Being Pretty Odd @beingprettyodd - Tumblr Blog

Dear Tumblr,

This has been the very essence of myself since I was very young and in many ways the blogs I followed and the people I found shaped who I am today.

If you remember Tumblrs mass password reset about 4 years ago, you will recall that I was one of the many accounts who no longer had access to the original email on my accounts. With no other way to change my password and re access my account, I have up. For the past 4 years I have only used this account via an app on my phone that did not log me out.

Today, I received a new phone. And since I cannot reset my password in this app, I must say my goodbyes.

It is bittersweet to leave behind this part of my life for so many years. In recent, I have used this as my only outlet for the current Hell I feel has been bestowed upon me. I will be forever grateful for those of you who kept me company.

This blog was originally started to find others who also dealt with OCD and trichotillomainia because at the time I was the only person I knew who pulled their eyelashes out. In my most influential years, this blog helped me to not feel so alone. I’m proud to say I haven’t had a bad pulling episode in quite sometime. Long gone are the days when I was compared to a “hairless cat” in middle school.

I will always be thankful for this small piece of the internet that I held and loved. I will check these messages at least once more before I shut this phone off for good. Let me know if you wish to connect elsewhere, in the real world. Or maybe just twitter.

Warmly,

Kendall

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Let’s all go to Dragon Land

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How I’m trying to take care of someone lol

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Someone who drowns in 7 feet of water is just as dead as someone who drowns in 20 feet of water. Stop comparing traumas, stop belittling your or anyone else’s trauma because it wasn’t “as bad” as someone else’s. This isn’t a competition, we all deserve support and recovery.

Admitting to my boyfriend that I’m extremely depressed and probably will never be happy. Trying to explain the sadness that I feel everyday. I don’t think he’ll ever understand. Always thought I was doomed to be alone. Never pictured myself getting married or having a family. Guess I was right.

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“If they miss you, they’ll call. If they want you, they’ll say it. If they care, they’ll show it. And if not, they aren’t worth your time.”

— Lessons Learned in Life

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“The way human beings speak is so heartbreaking to me—we never sound the way we want to sound. We’re always stopping ourselves in mid–sentence because we’re so terrified of saying the wrong thing. Speaking is a kind of misery. And I guess I comfort myself by finding the rhythms and accidental poetry in everyone’s inadequate attempts to articulate their thoughts. We’re all sort of quietly suffering as we go about our days, trying and failing to communicate to other people what we want and what we believe.”

— Annie Baker

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Get you somebody who’s in the mood for you everyday.

I find it really hard to maintain a stable outlook on life. There’s so much violence. Mass shootings are more common than they used to be. If I let it all get to me I wouldn’t leave the house. I get this impending doom feeling when I think about the state of the US. It’s depressing. And I’m depressed. Still waiting on universal healthcare bc I literally pay for health care and can’t even get an appt. right now.

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Adult realization: you will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind and just to people, grow and learn.