#and when ur doctor tells u that

[adhdandcomics]

short comic about not knowing you have anxiety until year 22 of ur life

#anxiety #the thing about adhd is #that its HIGHLY comorbid #and when ur doctor tells u that #you go ‘oh but not me though’ #heres the thing. #it probably Is you #comic #comics #neurodivergent #adhd #this is not necessarily about centaurworld it just happened to be the thing. lots of showtunes ect ect. any ‘ #any ‘cringe’ media #this is also v similar to RSD #& the whole. anyway you get it im tired of typing lmao

[inkskinned]

it just sucks because nothing is ever fucking made for you, and if it is made for you like 75% of the time it gets chopped into little pieces by every person alive because this is the one thing you have, so it has to prove itself to you.

like, a thing can't just be for women. men need to assign it to women. women have to experience "must" or "should" before their hobbies and passions - women are allowed to do silly, passive things like tuck our ankles and titter behind a fan, or something. women are allowed to, they are welcomed to. like the world is a house and we are supposed to be in the kitchen and now we are being given the divine right to enter the living room if we bring chips

because when it becomes for you, or about you, that is when the thing is vile. you should/must wear makeup so you can appear beautiful to men. once you wear makeup for yourself, or because you yourself enjoy putting it on, then you are no longer doing the right thing. there is a reason men hate certain fashion trends. there is a reason men hate things like the pumpkin spice latte - because it's not about them. you are buying it because it is good for you. they degrade your passions and interests. there is a reason women-led fields are largely seen as being "not a real" profession. when you are a good cook, that is because you can provide for him. close your eyes. you're not going to be a chef, be honest. that is a man making food for himself.

bras are made so breasts will be appealing to men. they are rarely about comfort or support. you have given up entirely on the idea of pockets. young girls have to worry about a shorter inseam on their shorts. a girl on instagram gets her septum pierced, and men in the comments are rabid about it - i just want to rip it out of her face. she'd be beautiful without it.

and fucking everything is for them. even the media that is "for you" is for them, eventually. remember "my little pony"? remember how hard it is to convince any executive to believe that little girls are worth selling to? in the media that is for you, you see little ways that you still need to make it accessible for them - the man is always powerful, smart, masculine. he is a man's man. the media usually forgives him. it usually says okay, some men are awful, but hey! gotta love 'em. because if you don't hold their hands and say "this is literally just a story about my lived reality", they shit their pants about it. they demand you put them into the media that's for you.

these are people who are so used to glutting themselves on the world. they are used to having every corner and every dollar and every place of leadership. so you say can i please have one slice of cake, just for myself, please, holy shit. and they fucking weep about it. they say you're being unfair, because some of their one-thousand-slices aren't beautiful, and your singular cake slice doesn't have their name on it. and aren't you being rude by not offering to share?

and honestly. fucking - yeah, man. you were kind of surprised, because the cake is a little basic (you bake at home, you're way past this stuff). but holy shit, it was nice just to be offered cake in the first place. you're used to having to starve. you're used to getting nothing, but going to the party anyway, because you're expected (professionally) to show up. you liked that it is a simple cake, and that it is warm, and mostly: you like that there is, for once, a cake-for-you.

in the real world, outside of metaphor, it feels like fucking being slapped. barbie didn't even say anything particularly unusual; it literally just made factually evident points. there are less women in leadership than men. we can look at that fact objectively. that is a real thing that is happening. and the movie is aware that it has to defend itself! that it has to spend like half an hour just turning to the camera and saying: i know this is hard for you to understand, but this is a real thing that women experience.

it's just - this is that one kid on the playground who thinks its allowed to hog all the toys. he builds this hoard that nobody else is allowed to even look at, or he'll get aggressive. everyone's a little scared of him, so they let it slide, because his daddy gave him the golden touch. he hates when people cry and thinks bullying is cool. he writes boys only! on a big sign and makes all his friends take "alpha male" classes.

and then girls pick up barbies, because there was nothing left for them. and in the void they've been given, with their scraps: they make long, spiraling narratives about how barbie is actually descended from snakes and has given her righteous followers magical (if concerning) powers and can speak 32 languages (2 of which are animal related) and has big plans for infrastructure (beginning with the local interstate). and the boy comes over, and he has a huge fit about how the girls aren't "including" him. he wants to know why the girls aren't making the story about ken.

