Listen. Learn. Live.

"Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections." PTSD, HME (w/coxa valga deformity), Fibromyalgia, Hypermobility Syndrome, PCOS.

[spooniestrong]

[momsaysitsmyturntousethegay]

Credits to @doodle-nerd for the artwork of my original post!

BONUS!

[hitheeprithee]

Ur gonna tell me. That sleep is one of the main things I need to get out of a flare up. But then when I'm in this level of excruciating pain I can't sleep???

Who rigged this system I just wanna talk

[tina-warriorprincess]

End of Year Meme

First things first, did you have a good year?

How old did you turn this year?

Do you feel your age?

Did your appearance change in anyway?

Post your favorite selfie.

If you traveled, where did you go?

Which fashion trends did you love?

Which fashion trends did you hate?

What was your favorite article of clothing this year? Post a pic if possible?

What song sums up this year for you?

What album came out and has been on heavy rotation since then?

What was your favorite movie of the year?

Did an actor/actress catch your attention for the first time this year?

Favorite new TV show?

Which new ship/fandom has taken over a lot of your time, attention, and tears?

What food did you try for the first time?

Did you make any big permanent changes this year?

What was one nice thing you did for someone else?

What was one nice thing you did for yourself?

Did you develop a new obsession?

Did you vote?

Did you move?

Did you get a job?

Did you get a pet?

Do you regret not doing anything?

Do you regret doing something?

Have you done anything that scared you?

Did anyone/thing make you so mad it stayed with you for days?

Did you lose anyone close to you?

Did you fall in love?

Did you fall out of love?

Did you start a new relationship?

Did you go through a break up?

Did you have to cut ties to someone?

Who was important to you this year but wasn’t important last year?

Who wasn’t as important to you this year as they were last year?

If you could have a do over on one thing you did, would you take it?

What was the best moment of the year for you?

What was the worst?

Did anything happen that you were sure would change you as a person but it really didn’t?

Did anything happen to you that you were sure wouldn’t change you as a person but it did?

What are you most proud of accomplishing?

What have you learned about yourself this year that you didn’t know in the years prior?

Did your opinion of anyone change for the better?

Did your opinion of anyone change for worse?

If you make resolutions, did you complete them this year?

If you make resolutions, what will your resolutions be for the coming year?

If you could go on an adventure during the remaining days of the year, where would you go and what would you do?  Who would you go this?

What do you wish for others for the coming year?

What do you wish for yourself?

[learningtojustbeme]

I always loved the idea of these things, but never had any followers actually ask a number. So fuck it, I'm gonna answer them without anyone asking. HA!

1. 2021 was an okay year. Got two semesters of school under my belt, only two more to go for my second degree.

2. Twenty seven.

3. I feel like I'm simultaneously 12 and 50, and have felt that way since I was 10.

4. I have an undercut. Lost like 10 lbs.

6. Traveled to Cali to see my family.

7/8. Haha fashion trends. Are those still a thing? I wear what is comfy. Hoodies. Pants. T-shirts.

9. Disneyland sweatershirt! So many good memories.

That's all the energy I have. Goodnight people.

[learningtojustbeme]

Well fuck. Just fuck. I was dragging these past couple week, felt like I just couldn't catch my breath.

Yesterday I was essentially served a gut punch with the harsh reality that I might not be able to finish school. That if I want to stay in school, I'm going to have to work full time, pay for everything while going to school, and deal with my chronic illnesses which leave me fatigued and in constant pain.

I keep just emotionally breaking down because I know it's not realistic. It's not sustainable. But I don't have a choice.

[veeranger]

the absolute state of AAA gaming right now. the most hyped game of the last few years after having arguably the most disastrous launch in the history of video games just released the patch notes for their game that totals over 8000 words and about 19 pages of single spaced 11 point font and had balls to type “and many more” at the end of the patch notes like 8000 fucking words wasnt even enough to truly encapsulate everything about the game that was broken. this is literally critical mass i dont know where the fuck you could even go from here.

[learningtojustbeme]

Management screwed this game. It's not even that bad of a game, but it wasn't the game promised. Even if you ignore what they claimed they were going to put it in, the game is par for the course. Like it's fine. Not a 60 dollar game (even though that's how much I spent.) Like 25-35 range at release.

[behbuh]

Lena and Lillian:

[everythingfox]

She’s dancing

[moodsandmatters]

[will5nevercome]

[unofficiallydisney]

This makes me so happy

[risingoflights]

There’s a very good, clear message here that is surprisingly hard to articulate. You go, dragon. You go.

[tender-suggestions]

Extra gay with a side of sleepy.

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[areweforgiven]

being mentally ill is so embarrasing how can you explain to a normal person that you had to psych yourself up for half an hour to like get off the floor

[drabbleswithdragons]

hey google are you allowed to text your friends that you're having a breakdown or is that selfish

[learningtojustbeme]

Selfish. Selfish to bother Google with such trivial things.

[starkidinthephonebox]

“I reached the ‘rock bottom’ people talk about, and it left me in a state where I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t process thoughts, couldn’t work, and couldn’t perform. I suddenly understood why some people just can’t get up in the morning, how their brain is so tired, and how not another message to ‘get stronger’ or ‘improve their life’ is going to make any difference. All I wanted during that dark time was for someone to hold me and tell me, ‘It’s okay if you can’t fight your way out of these woods. I’ll stay with you in the dark until you’re ready to move.’”

— Hannah Brencher (via twloha)

[wait-thats-an-adhd-thing]

how to make consequence blindness your bitch—adhd hack

let's say you, a person with adhd, have to take a shower. a really simple task, technically, but also somehow impossible because your brain is acting like a little bratty baby and telling you that just getting there is "so much woooork".

it's exhausting. plus, fighting your brain only adds to the effort, which only makes it more exhausting and more likely to play video games and become grosser and grosser.

full stop. you're not getting anywhere. luckily, your brain is as dumb as it is loud and stubborn. you've probably been in a place before where you couldn't possibly recount how buying fresh vegetables and leaving fresh vegetables in the bottom of your fridge for six months led to moldy vegetables, or how not renewing netflix subscription led to no netflix—because surprise, surprise! adhd symptoms include consequence blindness.

now, executive dysfunction—as described earlier—is another adhd symptom: getting stuck when trying to start a task. rather than continuing to run against the dysfunction wall, compromise with your brain. you're not trying to take a shower after all, you're just pausing the game.

then compromise again. you're not taking a shower, just going to the bathroom. you're not taking a shower, just undressing and turning on the water and stepping in and—oh.

see how consequence blindness (if i do this, that can't possibly follow) leads to tricking executive dysfunction? you've broken down your task into baby steps and convinced your brain that each baby step will be the last one you have to take.

this works for other stuff too: you're not making a phone call, just putting in the number, then pressing the call button, then suddenly you're making a phone call with no clue how you got there /s

exploit your symptoms to help you with others—even if you're "supposed" to do something of your own will, what works works, so why not use it?

(and of course you don't have to have adhd to use this—if it works for you, go off, trick your toddler brain and have a good and functional day)

[learningtojustbeme]

He is too sensitive to be a service dog, but he is the best buddy I could have ever asked for.