Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops

[manolescent]

[theinternetarchive]

sweater designs by kaffe fassett, pub. 2007.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

nsfw = nosfewatu

[stick-by-me]

Fangtastic 🦇

[desinteresse]

A lot of ppl think that “love” is enough to raise a happy child and that’s not true. It also requires emotional maturity and financial stability but they don’t like hearing that because it changes their idea of a miracle that happens to them into a conscious decision that requires personal responsibility.

[desinteresse]

They think that having kids is a life phase that they’re required to go through and have no agency in but that’s not true. It’s not puberty, it’s a conscious choice that you make

[gabrielora]

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

[hauntedchronicler]

#these tests always do shit like this#and its just like why would you phrase it like this when its specifically a symptom to misinterpret this (via @tbhliteraltrash )

[friendlyfrankenstein]

ok hold on actually i rb'd this before with just tags but im going to come back in on this again

any medical diagnostic you will ever undergo does not mean "always 100% Every Time Ever you have this problem". And it sucks because they will phrase it in a way that SOUNDS like 100% Every Time including on the testing for being a person who has trouble with how specific phrasing is supposed to be.

literally the example I always use is I spent way longer without glasses then I should have because the eyesight chart diagnostic is "identify the letter", so I went 'ok the point of this is to do good identifying letters'. Then i realized

they want to know if I can see. Not if I can identify that a blurry shape is an A because of its unique outline.

So i started qualifying my answers with "blurry". Blurry A, Blurry Y, Blurry Z. Now I have glasses.

they do not make this clear. I do not know why. But you can more or less apply this to any medical diagnostic, and if it's a written diagnostic if your answer is 'sometimes' and the only answers are 'yes or no' you put Yes.

Do I have trouble getting out of bed? Sometimes, yes. So the answer is Yes.

Regrettably tests are made for and by non-autistic people and aimed at non-autistic caregivers and medical experts, which isnt how it should be, and makes it one more complicated thing to navigate. World a hell.

[beautypasseslikeadream]

Similarly, if the answer is, "No, because I have a strategy," the answer is really yes. If the question is, "Do you have trouble being on time?" and your thought process is, "Not any more since I started setting four different alarms and putting everything in my planner as starting a half-hour earlier than it really is." the answer is yes, because you've had to use unusually complicated techniques to address the trouble that you have. Having figured out away to outsmart the problem means that the problem was there to begin with.

[weaselle]

ooooooooooooohhhhhh noooooooooooooooo

[lastoneout]

me: my sensory issues aren't that bad lmao

also me: if my phone buzzes one more fucking time I am shoving it in the microwave on high for 30 minutes

[lastoneout]

[fungusamongusblog2]

[threebigolsausages-deactivated2]

great names for triplets

waluigi

wal2igi

waluig3

[scifiromancemachine]

I like how in Mario Sunshine Mario gets arrested despite having an alibi corroborated by upwards of six different people (his being on a fucking plane/out of the country for nearly every crime he was being tried for), tried but not permitted a defense lawyer or any testimony to be given in his favor, and convicted based solely on crude eye witness testimony which didn’t even match his description (the illustration is literally blue, just like the actual Shadow Mario).  Then within minutes of his sentencing, the actual perpetrator strikes again in broad daylight in front of even more witnesses, and attempts to kidnap someone, only to be stopped by Mario, but Mario is nonetheless still held responsible and held to the task of carrying out his sentence?

Isle Delfino is canonically a police state

[averyterrible]

the normalization of Japan’s 99% conviction rate through state-friendly monarchist media

[adhd-vibes]

[musts]

Beauty of the tea house by Yasuhiko Yarimizu

Japan

[iwaslostsoi]

[anakinskyqueer-deactivated20230]

oranges as intimacy, intimacy as romance, and romance as sensuality.

mount eerie from “tinin in tibet.” // emma elizabeth tillman’s “untitled.” // marge piercy, “the nuisance.” // jeanne illenye’s “orange burst” (detail). // frank ocean from “golden girl.” // stefanie_sarley on instagram (marginally edited). // university of michigan’s symbolism project. // eva woolridge’s “blinding pain.” // anne sexton, “a self-portrait In letters.”

[conceptualsolitude]

concept: me, laying in the sun on the softest grass imaginable. i have nowhere to go, no one to be

[weltenwellen]

“And at the center of the self, grief I thought I couldn’t survive.”

— Louise Glück, from “Aubade”, Poems 1962-2012

[good-tiktoks]

[peachie5000]

this is the only tik tokk ever, actually

[fatsexybitch]

The CINEMATOGRAPHY the Drama! The TWIST.

[subversivecynic]

This is the best parody of every Western ever and every time I see it I love it more

[white-throated-packrat]

A masterclass in how to set up and deliver drama!