"we didn't like your story." the girls blink at him. they point to his war stories and the gi joes and the millions of male-led narratives and how still in the modern day men get two-thirds of the speaking roles in movies and they point to men making mediocre shows that don't get lambasted and they point to men encouraging toxic masculinity and they point to men everywhere, men and men and men. and they say: "how is this our fault? you had ken."

"no!" he is already back to screaming and stomping his feet and tearing at his hair and intentionally reminding them that men are holding back thinly concealed violence and he says: "if it's not for me, it's actually sexism."

#it's almost as if you spent your entire life fucking denying us things and then get mad when god forbid #we point out that you've been denying us something #writeblr #almost as if . u ACTUALLY think women dream of being in a male-run society #like dude mostly i dream about not having a tummy ache #love when ppl tell me that men have to deal with more rejection than women do #im like. just say u have never had a hard day in ur fucking life. if u think the most difficult experience is getting turned down at a bar #men: this one movie doesn't suck my entire - #women: yeah so i went to the doctor and was bleeding out of my eyeballs but like the doctor said #it was probably just my time of the month i guess? #anyway so i died there and had to be revived but they think i faked dying bc it was hysterics #so i took 3 advil and now im back at work i guess

[xiaoming56]

Hated that last episode so i drew this to convince myself i liked it

#didn work i still hate that last ep #LIKE OK LEMME RANT HERE #they cld hav had LITERALLY ANY OTHER VILLAIN #but they chose to undo stranges whoooole character development from szn 1 bcos The Voices i guess #and sure u can make the argument of oH greif isn a linear recovery process AND YES IT ISN BUT IT DOESN MEAN SUDDENLY FORGETTING #WHAT UVE LEARNT WHEN U INITIALLY FUCKED ARD N FOUND OUT!!?! #aaND ALSO it wld hav been SO MUCH BETTER if it was like a different villain who was trying to feed the forge #but strange realises that it requires a powerful being to be fed into it #so he sacrifices himself to the forge to rebuild his universe #ultimately making good on his words from szn1 where he tells the watcher to punish him instead of his universe #AND STILL MAKE HIM THE HERO BECAUSE I REFUSE TO BELIEVE HES A VILLAIN #MCU STOP VILLAINISING STRANGE CHALLENGE!! #srsly he was sortof villainised in spiderman nwh and then all his variants in MOM are bad dudes N NOW UR GNA MAKE IT SO THAT SUPREME IS EVIL #NAHHH I REFUSE #i reject ur canon #ok rant over sorry abt that guys :) #im v passionate abt this character 😭 #doctor strange #stephen strange #strange supreme #marvel #mcu #marvel cinematic universe #what if #what if...?

[firstofficerkittycat]

this is gna age so well when 15 has more than an hour and a half of screen time and 14 is confirmed to be the valeyard

#doctor who #memes #my brother asked me to make this and I had a breakdown over the setup of this template cus like #its either about their morals/the vibes of their respective eras or it is an evilness scale #and the meme wants me to swap 10 and 11s places but I will not #also if ur a 7 enjoyer and have come to the conclusion that I dont know him u would be correct #I just think its funny #tell me he's not like that tho #really and truly #tell me he wasn't who 10 was talking about when he said he manipulated people into killing themselves #as someone who has seen like 2 episodes of him one of them being happiness patrol I am correct

[homingpigecns]

this is like a sadgirl pathetic post but this guy i met recently at work was like, very direct and polite in being interested in me and i've been feeling him out bc i literally do not know him well enough to have an opinion but i can't like. he is so normal and nice. hes like a nice normal guy. every time i text him he doesn't say anything weird and he's extremely nice. what the hell. he's literally so nice. WHY. does he like. me???? like what's wrong with him that he specifically is interested in me????

