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When autistic traits and mental illness symptoms overlap so you’re not sure what you should be trying to recover from and what you should be embracing
It’d be nice if I could stop a shutdown, but the best I’ve been able to do is postpone it until I am in a place where it’s okay to shutdown.
I don’t understand why High School Musical 4 is going to get an entire new cast when all they had to do was set it at Chad and Ryan’s wedding
Sharpay - mellowed out some with age, still struggling to make it big, chronically single - insists she’s happy for Ryan but quickly devolves into her obligatory show-stopper about how she’s sick of waiting to meet someone who’s right for her. (Mostly the song entails Sharpay singing her ridiculously long laundry list of requirements while trying on bedazzled wedding dresses.)
There’s a running gag that Troy is supersupersuper late for the wedding. We may or may not ever actually see him, since Zac Efron didn’t even come to the damn ten year reunion and is apparently a huge party pooper. What we do see is Gabriella on the phone with him every fifteen minutes or so, urging him to hurry up. Eventually she decides that he’s obviously stuck in traffic because he doesn’t care about their friends enough and wonders if she should break up with him. Cue the obligatory once-a-movie Gabriella Is Sad song.
Taylor and Chad are SUPER amicable exes and she’s organizing the entire wedding with an iron fist. Chad and Ryan didn’t have to do anything. Kelsey is on piano. Zeke is baking their cake, obvs.
Troy is SUPPOSED TO BE Chad’s best man, but again, he’s supersupersuper late. At one point while Gabriella’s on the phone with him, Chad runs up behind her and yells “DUDE. GETCHA HEAD IN THE GAME” into the phone.
Sharpay elbows someone in the face to catch the bouquet when it gets thrown. Like, violently. It’s played for laughs, of course, but we all know that Kelsey/Jason/whoever should probably be in the hospital.
Assuming they can lock down Zefron, the movie will inevitably end up being about them. Troy proposed during the damn reception. Gabriella cries. Taylor and Kelsey are screaming. Sharpay is immediately trying to become Gabriella’s best friend and call dibs on being her maid of honor. Ryan looks affronted at this hijacking but nobody notices.
tHE FUCKING WEDDING COLORS ARE WHITE AND RED JUST SO CHAD CAN SCREAM “WILDCATS” AS SOON AS HE’S DONE BEING PRONOUNCED RYAN’S LAWFULLY WEDDED HUSBAND
Sharpay and Zeke reconnect after that moment at the of HSM1 where they were a thing for like 10 seconds. Sharpay Learns a Valuable Lesson about how maybe you don’t need a guy who’s perfectly perfect in every way when you’ve got once who’s a total sweetheart and can bake like a mofo.
Ryan brings some girl he knows from Broadway who’s like his best dancer or something. She spends the entire wedding flirting with Kelsey and making her all flustered. Everyone is trying to get them together.
It ends with an elaborate musical number at the reception. Possibly there’s a self-aware joke about how Ryan emailed everyone the choreography for it months ago, so they all better know it by now. It probably turns into a reprise of We’re All In This Together and then I cry into my popcorn for 6 hours
~the end~
HOW DOES THIS HAVE SO MANY NOTES ARE Y'ALL SERIOUS
…..this is EVERYTHING.
Why dont we talk about this more?
In S04E20 Emma is literally about to shoot a human, a person, not a fairy tale character, a human being.
She is so angry. Her nostrils are flared and her eyes have this intents blackness about them.
Here she is yelling, fired up and on the attack. Honestly I would be shitting myself at this point if I was Lily.
Then her emotions seem to retreat. Its more of this cold nothingness now. Still angry, and scary as hell, but its like she shuts off.
And when she has her fucking gun on Lily she looks like she couldn’t care less. She is actually considering killing the person before her and she looks like she doesn’t care at all. Her anger has taken over.
Look at this! Emma has Lily in an execution position. Most killers/murderers just do it, however Emma is setting it up, dominating over Lily. Showing her one last time who is in control.
Then Regina tentatively steps into the situation. You can see that she is scared as well, clearly not just for Emma but who her own safety. But she still intervenes.
“Swan, put the gun down. If you pull that tiger you will be the one that ruins your life this time and henry’s and your parent’s and everyone else’s.”
Regina, despite her fear, tried to talk Emma down
“Lower the gun” She says. “Your parents need a hero, not a murderer.”
