HELLO, IT HAS BEEN A WHILE! Sooooo as to the discussion…..I got daddy issues so possessive men have a soft spot for me lolol. I know it isn’t healthy but dammit let me just FEEL something. I know this is most likely because of my fucked up mind but hear me out: I like the idea of my man’s wanting me all to himself and protecting me because that’s how I would know he loves me. I like passionate people and I feel like if my bf wasn’t cutely possessive I would get anxious if he even likes me all that much. I just like the idea of being liked so much he worried about me 24/7 (cuz men in my life usually don’t give a flying f about me lolol). I don’t have many male friends anyways so 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Hey, you're back!
Good to hear from you again.
It's okay babe, I have daddy issues too.
I would much rather have a possessive man that someone who is detached and doesn't care about me at all.
Passion is everything to me...effort is everything to me!
Okay, the 24/7 is a bit pushing it though babe, that would involve him messaging you every 5 mins just to check in but I completely understand the need to just feel adored.
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"Voleva già finirla. Io gli ho dato l'opportunità di farlo."
Mia
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Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".
Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"
And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".
Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.
At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.
So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!
Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!
Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!
Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.
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something something redcanary went into the institute ruins to check if it was cleared and died soon after something something the canary was sent to the coal mine to see if it was safe something something alexander j newall and jonny sims i fucking see you
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I started a new remote job last week, and I'm the only genderqueer person at the company (and the first person who uses neo pronouns that anyone on my team has ever met, apparently).
So far:
Manager carefully wrote down spelling and pronunciation of my pronouns and told everyone on the team to respect them.
Coworker apologized privately for misgendering me (I hadn't told her yet) and said she will practice.
Guy on another team valiantly tried to use my pronouns and ended up saying something like zirzs-zhizz (I DM'd him and thanked him for trying and linked him to a practice site).
Teammate told me he has written out my pronouns and how to use them in a sentence and literally taped it to his monitor so he can practice.
Teammate also referred to me as compañere after I linked to a comic about gender-neutral endings in Spanish (whole team except me + 1 other person speaks Spanish as first language and they held all meetings in Spanish before the two of us started).
I am so stoked that people are actually trying. 💜🤍💚
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