You are strong

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[desultory-suggestions]

It’s easy to feel invisible, but if you disappeared so many people would notice and care. The neighbors who always see you walk by, the shop owner or the cashier at your grocery store, the dog next door that likes to bark at you, the person at work or school who’s still working up the courage to talk to you, the friends you think forgot about you when you lost track of each other, the babysitter you had when you were four. You have touched a million lives in perfect little ways. Do not underestimate your importance in this world, you deserve to be here and you are wanted here.

[chronically-aspec]

This one is for the disabled folks who don’t like their disability. This is for the ones who hate their body and/or minds, who don’t see it as a secret superpower and don’t want to. This is for the ones who are sick of trying to be positive, this is for the ones who wish they were abled. This is for the ones who don’t feel like they’ll ever be able to stop grieving their health.

I see you. Your view on your disability, no matter how positive, negative, or complicated, is real and valid. May your symptoms be easily handled, and your life filled with joy in other places.

[dykeabled]

it is not morally wrong to not be able to work, go to school, do heavy labor, walk long distances, or even walk at all. you haven’t done anything wrong, and you can’t help having these problems with your body. able-bodied people need to stop assigning moral value to things many disabled people cannot do. you are not a bad person for having limits, or for knowing and respecting them.

[wizardonline]

if you are distressed about not receiving a response from someone you'd like to be actively talking to, you have to take a moment. step back from the conversation, put yourself in their shoes. perhaps they're busy with something right now. you have to consider the possibility that maybe they hanging upside down by their ankle. everybody has their own schedule, and sometimes people spend time away from their phone or computer because they are currently suspended from a tree branch by a rope tied around their ankle that they unnoticingly stepped in because it was concealed by a pile of leafs. it's not that they don't want to respond; imagine that they can see their phone screen on the ground below but it's a good few inches out of reach and even if they bounce and flail on the branch their fingertips just can't touch it. sometimes life gets in the way

[madsiemoon]

💜💗💜💗💜

[yellaghost]

[slfcare]

i promise you this: whoever you're becoming, however much effort you're putting in everyday, whatever it is you're working towards outweighs the person you've been and the mistakes you've made. who you are today matters. you are not ruined.

[recoverr-a-deactivated20210530]

if something someone did to you was harmful and outright cruel, it’s not our responsibility or obligation to forgive them. however, it is our responsibility not to pass the cruelty and hurt onto someone else.

[recoverr-a-deactivated20210530]

i know it’s tempting to believe that if you do everything perfectly, if you please everyone, if you never say something awkward or inadequate, if your grades are always straight up A’s and if you meet every single standard out there, you’ll be valid.. and perfect. but the thing about perfectionism is that it’s dysfunctional. you work hard, you do your best and even when you achieve the results you aimed for, it doesn’t feel like it’s enough! so you push, you push and you push… until it becomes unattainable. because guess what? pleasing everyone, never making mistakes and being everything to everyone all the time is unattainable. which isn’t something bad! you were not brought into this world for the validation of others, of school, of beauty standards and family expectations. you were brought into this world to be yourself, without being attached to the strings of perfectionism controlling your every move like a marionette. 

[thoradvice]

you are so much more than that failed test. that interview gone wrong, your relapse, the missed opportunities, the words you wish you could take back. you are not your mistakes. you're a person who's trying. there are so many opportunities to make things right. you'll get there, even if it takes a few more tries.

[styrke-deactivated20240722]

sometimes changes won’t happen as quickly as you’d like for it to, and that’s okay. an ocean as majestically big as the pacific ocean is made up by millions and billions of little drops of water. if it wasn’t for all those tiny drops there would be no ocean. so don’t worry about your steps being smaller and your progress slower. it doesn’t mean that you won’t reach your goal or that you can’t. you’ll get there. you’ll go from raindrop to stream to river to lake to ocean. don’t give up 💙

[strong-suggestions]

Your love is not predatory.

[hugyou-deactivated20210314]

i just want to say being autistic isn’t a personal failure and nothing to be ashamed about

[walkwithtrauma]

You deserve to be loved. Not liked, not lusted after, not settled for, but loved.

[wistful-giselle]

just thinking of how our meaning or purpose in life is merely to experience. eating an orange segment, hoping for snow, being in love, returning over and over to one painting, stepping outside for the full moon, submersion in water, having a favourite colour, knowing beauty, feeling alone, feeling connected, feeling longing… it is enough. 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Destroy the idea that repressing emotions is a sign of strength. 

[cwote]

each day is a new opportunity :))