And the only words Emma has said for the whole time that she has had a gun to Lily’s head is “I’m already a murderer.”
Regina continues to talk Emma down even though Emma literally just said she was a murderer, and yes Regina knew that but how terrifying is that?
Despite Regina saying “Cruella was an accident.” Emma has still murdered someone and it so close to doing it again.
“But if you cross this line, the journey back isn’t easy, trust me, I know. This is what gold wants you to do, so don’t.” and here Regina is actually pleading, begging Emma not to do it.
Finally after Regina says “EMMA! You’re better than this.” and Emma actually puts the gun down.
And then we see Regina’s reaction to Emma putting then gun down and she still looks scared as hell, which is fair enough, but considering that Regina has murdered so many people in her past its also kind of a shock.
Honestly, how scare would Regina, the Evil fucking Queen have to be? How uncertain would she have to be to actually express this much fear?
I think that its strange that this scene was never really mentioned again. Like Emma cracked, she almost killed a person and what? they are just sweeping it under the carpet?
Not only that but I also find it really interesting that Regina’s simple, and few, words were able to get Emma to put the gun down. Like Emma was at the breaking point, she had her gun out and pointed at a human. So either Eddie and Adam take that lightly or Regina is a MASSIVE fucking influence on Emma.
Like really, this 3 minute scene is so intents and I think about it a lot.
I hate when someone LGBT+ has homo- and transphobic parents and people are like ‘but!! try to see it from their point of view!! it must be so hard for them!! It’s only natural to react like this!! just think about what they’re going through!!’ Like fuck you I’m not going to feel bad for people who put their own narrow minded beliefs over the wellbeing of their own child. I don’t fucking care about their point of view. If you have such a hard time opening up your mind maybe there’s something wrong with you, not with your child.
me: hey can i get my hair cut short
parents: no you're not a boy
me: i don't want to be a girl or a boy
parents: your birth certificate says you're a girl so you're a girl
me: it also said 7 pounds 3 ounces things change
I have to say, this is the best response I've seen so far in a situation like that . . .
Fact #348: Trans people who are dependant on their transphobic parents, trans people who have to put up with their parents’ transphobic shit in order to survive, are strong as hell. If you are one of these people, please know that you don’t deserve this. And please know that it won’t be forever. One day you’ll get away from them. One day you’ll be able to surround yourself with people who respect you and love you for who you are.
So I guess my parents think they’re being supportive because they haven’t tried to physically harm me? But they keep telling me all about how this is my fault and I’m making things so hard for them and I don’t care about them or about how this is making my moms depression worse. They can’t call me a different name because somehow that effects them. I’m just so beyond done.
So yesterday, my mom and I were planning on going to the mall. Okay, so that’s all fine and good. I was like “I’ll spend some time with her, things have been kind of civil since I came out as trans”. Well, that fucking kicked me in the butt!
As soon as we were in the car together, I rode with her because I don’t have AC in my car right now, she immediately started going on about how everyone is against her now and how it’s all my fault and I’ve made her life horrible and why do I have to do this to her. Like literally, as soon as she had me stuck in one place.
Then she continued about how she doesn’t want this to effect our relationship, even though she refuses to call me a different name or change the pronouns she addresses me with. But if I decide I don’t want to come around the house anymore, then that’s fine because it’s my decision but please don’t be mad at her because it’s not like it’s easy for her and why can’t I just be okay with the fact that she doesn’t want to change anything?
I was stuck with her for a good 3 hours, and it didn’t just end once we were out of the car. Apparently I don’t care at all how she feels, no one does.
I suggested maybe counseling, or a group therapy thing, for all of us because apparently my dad is struggling with the same stuff. She shot that down immediately.
There are many different forms of stimming! Stimmng is something that Autistic or neurodivergent people (people with ADD or ADHD, OCD, anxiety, etc) do. There are several different reasons for stmming and they include:
-regulating sensory input
-calming oneself down
-the person is stressed or upset
-it may just be pleasurable!
Stimming can take many forms, and today I will elaborate on them below.
Auditory stimming
This is a form of stimming where a person repeatedly listens to a particular song or noise. It can be repeated many times, I’ve listened to a particular song 10+ times in a row. You may see Autistic or neurodivergent people who wear large headphones or earbuds seemingly all the time, they are probably engaging in auditory stimming. They could also be blocking out unsavory noises that could result in sensory overload.