#this is not even a low self esteem thing but shdhsbdhsdh every girl in the world is so pretty . me??? why????? #literally the day i met him & he asked me out i barely spoke to him was mind numbingly stupid and crawled on the floor on multiple occasion #i cant text this guy bc every time i have to answer im like. this guy is so fucking normal. me??? hes interested in me???? WHY???? #everyome i try to convey this to is like :// aww he thinks ur cute. stop overthinking. WHATS WRONG WITH HIM #he specifically asked me out by asking the relief nurse what my name was and she offered to give him my number if i was ok w it #I WAS AT WORK..... I JUST SAID YES...... and i was like ok this probably will not go anywhere. he probably wont even text me #he texted me while i was commuting home literally he was still doing cases........ #did i mention i was digging through garbage. literally he was like sorry the surgeon yelled at u she gets so flustered and ir was like no #she yelled at me bc im stupid. did u not notice that im stupid. this guy -- NORMAL -- literally saw me at my lowest and asked me out...... #brandon oscillates #brandon what abt the guy at work u had a thing for I KNOW. im so torn however sjsbdbdhdbbx we are like actually coworkers #this guy if i see him every now and then in passing occasionally in the same room. that guy is my coworker for real #it cant happen. also dbxshsdhshdhe he has a 9 yr old hes too old for me. idk his relationship status but i dont think hes married. #also hes out of my league. also my other coworker told me he thinks hes gay but that hes closeted but that coworker is filipino so #mildly homophobic. i also told him to never tell anyone else that. i dont think hes gay. whatever. #i will miss my impossible crush as my hobby but this guy is nice and ahdhs its psychopathic to give him my number and then reject his date #can u imagine #whatever. im doing high school now i guess. the relief nurse is sooo proud of herself #shdbbd literally when i came back from lunch that day my scrub was like THE DOCTOR LIKES U!!! #and i was lkke omg really??? she doesnt think im stupid???? but it was this guy. and she did still think i was stupid #u know i have concert tickets for next thursday but shdhsd i literally have had too many experiences this year #i am trying to sell tgem #personal

[jrueships]

bro how are you always accidentally making polls? i have never accidentally made a poll?? are you okay???

?!?!??! SO IM THE ONLY ONE THAT DOES THIS?????? ....HRMG.

OKAY LOOKLOOK HERE ILL YOUTUBE THUMBNAIL RED RING IT FOR U

see TGAT?? T U A T!!!!!!‼️‼️

THAT S THE!!!!!! THE RED!!! it's not the red ignore that sorry i was looking at my YouTube thumbnail red ring lol quite captivating, my speciman. anyways I KEEP THINKING THATS LIKE A UMMM AN ORGANIZING THING!! LIKE A MAKE A LIST OUT OF UR PARAGRAPHS BUTTON!!!! and im like THISLL MAKE CHECKING FOR SPELLING ERRORS EASIER BCS LESS WORDS ARE CRAMMED :D!!! and then i press it and i get DUPED with DEATH‼️‼️ I CANT DELETE IT!!!! THERES NO X OPTION!!!!!!!!!!! usually that's why the poll happens randomly during my random essays bcs too many word together hurt Thog (me, Ted 🤕) that's also why i rarely ever read any of my posts/anything i ever write like. like the people that don't wash their hands after using the restroom, i am here to do my business... an Leave (sorry for the doodoo comparison. Ive tried thinking of cleaner ones but my mind keeps going to shit, literally) (I HATE SCAT BTW .) ( I MENTION SHIT BCS I AM SIX. I AM NOT SICK .) ANYWAYS yea bcs i keep getting DUPED by the FALSE ADVERTISING!!!

BCS DOESNT THAT LOOK LIKE A LIST??? AM I CRAZY OR STUPID??????? THAT LOOKS LIKE I COULD CHANGE IT INTO SEPARATED DOTS!!!! I NEED SPACING I NEED R O O M to BREATHE!!!!!! i am but a trapped gas seeking escape HELP ME!!!! anyways i think this time i accidentally clicked it tho trying

OMG GUYS THERES A READMORE OPTION REIGHT NEXT TO THE ACCURSED POLL WTF?? I JUST FIGURED THAT OUT BCS I JUST NOTICED IT WAS THERE NOW THAT IM LOOKING AT MY SCREEN ACTIVELY WTF! I DONT HAVE TO TYPE IT MANUALLY ANYMORE??? THATS SO COOL! anyways sorry i think i was trying to click the image option but my thumbs went stupid and sailed to hell srry IM ON MOBILE !!!!!!!!

