NormallyNeurotic
Everything is going to be okay ⋅ he/him
- Nov 21, 2024
- 712
When I first joined this forum at 18, "sent here" by Tantacunt's hate video, it was partially needing a place with less censorship—but also partially the same self-harm urge that drove me to places that were as close to 4Chan as I could get without actually being on 4Chan.
I would have never expected the people I met here. At this point, you have to manually pick threads and users to actually get a picture of this forum that isn't at the very least sympathetic.
For one, you'd have to completely avoid so many posts by @whywere and of course anything by @webb&flow. Not to mention the other people here who I honestly like to call my friends (I'm aware of the irony), who show so much humanity and willingness to see nuance, debate freely, show compassion (even when it's hard), help others recover/survive/thrive, etc...
If you wanted to properly villainize this forum, you need to make us all look like unintellectual, nihilistic, uncompassionate, selfish sadomasochists. That's hard to do, even in the Suicide Section. So many people talk others down from impulsive, regrettable suicides daily. There's a reason my therapist knows I'm on here—this is exactly the type of place a proper psychologally-inclined person should find necessary, not inherently dangerous.
Freely talking about suicide should not be restricted outside of allowing trigger warnings and the like for suicide attempt/suicidal ideation survivors. Full stop.
I would have never expected the people I met here. At this point, you have to manually pick threads and users to actually get a picture of this forum that isn't at the very least sympathetic.
For one, you'd have to completely avoid so many posts by @whywere and of course anything by @webb&flow. Not to mention the other people here who I honestly like to call my friends (I'm aware of the irony), who show so much humanity and willingness to see nuance, debate freely, show compassion (even when it's hard), help others recover/survive/thrive, etc...
If you wanted to properly villainize this forum, you need to make us all look like unintellectual, nihilistic, uncompassionate, selfish sadomasochists. That's hard to do, even in the Suicide Section. So many people talk others down from impulsive, regrettable suicides daily. There's a reason my therapist knows I'm on here—this is exactly the type of place a proper psychologally-inclined person should find necessary, not inherently dangerous.
Freely talking about suicide should not be restricted outside of allowing trigger warnings and the like for suicide attempt/suicidal ideation survivors. Full stop.
