"my brain" has become a stock character in the memetic commedia dell'arte. something like a repository for intrusive thoughts, feelings, and desires that people experience as unwelcome / unacceptable / "not me"
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i'm fascinated by this for reasons i'm not sure i'll be able to articulate. i think it's becoming clearer that one of my interests i keep coming back to is tracking changes in folk psychology over time, trying to understand how people conceptualize themselves and each other
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one of the fascinating bits is that in the standard scientific reductive materialist ontology "you" are supposed to "be" your brain, so to see such a strong vein of disidentification with "the brain" raises the question: if "you" aren't your "badbrain" then what are you?
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separately, i think representing ego-dystonic stuff as "idk i guess my brain is just bad" speaks to this pervasive medicalization of suffering, hence the choice of "brain" as a symbol as opposed to e.g. demons, since brains Officially Really Exist
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when you medicalize your suffering into "there's something wrong with my brain" you conceptualize the appropriate type of response as "i should fix my brain," which lends itself to medicalized responses like pharmaceuticals, all the way up to extreme shit like lobotomies
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a more trauma-informed perspective might be something like "i was hurt very badly and i adopted extreme strategies for relating to myself and others to deal with that hurt that feel too risky to let go of" (relevant to the OP) which has a totally different vibe to it
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among other things it offers a *meaningful reason* that your "brain" is being "bad": it's trying to protect you from a form of harm you experienced in the past. that's a very different story from "idk i guess my brain chemicals are just wrong because of bad luck???"
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it also suggests a completely different question to ask for how to improve things: the question, stated poetically, is something more like "how do i let go of the past?"
worlds different from "how do i fix my brain?"
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back to the original meme; i've been focusing on the brain side but the cute thing side is important too (anyone recognize it?). it's adorable, and it's crying, and it's saying "please," and all of this matters
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cute bunny thing is my melody from the sanrio franchise, she is hello kitty’s best friend, and according to the fandom.com wiki she was born in a forest in london, likes almond pound cake, and the hood she’s wearing was made by her grandma
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thank you! very cute. here's what looks like the original image, looks like it's from a mobile game called tomotoru
apps.qoo-app.com/en/app/7049