#' are u ok'WHY DO PPL TELLING ME THIS!!!!!!!!! #it's either this or are u manic rn #TY FOR UR WONDER I DO APPRECIATE IT #i feel like a princess being checked in by a woodland critter who just watched her pluck out her coochhairs because she was bored #i like when ppl ask questions abt me it makes me feel dainty and adored 😊😊 #<- patient being observed in a mental facility who doesnt know theyre a patient being observed in a mental facility #me and my friends who all have ocd or smthin idk 🥰🥰 (doctors) #ted tumbunity things #TY FR I MEANT IT TY

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Being high energy while sick feels insane. Like my brain is telling me I should lay down and rest but is also telling me I should run around in circles and break things.

#i think im getting better tho. i mean i still can feel my warped sickyness but idk my hormones maybe have me all fucked up #but like i told my mum i get these insane little hypomanic-esque episodes and she was immediately like could b ur hormones #i know a number of ppl like that. and i was like YES. thats obviously what it is but nothing comes up when i try to google things abt it #so there must b others out there. and it also implies that theres sometimes fucked up about my serotonin receptors bc when im like kinda #positively disregard i feel happy and i never feel happy. my typical emotional state is indifferent and apathetic #and then dips into light misery and very miserable but not like clinically depressed. but i was even like that while on vacation so even #removed from the stresses in my life i still am not happy. which is y its so hard when ppl r like do what makes up happy. relax #and im like. ok but like nothing works??? its either fucked up hormones or my lantent anxiety just keeps me from being happy #but whatever. im gathering so much data. when i go see a doctor im gonna pull out a spreadsheet and graphs and notes like a lunatic #bwahhh i wanna run. i have too much energy. fuck being sick. fuck having to work on a day off. fuck this #also fuck my menstrual cycle for being so short. like so short its sometimes not listed with the healthy range but only sometimes #just to make me think. i should probably talk to a doctor but. like its probably fine. its consistent so its fine #annoying. annoying. got u can tell when out of wack bc i post too much and cant shut thr fuck up lol #unrelated

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

the eternal question: is scheduling w friends as an adult That Hard or am I just bad at it

#4 different people have left me on read today; 1 cancelled our plans 4 hours before we were due to meet #I've been sitting home alone for 2 days going insane. looking forward to One (1) coffee date & that fell through #idk why I'm taking it so hard this time I'm usually fine!! but I find myself wishing I didn't have the day off I wish I did have work :( #like it's tiring yeah but it beats sitting here not knowing what to do w myself #& I'm working all weekend & only leaving the house to see the doctor. oh joy #I've been productive ironing writing fixing the car. that's not the problem #I had 4 social plans this month. that's it #that's like seeing each friend once a month!! I can't keep this up!! #is this the norm for adulthood? :( #& on one level I don't want to bother people or be clingy #but on another level I'm baffled that they don't get lonely too #the news has not shut up abt the Loneliness Epidemic since 2021 #but if it's true why do so many people take so long to reply when I reach out? if they reply at all #I'm not going anywhere w this. idk #just one of those days #everything so fuck everybody suck :( #boomers got it right w the whole showing up unannounced at people's houses for a social call with a pound cake #now I have to go through 5 layers of bureaucratic bullshit to see a friend #assuming they don't cancel the day of ofc (((((: #I just wanna be like hello knock knock I am here. tell me abt yr life today & listen to mine & eat this cake #& the worst is when people are like 'I'm cancelling bc I'm tired xx' #OK A) u knew we had these plans for two weeks #but B) I'm tired too! I still love u ur still my friend! let us be tired together! #'I won't be social today I'm tired' my love we could watch movies in silence we could knit we could ball yr socks. idc #'I have to do the big shop today sorry' so do I!!! let us do the groceries together!!! #every time I've pushed someone to come out when they felt depressed or to let me accompany them when they were doing chores #they were like u know what I'm so glad u did this. thank u. this is way better than how I had planned this night to go #& I'm like any time!! I love u!! #& then it just happens all over again next time oh sorry I'm cancelling I'm busy I'm tired #like did u forget what a nice time we had last time? what changed? :(

