just everyones daily reminder that ryou bakura is a canon queer adn trans person :3c also yami bakura is canonically aroace and agender Bye
There’s never been ‘cannon’ evidence on any of that. I can almost get the trans bit, since in the manga Bakura got bullied by students AND by teachers over his hair length. But beyond that? Nothing else supports the theory.
What you can say is cannon, is that Bakura doesn’t adhere to ‘gender norms’ and is comfortable dressing however he likes despite what others do to him.
(Including a teacher yanking on his hair, seriously wtf I don’t feel bad for that prick at all)
Disagreement over what and what isn’t cannon isn’t transphobic. And personally, I really like the headcanon of Bakura being trans. I would love for that to be cannon.
There is cannon. A thing confirmed by the creators and show lore. Aka, Rick from Rick and Morty is -cannonly- Pansexual. And Greg might be either Pan or Demi. Korra is cannonly Bi and in a romantic relationship with Asami from ATLA;LOK. And Garnet is cannonly a fused pair of tiny lesbians. Gear from Static Shock being gay is also cannon.
Head Cannons. Bakura being trans. Rick and Morty being trans. Harry Potter being literally and metaphorically in the closet is a head cannon. Haru being ace is also a head cannon. Han Solo being force sensitive- head cannon. ECT.
This does not make your headcanon any less valid. Head Cannons are meant for you to use all the grey areas and holes left by the show cannons as your own personal sandbox. Hell, even if a show were to present a cannon that directly contradicts your headcanon, no one is gonna stop you from continuing to celebrate your brain thoughts.
Not everyone that disagrees with you is ‘phobic’. Please don’t use that term so loosely in the future.
just wondering who gives a fuck whats canon an why do u feel th need to argue against trans headcanons like Who Cares whats canon. i dont. not a lot of people do. the only people who do use that as an excuse to not want their fave characters to be trans bc they hate trans people Bye
I’m… not fighting with you. Look man, you’re taking this extremely personally and I don’t think you know what the difference between what a cannon and a head cannon is.
Here’s a wiki of trans characters in film and media. I know there isn’t much yet in anime and cartoons, but its all the more reason to fight for it. Ten years ago it was unthinkable for there to be gay characters we could actually root for in children’s media and while we don’t have a enormous representation for that today, it’s certainly growing.
I hope the trend continues. I hope we see not just more same sex couples with both speaking and non speaking roles, but also 100% undeniable trans characters too. I want this to be normalized.
You should also know that Deyo, the person who commented isn’t transphobic. He could of put it better what he was feeling sure, but… jesus this is just blowing up isn’t.
Look, I’m sorry for upsetting you, that wasn’t my intention in the least.
I have a problem with poeple headcanoning trans. It feels like it puts trans people into a certain role and feels like i’’m being generalized. It feels more like trans people are being fetishized and not supported.
Asexuals of all ages need protection and respect, but the youth is probably dismissed more, especially by their parents. Like they can’t know their own feelings.
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C: is the most open to cuddling.
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Z: gets the most overzealous over something others wouldn't expect.
no offense but this is literally the most neurotypical thing i have ever seen
Uhhhh… no.
This is what they teach you in therapy to deal with BPD and general depression.
When I got out of the hospital after hurting myself a second time, I got put into intensive outpatient program for people being released from mental hospitals as a way to monitor and help transition them into getting them efficient long-term care.
This is something they stressed, especially for people with general depression. When you want to stay at home and hide in your bed, forcing yourself to do the opposite is what is helpful. For me, who struggles with self harm- “I want to really slice my arm up. The opposite would be to put lotion on my skin (or whatever would be better, like drawing on my skin) the opposite is the better decision.” It doesn’t always work because of course mental health isn’t that easy, but this is part of what’s called mindfulness (they say this all the time in therapy)
Being mindful of these is what puts you on the path to recovery. If you’re mindful, you are able to live in that moment and try your best to remember these better options.
I swear to god, I don’t get why some people on this website straight up reject good recovery help like this because either they a)have never been in therapy so don’t understand in context how to use these coping tactics. Or b)want to insist that all therapists and psych doctors are neurotypical and have zero idea what they are talking about. (Just so ya know, they teach this in DBT, the therapy used to help BPD. The psychologist who came up with DBT actually had BPD, so….a neurotypical women didn’t come up with this.)
