Blossoming, Hopefully

amelia, mid-twenties, they/she ~ autistic and anxious SLP with a lot of career-related interests (e.g. AAC! literacy! phonology! gestalt language processing! ethics and navigating ableist ideologies, both within the field and within larger systems! lots and lots of dabbling!!!) ~ big fan of libraries and their role (and potential roles!) in communities ~ leftist, anti-capitalist, etc.

[podencos]

[purple-dahlias]

florence welch was right. it picks me up puts me down chews me up spits me out a hundred times a day picks me up puts me down i'm always running from something i push it back but it keeps on coming and being clever never got me very far

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Whimsical

[nomorechoirs]

“June”, Florence + The Machine

[dovai]

[valtsv]

nothing fills you with greater false confidence than managing to wake up early once

[valtsv]

"this sleep schedule shit is easy" (← about to learn a lesson straight out of a fucked up traditional fairytale punishment)

[myturtlespeedy]

I literally spit water all over my screen.

[thesevenumbrellas]

For context

[facelessoldgargoyle]

Is it lost? Is it trapped? Is it home? Is it innocent? Is it hunting you? Can you feel it watching you? Is it the house?

[haleyincarnate]

Forgive yourself.

[avpdvoidspace]

"It's neurotypicals who lack empathy ACTUALLY'

stop. Lacking empathy is a common neurodivergent trait. It's common for people with personality disorders. We're not neurotypical. Empathy is a value neutral trait and says nothing about a person's character. You're not owning the NTs when you say that--you're just making other neurodivergent people feel unsafe around you and painting us as Bad People.

[queerasflux]

having low empathy doesn't make you a bad person. you can be a compassionate human being with a strong sense of justice and very little empathy. You can have a strong moral core with a strong sense of your internal values, be able to consider all sides of a situation, and never be able to feel what that other person is feeling. You can understand why someone is hurt/angry/whatever and be able to do what you can to ease the situation and never resonate with their feelings. Low empathy does not equal evil.

[solreefs]

autism is living by vampire rules. light sensitivity. eating the wrong food makes you want to die. need to be explicitly invited places. weird sleep schedule. eating the same thing every time. specific rituals and routines. burst into flames at the sight of a crucifix. etc.

[visit-ba-sing-se]

I could have lived in peace (stayed warm in my bed) but my enemies (job that pays my bills) brought me war (e-mails i have to respond to)

[kosmogrl]

unstoppable force (trying desperately to see the good in life) vs immovable object (wishing life would be kinder to me)

[cruiserweight]

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TRANSGENDERS

[visual-poetry]

by cécile

[hearttended]

[ID: photo of confetti in a plastic box labeled “in case of happy ending. End ID]

[fearsomeandwretched]

Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there's such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don't

[catchymemes]

[rueyam]

the older i get the more sensitive i become to warm genuine words, like wow you really think that kindly of me? hold up, lemme cry