Just a Broken Baby Borderline

29. Borderline Personality Disorder. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Cancer. Disordered Eating. Major Depressive Disorder. Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobic Anxiety Disorder.

[namira]

Like two years ago I ran into a salamander biologist in the woods who complimented my ability to 'walk quietly in the forest while causing minimal disturbance to the leaf litter.' Still goes to my head.

[uovoc]

English has different words for mouse and rat but in Chinese they're both the same creature (laoshu) so I asked my mom well how do you differentiate between mice and rats. She, clearly having never felt the need to do so, was like uhh big laoshu and little laoshu I guess. Then I went online to see how the difference between (the English words) "mouse" and "rat" was being explained to CN->EN learners and there are numerous articles delving deep into the analysis. Bigger vs smaller, indoors vs outdoors, cute and favorable connotations vs evil and ugly, tail length, fear factor, emphasis on the fact that you cannot call it a "computer rat." Much thought is being expended on this little mystery of the English language

[xiangqiankua]

Last time I was looking for an apartment, the guy showing me a room that opened directly to the alley was like 你怕老鼠嗎？and I, hoping to distinguish mouse vs rat, asked 大的還是小的? To which he replied, with great satisfaction: 都有!😃

[sladeofyaupon]

Translation: "Are you afraid of rodents?" "Big ones or small ones?" "We've got both."

[goopi-e]

@probably-ace-ok This is beautiful.

[jv]

I'm always utterly confused by the difference between Ravens and Crows, since we only have a word for both in Spanish.

Also, I'm very confused by the lack of difference between "búhos" and "lechuzas" in English, like if both things were even close to being similar.

[magess]

Can you illustrate with photos?

[jv]

Do you mean lechuza/búho?

Yup!

[the-pithy-aaaaah]

Oh we just give owls long multi word names so the buho is a great horned owl (even if it's not and it might not be) and the lechuza is a barn owl

[jv]

Yeah, but that's the thing, for you folks those are two categories of the same type of bird. For me they are different types of birds, like an eagle and a falcon, or a magpie and a blackbird.

I guess it's the same thing with ravens to me: I know about the differences: it's just what I've learned to see ravens and crows as variations in the same type of animal.

[jv]

@akasanata

Oh au contraire, mon ami. Maybe the Spanish from the Americas had lost the differences, but the euro Spanish is insanely specific about this type of prey bird, to the point that you need to be an expert to know what to use. This a list of prey birds that are smaller than an eagle and relatively common in iberia:

- halcón

- milano

- cernícalo

- alcotan

- gavilan

- azor

[vaspider]

In Yiddish & Hebrew, there's one word for both doves & pigeons. טויב, toyb, plural טויבן, toybn.

However, Yiddish has different specific words for the mother of your son's spouse and the mother of your daughter's spouse, and a specific single word which means "both sets of parents of a married couple." IDK why that's what I thought of, but I think it's cool. There's also a single word that means "the youngest person in a particular family."

[silvergryphonart]

Not sure if this makes it better or worse but dove/pigeon is known to be an arbitrary distinction in English; it has no connection to scientific classification. The common domestic/feral pigeon is descended from the rock dove. Whether a bird is called a pigeon or a dove is pretty much the choice of the person who named it, often based on size or aesthetics. Yiddish gets it right

[vaspider]

It's pretty much - not fully consistent, but largely so - that larger species are usually called pigeon (origin: French) while smaller and more delicate species are called doves (origin: Old English/Norse). So it's more common to hear "rock pigeon" vs "mourning dove" and "turtle dove."

They're all Columbidae the same way that a raven and a crow are both Corvidae, yes, but there is a general logic to which word gets used for which. Whether it's wrong or right, idk.

[athelind]

Meanwhile, for @jv, owls all belong to the order Strigiformes, but that's divided into two families: Strigidae, the "true owls", and Tytonidae, the barn and bay owls.

It looks like búho corresponds to the "true owls" and lechuza corresponds to the barn owls, but I'm not 100% sure how consistent that might be.

If that's the case, it's a matter of "we're both right" -- the Spanish words corre

[scoutology]

#crysobbing

[dilfsisko]

Racism against Indians is actually a little insane when you consider how widespread it is even among liberals and leftists . Even people who consider themselves to be progressive will laugh at call center or tech support jokes. All scammers are inherently indian. It’s okay to laugh at jokes making fun of Indians for their feelings towards animals or how they drive. India is inherently backwards and dirty so it’s okay to make jokes about getting food poisoning from even looking at indian food

[broken-baby-borderline]

I need an generative AI hate group or I’m going to explode, so frustrated. Let me know if you want in on it

[oneheadtoanother]

after being offered the role of poop

[jareckiworld]

David Kanietakeron Fadden — Kill the Indian, Save the Man… Fail (acrylic on canvas, 2018)

[only-tiktoks]

[kawree]

Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

[symptomesper]

Also, if you’re even a little concerned about getting a hump or having trouble standing fully upright in your old age, this is how you prevent that. If you want to be up and about when you’re old you have to start when you’re younger. And keep in mind there is no bad time to start and it’s never too late. Starting today is way better than never starting at all.

