[animalbody]

depressed kids in the media: I don’t wanna go to therapy! I don’t need help! I’m not some specimen for you to dissect!

me, rollin up to my therapist’s office and collapsing in relief: what is UP my homeboy I fuckin missed you,, hope ur ready to hear some Bull Shit that fuckin happened to me this week

[gay-jesus-probably]

families of depressed kids in media: okay sweetie we’ve researched depression for ten hours straight and signed you up for therapy and re-arranged your school schedule to be less stressful

actual parents of depressed kids: look i get you’re sad but someones gotta do the goddamn dishes stop being lazy get up. why didn’t you go to school today, what’s wrong with you, you’re such a burden on this family.

[kremeroyale]

Therapists in the media: *understanding head tilt*

My real live therapist whom I adore: Natalie, that is the DUMBEST thing I’ve ever heard.

[nullannddvooiid]

Therapists in Media: Lets do some art therapy and be really quiet while we talk about your feelings :)))))) also I’m prescribing you 500 different medicines

My therapist Brian who I love to death: Jack, I think your first problem is you stay up too late looking at memes, so let’s try taking a nap

[exjwthings]

My real life therapist: Okay, before we start, I found this hilarious video I know you’d love.

[atheistjw]

Therapist in media: serious face the whole time

My therapist: *laughs awkwardly*

[skirris]

therapists in media: refined, cultured, poised, “I’m afraid I haven’t [heard of the nerdy thing their patient just referenced]”

my old therapist derek, from across the reception area, seeing me for the first time after the summer of 2015: HEY DID YOU SEE AGE OF ULTRON?? IT SUCKED, RIGHT???

my current therapist ian, in our very first appointment: do you like star wars? anxiety is like the force, it can consume you, or you can learn to keep it in balance… you’re my padawan now

[mmmm-gross]

Actual things my therapist has told me:

“You’re bassicly a glorified sad lizard.” (It makes sense with context)

“Damn girl you need to get your shit together.”

“Go home and cry. Stop drinking in bathtubs. Eat something that isn’t bleach or memes.”

I’ll add more tomorrow after I see her again.

[squidsqueen]

My therapist: Look I know you’re an adult, but I also know you’ve been staring at the toy chest in the corner. Just go for it. Do you want to see the bin of moon sand? It’s my favorite.

[incognegroo]

Big mood

[pioneerman]

I slept in and laughed way too much at this

[icameas-roman]

THE NOISESSSSS LMFAOOOOOOOO

[abomination-of-gender-deactivat]

Paranoia Agent (2004) dir. Satoshi Kon

[iahfy]

when someone asks me how my life is going

[xerrox]

I don't use Tumblr anymore, follow me on Instagram! Nature, nudes, art...what more could you want😇💕

[midwesterngothic]

the aesthetic of american far right christianity is horrifying

[creaturey]

run-down signs screaming about hell in the middle of nowhere is my aesthetic though

[kaci3po]

You don’t know true pants-shitting fear until you’re driving in the middle of nowhere, not a single sign of civilization as far as the eye can see, haven’t seen another living being in three hours, and then out of nowhere suddenly looms a half-destroyed barn with the words “HELL IS REAL” painted on what remains of the roof.

[fantastigasmical]

I’ll be honest, you could say most of these were from a horror game and I wouldn’t doubt you. 

[maybewareoldnoonefindthis]

Implying America isn’t a horror game lately.

[rubynemesis]

America isn’t a game. It is just a horror.

[conquerorwurm]

[copperhamster]

Visible from i-40, between Interstate 40 and old Route 66, the Groom, TX cross

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

Englewood Ohio

[stonecoldfemme]

@saathi1013

[saathi1013]

#i feel like you would appreciate this

YEP.

[theexistentiallyqueer]

hey so fun fact about that last one

it’s located right by the I-75 highway and anyone driving in or out of cincinnati could see it from the road and it was horrifying the first time i saw it because i felt like i was about to die.

the statue was called king of kings, but i only ever heard it referred to as touchdown jesus. just imagine yourself kicking a football through those lofty open arms…..ohio 1, satan 0.

in 2010 touchdown jesus was very sadly struck by lightning and burned down, possibly because so many heathens were calling him touchdown jesus and imagining playing football with the lord. or possibly because that’s just what happens when you build a giant styrofoam and fiberglass statue next to an artificial pond on a hill in the middle of rural ohio.

fortunately our good friends down in englewood have contingency plans for god’s wrath and the end of the world, so they built a new statue named lux mundi. unfortunately, lux mundi is not as amped to play football.

but he does look like he’s down for hugs.

RIP, touchdown jesus. we miss you. 😢

[glamourcat28]

The skeletal remains of touchdown Jesus is one of the more horrifying things I’ve seen.

[coffeebuddha]

There’s a now-deteriorating mosaic in Huntsville, AL that all the locals affectionately call eggbeater Jesus.

[zooophagous]

As much as I make fun of hardcore Christianity I cannot deny that this shit is peak aesthetic

[monikakrasnorada]

@hopelesslybenaddicted it’s egg-beater jesus!!! I remember you telling me about this. 😲😲

[hopelesslybenaddicted]

Haha yep! We actually have some tiles from it, they took down the old mosaic and redid it, and gave away the tiles. Also the “go to church or the devil will get you” is in Alabama along I-65 south of Birmingham.

