[Image ID: a banner with a 4-color marbling design, the colors are lilac, violet, pastel magenta, and off-white /end ID]
COGNITONE!!
Flags: cognitone flag | simplified flag
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[Right Image ID: a flag with 11 vertical stripes, the second and tenth are 3 times as wide as the rest. The colors of the stripes from left-to-right are lilac, violet, lilac, pastel magenta, banana yellow, pastel magenta, banana yellow, pastel magenta, lilac, violet, and lilac. /end ID]
❝kog-nit-own❞
Cognitone— a term to describe the current state someone’s brain is in. As in describing how it is currently functioning. [ex: one might use the term “frogtonal” if they feel as though their thoughts are jumping from place to place or as though they are undergoing metamorphoses. ]
… A cognitone can be anything and anyone can be cognitonal. This is a fluid identity that can be hoarded and constantly changing depending on how an individual wants to label themselves and what words they feel best describe their experiences.
▐Etymology—cognition&tone
➜ ᪹ ᪹flag meaning ;; the flag is meant to resemble a brain and the bident in the center is meant to resemble a tuning fork. The colors are picked from associations with thought and mystery as well as for aesthetic purposes.
“People like mental illness narratives, these days. But they only want to take the mentally ill in two forms: in the full, florid madnesses of their imaginations, cinematic and satisfying, or in a state of wise and frictionless “recovery,” looking back at it all with the equanimity and grace of those who have suffered and know they will never suffer again. The grubby, boring, recursive reality of chronic mental illness, the uphill scrambling for temporary and uncertain gain, does not provide the necessary dramatic satisfaction of legibility.”
