#mental health and linguistics

[darlinguistics]

hey real quick if youre a studyblr or even just a person in academia and 

🌟 are neurodivergent and/or struggle with mental or physical health problems that impede on your academic performance

🌟 are a first gen student or otherwise feel a bit lost navigating this world compared to your peers who might have a bit more uh,, nepo baby energy

🌟 really hate the corrupt and elitist parts of academia but also love your studies and your dreams too much to give up on it

🌟 genuinely want to better the world with your education not just dangle it over people as part of a god complex or use it to help gatekeep knowledge

🌟 just generally kinda feel like academia wasnt really built for you but you are determined to make it so that it is, if not for yourself then for future generations at the very least

interact with this would you? you dont even need to follow if you arent a studyblr or dont want that on your dash, i just feel chronically alone out here sometimes and i could use the reminder that i am definitely not the only person feeling like this and not the only one fighting this fight. if this post only gets one note thats good enough for me lol

#studyblr #studyspo #neurodivergent #actually adhd #adhd #id tag like other neurodiversity tags but i only really identify w adhd and i feel wrong tagging outside of that lol #but pls know i truly do mean any and all neurodivergent people #mental illness #disability #academia #mental health #adhd studyblr #adhd student #lingblr #linguistics #adding ling tags cuz this has already been finding fellow ling people and i want that to continue lol hi #🌟.txt

[gaasublarb]

is there a word for that thing writers do where they dissociate so hard that they start making facial expressions or body language of the character they're thinking of?

#linguistics #vocabulary #mental health #psychology #my posts #autism #? #writing problems

[thatonemor]

I am now coining the term "elmo" as a fourth person pronoun when referring specifically to mental health

example uses:

"I'm not doing great lately elmo"

"Today was rough elmo, but I managed to get through it"

"Elmo, I'm feeling great today!"

it will now be joining "chat" as the second fourth person pronoun in my vocabulary

#elmo #mental health #linguistics #pronouns #fourth person pronoun

[esoanem]

I'm gonna be in Leiden for their Summer School in Linguistics this year!

Going to finally get some formal linguistic education, something I'm sorely missing right now

#unfortunately actually getting a masters is difficult because i dont have a suitable batchelors #and england seems not to really care about historical linguistics at all really #and wales scotland and northern ireland only really do for specifically celtic stuff #plus money is a thing #but yeah should be fun #and its exciting to go back to education for the first time in 7 years #also scary seeing as last time i was in education i had the worst mental health of my life

[renegade-hierophant]

#language learning #linguistics #inner peace #mental health #icelandic #czech #japanese

[mermazeablaze]

People are going to hate hearing this, but Twitter is a modern version of the Library of Alexandria & it's burning. All of the scicomm, polisci, history, literature, linguistics, biology, mental health & a plethora of other vital learning threads are going to be lost. Not to mention the anthropology aspect of it. It's horrible.

#twitter #tumbler #mastodon #countersocial #social media #library of alexandria #elon musk #scicomm #medical #polisci #history #literature #linguistics #biology #mental health #behavioral health #neurodivergent #autism #autistic #zoology #entymology #knowledge #anthropology

[bri-does-art]

Hi, just popping in to say I'm alive, still working on the next chapter and those ask responses, everything's good. |'D In case anyone was worried!

#i'm so sorry it's taking so long y'all #i'm just going through some INTENSELY STRESSFUL SHIT and it's taken a huge toll on me #but i'm doing my best i promise #i've had to take quite a few mental health breaks in the past few months #didn't help that a big part of the chapter was pretty difficult to write from a linguistic and technical perspective #but i've completed it!! now i just... gotta write the rest :')))) #maybe i'll do another poll for splitting the chapter or not because my god i am gonna finish this one in august at this rate #also random thoughts but #sometimes i think it'd be nice to join fnaf servers and meet and talk to people #make some more friends who love fnaf as well with whom i could talk and stuff #i keep going ''hmmm that'd be nice'' BUT #then i remember how i barely am active even on the server i am a mod for and i think of how big this fandom is #and i break into hives just thinking about it lmao #i don't want to be in a huge server i know it'll just stress me out and i'll end up muting it forever OTL #i perform so much better in little groups or one on one #but #to find these cool little groups or the cool people to talk to 1-on-1 i NEED to go through these hugeass servers and honestly no thank you #i am too autistic for this ;v;) #or maybe i am just growing old :'3 #i know there are some very cool people who follow me (how did it even happen i do not know) who i'd love to reach out to #who probably don't even realize that we'd be mutuals if it wasn't for this being a sideblog i can't follow back from #and i kinda want to keep my main blog kinda private just for online living hygiene reasons #*long wistful sighing* ah well

[realityfragment]

Accusatory you - statements

"You need to be nicer to people."

"I wish people were nicer to each other."

Which one of these sentences invoked the most emotion in you? And which emotion did you feel? Can I assume the first one made you feel a tad annoyed? If so, you react as most other human would.

Using the word "you" when discussing with another person can be quite inflammatory. It's accusatory language. The sentence is now an accusation that the recipient needs to defend themselves against. And when a person is in a state of defending themselves, they cannot focus on seeing reason or engage in constructive dialogue.

