My beloved and I are talking about making a comic someday based on a very comforting part of our OC universe.. This is one of the townsfolk that would appear often! Hopefully this season ill be motivated to flesh it out more đď¸đđ
This map is made and maintained by transgender journalist Erin Reed. She read all 550 bills targeting trans people in America in 2023 and 586 so far in 2024 and she scores state safety based on proposed and enacted legislation. She regularly updates the map (including explanations of recent legislative changes) on her site. She has a separate map for trans youth (which: warning, is even more scary), since a lot of policies target minors specifically.
Itâs depressing as all hell, but Erin does great work and Iâve been using her maps to plan my career and vacations for years. Itâs helped me figure out where to apply for grad school, and helps me keep track of what states I cannot do a layover in while flying because of bathroom bills.
I remember when 2D faded out, the reason studios kept giving was "it's because 2D is a lot more expensive to produce". I was a child back then so I didn't think too much about it, assuming it was about the process itself, but as I grew up and learned more about art as an artist, and gained friends who were professional 3D artists themselves, I started to question it. Because 3D is very different from 2D, but it's definitely not easier or faster to make. Also, both European and Asian studios kept producing 2D animated movies
The answer was unions. The answer wasn't "this kind of art is cheaper because it's easier to make", it was "this kind of art is cheaper because these artists can't force us to pay them correctly"
Ive been obsessed with Pentiment lately, and i wanted to take my hand at digital painting with a portrait of Andreas 𼺠gonna do my best to finish it
A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.
Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.
I genuinely think Mouthwashing fandom is a good example on how real life misogyny is very wired on people brains and influenced how they engage with fictional misogyny.
You have a story about a woman being assaulted and telling a man he trusted but being dismissed because he is friends with the attacker, and people fixate on shipping her with either of those me.
You have a story about how men that downplay their male friends violence, assume neutrality is the safer option, unintentionally help create an environment that's unsafe to vulnerable people, at a risk becoming a victim themselves. And people make it about toxic yaoi.
You have a character kill herself because she didn't want birth the child of her abuser. And people make AUs where she happily keep the baby.
Misogyny isn't just "I hate this women", it's also downplaying their trauma, defending those who caused it, and reducing them to mothers or wives against their wished under this idea of what womanhood is about.
I don't think we can separate fandom misogyny from it's real world influence, not yet.
The data does not support the assumption that all burned out people can ârecover.â And when we fully appreciate what burnout signals in the body, and where it comes from on a social, economic, and psychological level, it should become clear to us that thereâs nothing beneficial in returning to an unsustainable status quo.Â
The term âburned outâ is sometimes used to simply mean âstressedâ or âtired,â and many organizations benefit from framing the condition in such light terms. Short-term, casual burnout (like you might get after one particularly stressful work deadline, or following final exams) has a positive prognosis: within three months of enjoying a reduced workload and increased time for rest and leisure, 80% of mildly burned-out workers are able to make a full return to their jobs.Â
But thereâs a lot of unanswered questions lurking behind this happy statistic. For instance, how many workers in this economy actually have the ability to take three months off work to focus on burnout recovery? What happens if a mildly burnt-out person does not get that rest, and has to keep toiling away as more deadlines pile up? And what is the point of returning to work if the job is going to remain as grueling and uncontrollable as it was when it first burned the worker out?Â
Burnout that is not treated swiftly can become far more severe. Clinical psychologist and burnout expert Arno van Dam writes that when left unattended (or forcibly pushed through), mild burnout can metastasize into clinical burnout, which the International Classification of Diseases defines as feelings of energy depletion, increased mental distance, and a reduced sense of personal agency. Clinically burned-out people are not only tired, they also feel detached from other people and no longer in control of their lives, in other words.
Unfortunately, clinical burnout has quite a dismal trajectory. Multiple studies by van Dam and others have found that clinical burnout sufferers may require a year or more of rest following treatment before they can feel better, and that some of burnoutâs lingering effects donât go away easily, if at all.Â
In one study conducted by Anita Eskildsen, for example, burnout sufferers continued to show memory and processing speed declines one year after burnout. Their cognitive processing skills improved slightly since seeking treatment, but the experience of having been burnt out had still left them operating significantly below their non-burned-out peers or their prior self, with no signs of bouncing back.Â
It took two years for subjects in one of van Damâs studies to return to ânormalâ levels of involvement and competence at work. following an incident of clinical burnout. However, even after a multi-year recovery period they still performed worse than the non-burned-out control group on a cognitive task designed to test their planning and preparation abilities. Though they no longer qualified as clinically burned out, former burnout sufferers still reported greater exhaustion, fatigue, depression, and distress than controls.
