[idc0o]

Somehow being a person does not come naturally to me

[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

[prokopetz]

I think one of the problems with the way we talk about media in fandom is that we often say "canon" when we really mean "the text". What is and is not canon is at least partly a question of authority and merit, and will inevitably be litigated as such, but you're going to arrive at some very strange conclusions if you try to use the same tools to litigate what is and is not present in the text.

[prokopetz]

Sometimes you've gotta take a step back from questions of canonicity as such and ask more fundamental questions like "okay, that's a fascinating interpretation, but what actual words that physically appear on the page* do we have to support it?"

* or whatever the equivalent for the media at hand is

[digitalmyyth]

use your bestie as a table #mytable

[kangaruthi]

[floridak1los0]

[john-fucking-carter]

Born to care ❤️

[thrillingsentience]

yayy i wanted to draw the full outfit from my other post lol

[jellyfishforest135]

Activated them like sleeper agents

[adventures-in-instant-ramen]

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

new top contender

[enbyzombies2]

[three boxes. the first reads, "Female". the second reads, "Male". the third reads, "Let me be free". /end id]

[bish0ps]

Remember when you could look things up online. Do you remember how we used to search

[ensorcelles]

tangina ang papangit na ng lumalabas sa google at twitter ngayon kapag magse-search ka

[voidsetup1]

nothing here to run from

[notsoheterosapien]

INSANE!!! BEAUTIFUL AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE

[bewitchined]

[himuhino]

[kabaks]

i think we need to abolish subscriptions. im tired of remembering passwords and giving out my email. check out as guest, no you may not know my name. die

[enmesheddaughterparentified]

I think one of the fascinatingly horrible things about living through a traumatic childhood full of emotional neglect and abuse is that when you finally leave your family, your brain has to basically detox from all of the harmful chemicals.

Like, my sister had a mental breakdown a week into college because of how unprepared she was to live somewhere not under our mothers thumb. She felt so uncomfortable that she came back home. Even when she finally did return to college, a year later, she drove back and forth from our home to her college which was an hour away. It took her a long time to feel comfortable staying away from our childhood home for more than a day or two.

I spent the first month of college constantly fighting off panic attacks and hiding in my room because I felt some looming sense of dread. I couldn't even put my thumb on why except that I felt unmoored and exposed and afraid of all the people around me. I used to hide under my desk and repeat to myself over and over that I would be okay.

And like?? Normal people didn't deal with that. Their parents prepared them to leave the nest. My parents didn't prepare me for anything but more of their abuse. I spent so long dreaming about escape and being free from expectations and yet was wholly unprepared for the fear of the unknown, the fear of being able to safely be whoever I wanted to be.

[pumpkinhrat]

im back with more stratt doodles