Posts using accusatory language often get a lot of traction and notes. But it's not necessarily a good way to focus on a cause. An accusatory you-statement produces shame and guilt, and will have us reblog simply to say that "no, I'm not this bad person you say I am", regardless of the content of the post. It creates stress and anxiety, not compassion and learning.

Alternatives to "you-language" is "I-language": "I feel sad when I'm misunderstood because of who I am." and objective informative/educational language.

#mental health #linguistics #language stuff #communication #accusatory statements #social media #social psychology #psychology #mypost

[paul-marrane]

I feel like we are lacking a term in the English language for being affected by this scenario:

“Yes I am a person who is diagnosed with depression, but I am not depressed anymore, because I take medication and went through years of therapy, so now I’m finally happy, but all of this is only happening due to the treatment I receive. So yes, technically I am still a person with depressive disorder, but calling myself a depressed person makes me cringe because I am not feeling depressed, you know?”

#personal #unrelated #mental health rant #mental health #linguistics #depression #I think about ​this problem so often #impostor syndrome

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

So in English, business is something you get down to, but funny business is something you get up to. This is because being silly is a higher pursuit than work.

#li shang was so set on getting down to business he never thought of defeating the huns through drag #linguistics #mental health

[ofgardenandsea]

The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it’s not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that’s not your problem either.

Noam Chomsky, The Common Good (1998)

#quotesblr #deep quotes #linguistics #philosophy #social justice #human rights #disabled people #mental illness #mental health awareness #love thy neighbor #loneliness #lonely #alone #chomsky #noam chomsky #literary quotes #literature #social commentary #be the change #volunteering #volunteer

[oneirophasia]

Die-casting is a metallurgical process for the production of mechanical parts, capable of creating complex shapes with high consistency in their dimensions and their strength and durability, originally invented in the 1800s to make movable type for printing presses and typewriters

The machinery in action is awe-inspiring, enormous tanks of molten metal, carefully channeled into sculpted cavities in just the right quantities to fill them perfectly as the metal cools and contracts, until each mold is split open to release the rows upon rows of letters, numbers, words and meaning

It can be easy to forget that the machinery itself, thick pipes and solid walls and rhythmic arms whose movements are regular and smooth, are themselves engineered with high melting points and low thermal conductivities for the safe handling of liquids that glow with their own heat

And the facility may have functioned for years without incident, the equipment withstood the forces and stresses it is under time and time again, the tank of alloy remained cold and inert no matter how the furnace burns - it might be mistaken for something simple, habitual, effortless

A viscous boil strains against the valve, and there are not enough words to put it in

#inside my mind #thought processes #mental health #sex and gender #devices #emotions #linguistics #original content #what's wrong with the world #anxiety #neurodiversity

[chicago-geniza]

the other night at the Function everyone was talking about how nice it was to see people’s faces and what a relief it was not to wear masks & roommate said they actually preferred it when their face was covered & i concurred & added in our neighborhood it conferred bonus anonymity because the block is crawling with cops & we both nodded like “yes, it is Much Better not to be Perceived in the Public Sphere”; later we were both asked about our shirts & roommate went on at length about japanese noise music & i went on, of course, about the dybbuk, & it was like. right. yes. this is the only person i’ve been able to live with for a long period over my adult life because we’re both enormously ~*~neurodivergent lol

#professors keep being like you are/were two of our most promising students why do you struggle to function as people & i keep being like #the selfsame traits that make us such good grad students are what make us so bad at functioning within the institution of grad school #roommate is a phenomenal writer and synthesizes philosophy w/ linguistics in extremely cool ways #they can hold so many ideas in their head & think deeply about so many things from so many angles #i'm a really really good researcher. i'm thorough & detail-oriented & i synthesize intellectual & everyday history w/ literary analysis #if you saw the way we live & took the temperature of our mental health you'd be like. je sui telephone a la police lol

[yo9urt]

the other day i had this beautiful realization that in many ways i am living the life my teenage self dreamed of

#mine #not in EVERY way. some things still need help #but i dont live with my parents full time only part time now #i have a tattoo #im not a girl and ill never have to be one ever again #i have a real job and make real money #i get to go to school and study linguistics!! #my mental health is still tough but ive been able to go to therapy and was on meds for a while and made so much progress #idk i was just thinking like. when i was younger i would sit or lay on my bed and just imagine all the things i wanted and the way i wanted #my life to be #and i would wish so desperately that i could have it #and some things i knew i just had to wait for like the tattoo and half-moving out and stuff #but some things were less certain #it feels really good to think about that and to know i've made concrete progress #obviously life will never not have problems #but it can be really helpful to stop for a moment and think 'what do i have now that my past self wanted so bad?'

[repression-is-bullshit]

I have too many thoughts for just one void. Now I have even more void to scream into.

#self love #trauma recovery #art and poetry #academics #philosophy and linguistics #politics #mental health #disability #war crimes #imperialism #social justice #woke liberal madness #human rights violations #writers on tumblr #student #writing #history #library #essay #books and reading