[darabeatha]

((kkljSJKDLFJSD THE FUCKING HEARTLOCKET WITH CU'S PICTURE— i hate how it IMMEDIATELY reminded me of THIS and now im just 😭😭😭😭 (you were right. it was never jekyll stuck in a body with hyde. . . hyde's been the captive audience from the start-)

S T O P.

#STOP #S TO P #STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!! #IM #I'VE LIT NEVER SEEN THIS POST IN MY LIFE BEFORE THE WAY I STARTED LAUGHING IRL IM #IM LAUGUHGIN SO AHRD #THAT'S LIT HIM!!!!! (INSANE) #j.ekyll when no one is seeing; opening the heartlocket: 'cú what do i do?' #IMDKJGHDFBDFJGIOGROG ASPOIGUGJGGHGHHHHHHHHHHH #IM GOING INSANE FRFR #u captured the energy perfectly; thatslit him #HYDE IS STUCK WITH HIM NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND FRFRFRFR #and ur telling me this guy's a doctor?? 😭😭😭😭 #im lit saving this #corrchoigilt #;j.ekyll #;saved #saved #;ooc #ooc

[tweedstoat]

Professionals like doctors, therapists whatever rlly are just some guys at the end of the day. Like yes they've trained more and have expertise and yes you should place trust in them if they are reliable but you also need to trust your gut because that isn't an infalliable God giving you advice it's John the 43 year old who happens to have gone into medicine.

If you feel like they're taking advantage of you or being unprofessional or gaslighting you NEED to get out of there and (if u can) report their asses to a professional body!!!! Like do not let these ppl get away with treating you awfully cause they have a degree and I say that as someone who has a Professional Degree ™ (law) and is working towards practicing.

You know how everyone distrusts lawyers and thinks we're scummy? You need to be applying that level of distrust to a lot more professions you rely on. If you feel like dogshit and your doctor dismisses your concerns or says youre just anxious or fat and you think something else is wrong PLEASE go seek a second opinion.

#i have mild long covid because i listened to my body when it got worse and i literally nagged my doctor until she gave me meds #luckily the meds were great at controlling my situation but if i had listened to the cardiologist who tried to tell me i was just fat #i likely would have gotten substantially worse #im really really functional for someone with post covid issues because i was able to rest and because i pestered my doctors #therapists can be the worst too because theyre like oh are u sure youre not just catastrophizing :/ #eggs are 8 dollars emily. how am i supposed to uncatastrophize large swathes of people being unable TO AFFORD FOOD #ofc if u actually have anxiety or you think your weight is impacting ur health then yeah seek treatment for that

[soyboysace]

not at the doctor saying "you do know what winking means, don't you? you're sending out some very mixed messages here. you know i'm over two thousand years old? i'm old enough to be your messiah" when we know damn well their own dating history

#ure no angel baby girl! #the jig is up! #doctor who #doctor tell me how old rose was when u met her 🧐

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

Finished the animatic that in all my files is just referred to as ‘trashman’ :D

#its me i am the trashman #and i'm learning some hella specific lessons on this job #lesson A: grown-ass humans sometimes act like they've never been a guest in someone's house before and have no idea #that they are in fact NOT supposed to decimate the bathrooms during use #i judge very hard #also: not everyone knows ur supposed to LOCK THE PUBLIC RESTROOM when ur using it???! and RESPOND if someone knocks!!! #to that one specific older gentleman plz start locking doors #that was a shock i don't care to repeat plz this needs to be common knowledge #also u can tell the doctors get paid a lot cuz they throw away so much perfectly good food #if i had a dollar for every almost-untouched pastry i've spotted in someone's office trash #i could go to the store and buy my own dang pastries that i would NOT throw away #animatic #storyboarding #Storyboard animatic #animation #digital art #part time job

