Snack_Bolshevik [any]

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Cake day: October 10th, 2020

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  • some thoughts for y’all this morning:

    I’m probably remembering this incorrectly but I think Fanon talks about a sort of mental crisis that happens when a colonized people internalizes what the colonizer says and does to them. These ideas can be loosely applied to the experiences of immigrants and their children, particularly those that do not find a community similar to their previous one in their new home. They can find themselves having one culture at home and a different one at school/work. This can create a sort of “split identity” since you can have contradicting experiences when moving between the two cultures.

    Now layer on top of this the “identity splitting” experience of autism and it’s correlated gender issues. Throw race into the mix and you’ve got yourself a nuclear weapons grade identity crisis. You can just pick and choose what to identify as since it’s all social constructed anyways but that can put you in real danger while not necessarily allowing you to live your most authentic self.

    Personally, I’m surprised I’ve never had an identity crisis that spiraled out of control. I’d love to hear anyone else’s thoughts






  • I’ve read some of this person’s stuff on their substack and I don’t think that their point is that therapy is bourgeois, even though this tiny bit out of context can seem that way

    I think most of us would largely agree with they have to say about how psychiatry is fundamentally a capitalist/colonial institution

    My only big critique is that they take their anarchist based thinking to the conclusion of being against “authoritarian” leftists but outside of that, I think they’re right for the most part and should be engaged with in good faith