Author: dustandfundamentalistss

mika213:

malcolmcooks:

vanerdsa:

bpdmum:

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories – their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

This most likely explains how certain smells or tastes can trigger memories you otherwise had thought you had forgotten.

robotmango:

@ everyone making fun of bucky barnes for actually closing the chest clip on his backpack like God + JanSport intended: if t’challa, Holy Cat Prince of Fucking Shit Up, was running down the fucking interstate tunnel coming to beat your ass back into Bad Memories you would buckle that clip too; you would buckle your belt, you would buckle your soul, you would buckle up your whole life

anxietyhaver2000:

halfmoonhead:

halfmoonhead:

the whole concept linking being open-minded, liberal, and free-spirited with being sexually available to men and having no sexual boundaries is an absolute tragedy. almost every woman i know has been traumatized or harmed by this ideology in some way, and it is being pushed on girls at increasingly younger ages 

i would also like to point out that the idea that it’s cooler to not be emotionally attached in sexual encounters, not have expectations, etc. and be casual about sex and love is also harmful to women and puts the onus on them to change themselves, to criticize themselves for being loving and feeling things deeply, rather than for men to stop being sex-obsessed and devoid of human emotion

this is one of the reasons the sex-positivity movement turned out to be a failure imo. instead of challenging the status quo it’s creating a new set of standards women have to meet when it comes to relationships and sex. it’s putting pressure on women to subjugate themselves even more to the sexual desires of the men in their lives. it’s just sexism wrapped in a new rhetoric and the way its being marketed as the new ideal the Liberated Woman™ should aspire to is so cynical and disgusting to me