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AuDHD - Pan/DemiRom Ace - POTS

[intosnarkness]

legit the best advice i can give you: feed your friends

any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don't have to choose what it is if they can't make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you're just gonna make food happen at their house.

friend having a baby? delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the kid shows up.

someone's relative passes away? offer to make them dinner.

buddy gets laid off? ask if you can order them lunch.

pal stuck in a depressive episode? offer to drive them to fucking mcdonalds, if that's what they want.

people in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. so if you have the ability or time or money, providing that is always, always a good move.

legit i do this all the time, and it is 100% always appreciated. i have taught all my friends that when something happens, we feed each other. it makes people feel extremely cared for, and I cannot recommend it enough.

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

sharing food is also like one of the most important things for forming connections there is a reason we have the Phrase "Breaking bread"

like having a Meal really helps in a crisis

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

Whenever my friends are sick or down in some way, my husband and I always make one of our famous comforting soups and whilst friends hate being sick and down, they perk up whenever us making soup is mentioned.

We lug over a fresh tub of it and then usually bring a freezer bag of frozen serving size blocks of said soup to keep on hand in case for whatever reason we cannot bring fresh.

It is comforting on the giving side of it to know we can make yummy soup and heal our friends even the slightest bit.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

Nooooooooo

Our AC is out agaiiiinnnnnnnn

(It was fixed a month ago.. Dx)

Meeehhhhhhhh

🫠🫠🫠🫠

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

Personal bias aside I enjoyed this collection. Some made me laugh tbh, some hit home of course. Some I didn't resonate with but they made me think or at least roused a "huh/hmm" outta me.

📖

I look forward to the other two I found after this one.

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

The second one resonated less than the first as far as personal views. But I still enjoyed the read.

Now, onto the third... a leaf falls silently

[l0stvegas]

Some time ago (I think in 2021) I had to go see a neurologist over really scary symptoms that resembled seizures. I was a nervous wreck about what I was feeling and had barely slept all week, which seemed to be apparent to the doc’s assistant when I sat down in the exam room for questioning or whatever. Dude was pretty young and soft spoken, around my age. He was laser focused doing something on one of those tablet-laptop Surface things as I spoke, presumably writing down my symptoms.

Midway through talking about my symptoms my voice audibly started shaking as I was describing them, clearly upset.

In the middle of my monologue he turns the tablet to face me, closes whatever program he has open and the wallpaper is this fucking collage of pictures of lord farquaad from shrek, lovingly decorated. Dude just sat there placidly smiling at me until I noticed and stopped dead in the middle of a sentence. We sat there in silence like this for like a solid minute before I started wheezing laughing. Before I could even say anything else or process it he picked up the tablet and wordlessly left the room, and I just sat there dumbfounded until the doctor showed up. 10/10 doctor experience tbh

I didn’t own a cell phone at the time to get a photo so this rendition from memory is all I can provide you

[snow-nose]

ID: a digital drawing of a man in scrubs sitting on a wheeled stool, serenely smiling with his elbow on a rolling cart, where a tablet is flipped open to show an approximation of the Lord Farquaad screensaver. end ID

[enigma-absolute]

[l0stvegas]

Reblogging this bc it’s making rounds again

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

Happy Birthday Terri Irwin🪻

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

Genuinely

Is there a discord server specifically for body doubling

Like I'd love to get on a video chat call where the goal is for everyone to brush their teeth or something (doesn't have to be video but that helps me sometimes is visually seeing others)

We all do so without judgement

You can join a specific call channel for specific tasks or join one of the batches of misc body doubling channels where the task doesn't matter, we just need the presence

Some can be designated for chatty folks

Some can be designated for no chatting folks

I'd join tf out of that discord community

(I'd make it but I do NOT have the spoons to run it and make sure it was safe for everyone bcuz bad humans always be finding/joining places meant to be wholesome or at least neutral)

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

TIS HAPPENED

THE PROPHECY

THE TOOTH OF FRONT

HATH MADE IT'S ESCAPE FROM THE ELDEST'S GUMS

He panic swallowed it

To be fair it suddenly started wiggling today

Then 6 hours later popped out

Fastest I've seen that happen start to finish

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

*eats dinner*

My pots body: so we should crash out, right? Digestion-triggered tachycardia? Feel like chest and head are going to explode? Cool cool I'll do that IMMEDIATELY

I hate pots

My head hurts. My chest hurts. Everything hurts. Usually 24/7 regardless. Whhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (le complain)

Belly? Full. HR? 148 and possibly getting faster but don't care to check anymore..

