Divination, Art Creation, and Schizophrenia, by Xuan Nguyen (personal experience essay, 2021)

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"What happens when you do not live in the same reality that nearly everyone else has all somehow secretly agreed to live in while you were busy trying to keep your feet from being tangled by the threads of heaven’s net? (And No, Christians, I do not speak of Christ when I speak of heaven. I am not your brethren.) What happens is that you must construct an internal world to survive and thrive because otherwise you will die."

Blurb: A personal essay on divination, being a poet-prose writer, and consensus reality with schizophrenia, DID, and physical disability caused by medication.

Why is it worth your time?: It's short, free, and a crystalline study of what it means to live in a reality that isn't built for you.

Plural Tags: abuse not mentioned, medical

Content Warnings: passing discussion of medical ableism

Access Notes: Free to read online, screenreadable. (Back-up link in case monstering mag goes down.)

Misc Notes: See also:

• Their poem Where My Limbs Hung Far and Fair.
• Their old bandcamp for music
• Their new bandcamp for music
• Their old website on the Wayback Machine
• Their current website
• Their webcomic (not screenreadable, I don't think, sorry)
• Interactive fiction under the FeyXuan name
• Interactive fiction and poetry under the Pancreas name