This page is a lot of things. It’s a reflection of my journey of exploration, condensed into this form of words and highlights and web pages.
Usually, it’s not a place where you come for ‘support.” Usually, t’s a place where you come for Fun. Where we talk about different things that might be “illegal” in different communities, registers, disciplines.
We talk about them because they are Fun. And because we can. The idea of “because we can” is more important than it seems. Usually, we are locked in to the terms in the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Health.
I look at that. A lot. And trace the ways our stories are transformed into Diag Codes and Insurance forms. Because I think realizing that we have lost our own language, the stories of what we experience and the meaning we make of those experiences is important.
If we can’t tell our own stories in our own language, then we have no inside, no middle. We are the holes people sense. And talk about in safe spaces.
“It’s like I have a hole inside of me….”
But then, we move away from this very serious seriousness and explore a unique kind of playtime with Aj. We go places we “shouldn’t;” say things we “shouldn’t;” think things we “shouldn’t” as we explore the previously disallowed spaces: AI, Music, Sound and Language and how they influence the reality of PTSD.
It’s a lot of fun. A bit scary at times as we realize we really can think those things, look at things in a different way, and most importantly, Talk about them in a different way.
That’s kinda what we do here: we destabilize what everyone believed was cast in concrete.
Hidden in the language . . .