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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-07-21 09:22 pm

Ralph Allison and the "trauma before the age of 7" urban legend

Rogan/Mori: So, way back in the tumblr days, I would see this multi urban legend that you could only become multi if you'd been traumatized before the age of... well, the exact age would change depending on legend iteration, apparently nine was the magic number I saw in 2011, but I feel like seven was another. I could not for the life of me figure out where this stupid idea CAME from, and it drove me crazy!

Well, surprise, but while digging around doing etymological research (i.e., digging in Ralph Allison's published papers), I might've found a source of the urban legend: Allison's "Critical Issues: MPD & DID Should Be Used For Two Separate Groups of Dissociators" CANDID (California News of Dissociation and Identity Disorder), 3(3):4, 1995. (And apparently I even knew about this back in 2011 when I first blogged about this stupid urban legend, but I didn't dig deeper or put two and two together.) This paper is worth discussing, just because... well, it's crackpot as hell, and a nice example of why you shouldn't believe everything a therapist tells you, no matter how famous or (once) well-respected they are (or were).

This started as us reading a stupid paper about this guy's cracked ideas, only for us to get sucked into pointing at it as a stellar example of why therapists should not be treated like gods. )
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kossai ([personal profile] kossai) wrote2025-07-20 07:00 pm

mushroom musume ~ more lore !

so now go through tale of kid from acheron , and revenger from cocytus . not sure if there is any specific order these stories appear in or what , but really want to see where all these pieces go ...

also , did not realise soundtrack was out for like this last week , oops ! now have that too to slurp into library and love forever :3 and uh ... take break from spend money , for little while at least .
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-07-18 08:03 pm
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Cripping Interior Design

Mori: you know how some people got really into sourdough or birding because of COVID? Well, Biff got really into interior design.

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kossai ([personal profile] kossai) wrote2025-07-18 11:08 am

mushroom musume ~ rapidfire !

so did not want to get too into meta-game aspects , but inevitably get really into meta-game aspects , bwahahaha . record every little scrap of information possible in obsidian vault , and fill out some of slightly more obtuse conditions to get new ends and new rewards . so to recap some of highlights from daughters ...



there is lots of fun stuff which not even touch yet , and that is what honestly love . still need 2 more daughters to fill in with humpty , still need some daughters who can show caelia cool things , still actually need to take several people to gala - copper woman , doomed lady , violet coral girl ... think there is something about gala mission with thief , too ? that one seem like so much fun . and that is to say nothing of actual long-term lore and mysteries of world .

really want to go for teacher's pet though , need creepy girl for that - mushy apple would be so useful , so many of these girls completely illiterate . different endings give player different items for garden , and these garden items hold influence over traits daughter will grow with - mushy apple give bookworm ( literacy ) and little pet worm ( cuteness ) .

this is also why consistently end up with multiple of same daughter types - without knowledge of how to meta-game garden , will probably end up with random grab bag of traits and stats , so without any changes can produce same ones over and over .
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kossai ([personal profile] kossai) wrote2025-07-17 08:05 pm

some thoughts on freedom from agab

funny situation this is - originally post here on dreamwidth under access list last week , just now crosspost to tumblr , and now port back over to dreamwidth because this version is slightly different from original with hopefully better clarity .

think about how to try and word something , which is ... just hate agab as this cornerstone of identities and definitions . might work out fine for some people with really clear agab , but not everyone do . frankly , even those who do have binary classification might still have traits which break these expectations , which can massively complicate relationship with internal gender .

can not say one perfect answer to what trans definition should be , literally just some guys online here , but would much prefer to see focus on subversion of what others expect gender to be . that would mean everyday social factors , presentation , and more - agab and legal identification only one slice of that , and ideally would not be near as much of factor in future , if at all .

consider : two boys can grow up to be men with very different ideas of what manhood feel like , despite genders that apparently start out identical . so too is true of girls who become women , let alone boys who become women , girls who become men , and literally any other permutation out there , binary or not . seem weird to define transness by agab with considerations like this .

would that in effect widen what trans means ? maybe so . but would that really be so bad ? think , like plurality , transness is very much framework that everyone should get to personally define relationship with - certain experiences obviously major hallmarks , but that should only be start of considerations , not end .

not really big believer in idea of " normalise " when prefer for ideas of normal to not exist in first place . so maybe kossai just have faerie bias , but would like to have world where these kind of definitions become much less impactful on everyday life . not big deal to come out , not big deal to change , not difficult to gain access to chosen hormones and surgeries - freedom to do anything , and be anything , just simple facts of life .

( hm . maybe should get little graphic of intersex flag with faerie wings . )