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Austria, Student. This is mostly reposted selected inspirationals, quotes, and random things I find beautiful. Also: Things. I'm lucky to be alive, and so are you.

[shadowcream]

fuck the world

[stardust-seedling]

Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.

–Mooji

[rationalisms]

in case you needed more proof that neurotypical mental health professionals are dangerous to the people they’re treating: a study proves that clinicians are prejudiced towards certain diagnoses and more likely to not treat the patients as well as those who haven’t been diagnosed with them.

the study showed a control group a video of a person having an anxiety attack and told only one part of the group that said patient was diagnosed with bpd (which was a lie, the woman in question was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder). they then asked the entire group to evaluate the patient based only on the video.

just the label borderline personality disorder being attributed to someone (in this case a person who didn’t even actually have it nor shown symptoms of it), caused mental health professionals to be incredibly pessimistic about the success of the patient’s treatment and they were more likely to write her off.

the expectations for the success of the treatment on both the patient’s and the doctor’s side are proven to hugely influence how successful the treatment actually is, so doctors are basically failing patients with personality disorders before the treatment even starts. and this doesn’t even touch on the amount of bullshit that often goes on during the treatment.

[silversarcasm]

the idea of people having to be ‘useful’ is just so gross, like people do not exist to be used

having to produce something and have a use is a capitalist ideal and not an intrinsic part of humanity

just by being alive you are human and you are worth something and you can never be useless

[fluttersheep]

this applies to animals as well

[bloodblonde89]

“Having to like DO THINGS is SO OPPRESSIVE. No one had to like DO THINGS before evil capitalism. In ancient times food, water, and shelter just existed and everything was taken care of for me”

Guess what happened to people who didn’t do things before capitalism? They died. Cause if you weren’t hunting, gathering, or useful in some aspect of nature. You were killed, died or starvation, dehydration, or exposure. 

Being useful is literally part of our biology. Fucking moron. You pull some idea out of your ass because you literally don’t want to get off your ass. 

[silversarcasm]

I’m not saying nobody should ever do things ever, I’m saying people don;t have to produce to an arbitrary standard in order to prove their right to live

And if you really think disabled people deserve to die if we can’t ‘contribute’ or be useful in a way you approve of then congrats youre a fucking monster

[alliluyevas]

actually there’s significant evidence in terms of Neolithic burials that disabled people who would not have been able to hunt for themselves (the archaeological evidence mostly shows mobility disabilities because it’s visible in the bone record) were well fed and cared for by their communities

so the “people like you would have been left to die” argument isn’t just cruel and violently ableist, it’s extremely historically inaccurate and based off of projecting modern prejudice on prehistoric cultures

[alliluyevas]

sources because I’m on my laptop now!

note: in the neolithic era, a person in their 40s or 50s would be considered elderly

12,000-year-old burial of a woman about 45 with mobility disabilities both congenital and acquired

burial of a 40-50 year old Neanderthal man who had survived to old age with a deformed right arm and a long-healed head injury that would have made him blind in one eye

neolithic burial of a man in his 50s who lost the use of his left arm in adolescence

neolithic burial of a man in his 40s with evidence of a significant mobility disability caused by an injured hip and leg, some time in adulthood but long before his death

neolithic Asian burial of a man in his 20s with a congenital disorder which would have made him a quadriplegic around age 14. He survived for 10-15 years after that.

5th century burial of child with Down Syndrome

[stupiduglyfatcunt]

Our society continually propagates the myth that our ancestors’ lives were miserable, but the truth is human beings figured out how to live cooperatively and humanely a long time ago. Really the agricultural revolution fucked everything up.

[idesin]

I particularly like how bloodblond89 takes op’s original point of “people have worth, specifically worth that can’t be valued in a cost benefit cash analysis” and turns it into “so I guess you just want everything for free!”

This is what capitalism has done to us as a society. If it can’t be seen on a balance sheet, if nobody has given an exchange of cash for it, then it must not have value. It does not matter that somebody loves you, all that determines your worth is that you bring a positive cash flow into your group, whether that’s your family, town, or country.

[damegreywulf]

What’s fucking terrifying is that they are a psych major.

Like literally I see this sort of behaviour and mentality from every psych major I see on this website and people still want to fucking argue about the medical abuse neurodivergent and disabled people experience at the hands of “normal” people seeing us a niche interest to profit from

[aaliyahroyle-deactivated2018122]

She is strong, in ways you do not know how.

Thor (via aaliyahroyle)

[quotemadness]

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)

[babypizzaninja-deactivated20160]

Hard

[goldveil]

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter, Geraldine (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[quoted-books]

It’s funny the things you think will last forever when you’re young. I figured I’d work until I died. But even work stops at some point. And you find yourself looking around, taking stock of your life, and you realize that you don’t give a shit about where you worked, or what you did to bring in money, but you care about the lives you touched. The love you shared. The family you created. You care about who is standing beside you when the shit hits the fan.

J. Sterling, The Game Change (via quoted-books)

[sciencefictiongallery]

La Planète Sauvage, 1973.

[terrariumdesigns]

Henri Rousseau American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla 1910 Oil on canvas.

In my most recent project which is called the Garden at Night, I have decided to look at the work of Henri Rousseau and his amazing tropical jungle paintings. I hope to create a mysterious otherworldly feel to my designs.

Sophie Thompson - Textile Designer at Terrarium

[kokonutwata]

“i didn’t mean to” isn’t an apology

“that’s not how i meant that” isn’t an apology

“you’re the only one who got offended” isn’t an apology

doing something by accident doesn’t mean it isn’t hurtful or that you don’t need to apologize, it also doesn’t mean you get to ramble on for an hour about how you never meant to hurt someone or that you really REALLY didn’t mean that, because none of those are acceptable apologies 

“i’m sorry” is an apology. “i’m sorry i hurt you” is an apology

and no one is required to accept your apology, or guarantee you that things will go back to the way they were

[nevver]

Mike Force

[phasesphrasesphotos]

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.

Mel Brooks (via phasesphrasesphotos)

[recentgooglesearches]

videos of parents saying i love you

[recentgooglesearches]

meters to fahrenheit

[glumshoe]

H.P. Lovecraft