[flovverworks]

about to close my folder and seeing these aauuuuuUURRRRUuuGGGHHHGGGGHHGGHGHG <-person with lots of thoughts on akira & the twins

#stardust speaking ! #the no1 ppl of akira forgetting but knowing but also not rly getting their actual age #the trust....the comfort.................the 'since ure the child in need of reassurance we will be the adults' jumpscare #everytime i rmbr their bday cards this year and how they look 5 i laUGH THE CARDS ARE SOOO CUTE BUT ITS SSOOOOOOOO FUNNY #how is akira supposed to react knowing they have sm knowledge while looking like they barely started school #them saying Anything about figaro n oz while sounding like granpas but its the yt loading circle over akiras head while they process (again #that snow n white are older than them #head in hands white in the snow and akira brushing the snow off him. aurgh. #IN MY MIND the twins n oz (n figaro sometimes) r the ppl akira will turn to first when it comes to this n that #after that its development specific #cain is also up there. cain n the twins especially have Rly good first impressions w akira #figaros mostly up there cuz the whole 'tell me whats wrong and i will tell u itll be fine' event + if its doctor stuff....the obvious..... #oz is oz #i actually have so many thougyts about this whenever im writing & somethings involved witht he wizards LOLLLLLL

[binders-and-beanies]

Idk why people get sooo mad when a word applies to something they think it doesn’t. Like. I’m diagnosed as being mildly intellectually disabled (because I am severely dyspraxic), it is medically and legally in black and white and there is Thorough ass paperwork that goes into detail as to how. (I won’t get too specific here but I’m categorized as “severely impaired” in the areas of motor speed and coordination, rapid mental flexibility, and spatial perception and orientation.)

Quantitatively and qualitatively doctors have tested and retested to figure out that objectively i fit the criteria, and therefore am officially categorized as such. That’s not a political statement or something I *want* to be true or false, it’s just fact. Not as in my ✨lived experience✨ but as in science. There’s not a secret other definition that doesn’t apply to me, just because an acquaintance is uncomfortable with it for whatever reason. You don’t know more about intellectual disability than neurologists do just because you have a tumblr account

#was reading abt the problems w IQ for school and remembered when I got diagnosed and everyone was like BUT YOUR IQ #first of all my IQ is also in the mildly intellectually disabled range but also that’s irrelevant bc IQ is bullshit #people love to double down about this and for WHAT what threatens you about my diagnosis #if you don’t know Anything abt the systems intellectually disabled ppl interact w you don’t get to act like an authority #people think they know the MOST and then the most basic aspects of me being categorized this way are like. breaking news to them #if ur the expert on me and my condition why is everything abt it such a shocker #i just. dunno what it is abt this term that bothers people so much #is it that it sounds too severe to apply to me? have u just only heard it applied to a few things so new info is hard to adjust to? #is it bc the one time you’ve heard of (mild) dyspraxia it was talked abt in different words? (which don’t have to contradict) #I just. genuinely don’t understand why this is an argument ppl want to win lol #it’s not even an argument bc it’s not even My viewpoint it’s just true #i shouldnt have to pull out my 10 page document full of numbers u won’t understand just bc You decided several doctors used a word wrong #and like. idk why it irks me so much bc it’s not smth i view as positive or negative to me. it just is #it’s not like for example when ppl tell me I’m not bi and ur denying smth I feel proud of #if u disagree about what medical terminology applies to me it’s not like I’m attached to the words themselves bc they’re just. true #i think it has more to do w ppl like. openly knowing nothing abt certain kinds of disabilities n still thinking they know more .. #.. than the ppl who have them or their doctors. like do u think ppl with these disabilities can’t be trusted or can’t understand #bc that’s. how you say. ableist #mine #txt #dyspraxia

[violentviolette]

