hi there! you can call me Chuuni or Chuunibyou here.
I've been lurking here for a few years as a logged-out guest, but I've finally taken the plunge into making an account. I don't want to kill myself and don't think I will, but I appreciate having a safe space to connect with others with similar struggles as me and with similar pro-autonomy views. I've struggled with life as long as I can remember thanks to childhood abuse. and now in adulthood those experiences have resulted in DID, CPTSD, and OCD which make everything so unbearable even when my life is supposed to be "going well". autism and ADHD also make me less resilient than most other people. I wish it weren't this way, and that we lived in a society that could properly support and provide for people like me, but we don't and I don't expect we will within my lifetime. so I'll just continue to suffer, I guess.
I'm also an active cutter, and have pro-autonomy harm reduction views towards self harm as well. I'll also be glad to speak about that freely here. it's horrible that most places online have such strict censorship around self harm and suicide when these are real human experiences (and refusing to speak about them honestly only makes them worse...)