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"Make the familiar strange Make the strange familiar" Behavioral science student. 25. I struggle with physical and mental illness but I take it one day at a time (and yes, I have had back surgery--two spinal fusions to be exact.) My posts are a constant flip from things I like, things that piss me off, things that are political or controversial, and things that can be intensely personal. Sometimes NSFW but not always and there is usually a purpose behind it.

[babygotbacksurgery]

It’s a beautiful day here at the Chaffs (at Chaffey College) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs_ZGsHgRUX1I8uWwM8g8laCf-mXhKfb92UXjs0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bhlfanhttai5

[babygotbacksurgery]

Olive is in constant pain from a huge kidney stone and I need your help getting her better. Please support my GoFundMe: gf.me/z4h5 #gofundme #gofundmedog Or if you want to discuss a loan, I am all ears, just DM me. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOymMbgXaHxLFDcsuFHS3F-oHEkpKJzV9_m1A0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oottsz0e9kek

[mephystophyles]

sure, when my grandfather fought nazis and fascism he was “a hero” and “on the right side of history” but when i do it im “way too sensitive” and “no better than they are”

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

That’s because when our white grandparents fought Nazis, it was for fear of them taking power away from other white people.

White Europeans and Americans were explicitly fine with genocide and the ideologies that led to it – a great many people, including Churchill, vocally supported most of what the Nazis were doing. Their only fight with Nazis was to maintain sovereignty from takeover.

Today’s Nazi-fighters usually have a problem with white supremacy and the antisemitism and racism etc behind it – which most of our white grandparents didn’t see a problem with and neither do many white people today.

This is why so many people don’t see any reason to stop the Nazis now, or why many others think it’s purely a struggle for Democrats or other neoliberal parties in other countries who might lose political power if they gain traction. Many people don’t see Nazis as a real problem unless they threaten the political power of other white people.

White supremacist organizations and movements have been a life-threatening scourge for people of colour and Jewish people this entire time. It’s really important that we focus on that as the real threat, or we risk having the same myopic perspective as generations past.

[mephystophyles]

This was a great addition to my original post so I’m reblogging it.

[orangelionfurandtaxidermy-deact]

Uhm, didn’t they just fight the nazis because they were killing and torturing people? American white is not European white. I’m white by your standards yet also Jewish and they killed a lot of my family. When you get wronged you fight back.

[babygotbacksurgery]

I’m not reblogging this to be a pontificating dick, but rather I hope you see this reblog then look this up on your own and learn something about your people and the history that shaped their fate during the Holocaust.

Look up a book titled War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black. You don’t even need to read it. Just read what it’s about. You’ll learn that America has a very dark untold history of the United States government inspiring a young Adolf Hitler with the ideology of Eugenics before the Nazi party was even conceived.

If this information about America’s past isn’t news to you then the uprising of a Nazi party in the United States is oddly unphasing you and you should really be more concerned.

[popokko-deactivated20210315]

android users: this is the galaxy teet-sucker 14 it has an LED display and 605 years of battery life on one charge. it runs on fossil fuels and can actually fuck your wife. its modern innovation at its finest

iphone users: sometimes when i charge my phone the battery percentage goes backwards

[psych2go]

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[randomtwistedlife]

Just downloaded it!! Thank you so much @psych2go :)

[depressionhope]

EDIT: It’s STILL FREE TODAY! Get your copy TODAY and SPREAD THE WORD!

[lustful-white-flower-deactivate]

Just got my copy will have a read tonight thanks @psych2go x

[psych2go]

<3

[babygotbacksurgery]

Downloaded on 3/10 and it’s still free

[jahminican]

Praying for the woman I’ll be in 5+yrs I hope she’s happy, and loved, living life unapologetically, doing what she loves.

[chattermaxunderthesink]

“i’m sad and idk how to feel better”

“i don’t know what to draw”

“i always mess up”

“BUT I SUCK”

[rakubell-deactivated20180711]

LISTEN TO BOB ROSS.

[edwardspoonhands]

Bob Ross was paid $0 to make his series. He made a living giving lessons IRL and later selling his own line of paints and brushes.

[amisbro]

I apologize for not reblogging him as much but everyone needs this on their dash daily.  Seriously everyone needs this on their blog or wherever. Do they rerun this anymore or no?

[aishet-chayil]

Words of wisdom!

[mrbeefgnaw]

archive.org has the happy little goods.

[autism-significantly-spicy]

There’s also this twitch, you’re welcome.

[allllltheautism]

Do you ever say something “wrong”

But you’re not sure what was wrong with it, you just know people aren’t reacting the way you think they should have, so you want to apologize but you don’t know what to apologize for? Because I’m getting that a lot right now and it’s really alienating.

[defectivegembrain]

Me: is this a meltdown or a shutdown or a panic attack or an emotional flashback?

Brain:…yes?

