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Tiny guardians 💙🧡

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spring makes me feel a certain way

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Painting practice

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LOOK OUT THERE'S A FALLING PIANO GUYS!!!!!!!!

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i think about it do you think about it

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Ekko in my cowboy au

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no matter how the media spins it remember that the US would rather watch the region burn than give up its little pet genocidal colonial ethnostate project

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tried to draw them as the magnet cover art but i dont think they really looks alike

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😭🫶

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ill spend my twenties investigating the healing properties of salt i dont know about you guys

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dailywisdom 6 part 1

band/rockstar au?? if more is demanded i shall deliver

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A child is having outbursts at school, or at home, or wherever else, on a pretty regular basis. And at some point, someone suggests that they need to learn better coping skills.

They suggest therapy, or maybe there’s even a special program at school. Because yes, better coping skills/self-regulation skills/frustration tolerance really would solve everything, wouldn’t it?

Well those are fine skills to have, to be sure, but more often than not, it’s not what that child (or adult) needs most. What they really need is someone to figure out what’s stressing them out so much and then do something about THAT.

Because it’s not actually weird to be distressed over distressing things. Maybe *you* don’t understand what’s so distressing about school or the grocery store or that new person in the house, but that doesn’t mean *their* distress isn’t legit.

People reeaalllly like to suggest better coping skills for autistic, ADHD, and otherwise ND folks. (Since we already have a diagnosis, it’s that much easier to locate the problem in US.) And what they’re really saying with this an awful lot of the time is, “Can you please stop being so distressed by distressing things because it’s making a lot of work for us and we’re not about to change anything for you.”

So before you put someone in some sort of therapy that will teach them that they’re wrong to be upset about the things that upset them and how to get better at pretending to be okay, maybe consider that you might be expecting them to “cope” with more than they can reasonably be expected to.

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inside her mind 🤯

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Come get your drinks at QUARK’S!

unfortunately, Quark is understaffed this evening and has to run tables himself. he’s not happy, but at least he’s fabulous.

(prints in progress!)

So, whatcha having?

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girls when they made a promise

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Wee christmas gift for @wanderingwriter87 - a line from their fic ‘a slight complication’ :)

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Elementary, dear Data

After about 7 years the Star Trek TNG hyperfixation is back full force. It's so strong that I am feeling Distressed and the only way to quiet the bees in my brain is to draw Data constantly. So here's something I drew from a behind the scenes photo (I excluded Picard because this is Sherlock Holmes, not Dixon Hill </3)