[lostwoodscutie]

[superkursunaskr]

[funnytwittertweets]

[memeclassheroes]

[supermodelcats]

[chernobyl]

[headspace-hotel]

@awhellstothejoe @alexandrintea @necruwumancy :3

[silly-jellyghoty]

No seriously, these are simply ND versions of love languages of (in order) talking, shared activities, service, touch, and gift giving.

[esroniets]

[image ID: a twitter thread by amythest (@/neurowonderful)

1. the five neurodivergent love languages: infodumping, parallel play, support swapping, Please Crush My Soul Back Into My Body, and “i found this cool rock/button/leaf/etc and thought you would like it”

2. cause some have been asking:

infodumping: talking about an interest or passion of yours and thus sharing information, usually in detail and at length

3. parallel play: some people call this being alone together, as in when you’re both reading your own books in the same room, or one person is doing a puzzle while another plays a video game, etc. just existing together counts too.

4. support swapping: i don’t know if this is a widely used term. i used it to mean when ND people accommodate or support each other, like if i remind a friend [to] hydrate and they ask me if i’ve taken my meds, or a friend helps me write an email and later i help them with homework, etc

5. Please Crush My Soul Back Into My Body: deep pressure input good!! provides proprioceptive input and can soothe body stress responses (always get consent)

6. i found this cool rock/button/leaf/etc and thought you would like it: unconventional gift giving, sharing things that are valuable or interesting to you as a sign of affection, OR giving someone a thing you know they are interested in (sure, memes count)

7. and of course this is just a funny tweet, not a true guide, and there are an infinite number of ways to give and receive love. feel free to add on your personal neurodivergent love languages :) /end ID]

[systlin]

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

[assasue]

One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

[whatevercomestomymind]

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

[pbrim]

I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”.  (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.)  She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.”  “Why would you think that, ma’am?”  “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me.  See?”  They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle.  When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.

[catchester]

So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.

Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.

A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”

“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”

So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.

She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Always question anything labelled as for a ritual or religious purpose without explanation because it’s very often shorthand for ‘we don’t know’ as if humans have not been the same since forever and have either made things for specific purposes or simply because they like making them (aka ART. Some things are simply art yet heaps of old research refuses to recognize this possibility.)

This is changing, but change is slow!

[ladystarks]

[enraged-chihuahua]

fuck this *unfocuses my eyes*

[transxfiles]

the world was severely lacking weird little girl memes so i had to fill the void

[mpregwizard-deactivated20260125]

more like

[ryca]

Can confirm

[evilvarric666-archive]

My hobbies? Uhhhh sensations mostly. Textures and patterns. But yeah mostly I just am really into like, experiences. Occasionally I dabble in thoughts.

[parkinglotfistfight]

[sweatpantsandsportsbras]

IF YOUR BOYFRIEND MAKES JOKES ABOUT YOUR BODY, WEIGHT, EATING DISORDER, RECOVERY, ETC, MAKE A JOKE ABOUT HOW HE’S SINGLE AND THEN WALK OUT THE DOOR BECAUSE THAT IS SOME FUCKEN BULLSHIT AND YOU ARE A BAD BITCH WHO DESERVES BETTER OK OK

[snuv]

[fantasysclerosis]

My sister knew a women who would adopt any solid black cat with yellow eyes that came into the shelter. No cats with green eyes, no spots of white. Solid black. My sister later discovered why. Her husband doesn't want any more cats, but isn't actually sure of how many they have. So as long as her cats look exactly the same as the others, he can't pick them out and be unhappy when the brings home another one.

[cryptidesc]

Big brain woman right there

[bioethicists]

in a truly collaborative and ethical psychiatry, the concept of "noncompliance" would be obsolete. it would be LAUGHABLE, because the patient would set their own goals for treatment and would have ultimate power over whether or not they changed or met them.

sure, there would be ambivalence + psychosis + skipped appts + self-sabotaging but that would be seen through the patient's perspective- do you call it noncompliance when you stay up later than intended or go out drinking with friends when you swore you'd save money?

to "comply" is to yield to an order. we don't need to be ordered to stop suffering- we need partners in our efforts to minimize it.

[heavyweightheart]

and i’ve mentioned this before but the common conception that ppl who constantly suffer become desensitized to suffering is perfectly wrong. ppl who experience repeated psychological and physiological stressors, esp in childhood, actually become more responsive to stress, w stress response systems in the brain & body getting increasingly sensitive to stimuli and having more prolonged/exaggerated reactions  

what doesn’t kill you does not make you stronger, it makes you sicker and less able to cope biologically and emotionally w additional hardship

[autistic-apple-sauce]

This still blows my mind

[rumman]