[babygotbacksurgery]

Just want to thank everyone who was there for me—and still is—when I really needed it

None of them use tumblr though so I guess this thanks kinda falls on deaf ears

[babygotbacksurgery]

Currently in the works of making something out of the metal hardware that was in my back for 2 ½ years. I’m gonna give it to my mama since she was the person who mostly took care of me during my surgery and recovery.

[thisqueerlifeofmine]

I love this idea. I also had all my hardware from scoliosis surgery removed after a couple years, and all the pieces have been sitting in my room in a plastic bag for almost 14 years while I say I’m going to do something with them. My hardware pieces look a bit different though.

[babygotbacksurgery]

I, regrettably, never got the chance to finish this project and give it to my mom before she unexpectedly passed away almost 5 months ago.

My advice, if you make something with your hardware, and it’s going to be for another person, don’t put it off: make it ASAP. Make something with it and give it to that person that’s special in your life as soon as you conveniently can, because you never know if the chance is going to pass you by, until it suddenly does and it’s too late.

Maybe I’m just paranoid. But this little project is one of the many, many things on my list of guilts and regrets surrounding my mom’s untimely death. There is so much I wanted to say to her and thank her for and I never took the nearly-infinite opportunities I had to do that.

She never told me directly, byt I found this out from other people, that she expected to outlive me because of my connective-tissue disorder, and I personally semi-believed this as well... which is yet another reason why I shouldn’t have put this off and should have told her how I felt as soon as I possibly could. I guess I had so much denial surrounding my own death that I didn’t even fathom the possibility of her dying before me.

Everyone reading (which is probably no one so good for you): If you have something to say or to give to someone special in your life so you can express how you truly feel for that person, do it. Do it asaFp.

Tomorrow is never promised.

The next few hours of your life aren’t even promised.

And no matter how devoted in your faith you are, an afterlife is not promised either.

Try to show your love for someone while you still can before it’s too late and you or that other person are gone. I know this is something a lot of people say and it’s easy to let it go one ear and out the other, but that’s because we as people don’t want to sit here and think about the possible reality of so-n-so dying not being here anymore. I mean who the fuck wants to think about that.

Well honey, think about it. Embrace it and the emotions associated with it. You don’t want to think about so-n-so dead. It’s extremely hard to even imagine until this person is actually gone from your life, especially if their death is nothing expected. But if you’ve lost -anyone- in your life, close or otherwise, use that feeling to drive you to express your current love to others as truthfully as you can and as soon as you can. This isn’t something you can rain-check. And you’ll hate yourself for what feels like forever. Trust me.

[babygotbacksurgery]

This grief is insurmountable. If the psych hospital would allow me to have my crochet needle and yarn I would have admitted myself by now.

[kingjaffejoffer]

The “WHAT ARE THOSE” meme came from this video that was filmed in The Bay. They’re BART police.

Another hometown thing that Ryan Coogler slipped into Black Panther when Shuri said the line to T’Challa

[babygotbacksurgery]

Currently in the works of making something out of the metal hardware that was in my back for 2 ½ years. I’m gonna give it to my mama since she was the person who mostly took care of me during my surgery and recovery.

[babygotbacksurgery]

This showed up on my activity feed after someone liked it about a month ago.

I never got the chance to finish this project or give it to my mom before she died.

Great. Just another thing to add to my list of regrets and guilt.

I can’t stop crying.

[babygotbacksurgery]

Such a small world

One of my old coworkers from my old movie theatre job—who is now an LVN—currently works in my Psychiatrist’s office by sheer coincidence. He used to be kind of a party-boy hood rat who turned his life around by going back to school and to church in his early 20’s.

Anyway, every time I have had a question for my psychiatrist or a message I needed to relay, especially these past few months with having to go through my mom’s death and the accompanying grief/depression, this LVN has always responded ASAP with all the information I need and to see if there is anything else he can do for me to help me in my time of need, and then followed up with me to see how I was doing.

Words can’t describe how much I appreciate him and how proud I am of him that he’s been able to grow as a person, finish school, and establish a successful career that so happens to directly impact my life and my well-being in a positive way. Thanks Andrew, you are a real super hero in scrubs. You’ll probably never see this post but I can’t exactly express this on other platforms. You da real mvp ❤️

[babygotbacksurgery]

I just want to thank everyone who has reached out to me and my family in these very trying times. It helps me hold it together. I also want to thank the @cvifd and the first responders for responding and arriving as quickly as they did on Wednesday which turned out to be one of the worst days of my life. It’s all incredibly unfair and my heart hurts, like literally, hurts. Mom I miss you so much 💔 Kimberly Deal Alatorre 10/03/1969-10/25/2017 If anyone has any questions for me feel free to DM me. I truly apologize if you knew my mother and you are finding out this way through IG but I don’t use Facebook so this is the best way to reach me short of texting me.

[babygotbacksurgery]

I never imagined it would hurt so much losing my mother

Mom I miss you so much