I Think The Invention Of The Term "traumadump" Has Done Discussion Of Mental Health A Lot Of Harm. I

🔹 Someone else's fiction cannot cause you physical harm.

🔹If someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.

🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.

🔹Someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma.

🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.

🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.

🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.

🔹Don't like? Don't read.

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

An IBM slide from 1979.

Anybody else stay at crappy jobs cause you dont want your coworkers to have a shittier time.

The Do’s & Don'ts of interacting w/ content creators, & other people you don’t know well mutually I slapped together for Twitter.

This ended up being more Don'ts than Dos but I feel like people need more help learning what NOT to say once they stray away from simple compliments and questions.

You know the longer that I work in customer service the more I think kids should not be allowed to work here. Not that some of them don't have great work ethic, hell I've had teenagers work better than some adults. It's more to do with customers they say the most vile things about you just for minor things. I Have even had several come in pissed just to use me as and my fellow coworkers as punching bags. It really drags on your mental health I can only imagine the kids going through puberty having to deal with these vile people with a hairline trigger it's gross.

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“fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug”]

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