Also "cures" based on this Skinner box idea of "do whatever makes the brain scan go back to normal" are always Band-Aid cures These scans treat the brain like a black box and tell you nothing about the underlying processes, it's not the science fiction thing they pretend it is https://t.co/UCCJs8OAnE
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A photo of two naked people having sex doesn't become not-porn if you slap a Photoshop filter on it to make them green You don't stop actually hating your abusive dad because they gave you beta blockers that let you stop thinking about it all the time
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And a dysphoric trans person doesn't become cis because they got buzzed enough that it doesn't bother them right now Many trans people are pretty damn familiar already with self-medicating for dysphoria without needing new breakthrough drugs for the purpose
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(Now I'm thinking about the reveal in BIT that the "cure for vampirism" was just a bottle of booze the whole time Cc
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Aside, but re: Censorship: Tumblr? Tumblr is still doing this. It broke everything when it was instilled, still breaks constantly. It ignored my NSFW fanart and decided my ginger tabby was absolutely not an acceptable pussy instead.
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The brain has like...averages that you can sort of apply to most people, but you'd think the really high incidence rates of autism or other neurodivergencies would get people to realize that the baselines are all over the place and everyone needs a unique approach.
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That would involve changing the status quo, and that’s highly inconvenient, you see, and might even cost upwards of three dollars Everything has a price tag under capitalism, including the welfare of human beings
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