Dead Names Entry: "May" Pollard

Another victim of overt Transhausen by Proxy, antidepressant overprescribing in autism and parental divorce trauma ended his life as a teenager.

Instead of taking accountability for their failures, his parents took to the media to politicize the death of the son they had chattelized since toddlerhood. They had attempted to fix May’s dissociation, possibly a result of autism, likely predictably compounded by a disassociated family experience, split between your dad’s house and your mom’s house because it’s never your house, by having a doctor prescribe him drugs. They “set it and forgot it,” and seemed to have never questioned the role the antidepressants were playing in his deterioration or subsequent gender preoccupation.

When antidepressants in 7th grade led to suicidal ideation by 9th grade, they added titty skittles instead of taking away the drugs. They blamed his anorexia, another possible antidepressant side effect (they increase dopamine downstream which can cause appetite suppression and sometimes psychosis) or primary mental illness symptom, and resulting malnutrition and chronic dehydration (both of which could have exacerbated his delusional thinking) on trans bathroom laws. It’s as though they just could not accept that their child was severely mentally ill and/or manifesting negative side effects of years of medication and long term impact of their lifestyle choice. No, society must be to blame.

Rest in peace, “May.”

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