Moriel's Musings

This is something we wrote a long time ago. Enjoy! Upon the Great Plain of Bolox, overlooked by the Dark Tower of Sarmokath, the army of Pelidar, led by High King Kilroy, fought with strength and determination. They were aided by the Dwarves of the mountains, and men of the Kingdom of Romin and they…

i have never understood any of the unwritten rules of conversation that neurotypical (and many neurodivergent!) people follow, and even though i’m 56 years old i have only this past year started trying to write down what i have been able to figure out on my own. Most of these things come from making the…

Depersonalization and derealization are kinds of dissociation often experienced by people who have been traumatized in the past. They are ways of responding to trauma that work by creating distance between you and whatever you are experiencing. They are ways in which your brain protects you from pain and harm that you are powerless to…

Well, it’s the end of a year. 2025 started off really badly for me. The sudden vehemence of Trump’s attack on trans people shocked me. i thought i was prepared for it, but the constant flood of hatred, on top of all the other things going on in the world, sent me into an emotional…

i am a survivor. i survived being trans in an era when there was no information and no community i survived being undiagnosed autistic and bullied by other kids i survived and continue to survive bipolar disorder i survived multiple suicide attempts i survive i don’t give myself enough credit for this

The little boy had always been denied the one thing he most wanted. Permission to be herself.

i once detransitioned. i did it against my will. Well, i was more or less bullied into agreeing to it. It was in the fall of 1989. That previous spring, while at the University of Texas, my egg cracked, and i came out to my parents. My grades were terrible, and my life was really…

I don’t know the original source of this. Someone posted these images in a Discord server and I immediately saved them because they are exactly the kind of information I need to learn. Social skills are mostly mysterious to me. For instances, there’s a couple of things in here that i have figured out on…

Content warning: this post discusses a suicide attempt. If you are feeling suicidal, please talk to someone about it. If you have no one else to talk to, there are telephone hotlines you can call to talk to a trained volunteer who can help you through this. In the USA and Canada you can call…

Content warning: this post discusses a suicide attempt. If you are feeling suicidal, please talk to someone about it. If you have no one else to talk to, there are telephone hotlines you can call to talk to a trained volunteer who can help you through this. In the USA and Canada you can call…