I have clinical OCD and for me, exposure therapy–a version of “do the opposite”–has been fundamental. I’ve had huge improvement in the last year, but I’m 100% clear that if I hadn’t done my best to follow this protocol I’d be fucked. I have a lot of empathy for that moment when you’re just too tired to fight and you check the stove or you wash your hands or go back to the office at midnight to make sure the door is locked. But the kind of therapeutic approach outlined above has been crucial for me.
It’s hard to do. I’ve weathered panic attacks trying to follow this protocol. But I’ve gotten remarkable results. I was afraid to touch the surfaces in my house, okay? I was afraid to touch my own feet, afraid to touch my parrot–deliberately exposing myself to “contamination” has helped me heal. I can’t speak for people with other issues, but this has helped my anxiety and OCD.
I feel that tumblr, in an effort to be accepting of mental illness, has become anti-recovery. Having a mental illness does not make you a bad person. There is nothing morally wrong with having a mental illness anymore than more than there’s something morally wrong with having the flu. However, if you’re “ill” physically or mentally, something is wrong in the sense that you are unwell and to alleviate that you should try to get better. While there is not “cure” for mental illness, there are ways to get better.
There was a post on tumblr where someone with ADHD posted about how much you can get done when you focus and was attacked for posting about being “nuerotypical” - when she was posting about the relief she got from being on an medication to treat her illness.
I saw another post going around tumblr that said something along the line of “you control your thoughts, why not choose to have happy thoughts” which again was shot down as “nuerotypical” but while you don’t have control over what thoughts come into your mind, you absolutely can and should choose to have happy thoughts. In DBT we call this “positive self talk”.
I’m in DBT to help treat PTSD stemming from child abuse. The abuse and abandonment I experienced destroyed my self esteem and created a lot of anxiety over upsetting other people. DBT has taught me to recognize when my thoughts are distorting realty ‘no one likes you’ and answer back ‘plenty of people like you, you don’t need everyone to like you, especially if the relationship doesn’t make you happy’, to respond to the thought ‘I’m so worthless’ with ‘you’re really great and have accomplished something’
And it’s not easy to challenge your thoughts, it’s a skill that’s learned and it’s hard to force yourself to think something that doesn’t seem authentic or even seems wrong to think - it’s hard to be encouraging towards yourself when you hate yourself - but you force yourself to be aware of your thoughts and push back when you fall into unhealthy patterns
That isn’t “so neurotypical” that’s recovery.
Not shaming mental illness doesn’t mean shaming RECOVERY.
Pro-Recovery isn’t anti-disability.
Do not shame healthy behaviors as “neurotypical”.
Learning healthy behaviors and taking steps to treat mental illness and disorders including taking medication if that’s what works for you is important. You shouldn’t be ashamed if you have mental illness, but you shouldn’t say ‘well I’m not neurotypical therefor I can’t do anything to get better’ - while there is no cure for mental illness, there is a lot you can do to get better, to function better, to manage your mental illness and be safer, happier, and healthier for it.
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To take it a step further consider all the people who scream ‘neurotypical’ about the people they meet in a normal day. Someone suggests you do something to cheer yourself up? Fucking neurotypical. The doctor wants you to try this new therapy before prescribing you a different medication, how neurotypical.
Let’s get one thing straight, there’s no such fucking thing as a ‘neurotypical’ brain. You are never going to find two brains that function in an identical manner. The human brain generally shaped the same, yes, and the various parts are normally in the same areas, in that way almost all brains are typical, but how they work/convey information is not typical at all.
If I see the word ‘neurotypical’ I ignore the post.
That word has been used thusfar to disregard people with mental disabilities that are in recovery, to disregard people who have very specific and sometimes mild mental illnesses, to disregard people who don’t seem to obviously have a mental illness at all.
It is a blanket term designed to completely and totally sweep other people under the rug because they don’t fit your idea of what a person with a mental illness is.
Neurotypical is the internet version of some asshole leaving a note on a car parked in a handicap parking space saying ‘you don’t look handicapped’.
Oh. I’m sorry. I wasn’t aware I was supposed to show you the fucking list of medications I take and the therapies I go to. I was unaware that in order to get my ‘congratulations you fit in the special snowflake community’ card I had to have a hulkout. Excuse me, sir, while I provide for you my latest receipt from the fucking pharmacy, you piece of shit.
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