#laziness does not exist

[thepeacefulgarden]

#tomorrow is another day #spoons #self compassion #chronic illness #self care #executive dysfunction #laziness does not exist #you are enough #you are worthy

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

As a kid my family used to make fun of me for stuff that is apparently exclusively reserved for “old people” like rolling across the room in a rolly chair to grab something (instead of getting up and taking three steps) or sitting down at a table to do quick food prep like cut fruit or scramble an egg (instead of just standing at the counter for 90 seconds) TURNS OUT what they called laziness was just disability all along haha TURNS OUT I just needed a mobility aid yet here I am today still without one because they gaslit me into believing I was “just lazy” and it took me decades to finally understand that’s not true. haha who knew

#I used to think everyone was just way stronger than me like I was the human version of the runt of the litter or something #please ​take kids seriously about things #fucking hell I hate this world #disability advocacy #physical disability #undiagnosed disability #late diagnosis #autistic trauma #spoonie #pots #dysautonomia #ehlers danlos #ehlers danlos syndrome #low energy #disability accommodations #disability representation #laziness does not exist #fuck ableists #family trauma #disability trauma #fuck ableism #anti fakeclaiming #fuck fakeclaimers #invisible disability #invisible illness #mobility aid #mobility aid user #disability pride

[riddlemefuckingthis]

You do not need to achieve anything to be considered a person. It’s a common misconception that to be a person, to be considered a fucking being, that you have to achieve something special.

All you have to do to be a person is exist. You can sit in your room all day, hibernate and just do nothing but you’re still a person. As citizens of a capitalist country, we are exhausted. We want nothing more than to rest, yet we constantly avoid it because we think that to be, we have to achieve something. When I was younger, I told myself that I would not buy any clothes until I was skinnier. I wanted to be ideal for others, but in doing so, I achieved something that I have to fight against every time I go and get clothes.

The other day I was at a thrift store looking for shirts and jeans and the whole time I was repeating to myself that I deserve nice things even if I’m not in the “ideal” body. My body is not what my younger self would be happy about. They wanted so much to be skinny, not knowing that at that time, they were a perfectly functional person with a body that did everything it needed to do to survive.

You don’t need to achieve anything to be a person. You can read all day, watch movies all day, eat food and lounge around your house all day, because your a person that needs love and attention, empathy, and respect. You don’t need to achieve anything!!!!

I reminds me of when I see children “misbehaving” and their parents immediately turn something off in their brain where they view their kids as beings. They drag their kid around, they don’t respect their boundaries and in doing so, the kid is now not a person to them for a few hours until they achieve something.

It just makes me angry. You have the right to exist even when you don’t think so. You are a person!!!

#leftist #communist #anti capitalism #gay #personhood #the personal is political #laziness does not exist #leftist theory #mental health

[cherryblossomshadow]

Rebecca Makkai ☑ (@/rebeccamakkai)

I'm trying to get to the bottom of why we associate rising early with moral goodness. If I get up at 10 am and work till 2 in the morning, I'm lazy. If I get up at 5 am and work till 6 pm and go to bed at 8, I'm a Good Person. Is this some kind of agrarian holdover, or what?

Sleeping in to get enough rest = self-indulgent Going to bed early to get enough rest = gold medal wtf

#i post #i link #i quote #rebecca makkai #twitter #thanks #tiffanyferg #laziness does not exist #sleep #laziness #retag #lives in my head #rent free

[tradedsymmetry]

Making a new pinned post bc my current one is super long but I pinned it because it had this article in it so I'm just going to post it in its own post and probably add other stuff I recommend regularly too!

An article that changed my life ("Laziness Does Not Exist")

Two videos from the "How to ADHD" YouTube channel that are good for anyone, but in my opinion essential for anyone who struggles with executive functioning:

The Wall of Awful Part 1 ("What is/do you have a Wall of Awful?") ~6m 35s

The Wall of Awful Part 2 ("How to get past your Wall of Awful") ~6m 45s

#adhd #laziness does not exist #wall of awful #also. some tags i use frequently: #fob #life #dracula daily #pretty #music #twy #spop #fireworks band #toh

[electronicdreamerdreamer]

I definitely recommend the book Laziness does not exist by Devon Price :)

#devon price #laziness does not exist #mental health #this book almost made me cry #:')

[beesbeesbeans]

These made me cry in relief and validation. I struggle with ADLs a lot of the time. My house is a wreck right now, and I don’t have the energy to do much about it. Finding ways to work with yourself within your abilities is important. Running the dishwasher three times is better than never having a clean dish to eat off of, even if you’ve been taught not to run the dishwasher more than once. Eating something is better than eating nothing. Paper plates are sometimes your friend. Buying clothes that you don’t have to dry clean is an OK way to live.

I hope these help someone else who is struggling with the self-judgment that can come with the struggle to adequately perform activities of daily living.

