If You Know, You Know

This is the design for my newest batch of vinyl stickers. I just submitted the order and should have them in hand in a week or so. I sell my stickers on my Artisan's Coop store, but I do not profit from them. I also give them out freely. Hit me up if you want any. If you can afford to, buy them from me to help cover the expense.

If you have been living with CPTSD, you will probably get this. If not, it is simply designed to make you go, "huh?"

I'm sure everyone has heard of PTSD. Not so many are familiar with the variation know as "Complex PTSD."

Ever wonder why USian society is so dysfunctional and fucked up? Because for generations there has been epidemic of childhood trauma that has been ignored, or denied. Untreated childhood trauma festers, and anyone who has to spend a good amount of energy on suppressing, coping, avoiding, denying, struggling, and living with their symptoms, will find those symptoms multiplying and compounding the original trauma.

CPTSD symptoms can mimic other mental illnesses, such as general anxiety disorder, general depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, cyclothymia, bipolar variations, ADHD, and even autism.

The good news? It's never too late to heal and have a happy childhood. I am living, walking, joyful proof. I'm doing all the fun creative things I have denied myself for so long. (And also connecting socially with neighbors for the purpose of our mutual survival under fascism.)

Joy is resistance. Never give up.