[occidentalist]

I learned a very long time ago that I could post in English on the Anglo internet about my experience as a sexual minority in the #middleeastandnorthafrica region. I could vent about every slight or slur, every indiscretion, all the doors that might not have closed in my face had I not been who I am. But that all it would do is earn me a seat at a table half the world away, a seat that I would lose the second I said “but my people are still human. But we are Arab women before we are queer women. But we are muslim before we are trans women. But we are imperialised subjects of the periphery before we are bisexuals. But we are ‘combat-aged males’ before we are gay men and boys.” A seat that I could only keep if I show a willingness to betray my people. And I will not. I do not want it. The price is too steep and the value too low.

I have come to know now that this western voraciousness for our stories was never an impulse born out of empathy; it has always been little more than a gathering of intel, of reasons to hate us and to justify the destruction of our bodies and the pillaging of our lands and the looting of our resources. So I no longer see the utility in being one more primary source for the proverbial NYT opinion editorial manufacturing consent for the latest campaign of imperial slaughter in my backyard on account of our inherent backwardness.

[valtsv]

it's always "you gnawed off your own leg to escape like an animal caught in a trap" and never "why didn't anyone try to help you out of the trap" or "why weren't you provided with any other resources to escape the trap with except for your own teeth"

[trufflesmushroom]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: maybe even 'why was there a trap there in the first place' /End ID]

[roaldamundsen]

more pyaari everyone say hi to pyaari

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[cuntpunkop-ed]

catheters

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

[thesweetiepienovels]

Actually, you are enough. Even if you don’t work. Or study. Or go out. Or have friends. Or have family. You’re enough because you exist and your existence is enough to be enough because you are not a product. You are not a sum of output. You are not a task to complete. But because you are something the universe wanted and put here even if you’ll never understand why. Somewhere in the cosmos your existence makes a difference, even if it’s not the way others existences do.

[randomalistic]

Your artstyle is like your gut microbiome in the way its everything you consume and like and it also has all your bacteria up in it. Thats probably how that works

[randomalistic]

SO TRUE

[teaboot]

Sorry to get preachy outta nowhere but if you are a person who's never had a phobia PLEASE don't say shit like "it's not dangerous" or whatever because phobias, especially IRRATIONAL phobias, don't fucking work like that.

I personally have a specific phobia that, when triggered, used to make me spasm and hyperventilate and cry, and it was super embarrassing because I was fully aware that there was nothing really wrong. You can experience the effects of a phobia while objectively knowing you're safe! And STILL I would get people telling me to chill out cause I was fine.

I've gotten better at managing it. I can thing straight and control my breathing and not feel *emotional* fear, but my body still locks up and my heart still goes crazy and I still have to focus on breathing.

I am aware that it doesn't make sense. I am aware that I am not in danger. I'm practiced enough that I can sit still and have a conversation through the experience now. But it's still a phobia and no amount of reminding me how irrational my body is being is going to fix that- it's just gonna piss me off on top of it.

[teaboot]

and you know what, I'm gonna add on the same thing I tell everyone who DOES tell me I overreact to my phobias: what are YOU scared of? Spiders? Snakes? Dirty needles? What makes YOUR body heave? Is it cold vomit? Spoiled meat? Dead skin?

When IM experiencing the effects of an irrational fear, imagine putting whatever awful or dangerous or nasty thing disgusts you in your mouth. Imagine experiencing a RATIONAL fear. Because it doesn't matter what I know is true, the effects of rational fear and irrational fear make your body do the same things.

Nausea, locking up, inability to make yourself move, panic, denial, refusal, shaking, disgust, revulsion, anger, fear, outrage, humiliation, vulnerability.

If my phobia is, say, walking past a 2002 Toyota Prius, then making myself do that FEELS just as difficult and horrific to me as licking broken glass off a gas station bathroom floor does to YOU. The only difference is *I* might have to do the thing ANYWAYS, while people make fun of me an I know that I look ridiculous, whereas YOU would at least know that your feelings are normal and your experience will be taken seriously.

WE KNOW OUR PHOBIAS DON'T ALWAYS MAKE SENSE. IT DOESN'T MAKE THEM STOP. Its why they're called "irrational phobias"

[teaboot]

Hot damn this is an old post

But anyhow, today I encountered one of my phobias and was able to react to it calmly and rationally while my brain screamed instead of physically locking up and doing the screaming out loud, so here's to gradual progress

Also, figured out a better analogy over the years:

If Fear is like disgust, think of a Phobia as an allergy

I'm not DISGUSTED by the thing. Telling me you have a better recipe is not helpful. My throat is closing up and I need an epipen

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[copperbadge]

On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.

[vergess]

hey bestie i think ur post might be charmed 'cause you aren't gonna fuckin believe what happened today