Tactile stimming
Tactile stimming is stimming through touch. This can be accomplished through certain fabrics, surfaces, or textures. An Autistic person may rub a swathe of fabric, or stroke the top of a counter to receive sensory imput and calm down.
Verbal stimming or echolalia
Echolalia is the repetition of certain sounds, words, or sentences. It may seem like meaningless drivel to those who are not Autistic themselves or are uninformed on Autism, but echolalia is not only a form of stimming: it can also be a form of communication. For example, an Autistic person may repeat the phrase “House on fire! House on fire!” or make firetruck noises when what they really mean is that they would like the air conditioner turned on because they are too hot. On the stimming side, Autistics may simply enjoy the diction of the words, and repeat them over and over. I used to make animal noises, and today my sister and I will often repeat phrases from old Spongebob episodes.
Pressure stimming
Similar to tactile stimming, pressure stimming is accomplished via touch, and includes putting weight on a part or all of an Autistic person’s body. This can be done through heavy sweaters and thick clothes, weighted blankets, or squeezing. This is usually done more to regulate sensory input and avoid dreaded sensory underloads, at least in my experience.
Visual stimming
This form of stimming is done through looking at pleasing images. These images can be blurry lines, colours, moving objects or shapes, and just about everything in between. Visual stimming is good to help calm down in times of stress. I personally enjoy looking at blurry watercolours and fluid acrylic paintings.
Stim toys
Stim toys come in a wide variety. Some common ones are rubber bracelets, putty, bottles of glittery water, and spinner rings. These things are helpful when a person is on the go, and needs something to do with their hands.
Rocking, hand flapping, chewing, hair twirling, leg bouncing, etc
All of these things are called bodily stims. They are just like the other forms of stimming, and accomplish the same things (see top of post).
Stimming is often neccesary for Autistic and neurodivergent people to focus, concentrate, and accomplish what they need to accomplish. You should NEVER stop a person from stimming, unless they are harming themselves or others. Self harming stims are a thing, and include head banging, skin picking, chewing skin, and many others. These can be very damaging, and should be gently redirected to another form of stimming. Some suggestions for stimming are:
-listen to your favorite song
-wrap up in a weighted blanket, or a soft quilt
-chew some gum
-finger knit
-fill up a water bottle and gently tilt it back and forth, and watch and listen to the water
-drip food colouring into water and slowly watch it spread
-listen to nature sounds like rain, bird noises, or thunderstorms
-play with a slap bracelet
-play with a soft piece of fabric, or a scarf, or a ribbon
-look up ‘stimming’ or go to the 'actuallyautistic’ tag for ideas
Hope this was informative!
Earlier today, a friend remarked: “I don’t understand. The way you are reacting, it’s almost like you knew someone in the club.”
Here’s the thing you need to understand about every LGBT person in your family, your work, and your circle of friends:
We’ve spent most of our lives being aware that we are at risk.
When you hear interviewers talking to LGBT folks and they say “It could have been here. It could have been me,” they aren’t exaggerating. I don’t care how long you’ve been out, how far down your road to self acceptance and love you’ve traveled, we are always aware that we are at some level of risk.
I’m about as “don’t give a shit what ANYONE thinks” as anyone you’ll ever meet… and when I reach to hold Matt’s hand in the car? I still do the mental calculation of “ok, that car is just slightly behind us so they can’t see, but that truck to my left can see right inside the car”. If I kiss Matt in public, like he leaned in for on the bike trail the other day, I’m never fully in the moment. I’m always parsing who is around us and paying attention to us. There’s a tension that comes with that… a literal tensing of the muscles as you brace for potential danger. For a lot of us, it’s become such an automatic reaction that we don’t even think about it directly any more. We just do it.
And then… over the last few years, it started to fade a little. It started to feel like maybe things were getting better. A string of Supreme Court decisions. Public opinion shifting to the side of LGBT rights. Life was getting better. You could breathe a little bit.
What happened with this event was one of two things that are pretty dramatically demonstrated by how Matt and I are reacting to this. Matt came out fairly late, during the golden glow of the changing tide. He’s never dealt with something like this. It’s literally turned him inside out emotionally because all that stuff he read about that was just “then” became very much “NOW”. For me, I’ve had some time to adjust to the idea that people hate us enough to kill us. Matthew Shepherd was my first real lesson in that. So this weekend was a sudden slap in the face, a reminder that I should never have let my guard down, should never have gotten complacent… because it could have been US.