"telling someone incorrect information about a media franchise will never have the same potential for harm the way telling someone incorrect information about their mental health or illness or their loved ones murder will and i think its important to keep that perspective in these discussions. especially because i think the blurred line between media and real world topics, and people consuming real world topics the same way they do media, and treating them like they're essentially the same and approach researching them in the same way is a big part of this problem." I've been saying this for ages you are so real for this. It's genuinely a big issue that people have grown the tendency to compare every form of media that they consume to real life issues, which then desensitizes them to said real life issues. It's a big issue that people compare content relating to fictional characters who do not exist and are not sentient as on the same level as real, living and breathing people. Is it annoying when people mix fanon with canon to the point that the entire message behind a media has lost itself ? Yes, it very much is. But does that loss harm anyone on a physical, mental, emotional or psychological level ? Nowhere close. This technological age makes me so uneasy because of the ever increasing comparison of media to real life events, and the continuous belief that "fiction affects reality" + "fiction = reality." If fiction *does* genuinely affect reality, then that would mean violent video games inherently make someone violent and horror movies inherently make someone a murderer. I say that: if you already struggle with anger issues, exposing yourself to more violent forms of media without critical consumption will obviously worsen the symptoms, along with horror movies giving you ideas on how to kill that one relative you've fantasized killing for the past half decade—the only thing that affects reality are idiots who lack critical thinking. A comparison I can think of that people bring up to debate that "fiction affects reality" are the trends of fictional cats and rabbits consuming milk and carrots respectively. It's so silly because if you're planning to become a parent to an animal, it is your JOB to do research into that animal's diet, livelihood, habitat, body language etcetera. Why are you trusting the livelihood of a talking cartoon character ? Sorry for the long ask, but what you said is so important and I hope people adopt that mindset more, especially with this growing technological social media age.

no apologies neccessary anon u are absolutely correct and u should say it

media should not be where people are getting actual real life applicaple information. *no one* should look at a work of fiction in any form and just assume that whats being said or done is accurate information that they can just apply to their real life. and the same goes the other way around. when u want to research mental health topics or world history or a science, no one should be approaching it the same way as digging through their favorite shows wiki.

but there's been this huge kind of like. fandomification of social justice and social science and other topics like this where instead of understanding the critical nuance of these things and approaching them with a research minded perspective and an understanding of the nuance needed because so many things in real life are contradictory and complex and have eons of context, people approach them like tv shows. they think if they just read enough information and consume enough of the "content" surrounding it then they'll be able to fully understand and grasp them and then be able to educate others about them as some kind of authority and it just makes me want to scream from the rooftops that *thats not how any of this works*

the desensitization thing is also so real. u genuinely cannot have a single conversation about a real world topic without someone bringing up media and i dont know how else to nicely tell people that that is in no way relevent and actually actively harmful. trying to relate everything in life back to media and not being able to talk about a topic without including media will genuinely rot ur brain because it completely desensitizes u to the issue of harm. being wrong about media will never ever have the same impact that being wrong about mental health or physical health or animal welfare or public wellbeing will

#jack.speaks #anon #the original thing that prompted me to make that post was someone who was literally in mental health discord servers #telling teens completely incorrect and wrong information #about mental illnesses they thought they might have #and essentially misdiagnosing kids #and when i was like hey so ur completely wrong and what ur doing is really dangerous and potentially harmful to these ppl #they were like well my special interest is personalitty disorders so i know what im talking about #like!! bruh u are not a doctor because u read 20 wikipedia articles my guy!! #and then when i did criticize that response someone told me that i should at least be giving them credit and not devalue the hard work #they put in to learn that #and its like that is deranged!!! im not going to praise someone for spreading complete horseshit because their ego told them #that theyre essentially a dr now cause they did a lot of googling

[trollbreak]

Btw 5 days of the week sweets’s wheelchair has at least one plushie sat in it since sweets is in a specially made seat. He asks mev to put a plush in there so it doesn’t feel like it’s inviting ghosts when she looks at their room.

Sweets also sometimes asks doctor crimes to put things on all the chairs for the same reason.

#pov ur visiting the local doctor and you have to clear off a chair to sit down and when u get off there’s a voice on the intercom telling u #to put the books back and you get very startled bc sweets forgot to say hi when u came in and it’s been otherwise silent #in this part of the building #sweets solace #doctor crimes #mevrea seldom