Crazy Creatives Cheerleading Camp

A safe space blog hop for creative people with mental illness to share their thoughts, challenges, and triumphs. There will be a new post on the sixth of each month. Sorry, but asks are not open. I forget to check them! if you have something to say or a post to share, comment away!

[romcommunist]

if u think im annoying now wait until i get over my fear of being perceived as annoying

[depsidase]

[ganondorf]

ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on

[ganondorf]

using your phone in a movie theater is a symptom of long covid

[cicada-and-pomegranate]

the defense of being on your phone in a movie theater is who cares? by your own admission, you should be paying attention to the movie. so why do you care what other people are doing? you’re meant to be paying attention to the movie.

[ganondorf]

[xx-emowarz-xx]

People don't actually grow out of their emo phases. People are forced out of their emo phases by employers who get a raging boner over controlling how their employees dress, cut their hair, whether they mod their bodies and so on

[xx-emowarz-xx]

How many beautiful emo men would we have if not for the tyranny of the 9-5. How many strange goth women are trapped inside the performance of a clean girl aesthetic because she needs to be able to eat. How many people are wage slaves when they should be punks?

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"No one can love you until you love yourself" is like the worst possible way of articulating "if you don't respect and value yourself, it's very easy to become attracted to people who don't treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful."

[tribblehugger96-deactivated2024]

so THAT'S what it's supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.

[shencomix]

[3liza]

last time my mom visited I was talking to her about parenting and how I appreciated a lot of the choices she and my father had made about raising me and my brother and she agreed that just listening to the child and taking them seriously was the One Weird Trick to cutting out like 60% of conflicts between parents and children. and she said one time I was about three or four years old and we were all going to the grocery store, and at the threshold of the store I just had a meltdown. i was overwhelmed, I was crying, I was just at the end of my rope like kids get sometimes. and instead of dragging me through the store my mom and dad stopped what we were doing and just asked me what the problem was. and I was able to say I didn't want to be there, I couldn't do it, I wanted to go home. and she says she and my father just looked at each other and back at me and said "okay" and we all went home that day instead of forcing the grocery store trip. and I had so few public meltdowns as a kid despite being pretty autistic because, I think, I knew that if I ever really needed to leave, my parents would understand and back me up. and that was the case throughout my childhood. which paradoxically (one might think) resulted in me having fewer incidents of being overwhelmed in the first place, which then made me better able to handle increasing amounts of stress and so on. it also taught me that expressing feelings and communicating them to my caretakers wasn't going to be punished or ignored or called weird, so unlike many other autistic kids who get judged or rebuked for expressing sensitivity or opposition, I didn't need to constantly blockade everyone and internalize everything all the time.

it's a pretty simple concept whether your kids are autistic or not, but most parents don't seem to get it. their parents taught them to just force everything and let the child deal with it alone so they just repeat the cycle even though they know how it feels.

[saurons-pr-department]

2024 is the year we stop “consuming” and go back to “reading/watching/listening to/playing” things

[midnightsoliloquy]

[crazycreativescheerleadingcamp]

Grodes

  Image by Else Siegel from Pixabay Fair warning that the following post is chock-a-block with profanity. If you're sensitive about that so

A poem about prejudice.

[cosmicretreat]

Not a single monkey survived the Neuralink experiment. I’ll bet Elmo can’t wait to start torturing and murdering human beings with this.

[odinsblog]

Let us recap all of the major cons & grifts that many “journalist” fanboys inside the Musk Distortion Field™ are always so quick to always eat up without any serious pushback

Full Self Driving (link)

Cyber Truck’s “indestructible” windows (post)

SpaceX Starship debacle (post)

The Dogecoin scam (link)

Boring Tunnel to nowhere scam (link)

The meritorious, “self made man” mythos

And that’s without even addressing the absolute, total shitstorm of a racist cesspool that Elon Musk has turned Twitter into.

Honestly, anyone who buys into his Neuralink scam deserves whatever happens to them if they put that thing anywhere near their body.

[mj-theskywitch]

great post but the people who will be most negatively affected by neuralink won't be bootlicking tech bros, itll be disabled people desperate for effective and affordable treatment that will be signing up for these trials. they are the ones who will die. please give a shit about them

[sealpup9]

Friendly reminder one of the things Neuralink is supposed to try and "fix" is autism. Its vile.

Also repeating this again:

The main people affected by Neuralink will be disabled people deaperate for treatment

[fiberglassbunny]

sometimes all you can do is lay under 3 large blankets while holding onto a stuffed animal

[coalashslurry]

we're running out of time to fuck it we ball....

[ryebreadgf]

not going to lie guys i don’t think being employed is for me

[prettyaveragewhiteshark]

devastated to report that being unemployed is also terrible

[rosalinastan]

it's almost like we need to entirely restructure society or something

[veralena-deactivated20240731]

man this politics shit is easy

[writing-prompt-s]

“I wish I had never been born!” You cried to the genie. But when you opened your eyes, you were still here. The genie shook its head sadly and asked,“What kind of pain have you endured, that you would wish for such a thing?”

[surviving-hero]

[agoodnight]

[buttpoems]