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HI, we are table 9. A group of people with weird brains.

[ssstable9]

Jordan Baker is underrated

Stan a sassy, flapper, golfer queen

[ssstable9]

classical does not always mean I like it

I cannot listen to classical music, I get bored and I need words. I also don’t like all works of classical literature because some of it is really fucking boring. I can try to understand it and maybe I might like it when I get older but right now I want something that I actually like. Who gives a shit how great something is or how liking it means you are a “cultured, sophisticated, intellectual” if you don’t like it that’s okay. Life is too short for me to pretend I like “Citizen Kane” when I want to watch “Marie Antoinette”. I reserve the right to not like or get bored by things.

[dantecain]

When I complain about being a ‘gifted’ kid who grew into a talentless adult I don’t mean that I’m not trying to work on my talents or anything

I mean that the ‘gifts’ I had are useless

Reading books above my age isn’t a talent when I’m not eleven

Knowing big words isn’t a talent when I’m not a kid, it’s just growing up

It’s just a weird thing that happens and it feels shitty when you’re brought up being told you’re an exceptional child only to realise as an adult you’re just average

[coolfayebunny]

This

[riotbrrrd]

I did a lot of reading about gifted kids and especially gifted adults when I got my “diagnosis” because I was told I was gifted at 23 and well, it serves no purpose to have a confirmation that you’re gifted at 23

Thing is, gifted children are not amazingly better than everyone else. Gifted brains just don’t work the same so they build their skills in a different order

Basically when you’re very young, most people brain learn social skills and how to interact with their peers, but gifted brains are already at the next step which is how to understand and interact with the world

That makes the stereotypical young children that are very good at math, always asking questions about how things work, very upset when they don’t know a thing

But the thing is, when everyone gets older, they’ve mastered most social skills and now turn towards understanding the world

But the gifted children have already mastered that part and are turning towards how to build social skills. Except there’s no one left to teach us about that! Because we’re late to that party

Long story short, at the end everyone, gifted or not, goes through all the necessary steps to make functioning adults, so the difference that was obvious as a child has disappeared

But us gifted people often end up with social anxiety and impostor syndrome because we are actually less equipped than others to face a world that taught everyone to be confident and talk to people while we were busy reading books above our age

[poppetawoppet]

……………that last paragraph.

damn.

[hazeldomain]

It didn’t help how frequently “gifted” also just meant “likes to read.”

When you’re a little kid and you read ten books on Egyptian History you’re so worldly and intelligent but when you’re 30 and you spend the same amount of time in a wikepedia hole, it just means you’re late for work and your dishes aren’t done.

[nonverangel]

And as kids, “gifted” doesn’t mean you’re better than anyone. You’re still a kid, but your brain works differently. This isn’t good or bad; it just is.

[durnesque-esque]

One of the biggest things I have to learn was really “unlearning” my “specialness.” I forget what eventually triggered it, but sometime in college it occurred to me that my “gifted” education had taught me extraordinary laziness and procrastination. I had to learn how to actually learn and fight all the anxiety about not being as wonderful and good as my early years had told me I was. Lots of imposter syndrome I still fight when it comes to learning new things.

[ssstable9]

On the flip side, there are the kids who were never told they were gifted and end up constantly vying for a superficial label because they’ve been programmed to believe that “gifted” meant “better version” and of course there’s parental pressure. When this happens, they end up in sort of the same place as the “gifted” kids.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ssstable9]

I would absolutely address people like this, unfortunately I have an English upbringing 

[ssstable9]

Can’t fight for shit.

Okay but like has anyone ever considered writing an adventure story but like none of the main characters can fight or defend themselves for shit without some kind of weapon because that is so much funnier and opens up so many more scenes that would be so much more fun to write because I guarantee when you take away a character’s ability to engage in hand to hand combat you now have the advantage of writing the most chaotic unhinged scenes ever and don’t have to do any research, literally just write chaotically charged bullshit. For example if a character gets cornered in an alley by an attacker with a knife, instead of actually fighting, have the character start screaming and daring the attacker to stab them with such unhinged crackhead energy and confidence that the attacker just backs off and leaves, slightly disturbed. Bonus points if the characters start throwing random shit at the attacker while getting more and more unhinged.

[tampire]

Wallace Wells’ commentary on some of the Evil Exes

[pisforpandemonium]

SPOILER FOR FLEABAG

Fleabag and Boo were not in love. They were not romantically attracted to each other. They had a strong, beautiful friendship which transcended amatonormativity. Their love was so deep and so meaningful that people who're limited by the belief that only romantic love can be so, cannot comprehend how friends can love each other so purely and deeply.

This is what our amatonormative culture is doing - it's robbing us of the ability to appreciate real friendship, one which isn't beneath romantic relationships, one which isn't placed on the bottom of a relationship hierarchy, one where best friends talk to each other, and treat each other as if they're lovers; because they are, they are lovers in the sense that they have unconditional love for each other, they are lovers in the sense that they started a café together and stayed together to run it, they are lovers in the sense that Boo was Fleabag's emotional anchor when her mother passed away, instead of her boyfriend. They are lovers in every sense, except for the romantic one.

Another thing I absolutely love about Fleabag - the show - is the fact that Fleabag's life didn't revolve around finding romance. She had fulfilling relationships with her best friend, her best friend's hamster, her sister, a practical stranger who saved her life and a priest who picked God.

She never made the priest feel bad for not picking her, never pressurised him to reciprocate her 'I love you', never slighted his relationship with God despite her being an atheist.

