Bless his heart.

Showing my age, here. Is Molly not just MDMA? I thought it was just another name for Ecstasy/E/X.

Same. Smoked crack once, with a crackhead, so I’m pretty sure it was actual crack. I was underwhelmed. It was just a step above a big cup of coffee as far as I’m concerned.

I’m pretty sure flashbacks are bullshit. If you’ve done acid before you call a certain uncommon mind-state/experience an “acid flashback” because that is your frame of reference. If you haven’t done acid you call it “weird” or “a moment of transcendence” or “a religious experience”.

I’d grain-of-salt that. “Fucked-up” yes “Normal” no. But it’s his call whether or not to consider himself abused. Also plenty of people suck at having healthy relationships without having been abused and plenty of people with histories of abuse have healthy relationships.

Wow. Not sure if you’re confusing me with someone else, here. I don’t see the snark you’re seeing. I’m just giving an honest and intelligent answer of what I have experience with my own PTSD. Perhaps you have a thing or two to learn about how to have a conversation youself.

You’re not sure if “left” is the right term. He is. (Presumably being a knee-jerk alt-right tool)

He is.

Note from your doctor. Just like if you were deaf, blind, or dislexic. The inability to read certain material is by definition a disability and should be regulated and accommodated as such. I don’t need to know why you’re deaf, either. I just need to know what accommodations you need and have a medical professional…

Office of Disability Services. Every university has one. Friend of mine won’t discuss a trigger warning without their involvement and respects any that come from them.

Perfect example of why trigger warnings per se don’t even do the job they are meant to. You are triggered by driving at dawn, not reading a book about car accidents involving deer. Real life PTSD triggers are more likely to be the sound of a Quebequois accented whisper or the smell of Axe Body Spray than a written…

A professor friend in San Francisco has a very clear trigger warning policy: If, due to a mental illness, you are disabled (in that you are unable to read and watch the same things the rest of us can without restriction) then you can register under the existing system for disability services to request an…

I posted elsewhere but will repeat it here, my favorite analogy to explain this to the willfully ignorant:

My favorite explanation of the importance of “context” (with apologies to the author whose identity I don’t recall and so can not credit):

The headline says “assault”. The article only cites examples of “harassment”. Sexual harassment is a terrible thing, which should be sought out, prevented, and punished. But it is not in the ballpark of sexual assault. It makes all of us who would like the world to be a better place vis a vis sexual safety and sanity…

Never mind the pores, there’s no concavity whatsoever. If you crop out the rest of her body it could just as easily be her shoulder. Thank you Maxim, for allowing me to precisely identify the leading edge of my personal uncanny valley.

He got her ... wasted

Someone made a flow chart based on the AIDS-era “When you sleep with someone you are sleeping with every person they have slept with.” slogan and found that pretty much the whole 1991 campus formed a single sexual closed circle.

Oi! I went to Antioch College, we all did fucked up and highly illegal shit there, too.

Under Buddhist dogma you are forbidden to have sex durring the daytime, making it officially more restrictive than the catholic church.