Idk I just got here

Maybe I'll reblog some stuff, maybe even post scribbles, who knows, anything could happen really

[still-leuna]

any pronouns, idc

This blog isn't themed for anything, I just reblog whatever I come across, and post whatever I feel like atm.

I don't have any personality disorders, or CDDs or anything, I just have an interest in them, so that's why you'll see me reblog stuff about them, along with other mental health stuff

I only got AuDHD afaik

[monstersovka]

🌙🏠 DREAMCORE 🌈☁️

[still-leuna]

Can someone tell me where the information comes from that "nonwoman"/"non-woman" is a racial slur? I've been told this on two seperate occasions when just trying to refer to people who aren't women (so men, enbies, etc), but using Google I can't find anything about that.

And if it is, is it just a USAmerican thing or global?

[still-leuna]

My goodness, what an idea! Why didn't I think of that

[sparrowlucero]

all bark no bite

(available on my kofi as adoptables!)

[knightf1sh]

Don’t call yourself a mental health advocate if you’re using words like narcissist, psychopath, sociopath, bipolar, retard, and schizo as insults.

You’re actually just ableist.

[sleepcollective]

Does this ever happen to anyone else

[mismedleym]

pinched and prodded

[piyoyoyo4]

🌿ナゾノクサ / Oddish

[monstersovka]

Today is my birthday 🌱

I will be grateful for the repost ~

if you have a desire to please me on my birthday, then you can send me a donation 👉🏻👈🏻

[still-leuna]

Correlation of a bunch of psychiatric disorders

[monstermonger]

Romanticism-inspired fantasy.

Joining inprnt’s print sale through the weekend 💜

[proudmistaketattoo]

i am a victim of autistic abuse.

autistic abuse was very prevalent in my household as a child. my autistic brother had meltdowns in which he hit me and violently threw stuff at me. i recently had an horribly toxic autistic friend who couldn't communicate their emotions even though i told them several times that my mental illness symptoms are triggered and worsened when people don't communicate, and they avoided doing so on purpose -- these two are examples of what we call autistic abuse, and it is valid as a form of abuse and much more common than you believe.

these are signs to look for in order to know if a person is an autistic. if you know any person who has these patterns of behavior, it is likely that they are autistic: you must watch out for them and, if possible, completely cut them off from your life:

- seems cold and unfeeling

- can't communicate their emotions

- has poor emotional regulation skills

- is unintelligent

and didn't that make me sound like an ableist asshole?

isn't it obvious that while being autistic doesn't mean u get to throw shit at people, equating one autistic person throwing shit at me to autistic people having any direct correlation with abuse is only leading to bigotry and prejudice?

weren't those "signs to know if someone you know is autistic (so that you can prevent being abused by them)" not only invasive, but extremely stereotypical, bigoted, hurtful, straight up not neccessarily true?

isn't it clear that if i had meant a word of that, i would've been very fucking stupid?

then why is narcissistic abuse an acceptable term?

[seannawatters]

[imjunebitch]

[still-leuna]

Just want to share this really good article about NPD and "narcissistic abuse" by Dr. Mark Ettensohn. I think lots of people should check it out and share it to help fight misinformation and pseudoscience.

If you consider yourself to be a victim of narcissistic abuse, don't worry, it handles these topics sensitively, and it's not a black/white situation.

Reblogs would help spread the message!

https://healnpd.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-narcissistic-abuse

Is Narcissistic Abuse Even Real?

Why the label feels right, spreads fast, and gets almost everything wrong

[still-leuna]

Hi

An I please have an infodump on horsehair worms?

Alright, I'll do a (not so) quick summary of the life cycle of the horsehair worm and some basic anatomy facts 🙂‍↕️

Little warning: I have attached images and gifs. Don't look if you're queasy about parasites and bugs and such. Or do, I'm not the boss of you, idc

First: Horsehair worms are their own entire phylum called Nematomorpha. There's about 350 known species within it, so obviously there's a lot of variation. I'll try to keep this general.

Every horsehair worm hatches as a larva in water, like a pond, stream, ditch, or even a puddle, they're not picky. There it just hangs out for a while and waits to be eaten, as it is a parasite.

Suitable hosts are things like crickets, beetles, mantises. If a larva is eaten by something smaller, like a mayfly, they can survive there until that host is eaten by a larger, suitable host. The horsehair worm is very resilient.

Baby worms:

Anyway. Development begins as soon as the horsehair worm enters a suitable host. For several weeks or months the worm just keeps growing, absorbing nutrients directly through its skin (it doesn't have a mouth), and even shedding its skin several times. It grows extremely quickly to many times the length of the host, all coiled up, without damaging vital organs.

Most of the time the size of a worm ranges from 10-30 cm (4–12 inches) long, with a width of less than 1–3 mm, but the overall range is quite extreme! Some of them can get up to 1 meter (about 3 feet) long!!

Example of fat worms:

Example of long worms:

This simple creature consists of basically nothing but a tube within a tube. It has its outer layer, then muscles that only go lengthwise (which is why they move in that writhing, tangling way, not smoothly crawling like earthworms), and then on the inside there's basically just reproductive organs. This thing is just a gonad with skin. It has no brain, just a nerve ring and and a single nerve cord. That's its entire nervous system. The horsehair worm is as simple as it gets. And maybe it's just me, but I think it's kinda beautiful:

Once the worm has fully grown, the most interesting part happens: MIND CONTROL.

Through it's skin it releases neurochemicals directly into the hosts hemolymph (insect equivalent of blood). Neurotransmitters that spoof the hosts brainchemistry that involves locomotion and behavior. The nervous system of the host receives signals that it completely believes are its own. Apparently the worm does this by doing something called horizontal gene transfer, so they just like. Steal/copy the hosts genes?? But there still seems to be some debate around this. The horsehair worm is quite mysterious.

So what does it cause the host to do? Seek water. It makes the damn cricket drown itself. It literally starts SEARCHING for water, just to jump in and die. This is impressive because crickets (and similar insects) usually really avoid water, so this actively suicidal behavior is literally entirely driven by the parasite.

Once in the water, the worm can finally emerge from the host, bursting or wriggling out in a dramatic, writhing display. Interestingly, some hosts actually survive this somehow, if they can swim. Depending on the species of worm. Some of them completely mess up the vital organs during this process, so there's no surviving that.

For a few weeks the adult worm then lives in the water, just to mate with other worms. The way they mate is also called a gordian knot, because they just kinda. Tangle.

They don't eat, obviously, so they just live off of reserves built up from the parasitic stage.

They're quite beautiful swimmers:

Then the females lay eggs, and the cycle repeats.

Oh, and I forgot to mention - there can be several worms inside one host at a time. Sometimes they start mating before they even fully left the host! Here's a little look, teehee:

Hope someone enjoyed this, hahahaha

(Oh and not to cause any phobias, but yes, this does mean that everytime you kill a cricket there's a chance it's gonna split open and a bunch of worms will spill out. So be nice! Lol)