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@mlp_Freefall
Thrill seeker, bookworm, and currently enrolled at Ponyville Elementary, still hunting for my cutie mark. Offspring of @mlp_MidnightQ & @mlp_Nahoa
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Neurotypicals teach us not to speak our minds.

mia@miamiamiamimim
so like is it normal to get physically uncomfortable talking about your interests for some reason
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>be terf
>go to major trans event
>give trans people money for ticket
>have to be surrounded by people i hate all evening
>they're not even miserable they're having fun
>nobody assaults me in a bathroom
>nobody recognises me
>they all think i'm another trans woman
>tfw
Maya Forstater@MForstater
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The actual research is wild. Every time you push down a feeling, your brain has to choose between suppressing that emotion and recording what’s happening around you. It picks the suppression. The memory doesn’t get saved.
A 2000 Stanford study confirmed this: people told to hide their emotions while watching a film remembered far fewer details than people who just reacted naturally. Suppressing emotions uses up mental energy, and that leaves less brain power for saving new memories.
Brain scans show why. A 2012 study found that suppression quiets the hippocampus (your brain’s memory-recording center) right when it should be saving information. The two brain regions that normally team up to lock in memories stop talking to each other.
Over time it gets worse. Suppression keeps cortisol (the stress hormone) elevated, and cortisol shrinks the hippocampus. Chronically stressed people can lose 10 to 15% of its volume. Just three weeks of high cortisol can shrink the tiny connection points between brain cells by about 20%. The good news: studies show this shrinkage can partially reverse once stress levels drop. Not necessarily permanent.
A Finnish study of 1,137 older adults tracked over roughly a decade found that habitual emotion suppressors had nearly 5x the risk of developing dementia, even after controlling for genetics, smoking, obesity, and education.
There’s a better way to handle emotions that doesn’t cost you your memory. It’s called cognitive reappraisal: instead of bottling the feeling, you reframe what’s causing it. (“This meeting isn’t a threat, it’s practice.”) A 2003 Stanford/UC Berkeley study found reappraisers had more positive emotion, better relationships, and higher wellbeing. Suppressors got the opposite on every measure. And reappraisal carries zero memory cost.
The difference comes down to timing. Suppression kicks in after the emotion has already fired, so your brain is fighting its own response while simultaneously trying to record the moment. Reappraisal changes how you interpret the situation before the emotion fully activates. Same event, same person, but your hippocampus stays free to do its actual job: recording your life.
syl ♡@sylviapuffs
SUPRESSING YOUR EMOTIONS CAUSES MEMORY LOSS WTF???
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Ayeeee some of you who want to give birth, transplants for those who want! 🏳️⚧️

Daniel Lismore@daniellismore
It looks like transgender people could be getting wombs after all. Doctors are working on it as we speak.
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Transgender adults in Kansas have received letters ordering them to surrender their drivers licenses until they obtain a new one with a marker reflecting their sex assigned at birth.
Their current licenses are now invalid.
This also means trans people in Kansas currently cannot vote if their current license is their only form of ID.
erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends…
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Discord distances itself from age verification firm after ties to Palantir's Peter Thiel surface kotaku.com/discord-palant…
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WE ARE WINNING.
DO NOT STOP.
DO NOT QUIET DOWN.
BE EVEN LOUDER. BE MORE ANGRY. FORCE THEM TO BACK ALL THE WAY DOWN.
@discord MUST UNDERSTAND.
Kotaku@Kotaku
Discord distances itself from age verification firm after ties to Palantir's Peter Thiel surface kotaku.com/discord-palant…
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