What DID Might Tell Us About Gender Identity
A Different Way to Have Pride If you are a member of Medium, please support me by reading this article there: link. When I was a senior...
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patrickbrycewright
Dec 1, 20232 min read
I am my own sensitivity reader.
Since Facing the Curse is being released tomorrow, on Dec. 2, I want to go on record and be clear: I am my own sensitivity reader. I...
patrickbrycewright
Oct 25, 20231 min read
It’s Not Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus
Dismantling stupid stereotypes about witches and Wicca To be fair, I love the movie Hocus Pocus. And I have. For years. But every time I...
patrickbrycewright
Oct 11, 20231 min read
Dismantle Oppressive Systems
Never target the people themselves. Go to the root of the problem: people's toxic belief systems.
patrickbrycewright
Oct 4, 20237 min read
Let's Un-"Split" DID
If you are a member of Medium, please support me by reading this article here. A growing number of movies and novels love to portray...
patrickbrycewright
Jun 12, 20231 min read
Characters with "disabilities"--or, rather, different experiences
As someone who would normally be called "hearing impaired"--or, rather, who has deaf gain--I often think about what will happen if I...
patrickbrycewright
May 10, 20231 min read
This sums it up nicely, thanks.
I can't top this one. When I was a child, I was proud of the U.S. for having freedom of religion. Now I understand we actually don't.
patrickbrycewright
Apr 20, 20231 min read
It's not a fad, and it doesn't happen overnight.
There are a ton of stupid myths about trans people. This shoots one down quite effectively:
patrickbrycewright
Mar 17, 20231 min read
When religions control how you think
As someone who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian denomination, I find this post really hits me hard. When I was a child, everyone...
patrickbrycewright
Nov 3, 20221 min read
Reality check to stop child abuse.
Here's a reality check about toddlers. Before you create a whole new generation of traumatized kids, stop and consider this:
patrickbrycewright
Oct 12, 20221 min read
No two wounds are created equal.
Jeff Brown has some decent wisdom. Even if two people have the same type of trauma, their roads to recovery won't be the exact same.
patrickbrycewright
Sep 9, 20221 min read
The truth about religious intolerance.
It worries me how big the surge of religious intolerance has become lately. The U.S. was supposedly founded on religious freedom, but...
patrickbrycewright
Jul 26, 20221 min read
Stop the Hypocrisy
People can use the Bible to justify anything, and they always have.
patrickbrycewright
Jun 1, 20221 min read
Pride Month
Why do people find it so difficult to comprehend that true love is true love?
patrickbrycewright
May 23, 20221 min read
Human Rights summed up in a FB pic
I don't spend a lot of time on Facebook. It cuts into my writing time too much. But sometimes I check it out, and sometimes it's gold....
patrickbrycewright
Mar 13, 20223 min read
"Hearing Loss" or "Hearing Impaired" vs. "Deaf Gain"
Okay, so now that I’m educating myself about the Deaf community and learning ASL, I’m having to face the facts about discrimination...
patrickbrycewright
Oct 14, 20212 min read
Fear Privilege
It's October, and plenty of people are thinking about Halloween, watching scary movies, or reading horror novels. It's a whole month...
patrickbrycewright
Sep 22, 20211 min read
National Deaf Awareness Month
I've spent years coming to terms with losing part of my hearing. I lose a little more hearing every year. This year I'm focusing on...
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