, etc). Therefore you can have both flashbacks and nightmares, one but not the other, or neither and still have PTSD.

In fact, a lot of the reasons people give me for why they don't think they have PTSD are literally a part of the diagnostic criteria.

"Oh, I can barely remember most parts of my trauma anyway." Criterion D (Negative Alterations in Cognition and Mood) includes inability to recall key features of the trauma.

"Oh but I don't get upset about my trauma that often because I avoid thinking of it or being around things that remind me of it most of the time." Criterion C (Avoidance) includes avoiding trauma-related thoughts or feelings and avoiding trauma-related external reminders, and you literally cannot get diagnosed if you don't have at least one of those two symptoms.

"Oh I just have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep, but I don't have nightmares." Criterion E (Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity) includes difficulting sleeping outside of nightmares.

"But I didn't have many/any trauma symptoms until a long time after the trauma happened." There's literally an entire specification for that.

Really it just shows how despite being one of the most well-known mental illnesses, people really don't know much about PTSD. If you have trauma, I ask you to at least look at the criteria before you decide you don't have PTSD. Hell, even if you don't have trauma, look at the criteria anyway because there are so many symptoms in there that just are not talked about.

PTSD awareness is not just about flashbacks and nightmares.

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THIS IS SO SWAG SHE LOOKS SO GOOD IN UR ART STYLE... the sparkly eyes... shes so shapes

Hello i'm a normal person here's some stuff i drew to illustrate different traits different "person getting controlled" tropes can have

inspired by the dsmp one

thanks for playing! unfortunately, 89.2% of you have failed this pop quiz and WILL be retaking the semester

the answer was: a woman chainsaws her way through a door by using a tube of lipstick! as a handful of you pointed out, this happens in problem sleuth, but NOT homestuck.

evidence for all these other things happening in homestuck below:

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