When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.
Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!
not “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in you are not allowed to find genuine joy and form a true connection to fiction, but “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in, if it legitimately stresses you out and impacts your mood when things don’t happen exactly the way you want them to, and it causes you to lash out at other - real - people, maybe you need to take a massive step back.
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
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First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this
i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY
i'm so tired, honestly it's exhausting to see this weird constant infighting from everyone. It's like, trans women feel like their issues are not being listened to and taken seriously, trans men feel like their issues aren't listened to and taken seriously, non binary people, intersex people etc, which is in ALL cases, TRUE.
but then we get into this is "I have it worse, no one can understand my struggle" feeling, and you get the pushing and the shoving and blame, getting hurt and then smacking the person next to you in the face because they were there.
I'm tired. No one is "Exempt" from bigotry. The reproductive rights, Healthcare, working, school, there is no case where we aren't all affected. No one is "talking over" anyone else by wanting their suffering to be acknowledged. There's no "one true oppressed group" and everyone else is pretenders. That stuff is reductive and only helps those who want to hurt us.
those feelings make sense, we all want to be listened to and not talked over, but we continue to engage in oppression olympics, while our rights are being stripped from us and it's not helping. So I'm really tired.