[ismenes]

you know those studies showing that cursing helps with pain tolerance or whatever. that’s how i feel about making my weird little noises to get through my basic daily activities. sometimes you just have to go hggblaaaah for a minute so you can find the strength within yourself to get up or wash the dishes or send an email. mmmnneh. urgh. the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it.

[unofficial-autism-post]

Unofficial Autism Post

[angleshavew1ngs]

The rain has my heart

[byjove]

When I got my first debit account (I was 19 and this occurred during COVID, if that adds any additional context), I had no clue what ‘cash back’ meant, I thought it was ‘cash back’ in the loyalty rewards way, I was curious about the ‘DO YOU WANT CASH BACK?’ screen with all the pre-programmed money amounts. Instead of looking it up, I clicked the $20 option at Food Lion one day and I was completely astounded when the cashier pulled a $20 out of the cash register and went to hand it to me. This is the opposite of the natural order of things. The cashier was the same age as me and visibly baked so for a fraction of a second, I was wondering if our wires got crossed somehow. I just stood there for a moment staring at him in confusion while he stared at me in confusion. Then, I took the $20 and gathered up my groceries and left. Luckily, $20 didn’t put me into overdraft. No harm done, just a very embarrassing moment. Anyway, if someone comes into your retail job behaving like it is their first day on earth, it is probably because they feel like it is their first day on earth. We’re all just trying to figure this bullshit out. Amen.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

also I don't think parents "these days" are uniquely terrible, I just think neglect is showing up in new ways as technology progresses. today's ipad kid would've been wandering around in a ditch alone all day and night before. parents not wanting to have to deal with children is not a new phenomenon.

[tlirsgender]

The thing about social anxiety when you're autistic is that "someone can spontaneously get Mad At You for reasons entirely unpredictable to you & you might not even know cause sometimes they simply won't tell you" has just been your lived reality since like. Birth. And at some point you just have to go "OK well if they have one sided beef with me that's their problem actually" so you don't go completely insane

[tlirsgender]

If it sounds like I'm just describing abuse patterns that's because I am except when you're autistic it's Kinda Everyone because You as a neurodivergent person are presumed to be the problem by default until proven otherwise

[tlirsgender]

Like from my pov when I don't understand some Social Rule I apparently crossed unknowingly it strikes me as just as nonsensical as like. What if everyone on the bus hates me for getting on the bus. Because the whole problem is that it's not computing at all. So you just kind of learn to be on high alert 24/7

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[jmtorres]

“buttercups” is a name applied to MANY flowers. in my part of the south it was this one:

imo there’s correct identifications of dandelions, daffodils, easter lilies and marigolds in this thread, but buttercups are simply impossible to agree on and the only solution is for everyone to post pictures of their local buttercups

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*squints* is that a motherfucking EVENING PRIMROSE?!??

[homunculus-argument]

The important part of making horrible kitchen concotions is to give them properly horrid names. I have discovered a new dish: The Blended Devil.

It's like deviled eggs, but instead of taking the yolks out of the eggs, you just mash the entire boiled eggs into mush with a fork and mix the rest of the ingredients in there. Eaten from a bowl, with a fork or a spoon depending on the consistency. Or go at it labrador style with your face down in the bowl if you're like that. Not up to me.

[thenotme]

That already has a name. It's called egg salad T-T

[homunculus-argument]

How is a concotion of eggs, mayo, mustard, and seasonings to taste a salad? It contains zero leafy green or vegetable.

[what-even-is-thiss]

A salad can just be a chopped mix of things. That’s egg salad alright. I put it on sandwiches. You can also put pickle relish and/or chopped onion in it.

[homunculus-argument]

If we go by the definition that any chopped mess of random bullshit counts as a salad, then I guess I'm a salad.

[starstruck-heretic]

So etymologically speaking, anything that has had salt sprinkled on it is a salad

From old french "salade": something that has been salted

[homunculus-argument]

✔️salty

✔️chopped

✔️random bullshit

Ah fuck, I am a salad.