#postnuclearwar

[limeade-arcade]

Since the year leading up to this 413 has been filled with all sorts of friendships through the hiveswap friendsim, I wanted to do a piece of some of the friends i made since last 413. Thank you all for being friends with me. and to anyone not picured you’re not any less valid, I’m grateful to have all the friends I have though Homestuck. 

Happy 413.

@sarcasmprodigy @drawthiere @erubescelin @crystalrina @lime-time @taxidermycactus @ja2on-todd @distortedaries @postnuclearwar

[acephobia-is-real]

i figured out i was ace when i was like 11, cause i heard the term from a death note fan fic of all things. im 22 now and am now this hybrid combo of pan and ace (bc its really hard to tell sexual attraction when you feel the same about basically everyone), but it does allow me to tell people my sexuality is "me just going at my own pace" bc puns and portmanteaus are fun

[sevenclowds]

I originally contracted it when I was a kid and since then i've never had another strep infection I believe, but the severity of the symptoms comes and goes sporadically. I started seeing a therapist for it and it's really helped in trying to stop flare ups in their tracks and now I just have some basic OCD symptoms, like I still have to eat and drink things in sets of fours. Do you know if treatment can help revert some other symptoms, like the issues surrounding sensory problems?

I’m glad you’ve managed to get some relief from your symptoms. My son doesn’t have too many symptoms now either but the OCD is the lingering thing that seems to be hardest to get rid of. We’ve found the biggest improvements from NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), rather than just traditional CBT which didn’t seem to do much.

My son used to have really bad sensory issues. Couldn’t touch paper and therefore lost the ability to write and couldn’t read books. He couldn’t stand the feel of his clothes and couldn’t take it if someone touched him. I read somewhere that heavy metal accumulation in the body can cause these types of problems so we’ve been doing chelation (getting the metals out) using the Andrew Cutler method and all these problems disappeared over the course of about 9 months. It might be something to look into because chelation is cheap and easy and you don’t need a doctor (in fact my doctor told me to do it on my own without her). You just need to make sure you have no mercury/amalgam filings in your teeth before you start (or get them removed if you do).

Other things to look at if you want to dive deep are mold illness (mold exposure causes inflammation which can cause flare ups so make sure you don’t have mold in your home/work/school), Lyme disease (and other co-infections such as Bartonella, Babesia), gluten-free/dairy-free diet (gluten and dairy can cause inflammation in PANDAS people), other infections such as mycoplasma, gut health (leaky gut = brain inflammation), natural anti-inflammatories (e.g. turmeric) and vitamin C therapy. If you want to see a PANDAS specialist prepare to pay thousands of dollars that are not covered by insurance. They may recommend long-term antibiotics or IVIG. We haven’t gone that route but instead found a mold illness specialist who also treats Lyme and has helped us with supplements, herbs, and homeopathy.

There are many things you can do to help this condition. It’s never too late to treat it. I hope you find some of this helpful and I wish you all the best on your healing journey! xxx

[todaysmob]

postnuclearwar replied to your post “Things that happen when you babysit a one year old for the first time:...”

Try to find some earmuffs/headphones for the kid, bc the fire drill noise is going to hella upset them

True, yeah i’ll be sure to keep her ears covered, but her parents told me that she finds the drills hilarious for some reason... and she really likes her pacifier 

[spockoholic]

postnuclearwar replied to your post: …..

i’m no expert on itunes, but unless you are running a super computer, they most likely are just temporarily hidden or the trash is currently holding them until you actually delete them. The actual moving and deletion of items like that, especially media items takes a very long time, so you should hopefully be able to recover them easily.

yeah, i just moved it all to my trash, i didn’t actually loose any files or data, i just lost my pride and my meticulous organisation ;-; 

[sevenclowds]

Have you talked with any professionals about PANDAS, specifically what happens when it goes untreated into adulthood? I have it, like legit every symptom with everything starting when i got strep throat, but i've only mentioned it to my therapist recently and all the info i found talks about how it effects children and what can be done for it, but there's literally nothing out there for people who have had no treatment for over a decade. i'm just scared it might be still attacking my brain

Yes, absolutely adults can have it. By definition the P in PANDAS stands for Pediatric, but a lot of kids go undiagnosed and untreated into adulthood. The good news is, there’s always something that can be done to improve symptoms and it’s never too late to start treating the brain inflammation that causes them. Do you have flares after strep exposure that then die down and you have periods of “normality” afterward? Or are your symptoms more or less chronic and there all the time? Feel free to message me anytime. There’s also a helpful Facebook group geared toward older teens/young adults with PANDAS (not sure how old you are).

[sevenclowds]

postnuclearwar replied to your post “Frank: replies to a tweet about him not going to Canada by saying he...”

I mean generally speaking, both borders are generally not good.like it's not related to music, but when welcome to night vale went touring in canada, their POC voice actors got specifically detained.

Well that’s just rude. I guess they just have a thing against performers.

[lumeninfusco]

Trick or treat! 🎃

For you, a full-sized Mr. Big

I don't think they have these in the states, but here in Canada they used to run these commercials with the tagline "When you're this big, they call you Mr.". In case you've ever wondered about the similar line in my twitter bio :p