Every LGBT person you know knows what I’m talking about. Those tiny little mental calculations we do over the course of our life add up… and we just got hit with a stark reminder that those simmering concerns, those fears… they probably won’t ever go away. We’ll never be free of them. Additionally, now we just got a lesson that expressing our love could result in the deaths of *others* completely unrelated to us. It’s easy to take risks when it’s just you and you’ve made that choice. Now there’s this subtext that you could set off someone who kills other people who weren’t even involved. And that’s just a lot.
That’s why I’m personally a bit off balance even though (or because, depending on how you look at it) I live in Texas and was not personally effected by this tragedy. Don’t get me wrong: nothing will change. I will still hold my husband’s hand in public. I will still kiss him in public. We’ll still go out and attend functions and hold our heads high.
But we will be doing those mental calculations for the rest of our lives. Those little PDAs you take for granted with your spouse. They come with huge baggage for us. Every single one is an act of defiance, with all that entails.
So do me a favor. Reach out to that LGBT person in your life. Friend, co-worker, or family. Just let them know you are thinking of them and you love them. That will mean the world to them right now. I promise you.
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This. Please don’t let this die. Cause we are going to.
the americans are asleep…. i’m gonna say it… channing tatum isnt that attractive
Okay but his wife tho??
HIS WIFE👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
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Okay, I want a superhero story in which the superhero is one of those ‘normal kid gets superpowers through freak accident’ and goes out and fights crime, and of course runs into the supervillain at some point and tries to take them down. And the villain, a couple minutes into the fight, realizes they’re fighting a literal child and just has an internal freak-out about this new development. Because, fine, I’ve got plans to steal all of the world’s largest gems and I’m generally not a nice person, but holy fuck there’s a kid coming at me. This is a kid. I can’t with this.
So the supervillain instead of trying to kill/hurt their nemesis goes through all these complicated plans to trap them or put them to sleep or stick them in a large tank or something so they can go ahead with it. Sometimes it works and the supervillain spends a harried half hour lecturing the superhero about maybe going to school and being safe instead of doing this, that would be nice.
The supervillain staying up at night occasionally wondering if the tiny superhero is out there trying to get themselves killed right this moment. The supervillain sending supervillain henchmen ninjas out to tail the superhero and help out if it ever looks like the superhero is going to get killed. The supervillain takes to pacing around and muttering to themselves occasionally about PARENTING and RESPONSIBILITY and how they never signed up for this shit. Actually petitioning their version of the Justice League to have someone step in and do something about this, that kid has to be like twelve and what is everyone thinking???? Bonus points if the kid has no parents and the villain finds this out and spends a night internally screaming about it.
Basically I want a supervillain unwittingly becomes the super worried parent of the kid who is actively trying to foil their every plan and topple their evil regime.
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ATTENTION PET OWNERS
This post is going to rushed but I’m still shaking and it’s hard to type but I NEED people to know this
My mom just took my dog to the vet She(my dog) was(still is?) having a seizure
Last month we took my dog to the vet and they told us she had developed diabetes, they told us it was caused by the food she was eating, purina beneful. They told us that there have been many many many reports of Beneful has been causing diabetes, seizures, and even death in dogs.
We had no idea
We immediately switched her food and put her on a special diet plan for her diabetes, unfortunately the effects were already permeate.
Today at 11:20 my mom woke me up crying, I helped her carry my dog to the car (while she was still having a seizure) and watched her drive away red faced and still crying.
Please please PLEASE if you are feeding your pets Purina beneful PLEASE switch their food ASAP Beneful is poising dogs and I don’t want anyone else to experience what I just did Also if you could please help me signal boost this so everyone can know
This would explain why my dog has seizures now…fucking hell
Reblog and save lives of dogs
found out purina was the reason my dog winston had been having seizures and puking. please don’t feed your dog purina.
reblog even if you don’t own a dog or even if you’re not “a dog person” because I can’t even imagine how horribly depressed I would be if this happened to my dog
Don’t ever ever feed your dog Purina that company pulls so much fucked up shit and this is just one of them. take care of your doggies!
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I got a 26 on that purity test is that bad or…..?
What purity test this I wanna see if I’m less pure
http://ricepuritytest.com/
the higher the number is the purer you are
I got a 66 . . .