Sarah

INTJ 6w5/neurodivergent she/her

[whitepeopletwitter]

[tophatandboots]

New sewing machine: Nooo I need software updates.

My 1904 Singer 15: Just put your back into treadling, I can sew through more layers than you dare to attempt and I will still sew through them when the sun burns out if you remember to oil me

[marzipanandminutiae]

My digital watch from like 2004: perma-dead. You think a new battery will help? It laughs at your pain. It mocks your futile scrambling. Nothing can bring it back

My pocket watch from 1872: tick tock bitch

[solitarelee]

Can someone explain why this is or is the answer really just capitalism

[vaspider]

The answer is capitalism, mostly. The other answer is ‘when things do more things, there are more things to break.’

[meiilan]

The long version of “the answer is capitalism” is:

Back when the older things were made, a lot of parts were handmade, with highgrade material and from people, who oftentimes were actual “specialists of building that one thing”, which also meant, they got paid accordingly.

So a lot of money forninvested in making the thing, which in return meant the thing-makers and the thing-buyers both had a great interest in making the thing last - the thing-makers didn’t want to loose their reputation and the thing-buyers didn’t want to loose a shitload of money.

As the process of making the things got more and more divorced from specialist’s work and handed to assembling lines and investors invested in cheaper materials and faster cosntraction processes to make the things more affordable _and_ to increase personal profit, the quality and the durability of the thing inevitably suffered for it.

[guerrillatech]

[esoanem]

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

[datasoong47]

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

[blacktabris]

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

[thegreenpea]

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

[wakandamama]

Masai giraffes look cool af

[uzumaki-rebellion]

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

[sepiaseraph-deactivated20221120]

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

[rattle-my-stars]

[bananonbinary]

 tbh i fully believe that healthy kids should be getting in some stupid trouble.

like, a child that’s in trouble all the time, frequently skipping school, getting caught doing crimes? that’s a kid that desperately needs literally any positive attention. that kid needs help. obviously.

but a child that is perfectly well-behaved, never speaks up for themself, is seen and not heard? that’s a child that’s afraid. they also need help.

[neurodivergent-loverboy]

Kids learn by messing up. A kid who never does anything that might lead to a mistake has been taught that it’s not okay to make mistakes

[incorrectmerlinquotes]

Elyan: I ruined Gwen's oven because I thought the recipe called for three and a half cups of baking powder.

Lancelot:

Lancelot: Yeah, that's called a bomb.

[xignis]

baikal seals look like if you do so much as breathe a single molecule on them theyll disintegrate into a small puddle of tears

they look like they make the laminated sheet wobble sound unprompted and constantly

[anna-scribbles]

For the ask game, ur an expert on Annabeth from Percy Jackson

as a thank u for feeding my 10 year old (and current) ego here's some annabeth doodles from a little while ago

[evitcani-writes]

please god stop stigmatizing hallmarks of neurodivergent behavior as “red flags” for bad friends.

I mean stuff like:

Oversharing (ADHD)

“secretly” copying the way you talk/dress/act (common for everyone, but many neurodivergent people who are affected socially)

Forgetting to pause and ask about you (ADHD, autism, social anxiety)

Failure to convey empathy or affection in a way you understand (autism, social anxiety, many many others)

Unhappiness (Depression, also friends don’t have to perform happiness wtf)

Talk “too much” (ADHD, social anxiety, so many more)

Fussy (really?)

Refuse to open up (really??)

Talk loudly (ADHD notoriously makes volume control hard, also wtf how’s that make u a bad friend)

Just hhhhhhh

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

talk to your friends !! if you feel underappreciated or overtalked!

✨Communication✨

[ichorshrooms-deactivated2025011]

if anyone is even thinking of being like “well i have [disorder] and i can control this symptom so disability isn’t an excuse” please consider the following:

not everyone with your disorder is able to adequately control certain symptoms. the severity of some symptoms is higher in others. your experience with a disorder is not the only experience with the disorder.

like yeah obviously if you have trouble with some of the things on this list you should try your best to figure out how to cope with these symptoms, and you absolutely do need to apologize for upsetting people even if the thing that upset them isn’t necessarily your fault, but there’s something really sinister about the “well just try harder” rhetoric and the assumption that people who can’t adequately cut back on these things just aren’t trying hard enough.

disability is a spectrum. severity of symptoms is a spectrum. just because you got rid of an unwanted symptom of your disability doesn’t mean everyone else can.

[merlin-gifs]

MERLIN | 3x04 “Gwaine”

[arthurianmotifs]

so everyone was either a space, dinosaur or greek/egyptian mythology kid, right?

[neurospicy]

College is wild because it really isn’t about intelligence or the ability to understand the material at all. It’s literally just a test of executive function and abled-ness. I had good attendance. I participated in class discussions…possibly to an annoying extent, I got A’s on my tests. When we did group work in classes, it was usually me knowing the answers and everyone else just writing them down from my paper.

