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I grew up in a small mountain tourist town in a mostly-rural area in the 80s and 90s surrounded by well-meaning (generally) small-mindedness, uncertainty, and fear. In this environment, I was one of the first people in America to wear a tail to school every day starting midway …
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into my Junior year of high school. I was intelligent, strange, misunderstood, stereotyped, chastised, and even regarded as evil/sinful or dangerous. I survived, even somewhat flourished, just fine by my own will and dedication to myself and …
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my identity (my self-esteem), and I will continue to do such.
In 2001 I was 'fucked over' at the University of Colorado in Boulder by someone (David Loziuk) who decided I must be eliminated. I knew 'too much' about his illegal activities and because he was rich and socially acceptable, and …
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I had just attempted suicide, he was successful in eliminating me while I spiraled out of control. I was never a danger to anyone except myself. I have never, since then, or since joining other furs in the early 2000s in the Denver metropolitan area and …
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surrounding cities (the Front Range), experienced this type of disparagement or this level of inaccuracies regarding me. Not from Kiwi Farms, not from David, not from Nathan, not from the police, not from my hometown (where I'm adored now).
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Liana Kerzner from It's Not Therapy @nottherapyshow.bsky.social, a show I was a *guest* on, a professional peer counselor nottherapyshow.com, is perpetuating mental health stigma because she's now "terrified," to quote her, of what I'll talk about (which I take great pains …
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to make sure is true and mine to say.) It is *not* a "trauma response" in my opinion, and if it really is, then she should stop making public vague comments about he situation and seek therapy or hospitalization.
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I told her on the show I was on that when I am starting to pique, when I am entering into total Borderline dysphoria, a sort of emotional fugue, I completely shut down and "do nothing." …
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That's exactly what I did when it occurred for the first time in a decade. Mrs. Kerzner has continued to punish me for it. For not remaining in contact with her in my most vulnerable volatile state.
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Well, I'm not in a fugue, or pique-ing now, and have had a lot of time to reflect. Now, I've put my ducks in a row and I'm speaking out.
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