Paramore at @ Express Live! on June 28, 2018. Credit: Ethan Clewell.
todays bird
Jules of Nature

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ellievsbear
Sade Olutola

izzy's playlists!
wallacepolsom
Today's Document
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Cosimo Galluzzi
we're not kids anymore.
cherry valley forever

Product Placement

pixel skylines
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
RMH
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ

roma★
One Nice Bug Per Day
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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@fiberglassghosts
Paramore at @ Express Live! on June 28, 2018. Credit: Ethan Clewell.
cause we can’t keep holding on to grudges
HAYLEY WILLIAMS © Krista Schlueter [2018]
a drawing about optimism
I don’t know why but that last line made me laugh really hard
this is one of my favourite comic strips of all time
"He’s gorgeous, isn’t he?” - Hermione, with Crookshanks
26 // Paramore
I fetishize the past I did not live
I fetishize the future I cannot control
I fetishize the practical impossibilities of the present
— Daniel Borzutzky, from “How I Got Here,” published in Boston Review
Beetlejuice (1988) dir. Tim Burton
“I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”
—
Vincent van Gogh
(via adrenaline)
there is a light that never goes out // the smiths
When I complain about being a ‘gifted’ kid who grew into a talentless adult I don’t mean that I’m not trying to work on my talents or anything
I mean that the ‘gifts’ I had are useless
Reading books above my age isn’t a talent when I’m not eleven
Knowing big words isn’t a talent when I’m not a kid, it’s just growing up
It’s just a weird thing that happens and it feels shitty when you’re brought up being told you’re an exceptional child only to realise as an adult you’re just average
This
I did a lot of reading about gifted kids and especially gifted adults when I got my “diagnosis” because I was told I was gifted at 23 and well, it serves no purpose to have a confirmation that you’re gifted at 23
Thing is, gifted children are not amazingly better than everyone else. Gifted brains just don’t work the same so they build their skills in a different order
Basically when you’re very young, most people brain learn social skills and how to interact with their peers, but gifted brains are already at the next step which is how to understand and interact with the world
That makes the stereotypical young children that are very good at math, always asking questions about how things work, very upset when they don’t know a thing
But the thing is, when everyone gets older, they’ve mastered most social skills and now turn towards understanding the world
But the gifted children have already mastered that part and are turning towards how to build social skills. Except there’s no one left to teach us about that! Because we’re late to that party
Long story short, at the end everyone, gifted or not, goes through all the necessary steps to make functioning adults, so the difference that was obvious as a child has disappeared
But us gifted people often end up with social anxiety and impostor syndrome because we are actually less equipped than others to face a world that taught everyone to be confident and talk to people while we were busy reading books above our age
……………that last paragraph.
damn.
Paramore // No Friend