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littleguymart

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ashingtongreen

It’s been a hot minute since i baked my weird bread 🦀

wheeled-jack

Crabohydrates…

flipocrite

crustacean

bigrxputxtion

carcinisation.

scribblescrabbledepartment

The Crap

[ID: a rough drawing of the underside of a horseshoe crab on top of a page covered in torn scraps of paper and receipts.]

hdot-mokoriri

We made friends with a crab.

蟹とお友達になったよ

cramconk

The best cryptid.

weirdlandtv

A 500-pound stained glass crab sculpture at BWI Marshall Airport, Maryland.

teyvatcompendium

Crabs

cctinsleybaxter

Have been reminded that Guy N. Smith is the only horror author i respect

cctinsleybaxter

And of course my personal favorite:

littleguymart

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radiqueer

one fairly common experience of gifted children is wishing for pain. wishing you had some great big horrible thing in your past so that you can justify the pain you’re in, and so that you’ll deserve help. it’s exhausting and it fucks you up and to anyone out there who feels like they haven’t suffered enough to get help: you’re allowed to want help. you’re in enough pain. you deserve to feel better

rexieboii

holy shit yeah

homoslovenc

skiinny-bird

is this one of those things that everyone actually does?? i just assumed i was a shitty person

sir-ghost-the-green

Wait that’s normal?

star-anise

It’s not “normal” as in “everybody feels this way so suck it up and quit whining”.

It’s “normal” as in “many people experience pain, loneliness, anxiety, self-hatred, and other symptoms of mental illness that feel like they ‘don’t count’ because there’s no real Thing they can point to to explain it, but their pain and suffering are real and ought to be taken seriously.”

However, when I say “many people” I actually mean “less than a quarter of the population”. The vast majority of people aren’t in massive internal pain most of the time. If this post resonates with you, I super recommend you look into mental health resources, because nobody deserves to feel this way, and there’s a very real hope that information, understanding, therapy, and/or medication can work together to help you feel better.

star-anise

Fantasizing about being hurt or dying in some way so that everyone realizes how much pain you’re in isn’t a sign that you’re a terrible person. It’s a sign that YOU’RE IN A LOT OF PAIN. Pain that deserves help and that CAN be helped.

The notes on this post today make me wanna CRY.

mbelyakova

I just want to add that a trauma expert I know has an interesting way of explaining this.

Basically, due to the stress of impossible expectations and the psychological issues that arise from that, a lot of “gifted” kids accumulate trauma in small bits. This is known as “complex trauma.” (complex/C-PTSD is a thing but the DSM doesn’t recognize it separately from other PTSD yet, if I recall correctly.)

Trauma shatters your sense of self. Picture the sense of self as a statue. People who undergo one or more distinct, intense traumatic experiences can crumble quickly, as if the statue is being destroyed in one or just a few blows.

People who have lived with a low-level background anxiety or sense of impending panic (especially throughout their childhoods) may not have a big statue-shattering moment. Instead, the statue is chipped away, slowly, over years.

The result can be just as dire. You don’t need that One Big Thing as an “excuse” for your pain. If the statue is in shards, it’s in shards, regardless of how it got to be that way.