#laziness does not exist #laziness is made up #ADLs #activities of daily living #low spoons #out of spoons #spoonie #no energy #low energy #chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #severe fatigue #chores #disabled #disabilities #disability #i am fatigued #chronically fatigued #depression #accommodating disability #accommodation #workaround #getting things done #ehlers danlos zebra #cleaning #self compassion #self care #laundry #washing dishes

[flimsy-roost]

Run on review

just spent the day reading the entirety of Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price, easy to read and understand (weird thing to point out but I've only made it halfway through one-dimensional man in two weeks because it goes so slow so it was very refreshing), it goes far beyond the usual suspects (workplace and academic productivity) into topics like emotional labor, information fatigue, and the bodily and household demands of keeping up appearances, I'd been sorta tiptoeing into some of the conclusions on my own through my own personal experience but there were a fair few gut punches/left hooks about shit I'd never even considered and expanded contexts of things I'd already been dwelling in, the intersectionality of the thing is heavily and repeatedly addressed, history is explained, my mark of a great nonfiction book is coming away with the titles of several more books and essays I genuinely want to read, very very good, planning to buy a physical copy

#ror #run on review #laziness does not exist #devon price #hello mister doctor demon prince sir if you see this pls don't rb this #(not that I've noticed you do this in the past just wanted to specifically ask) #(these types of posts are half book journal/half reaching into the void for people with similar interests) #(the full attention of your followers would probably cause me to spontaneously combust)

[milesbutterball]

#laziness does not exist #devon price #awesome #peace #loveislove #take a deep breath #take a break

[the-positive-cooperative]

I learned the unmasking autism and laziness does not exist books are written by the same doctor and like, you go funky little professor radically altering the communities of 2 mental differences (mental health/neurodivergencies) I belong to. Was doing research on the hope of getting the books for the psych ward whenever that inevitably happens but no such luck

#autism positivity #bookblr #C #actually autistic #actually cptsd #anti endos dni #cw hospitalization mention #personal growth #self help #self education #read in 2023 #unmasking #laziness does not exist

[thepeacefulgarden]

#laziness does not exist #survival mode #spoons #trauma #healing #recovery #executive dysfunction #masking #burnout #self compassion

[cameron-artist]

Read Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price Ph.D.

Seriously. It's a fantastic book and I reccommend it to everyone!!

#laziness #devon price #laziness does not exist

[hahaalaine]

I've been wanting to read this book, but haven't had a chance to but after listening to the author talk about their background and why they wrote I want to even more.

Remember, friends, laziness is a capitalist/white supremacist/patriarchal/Christian lie invented to steal as much of your value as possible ❤️

#anti capitalist #anti capitalism #laziness does not exist #Spotify

[ericboyd]

Tonight at 8pm est @drdemonprince and me are going to talk about perfume you can spray on ice cream! We'll talk about fragrance and writing and eat a lot of ice cream in between. Should be fun!

#perfume #fragrance #ice cream #mukbang #livestream #video #chat #devon price #laziness does not exist #unmasking autism #books #writing #lit #poetry #prose #Eric Boyd #EricBoydblog

[kats-comfort-corner]

“Lazy Genius”

A video from one of my YT subscriptions was discussing [someone]’s view on IQ, and it reminded me that one of the “outstanding” (or, at least, most frequently mentioned) aspects of Shikamaru’s abilities is that “his IQ is over 200″.

Cough.

So,

IQ is garbage.

It’s an incredibly flawed and inaccurate representation of “human intelligence” founded with blatantly racist intentions.

I can’t speak to that point as well as Anti-Racism Daily’s article, The Racial History of IQ Testing.

I also think of Albert Einstein’s quote,

“Every single person is a genius. But if you assess a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole existence thinking it is dumb.”

And this also made me think of the title I see attributed to Shikamaru most often, which is “Lazy Genius”.

And, uh...

Laziness doesn’t exist.

Not a real thing, aside from the symptoms of various mental health issues that have come to represent it, despite the fact that...you don’t choose to be depressed. And you don’t choose to have a deficit of dopamine or botched distribution of serotonin.

I haven’t had a chance to read the book yet, but NPR did a segment on the book Laziness Doesn’t Exist (pretty direct, I love it) with its author, Devon Price, PhD, titled “You aren’t lazy. You just need to slow down.”

I could also go on about how the concept of “laziness” has been used to further capitalist exploitation, racist rhetoric, and classist oppression, but, you know.

I’ll let people who are better with words and more experience in this discussion speak on that, lol.

Shout out to my guy who’s just a dude that encourages me to do research on this sort of thing.

Bigger shout out to everyone that puts the energy and effort into doing that research so that I have the ability to even educate myself on these issues in the first place.

#kat mewsing #lazy genius #IQ #racism #classism #mental health #laziness does not exist #IQ is inaccurate and racist #we should live in a world where you can just be chill and exist #anyway if you read this #please read what other people more experienced than me have written #'cause i do not want to be the only voice in your head on these issues #@-@ #i am flawed and my knowledge is limited

[a-h-87769877]

#laziness does not exist #devon price #article #book #psychology #research #barriers #procrastination