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elie nour — queer, autistic, disabled, muslim sharing thoughts and things I write

[authorics]

Hiyo, salam, my name is Elie, and I go by they/them pronouns. I tend to ramble here when I don’t have a notebook readily accessible.

you can also find me here:

physicelie (my studyblr)

do not interact if you are:

homophobic, transphobic, TERF, racist, islamophobic, antisemitic, zionist, ableist, victim-blaming, exclusionist, sexist or not intersectional in your feminism.

my asks are currently closed due to excessive bots and fundraising requests. I generally don’t share fundraisers here.

[inkpressedpetals]

[desultory-suggestions]

You are allowed to completely change as a person by the way. You don’t have to stay trapped in the versions other people created of you.

[oneleggedflamingo]

[authorics]

My body is a battlefield. It shows everything I did to myself in order to survive. My self-harm scars are the remainder of hundreds of nights of suffering in silence, overwhelmed by pain, and an overloaded nervous system. My soft tummy is the remainder of the decade of starving myself in order to have control over something in my life, when everything else had slipped away. My surgery scars are the remainder of 25 years of not belonging in my body, constricting my breathing with binders, and not being able to look in the mirror without breaking down. I’m done being ashamed of my body. It survived more than it should’ve had to.

[officialkendallroy]

i hate you summer i hate you heat i hate you sweating i hate you burning sun i hate you warm weather i hate you climate change

[otiksimr]

People with shit eyesight whenever they're around other people with shit eyesight start passing around their glasses like it's a blunt rotation just to see how blind everyone else is.

[authorics]

I’ve been on my target dose of the new antidepressants for a couple days and I’m feeling a little nauseous on and off, but at least my brain is no longer absolutely useless. I know it’ll take a couple more weeks until the meds start working but I’m cautiously optimistic that everything will improve. I do feel more motivated to study but that’s probably due to my other meds which should be starting to show their full effect round about now.

[authorics]

Having to accept you still struggle with depression, after really wanting to believe you beat it, sucks. Yes, I noticed the signs, but I didn’t clock them as symptoms of depression. It was somehow easier to believe I‘m just lazy and failing at everything than admitting to myself that my chronic depression is indeed chronic and will return once I‘m off medication. Admitting to myself that I need medication in order to live a semi-normal life is so hard. I was medicated for 8 years and have been off any medication for four months after a gruesome withdrawal from my last meds, and I thought I was fine, but here I am again, depressed, and needing medication.

[mioxenoblade]

Banks don’t belong at pride. Corporations don’t belong at pride. Cops don’t belong and pride. Fascists don’t belong at pride. The forces that have abused us, oppressed us, have murdered our brothers and sisters do not get to take part in pride.

[chungledown-bimothy]

bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

[girlwithfish-deactivated2025111]

waving is so cute. literally hi

[speakeasylivefree]

Your body is not an apology. Your softness, your stretch marks, your curves, your angles, none of them require justification.

[incognitopolls]

What kids' TV channel did you grow up watching?

Cartoon Network

Disney Channel/XD/Junior

Nickelodeon

PBS Kids

Qubo

Another American channel not listed here

A non-American channel

Two or more of these

I didn't watch TV as a kid

Voting ended onMar 5, 2025

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[sorrrowfull]

[authorics]

When I lay in bed at night, my mind goes into overdrive recently, listing all the ways in which I feel inadequate, and repeating them again and again. I can’t sleep without a sedative, because my mind won’t stop telling me how much I suck at everything, especially studying. I’ve been in a chronic illness flare-up and have been experiencing brain fog so bad I can’t focus on anything, let alone math. And while I know this is not a personal failing of mine, but just a way my condition manifests, it’s really hard not to feel like an absolute failure when my mind keeps telling me that I am. It doesn’t help that since going off my meds I feel everything so much more intensely. For most things I can reframe it as a good thing, and appreciate the way my autistic brain works and that I get to feel things again, sadness, anger, joy, even fear, I can deal with all of those, but this is really the downside of it. I think the fitting emotion is shame, and it’s so much harder to deal with than all the others.

[authorics]

I had a really good day yesterday, was able to study, had minimal symptoms and was overall really happy, and it still happened, ergo it’s got nothing to do with what I do and don’t accomplish, it’s just my brain being mean to me by default, regardless of how the day went. Great.

[authorics]

I’m really hoping that today being a good day symptom wise means that my flare-up is coming to an end. I can focus on math today and have had enough energy to do a little bit of housework. Also no nausea so far. I won’t overdo it, but I am carefully hopeful.