In his review of the scientific literature, van Dam reports that anywhere from 25% to 50% of clinical burnout sufferers do not make a full recovery even four years after their illness. Studies generally find that burnout sufferers make most of their mental and physical health gains in the first year after treatment, but continue to underperform on neuropsychological tests for many years afterward, compared to control subjects who were never burned out.Â
People who have experienced burnout report worse memories, slower reaction times, less attentiveness, lower motivation, greater exhaustion, reduced work capability, and more negative health symptoms, long after their period of overwork has stopped. Itâs as if burnout sufferers have fallen off their previous life trajectory, and cannot ever climb fully back up.Â
And thatâs just among the people who receive some kind of treatment for their burnout and have the opportunity to rest. I found one study that followed burned-out teachers for seven years and reported over 14% of them remained highly burnt-out the entire time. These teachers continued feeling depersonalized, emotionally drained, ineffective, dizzy, sick to their stomachs, and desperate to leave their jobs for the better part of a decade. But they kept working in spite of it (or more likely, from a lack of other options), lowering their odds of ever healing all the while.Â
Van Dam observes that clinical burnout patients tend to suffer from an excess of perseverance, rather than the opposite: âPatients with clinical burnoutâŚreport that they ignored stress symptoms for several years,â he writes. âLiving a stressful life was a normal condition for them. Some were not even aware of the stressfulness of their lives, until they collapsed.â
Instead of seeking help for workplace problems or reducing their workload, as most people do, clinical burnout sufferers typically push themselves through unpleasant circumstances and avoid asking for help. Theyâre also less likely to give up when placed under frustrating circumstances, instead throttling the gas in hopes that their problems can be fixed with extra effort. They become hyperactive, unable to rest or enjoy holidays, their bodies wired to treat work as the solution to every problem. It is only after living at this unrelenting pace for years that they tumble into severe burnout.Â
Among both masked Autistics and overworked employees, the people most likely to reach catastrophic, body-breaking levels of burnout are the people most primed to ignore their own physical boundaries for as long as possible. Clinical burnout sufferers work far past the point that virtually anyone else would ask for help, take a break, or stop caring about their work.
And when viewed from this perspective, we can see burnout as the saving grace of the compulsive workaholicâââand the path to liberation for the masked disabled person who has nearly killed themselves trying to pass as a diligent worker bee.Â
I wrote about the latest data on burnout "recovery," and the similarities and differences between Autistic burnout and conventional clinical burnout. The full piece is free to read or have narrated to you in the Substack app at drdevonprice.substack.com
It was about 3 years ago. It took about a year after I hit the wall to be able to reliably work at volunteer jobs ~9 hours a week. My tolerance for sensory input, social stamina and resilience to stress still haven't fully rebounded and i no longer engage in many of the activities and hobbies that I used to enjoy.
It's taken the past 3 years to regain the unhealthy amount of weight that I lost (when I dropped out of school I was the same size I had been at age 14 and my vision went completely black every time I stood up) and my overall health and immune functioning is worse than it used to be.
Even with a lesser work load my performance in school is also much lower nowadays, which hurts.
Clinical burnout seems to be basically a long-lasting health crisis caused by ignoring distress and exhaustion signals in the body for a long time.
The Arno van Dam article defining clinical burnout EXACTLY describes what happened to me in every last detail, but mine wasn't because of a heavy work load necessarily, it was because of chronic and extreme stress related to being autistic in a world that isn't made for people with my needs.
Having a different experience of stressors means things that are not very stressful for others are often extremely stressful for me. This led me to calibrate my internal distress scale to ignore most things hurting me, aligning with others' expectations.
Therapy techniques like CBT unfortunately encouraged this and destroyed my ability to be in touch with my body ďżź
ďżźI am eternally furious about how ignoring distress is encouraged in people and how my constant feelings of terror and fear my whole life were designated as "anxiety" and something to be ignored, squashed down, locked away, censored from my brain by regulating my thoughts. Turns out the Fear was the part of me that was caring for me whole time, protecting me and affirming that my needs were important.
Therapy never considered that I might be reacting to the actual reality my body and mind were experiencing
