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| she/her | 22 | ❤️🧡🤍🌸💗 ASD ♾️ | disabled | chronic illness little things that make me happy

[ofwildsandwind]

[explainphysicslikeurinlovewme]

@ofwildsandwind for my poetry!

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[nihilisticlinguistics]

adulthood notes:

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.

[beetlegarden]

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

[astronomical-bagel]

This is so violently hopeful and uplifting everyone needs to see it

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

first step to living a better life is believe you deserve it. you deserve good things. i promise.

[elogaming]

[guy confused about lesbian relationship voice]: okay ... so which one only tells lies?

[notanartificialintelligence]

i hate it here im gonna [remembers suicide jokes are bad for mental health] find the Avatar and restore my honor

[teenage-disillusion-blog]

If someone ever tells you a certain song is important to them you should turn it up and lay on your bed and close your eyes and really listen to it even if its 10 minutes long because at the end you will know that person much better I think

[explainphysicslikeurinlovewme]

A cookie for you 🍪

Tysm <3 my blood sugar was low! 🫡🫡

[crazycatsiren]

I'm here, I'm queer, my joint pain is moderate to severe.

[probuccalfat]

frankly i feel absolutely no, probably even negative, kinship with childfree people who hate children lol that’s not why i’m childfree… i’m actually childfree because i love and respect children enough to know that i am not the kind of person to give them the kind of childhood and parent they rightfully deserve

[fibro-memes]

[explainphysicslikeurinlovewme]

Just looked up tactile allodynia and I think my brain exploded

YOU MEAN IT HAS A NAME?? I just thought I was itchy then uber ouchy for no reason

[ID: An infographic titled Seven Types of Fibromyalgia Pain, with seven square photos with names, and a description. They are:

Number 1, Knife In the Voodoo Doll. An intense stabbing pain pain that seems to cut through your entire body. Image shows a burlap voodoo doll being poked by a needle.

Number 2, Hyperalgesia. Increased response to a painful stimuli. Image shows a green plant stem covered in large thorns.

Number 3, Allodynia. Painful response to a normally innocuous stimuli. Image shows a finger reaching to touch the surface of a table.

Number 4, Paresthesia. Numbness, tingling, pins and needles. Image shows a pile of nails.

Number 5, Randomly Roving Pain. Pain that migrates around the body. Image shows a set of two black dice.

Number 6, Sparkler Burns. Tiny pinpricks of pain, that when scratched trigger tactile allodynia. Image shows a sparkler crackling in the dark.

Number 7, Rattled Nerves. Ache all over with nausea, dizziness, and anxiety. Image shows a woman’s brown eye with the pupil blown wide. End ID]

[kosmogrl]

don’t take my defeatism too seriously I will always begin again and again no matter what

[kosmogrl]

I might sound miserable most of the time but at my core I’m a very hopeful person

[postmanic]

a comic about different ways autistic people communicate and show we care!

shoutout to @3leafedclover , @mickeymusketeer , and my partner for helping me out with this one and also for letting me use your characters (black cat with shades, orange dog with the mickey plushie, and orange/white dog with the 'nervous' vest, respectively!), y'all are awesomes!

also thank you @3leafedclover for the image ids!

[explainphysicslikeurinlovewme]

IN CASE OF FIRE, USE THE STAIRS

more below ⇩

I just want to say, this isn’t a piece meant to attack anyone AMAB or male ID’ing. My writing stems from my own past experiences and intrusive thoughts I deal with on a daily basis because of those experiences. More than anything, I wanted to write about the sinking feeling that comes with knowing you will be the last person out of the building, the slowest in a crowd. It’s a danger that people often aren’t forced to consider until they are disabled in some way themselves. Also, this is about just Being A Woman TM (one with OCD and anxiety) Hope this helps someone feel seen. Xo 💛

[autistic-af]

One of the most insidious aspects of being a high-masking, undiagnosed autistic (for me, at least) was learning that you can mask at home.

The one place that you're supposed to "be yourself" and you learn that no...you haven't been yourself there, either.

So, when I was officially diagnosed, I was left with this feeling of "I don't have any idea who I am". Not outside the house, not Inside the house, not even alone.

I felt like an empty shell.

It took years of unmasking and therapy to get where I am.

If you're newly diagnosed or self-diagnosed, please know that feeling is normal. Not everyone gets it as not everyone masks (remember, undiagnosed ≠ high masking), but if you're at the moment, please know you're not alone.

[fictionadventurer]

One of the more profound things I’ve heard recently came from a Mr. Rogers documentary. In a clip from his show, Mr. Rogers had just visited with a musician, and tells his audience that some people play music, and some people don’t, and that’s okay.

And then he said, “The important thing is to find something you feel good about doing.”

That phrasing struck me. “Something you feel good about doing”. Most people would have phrased it as “something you enjoy doing”. Or “something you’re good at doing”. But Mr. Rogers’ subtly different phrasing leads to a profoundly different connotation. “Something you feel good about doing” may not be enjoyable–people who work in hospitals or in disaster zones might not enjoy much of their day, but they probably feel good about helping people. “Something you feel good about doing“ may not be something you’re particularly good at–you may be a terrible artist by any objective standard, but if you feel good about making your art, then it’s a worthwhile endeavor. Looking for “something you feel good about doing” can help you find a truly satisfying life path.

That phrase is also helpful with daily decision-making. Too often, I can make choices based on “what feels good.” I put aside tasks that are too stressful or avoid activities that seem too difficult, in favor of mindlessly browsing the internet. And I enjoy myself. I feel good while I’m doing that. But at the end of the day, I don’t feel good about how I spent my time. However, reminding myself to do “something I feel good about doing” can motivate me to accomplish those more difficult tasks. It can push me to do something outside of my comfort zone, to try something new that I might not be much good at. And maybe this is a blindingly obvious philosophy to everyone else. But I’m grateful for the reminder. 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

love the phrase "perish the thought." so unnecessarily visceral. let the thought perish. let it curl up into the soil and decompose like a miserably rotten failed little seedling. return to nutrients beneath my heel