Captain Salad Pants

[onewingedangels]

TOMB RAIDER: LEGACY OF ATLANTIS (2027) dev. Crystal Dynamics

[heedra]

if you learn to love bugs with all your heart the world will feel half as hostile and a thousand times as big

[heedra]

Theres a sentiment I'm noticing in the tags that I'd like to address. I dont think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It's about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It's about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It's especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how 'convenient' they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonius with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.

I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that dont owe you an apology for their existance and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.

[invertebrates]

It's hard to explain to the uninitiated that you can just go for a walk just about anywhere with a bit of green (and sometimes even in the heart of a city) and find like a dozen neat little unique guys if you're patient and observant.

People get really into bird watching but here's a secret: bugs are WAY easier to find than birds and they let you get a lot closer.

Try to approach the world with wonder and curiosity rather than fear and revulsion. Bugs are a great place to start.

[beaft]

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

[beaft]

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

[beaft]

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

[beaft]

@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct

[emwheezie]

Salad

[whirling-ghost]

[ID: a painting of a tabby and white cat with their face being grabbed by a set of blue tongs. end ID]

[teaboot]

I don’t think I have an Attention Deficit. I think I have an Attention Surplus. Attention is pointing Everywhere and frankly whatever you wrote in your email is not as captivating as That Radom Noise I’m Hearing

[wlwgif]

AM I OK? (2022) — dir. Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allynne

[captainsaladpants]

I mean yes, I thought this was how all lesbians were allocated into their houses?

[avocant]

okay so I'm having a debate with my flatmates

are these all different things and if so what do you call them

[sweetiebutter]

[diarrheaworldstarhiphop]

HE FUCKING GRINDED THE ENTIRETY OF YHE GRANVILLE BRIDGE OFFRAMP

THATS A LONG ASS RAMP

[spiroandthelacktones]

this dude unlocked the infinite grind cheat in real life

[seeyalazergator]

Im so glad for the music choice

[russiawave]

[selfship-quotes]

I love soulmates but also this-

[qilingxiong]

[captainsaladpants]

Oh hey @saint-moro it us.

[chronivore]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[hellolovelyscientist]

#ray bradbury #the ageism these days is insane #not all old people are bad peeps

[saint-moro]

i've been a parent for 4 years and yet signing my kid's permission slip so they can go on an excursion at kinder is one of those moments where i'm like holy shit i'm a parent??? me?? like you want to look around for the adult in the room

[saint-moro]

lmao nevermind @captainsaladpants beat me to it

[captainsaladpants]

What? The adult in the room signed it.

[carpethedamndiem]

[sarahexplosions]

[magnet poetry that reads:

"I will not go gentle into that good night

I'm gonna be a huge bitch about it"]

[captainsaladpants]

It…me. 🫣

[captainsaladpants]

My treating psychologist gave me feedback back in 2021 that she strongly felt I was on the spectrum, and if I wanted to I could get formally diagnosed. I didn’t have a lot of time in my life for the idea of it, and to be honest, I went into a little bit of denial and anger about it. Not angry at being on the spectrum, angry that parts of my childhood and adult life would have been a lot easier with the compassion of an ASD lens cast across it.

Anyway, with the help of reading more resources (and facing the diagnosis of my own son’s ASD) I am very, very slowly embracing what it might mean for me. Like hey, give yourself some space, you’re not just cranky, you’ve inadvertently overloaded a nervous system that can’t handle too much sensory input. Or understanding the importance of stimming, and getting to know what my own stims are, including the ones I might have banned myself from doing as a kid. Learning the value of a strategic time out so I can get on with my day. Accepting that I might have a bit of an empathy deficit, how that impacts on how I relate to people, and the small things I can do to be better. My inexplicable fury at what feels like insincere small talk (I *get* you, Mr Darcy).

So here’s to progress, and to finding out what life is like on the other side of getting to know yourself. ❤️

[captainsaladpants]

You think you’re tracking ok with your grief, until you receive a call from the Housing Commission about your brother’s house.

Them: I don’t know how to put this delicately, but we’ve received a report that the occupant of this property, which we believe to be your brother, has passed.

Me: yes that’s correct, he passed away in October and I’m his next of kin.

Them: oh thank goodness…I mean that’s obviously very awful and I’m very sorry for your loss, but I thought I was going to be the first person to tell you.

Me: no, no I’m…aware.

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