choreomania
Bio
i'm a a queer writer, poet, cat lover, and author. i'm passionate about psychology, human rights, and creating places where lgbt+ youth and young adults feel safe, represented, and supported.
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Stories (95/0)
The Words I Never Said
I loved you. I loved you like a hurricane: loudly, chaotically, trampling those I loved in my careless frenzy. You were the hurricane, leaving destruction in your wake, leaving me to clean it up. I was not a watcher of storms nor a keeper of men. I was not a lover of myself nor of feeling alone.
By choreomania2 years ago in Poets
I Almost Married a Narcissist!
If it were possible, there are so many things I would tell my younger self. In high school, I would have fallen in love with any boy who gave me the time of day. I've always been like this, I suppose: pouring my heart and soul into people who never reciprocated. I'm still like this, I suppose.
By choreomania2 years ago in Humans
Gender is Cumbersome, But it Keeps me Safe . Top Story - February 2022.
Hey, my name is Danny. I'm 27 years old and non-binary: not a man nor a woman. Just a person, or an alien attempting to fit in with the rest of the persons. Honestly, that's what it feels like most days. The problem with society is that everything needs to be labeled, and everything that isn't labeled is considered strange and confusing. I never understood this compulsive need of society to put expectations on things. We label clothing, people, media, objects. When I grew up and became more acquainted with life, I realized this need for labels stemmed from the need for control. As a species, we're often scared of things we don't understand. We feel threatened by them, and hesitant to have an opinion. But instead of trying to learn, we stick to what we know, and blame everything else for causing us confusion.
By choreomania2 years ago in Pride
I'm Not "Dramatic", It's Neurodivergence!
As a society, we absolutely need to stop using functioning labels to describe autistics. Here's why. 1. They're ableist. Functioning labels are independent of intelligence, and don't do a great job considering the abilities of an individual. By saying someone is low-functioning or high-functioning, we isolate them from their non-disabled peers by implying defectiveness. Think about it. We speak of autistic people the way we speak of a malfunctioning machine, which diminishes humanity and encourages stigmatization. Let's use the term low-functioning as an example. By referring to a person as low-functioning, we imply they can't get by on their own, and that their success in life comes only from the assistance of others. We degrade them to a term, a disability, rather than an independent person with ideas and talents. With each disablity hurdle comes an overwhelming skill.
By choreomania2 years ago in Psyche
The Tongue is Like a Knife
On October 10, 2012, a fifteen year old girl succumbed to depression after months after being bullied. Amanda Todd attended CABE Secondary school in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and remains one of the most well-known victims of cyberbullying in the twenty first century. Her death sparked controversy for a short time before it was forgotten about like anything else. Some people reckon it's better to ignore than to speak up about injustice. The thing is, to ignore is to be complacent.
By choreomania2 years ago in Humans
The Sunflower's Call
Nothing excited ever happened in the town of Valenview, Michigan. It was a tiny town, situated three hundred miles off the coast of Lake Huron, and home to just under a hundred people. This meant Isa Wozney knew just about everybody. She grew up in a rather homely little cabin with her mother, Aubrey, who'd been single since Isa's birth. On several occasions, she'd requested the woman give her some sort of idea about her father, but Aubrey remained tight-lipped, as though she was ashamed of her past. Aubrey spoke little of the past.
By choreomania2 years ago in Fiction
As An Enby in a Violently Gendered Society:
When I was a kid I was always fascinated by dress-up. It was fun to put on boy's clothing and pretend to be a boy. When I was younger, it was just assumed by everyone I'd grow up to be a "tomboy". I never thought we needed these terms at all. As a kid, one doesn't really understand the ripple effects that gender has on society. I was disadvantaged from birth by being born female in a patriarchy. Gender meant nothing more, when I was a kid, than how you were born. How you were born, that's how you were meant to stay.
By choreomania2 years ago in Pride