Maddie

I think we're witnessing some inner Nungali ego dialogue LOL

I'm sorry you don't feel comfortable to post anymore as I do enjoy your presence, but as a trans person I have to deal with trolls on a regular often daily basis (I live stream regularly) and I do know how to spot them. I was going through his posts and I noticed that he wasn't really asking questions. He was making statements. Nevertheless I think its unfortunately that you don't feel comfortable posting here any longer, but if you do change your mind I am always happy to interact with you here :-).

This type of gaslighting is stereotypical troll behavior.

It's not the fact that he was making transphobic statements (he didn't really ask questions) that tipped me off that he was a troll. It was the gaslighting once it was pointed out that what he said was offensive. This is a distinguishing characteristic of a troll.

In case anyone is wondering why I am claiming that Salvijus is a troll, I do so based on multiple statements of which this is just one example of many. 1. First he has implied that transgenderism is something that needs to be justified. Being trans is an existence. As soon as someone challenges the validity of someone's existence there is a problem there. 2. Second he implied that "trans philosophy" (what ever that means) is not valid. First of all it is not a philosophy, again it is an existence. Secondly it is valid and to challenge that it is, is one of many reasons I believe him to be a troll. I'm all for answering legitimate questions, but trolls do not ask legitimate questions. They make statements disguised as questions to undermine the person they are trolling's position or point. *edit: Another reason that I believe him to be a troll is because then told that what he said is offensive, instead of apologizing he resorts to gaslighting and putting the burden of offense upon the person offended.

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I think there is a place for both modern Western medicine and TCM and other natural modalities. As a practitioner of TCM obviously I love what I do and think its great for a great number of things, but I am glad we have modern medicine as well, especially in the cases of trauma. Most of my professors were from China or Taiwan and they didn't have the divide like we do here. They would just learn modern Western medicine and TCM simultaneously. It's good to have lots of tools in one's toolbox.

Oh I do that too. Shall we play a bit of Where's Waldo? or in this case mischievous Maddie.

My ego wants to kick some people in the nards now and then, but I usually tell my ego "no ego lets not do that, if you're good when we get home I'll give you a cookie :-)" and then my ego is like "I really wanted to kick that person in the nards, but oh boy I do like cookies" 🍪🤤🩷

Impossible as he has transcended ego 🤭

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I think exactly zero people were surprised there was a troll in a thread like this lol.

That is because it's obvious you ask questions because you want to know and you're coming from a good place.

Well thank you! :-). That is a great compliment. I am of the opinion of don't tell me how much you have cultivated, rather show me.

Actually if we are going to be doing a trans Q&A I think talking about the topic of trolls is a pretty relevant one. It is actually very common for trans people to get trolled. What the trolls do is often they will try to appear to be asking legitimate questions but the intent is malicious. One way to tell is that no matter how many questions you answer they keep pressing their point to under mind you. They very often open statements with phrases like "I don't mean to be offensive" and the proceed to be offensive. It's not really that difficult to distinguish people that are genuine from trolls. They will also often ask non-questions, like "why do you think being trans is a real thing" or something to that effect.