[soyeahso]

57 and 70 in Effingham Illinois, “The Cross at the Crossroads.” Saw this thing everytime I went to Chicago when I lived in Arkansas and every time I drove south when I lived in Wisconsin.

It’s almost 200 feet tall.

[themaninthegreenshirt]

Saint Cecilia [1895] by John William Waterhouse

[a-titty-ninja]

[mooniicorn]

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

[iamthethunder]

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

[rosslynpaladin]

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science)  indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

[vicecommanderhijikata]

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

[neddythestylish]

I think it’s worth noting that many like me, who are diagnosed with ASD now, would probably have been seen as just a bit odd in centuries past. I’m only a little bit autistic; I can pass for neurotypical for short periods if I work really hard at it. I have a lack of talent in social situations, and I’m prone to sensory overload or you might notice me stimming.

But here’s the thing: life is louder, brighter and more intense and confusing than it has ever been. I live on the edge of London and I rarely go into the centre of town because it’s too overwhelming. If I went back in time and lived on a farm somewhere, would anyone even notice there was anything odd about me? No police sirens, no crowded streets that go on for miles and miles, no flickery electric lights. Working on a farm has a clear routine. I’d be a badass at spinning cloth or churning butter because I find endless repetition soothing rather than boring.

I’m not trying to romanticise the past because I know it was hard, dirty work with a constant risk of premature death. I don’t actually want to be a 16th century farmer! What I’m saying is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Our environment isn’t making people autistic in the sense of some chemical causing brain damage. But we have created a modern environment which is hostile to autistic people in many ways, which effectively makes us more disabled. When you make people more disabled, you start to see more people struggling, failing at school because they’re overwhelmed, freaking out at the sound of electric hand dryers and so on. And suddenly it looks like there’s millions more autistic people than existed before.

[grace-and-ace]

“…disability exists in the context of the environment.”

[coldalbion]

Reblog for disability commentary.

[thisallegra]

I was speaking with an autism researcher and she told me when they are interviewing people regarding family history they would have people say “nobody in our family is autistic”, and then she would ask “any men in the family who are not too social, a little withdrawn in family situations, but have something that they are really good at, and which seems to absorb their focus?” or some other description which more generally fits the diagnosed child’s autism. She told me that most of the time one of the parents would respond with “my uncle Bob, but that’s just his way” or “all the men on my mothers side are like that, but they’re not autistic!” Of course autism didn’t just appear, but in previous generations it was read very differently by family and community.

[xerrox]

Self Diagnosis Misconceptions

How anti-self dxers think I self dxed:

Me: *reads post about disorder and mildly relates to half a sentence of it* sounds edgy *loudly screams from the rooftops that I Definitely Have The Disorder*

How I actually self dxed: (note that this takes place over a period of multiple months)

Me: *reads post about disorder* wow I really relate to this but I don't have that disorder so I'll just ignore it.

Me: *reads and relates to many more posts about that disorder* ok, I should probably look into this more.

Me: *looks up official diagnostic criteria for the disorder* huh, I guess I don't have it.

Me: *reads and relates to more posts about the disorder* hmm… this is kinda weird…

Me: *looks up the diagnostic criteria again, this time recalling past incidences of symptoms* wait I… actually do enough of these symptoms to get I diagnosis… how did I not realize this the first time…?

Me, weeks later: but what if I actually don't?

Me: *looks at the diagnostic criteria again, remembering even more past symptoms* ok I most likely really do have this disorder.

Me again: but what if I really don't

Me: *takes at least half a dozen online tests based off the official diagnostic criteria*

Literally every test: You might/probably/definitely have moderate/severe (disorder). You need to see a mental health professional.

Me: ok, the evidence so far suggests I have this disorder

Me, forever questioning my own perceptions: ok but what if I don't

[xerrox]

wish this wig looked more real so i could wear it out

[shadesofblackness]

[localstarboy]

Nahhh they actually made 2016 into a horror movie LOOOOOOOOL 😂😂😂

[mororomunroe]

Woooow!!

[i-amneveralone-deactivated20201]

FRIEND DOG STUDIOS. I’m done

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Ho-ly cow.

[art-creature]

[skwidy]

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” -Rumi

[art-creature]

can’t believe how many notes this has????? tumblr is crazy. also this quote is so much better than self promotion haha ^

[spacemen01-deactivated20150201]

self-respect is my respect for myself

i could as well suck 3 thousand dicks and still respect myself so shut the fuck up

[hhobbess]

self portrait (will u marry me?)

june 2013

[willgrahamscock]

I feel so sorry for the girls that are ‘anti-feminist’ just to be considered ‘chill’ by guys because honestly like that’s exactly why you need feminism, you still look to men to validate your self worth

[joy-crimes]

y’all motherfuckers don’t know about my knife shoes

[sunlian-deactivated20180906]

ice skates

[joy-crimes]

blocked

[via-appia]

Thisbe, 1909

John William Waterhouse (1849 – 1917)