Using dissociate instead of zoning out. Describing a hobby as a hyperfixation. Saying nonverbal when you want a bit of quiet. Saying intrusive thoughts because that must mean an urge like to buy coffee or hair dye. Do you know feeling off sometimes is a sign of autism? Lying is gaslighting. Everyone I dislike is a narcissist.
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Love how the names of so many groups of people across the world literally just mean “the people” like yeah dude you sure are!
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I was rereading Braiding Sweetgrass and got to the part where Kimmerer talks about finding out that the coffee offering ceremony that meant so much to her almost definitely started as a way to pour out grounds stuck in the spout and it got me thinking about how the mundane and practical are given meaning through repetition and connection to each other.
Specifically, it got me thinking about braids. I've seen Native people give a lot of different meanings to braids, from comparing it to the ceremony of braiding sweetgrass to saying that it's about binding together parts of who you are (specifically the body, mind, and spirit), but it's pretty universally acknowledged that braids are a spiritual and cultural symbol in a lot of Native cultures.
They're also very practical. Braids are great for keeping your hair neat and out of the way; resistant to wind, working, and sleeping in ways that most hairstyles aren't. Your hair isn't getting in your eyes or getting tangled in branches or turning into a giant knotted mess. They're also easy to learn and teach (at least, three-strand braids are) and can be customized a lot, wrapping them in crowns or braiding in hairpieces or whatever.
So my guess is that braiding, for Native people, started out practical, just a way to keep hair tidy. The repetition and the communal nature of it, because the neatest braids are done by someone else's hands and someone has to teach you to do them, were what turned the practical into the ritual, what gave it meaning.
I don't know where I'm going with this. I just think people tend to see practical and spiritual as inherently contradictory when that isn't the case at all and it makes it very hard to see how many spiritual and religious practices came from just daily life.
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"I love freaks and weirdos and strange people and people who don't conform and behave oddly because they can't mask all their symptoms and-" you guys genuinely can't even handle it when an anxious person uses a script in a conversation
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Why do so many people make tiktoks while they're clearly driving. What the fuck. Stop that shit, you're gonna kill someone.
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Oh shit I just realized I can post the "Gaussian Blur Wizard That Gaussian Blurs You" here
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why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?
I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail
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Things that have happened to me in 24 hours in London:
Met a poodle named Erasmus
Got mistaken for a child by staff at the British Museum and was asked where my parents were, despite the fact that I turn 32 in a fortnight
Paid £5 for a single cup of watery tea, not even loose leaf
Had someone offer me a slice of pizza they'd taken directly out of the bin (I declined; sadly, I'd already eaten)
Stayed overnight with a 75 year old woman who told me a great story about how she had her wallet, airline tickets and passport stolen in India in the '70s, and when she went to the British Embassy to try and sort out her travel home, this guy there was super racist and told her that he'd 'eat coal for a year if the Indian police don't just keep your money for themselves', so when her wallet was indeed found and returned to her by the police, she went and bought 1kg of coal and left it on that guy's desk at the Embassy with a note that said 'as you expressed a wish to add this into your diet, I've taken the liberty of treating you to an entrée'. Her name is Tina. She's a legend
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Don't be afraid
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