I chose to call myself Mercury for a reason

[mercuryisme.livejournal.com]

Hey, everyone...

From the user info page I thought I'd announce my presence here as a psych student, but I'm not interested in you people as guinea pigs... I have a seriously unorthodox fetish for the "crazies"... schizofrenia, multiples, furries, gender dysphoria... the people who don't belong, who feel out of place in their own skin, who are too much for themselves.

I wish I could live a thousand different lives sometimes, be the virgin and the whore and the child and the adult, the man and the woman. Being bisexual definitely raised some questions in my mind about whether or not I really wanted this female body of mine.

Don't be offended when I say part of me is jealous. But I guess you'd understand about "parts"... wouldn't you?

EDIT: I don't fetishize any of you, I have a tendency to use words offhand, I don't think about any of you or your friends naked in the shower to get my rocks off, I'm young, I'm dumb, I talk a lot, I would never in a million years dare to compare any of you to furries, or try to pretend any of you are anything like me, because that would be damn insulting, etc.

There.

Comments

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Colloquially I understand it, but it's inaccurate in the sense that it connotes a thought disorder, and multiplicity (even MPD or DID) is not a thought disorder.

[bell-silver.livejournal.com]

thought disorder? what do you mean by this?

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

In psychiatry, thought disorder or formal thought disorder is a term used to describe a symptom of psychotic mental illness.

[effeteifrit.livejournal.com]

so you're saying I'm crazy?

[effeteifrit.livejournal.com]

(by the way: bell_silver and effeteifrit = same system.)

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Not at all, I'm saying that mercuryisme's use of the word "crazy" is inaccurate and indeed pejorative applied to multiples, since the world-at-large interprets the word "crazy" to mean a thought disorder. At any rate, she's making an attempt at self-correction, which is commendable.