But I watched those same people who copied my in-class work and who barely passed tests and who only understood the material enough to regurgitate it, not to expand on it, graduate while I flunked out. Why? Because I didn’t have the executive function to do homework outside of class. That’s it.

[plumstreet]

WHERE is that poem about that person learning all about their partners hyperfixation before getting dumped the last line is like "love is a stack of books on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end" I need it to feel whole help me please

[cielosky]

NYT Tiny Love Stories, 2/11/2020

A Bookmark Near the End

He loves history. He wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams. I, shamefully, knew almost nothing about John Quincy Adams, so I went online and bought every biography of him I could find. One day, he called me, claiming that we wouldn’t work out long term. He said he loved me but that we had different interests. “What does love mean to you?” I said. “That’s an impossible question,” he replied. I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end. — Julia Nicole Camp 

[caliro]

when animals look back at you like they’re the girl with the pearl earring

[hoopyfrood]

im watching planet earth and theres this one small scene where the most round seal ever swims past and id just like to thank david attenborough for bringing us this good good orb seal

[hoopyfrood]

ok so i did some seal research tm and it turns out these are the baikal seals and they can only be found in the freshwater lake baikal. i love them

[tragedyposting]

they’re also known as “nerpas”

[grifalinas]

I live my life under the basic principle that people know their minds, bodies, genders, and orientations better than I do so I just take them at their word when they say they are a thing.

[grifalinas]

“But people could be faking for-” I don’t care. I would rather show someone a kindness they don’t need than not show them one they do.

[bisexualcrabking-deactivated202]

*writing in my diary using a glitter gel pen* I'm losing my sense of humanity

[legsdemandias]

Can someone tell men who write about young girls who are smart that most of not all of them also like dolls. And the shorthand of the little girl rejecting dolls to show how cool and smart they are is lazy, trite, and boring.

[legsdemandias]

I’m actually begging men to never write about girls and dolls ever again. Please I canNOT stand this stupidity one more time.

[legsdemandias]

I’m willing to bet that every smart woman played with and loved dolls at some point. The narrative plotline of little girls rejecting dolls is 100% a misogynistic trope that upholds the idea that girly things are lesser. That being smart requires rejecting feminity.

Dolls rock. Everyone should play with dolls.

[legsdemandias]

Reading a lot of the responses to this post just makes it glaringly clear that cis men just have no fucking clue how dolls are played with by little ones.

It wasn’t just “I’m so pretty” and boyfriends. There’s a reason barbie had 4 billion jobs. My dolls all had names, friends, enemies, loves and losses, and complex story lines punctuated by a few outfit changes. They were secret agents, superheros, vets, war heroes, smart, adventurous, and everything inbetween.

Talk to a little one about the misadventures of their toys and you’ll learn more about that kiddo’s brain than if you look at their math homework.

Creativity is inherently tired to intelligence. The smarter that little girl, the more complex and interesting her little doll world becomes.

So anyway, cis men aren’t allowed to write about little girls unless they learn how to behave.

[legsdemandias]

Okay I’m sorry these tags are too much

[legsdemandias]

Actually if you’re having a bad day read the tags because i seriously cannot pick a favorite.

[margaretssmallworld]

i’m an american girl doll collector and once i dragged my rather snobbish friend shopping at american girl place and she went around with her nose in the air saying “don’t you think it’s a little insidious how they’re training little girls to be mommies and take care of babies?”  like no, that’s why american girl popularized the companion doll, a doll who was neither an adult role model nor a baby to practice mothering but a friend of a similar age to the child playing with it, just right for sharing adventures.  besides which, samantha championed labor rights and child welfare, caroline almost single-handedly fought the war of 1812, addy liberated herself from slavery, and cecile is a national treasure.  and when i played with my childhood felicity, we didn’t play house and i didn’t take care of her.  we were shapeshifters who belonged to a secret ancient brotherhood and we went on missions of ecological preservation and corporate spying and i would tie her to my back with a shawl and go running around in the woods.

[melancholic-pigeon]

I mean, okay, I mothered my American Girl doll, but I did things like bandaging the injuries she sustained while we were battling the forces of evil.

(My bratz, meanwhile, were in a long-running soap opera. Meygan and Jade in particular had a very elaborate and sprawling love story that spanned literal years of Shakespearean Hijinks.)

[morgannalefey]

I’m old (56 as of writing this in 2021). I played with dolls. I STILL play with dolls (aka The Sims). My dolls hunted giants. Sometimes my dolls FELL to giants (aka me). They went on wild adventures and sometimes they taught school. They opened restaurants. They were pirates. The stories I played out with my dolls were full of imagination, and yeah sometimes that included playing house with them.

[legsdemandias]

You do raise a really good point that I feel this post almost says the opposite…but there’s not really anything wrong with the traditional way that dolls get played with either. I mean if they go to school and have friends and boyfriends and make cookies….it’s still not a bad thing. Playing with dolls, any kind really, helps children process adult life through recreating the world around them. 

Like…even if that smart little girl just made cookies for her dolls and had tea parties, it’s still not bad to like dolls. 

[aidashakur]