She was such a wholesome character and I fell in love with her in all the ways a person can fall in love with another person. I am so frigging heartbroken that I'll never get to experience the rest of her life, but I am also so frigging content with how the show ended. It was absolutely beautiful.

[ssstable9]

Appreciation and acknowledgement of platonic love

[ssstable9]

movie idea

“50 Shades of Grey” except instead of it glorifying abuse and being all out disgusting and having the audacity to marry Anastasia Steele to Christian Grey, Ana dumps him and then rounds up her girl friends to rob him and destroy everything he’s built, for revenge and you know ~the money~, “Ocean’s 11″ style. Cast will include Dakota Johnson (she deserves to play a criminal mastermind), Samara Weaving, Zendaya, and Lana Condor. Honestly I’ve never watched or read any of the “50 Shades” franchise but I know enough that I want Ana to destroy that frat boy bitch

[blueymoons]

Not gonna specifically tag anyone...but reblog if you feel like it and put yours in the tags.

[ssstable9]

Howdy I’m V.J. Wych Elm and you’re reading The Blue Phone

[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

This won’t make your blog look ugly. How could you not reblog this? REBLOGGING THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE!!!

[recycled-soul-deactivated201401]

This goes for assholes, too, guys. I know a couple who went tubing once, and they had to re-air their tubes, but the guy thought it would be funny to stick the tip of the air compressor up to her bikini trunks, the air ruptured something inside her and she died within thirty minutes.

[riskpig]

WHAT?

[endangeredslug-deactivated20170]

The thing about this? It’s in every pregnancy book I’ve read.

[riskpig]

WHAT?????

[thegrimmlovely]

Why is it in pregnancy books but not sex ed books?

[willowofthehearth]

Because the men in charge only care about the health and safety of women in so far as it enables them to have babies.

[mayothefirst]

https://www.healthline.com/health/air-embolism#outlook

[eattherich73]

Reblogging with a link because I thought this was a legit joke. Never heard it before. Like I knew you could kill a person by inserting air into a vein but still.

[smooththegoofyshark]

WHAT THE FUCL I hate how I didn’t learn this in sex Ed AT ALL

[jehovahhthickness]

This is very true lol

[bundibird]

Yo what the f u c k

[safifonhasstrel]

[archangeltwins]

not the normal stuff i’d reblog but, uh, this is kinda??? heckin???? important?????

[thesaltofcarthage]

I feel like I first saw this in The Joy of Sex, but it’s definitely a thing.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

What the fuck

[gotterhag]

[panomoly]

i-

….thank you tumblr??

[stankpasta]

hm. 

[krystal-prisms]

I legit thought this was a shitpost until I saw the rest of the comments

[theumbrellaaacademy]

the cult: speak your wise words

klaus: im never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you, never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie, and hurt you

[notrottenwork]

I wanna be fleabag in that i want to be so humorous and bring joy to the lives of other people and be enamored with a priest who loves me but can't because he'll be fucked if he does.... I also wanna have like a fucking edgy haircut and talk to the 'camera' as if somebody understands my jokes

[thepiscesactor-deactivated20121]

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

[minotaursauce]

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

[xaldien]

“You’d be surprised”, said Xaldien, who just lost four followers and received a lovely “men can’t be raped” anon shortly after reblogging this the first time.

[narputo]

Oh my god…

[darthimperius]

friendly reminder that native americans actually suffer more police brutality & police murders than any other ethnicity

friendly reminder that we got our right to vote after black ppl did

friendly reminder that up until the 19-fucking-90’s our women would have their tubes forcibly tied by doctors after they gave birth, as a way to get rid of us

Friendly reminder that most of our sacred sites have been polluted by mining, illegal dumping, or radiation. AND EVEN MORE OF THEM HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM US

friendly reminder that there is less than one percent of us left here.

[bearmagus]

Friendly reminder that even up here in Canada, there are mass amounts of First Nations women vanishing. Racism against natives is still alive and well. Residential schools were in operation until 1996. 

This is not just an American problem. 

[hillyhindi]

me trying to process the fact that i binged watched Umbrella Academy S2 in just 2 days and i have to wait more than a year for a possible S3… 

[ruggedrookie]

s2 five is delightfully feral and homicidal. I've always liked five, he's always been one of my favourite characters, but in s1 he felt so tame? and I feel like they may have been holding back so that nobody was scared off the show by the feral little murder gremlin, but in s2 they seem to have let him off his leash to run wild and get soaked in the blood of his enemies and still have that knowitall wisdom about him, and it's wonderful. I ADORED him this season.

[star-dust-fairy]

Trying to articulate this properly but the way the umbrella academy showed Allison running away from those white men who had clear intentions to hurt her and then she rushes into a black womens' hair salon and she doesn't even say anything (she literally can't) and just has fear on her face and this group of Black women immediately, immediately, shift into protection mode. They don't know this woman, don't know her name, don't know how she came to be there but all they see is utter distress caused by racist sexist white men and their first concern and action is protecting her. Like that is something in the black community that's always been there. Protecting each other at the drop of a hat. Putting yourself between injustice. And recently with the Blm protests still at full force you again get this image of what the black community does and always has which is that they pick each other up and they do it every time and that's how they've been surviving and helping each other survive and intentional or not this season did a really good job at highlighting at the right time that black people have simply been asking for their right to exist safely for centuries and yet it is the 21st century and that is still being villainously denied