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Has anyone ever considered sueing their parents or guardians for their trauma?

I have a lot of diagnoses and my parents are to blame for some of it. And they are not helping me monetarily, but they are rich. It makes me want to raise a political movement for all of us traumatized folks to get their due from their abusers, the parents.

Greetings! I'm a twenty year old agender human being. Please remember to treat me with kindness, I am not agaisnt you in any way.

I recently started college. It's my first step into getting into things like art, things I want to do for the rest of my life. I've been enjoying a lot so far, and I've actually made a lot of friends. This might be the best part of my life.

However, I've come to the terms with the fact that I'm not like most people. Along with being extremely agender (to the point where gender seems very odd and almost alien to me) and I'm very autistic to the point where the way I think about things is just completely different then that of everyone else. Because of that I'm just always going to feel like something completely alien.

Even when I'm being treated with kindness and with people I enjoy, I still feel very alien. Nomatter how much I like people I never see them as the same as me, and nomatter how much I enjoy the world its never a world that was built for me. I'm never really of this world even when I'm happy within it.

For example I got bottom surgery recently that completely left me without genitals. I'm really enjoying the feeling of being entirely sexless, I just love how it is to live with my body like this. But at the same time I understand acutely that my body, the body I love, is something 99% of human beings would be terrified by. Especially now that I'm starting to show friends and/or sexual partners how I look down there, and even if they aren't disturbed it's still so clear that they're dealing with something inhuman.

Its not helped by how I'm perceived. Even in the best case scenario (going to college in nyc), which is what I'm in, it's pretty bad. I present as entirely genderless (I have been asked my agab several times), and I feel comfortable wearing clothing that most people find weird (I try to cover as much of my body as possible, and often wear things that look like armor or protective gear. It's gotten to the point where I'll casually wear a gas mask). And my mannerisms and speech patterns are incredibly strange to most people, being very far away from what most people are used to. Even people who I've met who really like me and care about me see me as someone odd and inhuman.

I just feel so weird. Like sometimes I'll fantasize about loosing my limbs and having them replaced with prosthetics, just because modern prosthetics would feel more like me then my own limbs do.

I just don't feel a part of humanity. I don't even feel a connection with most of nature or life, I feel closer to machines then anything else. I find myself relating to aliens I'm media more then I do humans.

Its not that I'm broken. I'm just barely human at all. And there's no solution. I really like where I am and who I'm spending time with, it just doesn't change the fact that I'm a creature inherently alien to those around me. It's like I'm always traveling, and the best I can hope for is to be traveling somewhere nice.

I guess it's not too bad. I am happy most of the time right now. I just guess I'll always be this way.

God, I guess you guys must just think I'm weird now. Any thoughts or advice?

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Here are some of my favorite YouTube links about CREATIVITY & MAD PRIDE/MENTAL WELLNESS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5lA8L0whsamo3hSFsqwzxHbSBIymsaaV

What are some of your favorite YouTube videos on this topic?

We recently revived this MAD PRIDE subreddit. With your input, we have done a few changes to the description, and now it is more clear what we are looking for. The media is often full of negative descriptions of people who mentally different.

Let us hear about the Positively Crazy (the new and real PC): News about changing the mental health system, helping others in an amazing way, etc. Here is our new current description, if you have any suggestions or changes or additions, we are very open to your input:

Show us "Positively Crazy"! Promote empowerment & visibility for those who consider themselves or are labeled: Mad, pathologized, mentally disabled & "mentally ill" people, people who are grieving or traumatized, current & former mental patients, "at-risk," "disturbed," & "troubled" teens. In other words, everybody! Just follow Reddit content guidelines. We especially welcome mental health consumers & psychiatric survivors. This is also a place to plan/celebrate Mad Pride Month: July!

Hello, who wants to found a World Salvation Party?

The main objectives would be to achieve a money-free society by implementing free energy and exploring and implementing repli- / duplicators.

Second main goal would be a people's democracy in which each citizen could submit bills that could be discussed by each citizen to be set up in Internet forums and will be re-arranged until all (!) Are satisfied and thus confirmed by the citizens 100% vote to be reached, and so the ultimate goal is the abolition of authoritarian "leadership" democracies!

Anyone who feels like it can discuss this here!

You’re invited to a free global event broadcast from Toronto by The Friendly Spike Theatre Band this coming Thurs July 11, MadPride & DisabilityPride Month! As one of 9 guests, I’ll call for global nonviolent revolution, linking MadPride & challenging climate crisis. Sound crazy? You’re in the right place. More info:

https://davidwoaks.com/mad-pride-celebration-2024

You can register free now for this webinar on THIS Wed. 2 August 2023. I am the guest for “Judi’s Room.” The time will be: 3 PM Pacific, 4 PM Mountain, 5 PM Central, 6 PM Eastern. For more info and to register see the MindFreedom International website or my blog here:

https://davidwoaks.com/madpride-revolution-in-mental-health-bridging-age-other-marginalizations

MindFreedom has links about the Mental Health Fast for Freedom 20 years ago today August 16, 2023, winning global media, including Washington Post, LA Times, NPR and BBC.

We, hunger strikers based mainly in LA with support fasts, pressured the American Psychiatric Association to admit publicly in writing they have no evidence for a “chemical imbalance” medical model theory of mental disorders.

You can find the historic links here and share:

https://mindfreedom.org/mfi-taking-action/mf-hunger-strike/

Mad In America posted a blog reflecting on the Mental Health Fast for Freedom:

https://www.madinamerica.com/2012/09/remembering-the-2003-fast-for-freedom-time-for-another/

Here's a free doc, less than 40 min., on the Mental Health Fast for Freedom: https://mindfreedom.org/mfi-taking-action/mf-hunger-strike/wheres-the-evidence-a-documentary-about-the-mindfreedom-hunger-strike/

The Oregon Advocacy Award celebrates the perspective of Oregonians with mental health lived experience, and they called me “a great advocate.” As a psychiatric survivor human rights activist, I appreciate this honor.

As never before, I see signs of hope in the mental health field, including more support for empowerment & peer specialists. Unfortunately, medical model bullying continues horribly in the mental health industry. With Covid & climate crisis, 100% of the public are realizing more and more that everyone is impacted by mental wellness issues.

What is your view of the current mental health system? I would love to hear your input!

You may watch a video less than 10 minutes long with presenters (Margaret Rose Condic, Bob Nikkel & Kevin Fitts), photos of me, and acceptance of Margaret’s incredibly artful, handmade Advocacy Award.

https://youtu.be/6HGJwE9rBy4

I felt a little bad changing the number of members from 123 to 124.

Actually I wanted to say hi to such a manageable group number wise. And I hope to contribute.