Lyra

I think you're asking the wrong question here to be honest Elfy. You're externalising your needs to things you can in no way control, "why should I get off the sofa when the heat death of the universe is inevitable" type thing. I'm not trying to trivialise what you're feeling, because your concerns are legitimate ones, the world should be doing more to halt climate change, end corporate greed and generally end world suck, but you aren't responsible for those things. And those things aren't responsible for you. To get healthier both mentally and physically you need to find internal reasons and damn the world for it. Not to make this about me but I think an example might help. Why should I transition when there's rampant transphobic organisations that want to legislate me out of existence, the alt right wanting me dead, family members who refuse acknowledge what I'm going through? Because I am doing this for myself, and I will spit in G-d's eye and walk backwards into hell before I stop. So if you want to get healthier, you need to find that reason within you to do better in spite of the world. It's hard and draining, almost a constant battle but the rewards at the end are worth it. And always remember depression lies.

I'm a Buddhist of the Soto Zen school. I was raised in a nominally Jewish household, more cultural than religious. I started seriously exploring religions in my teens, and theology is still one of my favourite topics of study. For those above discussing the 'body and the blood' the transubstantiation is a wonderfully knotty topic but this isn't the time or place. I eventually found that Buddhist cosmology fits my world view best. I've long considered joining a monastic order but I'm not sure how my gender would affect things. For those who don't know about the various forms of Zen Buddhism, the Soto school was founded by Dōgen in the thirtieth century, after studying in China with a number of Chen Masters, Chen is the Chinese form of Zen, the distinction is important for separating the schools, who's teachings form the back bone of the school's teachings and is where most of the famous Koans come from, "what is the sound of one hand clapping" and all that. Though the most important teaching of the school, which is why I eventually chose it, is the zazen. While it is a part of all the forms of Buddhism, simply meaning seated meditation. Dōgen's great teaching is "just sit". This is so important because it cuts to the heart of Buddhist philosophy, the Buddhaself is innate in everyone, but we allow the world to distract us. But if we just sit, be in the moment, perhaps we can see the beauty in everything.

Perhaps allowing people to write what ever they wish is the simplest solution, though I can see it being abused and Will if you identify as a boy, then you are one simples

Being gay and trans were and are heavily discriminated against, both legally and socially. ABDL not so much. America is barely scraping actual sex ed in to the schools, it's such an sex negative culture, even in the vaguely liberal hollywood. American mainstream culture effectively being the global etc etc. So what can you do in against kind of culture, well you make your own. I can think of a few examples in comics of ABDL and age play being there, love and rockets, and finder for those interested. So try to put together a quirky indie movie about an ABDL romance, netflix would probably put it out. While LGBT people have always been in mainstream media, though with hilarious amounts of coding in the hollywood "golden years" and then later a far more demonised appearance in later movies, typically being sexual predators, sex workers or serial killers (I've literally written essays on this). But there was always a strong independent scene for movies, theatre and comics and it was once those independent works gained critical acclaim and wider recognition that the wider acceptance came. Tom of Finland a legend in the gay art scene was put on stamps in 2014! So the way you get positive mainstream media presentation? Is as a community taking control of our image, which is certainly a bit cringey and freakish at the moment and producing our own presentation that is well done and broad enough that it's easier for the mainstream to use that rather than manufacturing their own. This is something the LGBT community has been doing since the 60s and it's only now seeing fruit.

There's no link between gender identity and sexuality so no real comparison to be made there. As for acceptance, does any fetish have mainstream acceptance? I can't think of a single example of any fetish being portrayed as a normal or healthy thing, like a tv couple who are into bondage where it's not played for laughs. Before anyone says 50 shades, that neither normal or healthy in it's portrayal, frankly it's closer to abuse. I see these threads all the time, and I honestly don't get what people want. Do you want to wear diapers all the time? Fine then do it, no one will care. There's no real discriminations against abdl people, yeah it's weird and treated as a bit freak show in the media. Which I'd like to less of. But what more is there?

So I've started a new youtube project where I'm reading novels, short stories and poems. People seem to enjoy my voice so hopefully you will too, if you ever need a bedtime story First Novel I'm reading is "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark, a story about 1930s Edinburgh schoolgirls and the influence of their teacher. New Chapters every monday

You are the evil Sofia! Keeping us waiting so long for new updates to your great story. But seriously Sofia this story is a lot of fun, thank you for treating us too it.

I try for a kind of loving domination, lots of "you're too little for X". I like getting my baby as little as she can, and as helpless as possible :3

Part of including groups in society is removing them from the "other". It's a big part of communication theory and sociology the idea of the "in group" and "out group", and this applies from the smallest family unit to humanity as a whole. As a species we've never been good at empathising with the other, they are the out group;

I've noticed that to many in the community this is a difficult situation,

Pride is literally commemorating

I'm sorry Darkfinn and Ferix pride will always

DL1LIFE, if your attitude to mental health issues is as heartless as shown in your post I think you shouldn't post here. That kind of attitude is simply toxic and of no help. Depression and anxiety, especially in the chronic forms, leave you feeling so helpless making outside threats seem infinitely worse. One of the most difficult parts of treating

I got it here

yep there's a bunch on my tumblr which I linked above but here's one of my favourites

Hey I wrote a review for the Fancy Pants

hey I'm looking for two stories. The first is a fairly old one. This involved a girl and her mother going to visit some family that the girl doesn't remember such as her incontinent cousin. Then slowly over the course of the story the girl becomes more like the cousin and eventually replaces her as the family baby. There some weight gain and hypnosis in there as well The Second is more recent I think. A story about twins meeting up one of whom has had a successful life the other has become a baby slave to this rich family. The twist at the end is the baby slave twin swaps places with the other. It's got some really good description in it as I remember. Anyway hope you can help me find what I'm looking for. Thanks.

okay everybody we can all go home now, we've hit peak internet. DL-FTW, for evoking godwin's law you win a week long expense free vacation to /B the internet's biggest cesspool of idiotic opinions. Can a mod please close this thread please, we're only going down hill for here.

Hi I'm Lyra you might have seen me around in the forums and chat. I'm a little girl currently living in midwales. I haven't had much luck with online dating things so I thought I'd try putting a personal out. There's a better description in my profile but a short description of me is I'm a nerdy Transgirl who is slightly too obsessed with

Hey, not that this discussion isn't interesting and all but I feel like this thread has become somewhat derailed. Mamabug, I believe, intended this as a place for people to mourn over this tragedy and not as place to push political talking points.