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I do not usually make posts like this but recently I have seen a lot of content on Instagram, Twitter and I think tiktok too misunderstanding the meaning of intrusive thoughts, which may cause people experiencing them to be upset.
I have tried to shortly explain the difference of impulsive and intrusive and hope it will help people to understand and use the words correctly.
Reblogs are very much appreciated!
Yeah this. Intrusive thoughts can be GENUINELY horrifying, some of the absolute most vile shit imaginable, transgressing every taboo you can think of. And they are usually every bit as distressing, or even more distressing, for the person experiencing them as they are for anyone else hearing about them.
It’s a pretty Known Phenomenon that a person who suffers from bad intrusive thoughts might open up about them to try and find some solidarity, help or reassurance, and then be shamed and berated for having those awful thoughts. And the fact that big parts of culture now thinks of intrusive thoughts as “that funny impulse everyone has sometimes to do a strange thing” probably isn’t helping very much.
Intrusive thoughts come on a spectrum of severity, but they are not an indicator of the moral character of the person who experiences them. Think of them more like Tourette’s or epileptic fits, they are something that happen TO a person, not something that person DOES.
Intrusive thoughts are so friggin’ horrific, I wouldn’t wish them on anyone :(
fun fact, i thought jára cimrman was a real person until my mom told me when I was 13
Weakling.
I know people who were willing to argue that Cimrman was a real historical figure at their maturita exams.
arguing about Cimrman’s realness is actually a glorious way to fuck with many teachers, since almost the whole country is in on the joke that Cimrman was a real person, when you convincingly argue that Cimrman invented/wrote/discovered XY, the teacher is effectively trapped because either they have to accept your bullshit explanation or admit that Cimrman is not real and therefore break the joke and betray the national pride
many of my highschool teachers would preemptively inform us that they will not accept Cimrman as an answer (“we know, we know, he helped invent everything, write about the other people”) just to avoid this
i actually dont mind tumblr posts reposted to pinterest. the 13 y/o “pinterest in the only social media my parents let me have” girlies deserve a little treat
