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To my entire spoonie family. I love you.

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Depression is like the system app that drains your battery but you can’t uninstall

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Sometimes, people are unlucky enough to experience the one thing that just destroys them and changes them for the rest of their lives and today I got to experience that thing

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I'm 32 and this is true.

I am 28 years old and still make sure I say, out loud, any farm animals I see while driving.

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terrifying your own child into submission makes you an abuser.

watching your child cry and screaming at them to stop and invalidating their pain and reasons for crying makes you an abuser.

staring at your child in disgust and contempt after they displease you makes you an abuser.

threatening to your child to take away their basic resources if they don’t give you exactly what you want makes you an abuser.

forcing your child to feel ashamed for not living up to your ideals makes you an abuser.

using slurs, hateful names and insults on your own child without any regard to what it does to their mental health makes you an abuser.

forcing your child to chase impossible expectations and making them feel like they’re worthless for not achieving them makes you an abuser.

acting like your child is a burden and a waste of space and blaming their illness/disability/depression on it makes you an abuser.

behaving like your child will never amount to anything and isn’t worth any resources and nurturing makes you an abuser.

making your child feel like they’re never good enough makes you an abuser.

if your child’s heart is hurting because they know no matter what they do and how hard they try they will always be a failure in your eyes, you are an abuser.

if your child can’t look at themselves without self hatred because they had to look at themselves from your perspective and all they saw is disgust and hatred, you’re an abuser.

If your child is struggling to believe they have the right to live and to be cared and loved, if they can’t stop hearing your hateful voice putting them down and using their every action to prove they’re worthless, you’re an abuser.

If you watched your child in pain and ensured them they deserved it, you’re an abuser.

If your child can’t love themselves from how badly you hated them, you’re an abuser.

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you’ve been gone a week and i miss you so much it’s unreal. it’s done nothing but storm since you left -- i think God planned it that way so that you wouldn’t be scared. i hope you’re loving heaven -- no more baths; no more insulin shots; unlimited treats, swedish fish, and bunnies to chase. mommy loves you, baby. <3 

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These are amazing! Well done!!!

These are a good couple of months old now, and I hate looking at them after seeing them so much, but I forgot to scan them in before putting them up for my end of year exhibition XD so I may as well scan them in now :) 

If you know the trilogy The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare then you may recognise the scenes that I have illustrated as the iconic scenes of their character passage, which is what I was kind of doing my project on :) 

Enjoy!  I don’t know what to do with myself now that uni is over!

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Magnus Bane is not fabulous

Said no one ever (via nerdgreekotakuweeb)

Obvs.

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Accurate depiction of me spreading the joy after my otp kisses for the first time:

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so this is what i’ve been doing lately.

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Desmond Tutu, everyone.

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AHHHHHHHHHH

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Being diagnosed with an uncurable, chronic illness...

(gif via imgur/wolgamonster)

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AKA how to get a straight jacket!

life hack: get a tattoo. if the people at the job interview notice it and look concerned, laugh a little and explain “it’s just temporary.”  months later if your boss asks why you lied and said it was a temporary tattoo, stare off into the distance and whisper with a tremulous voice the poor excuse for truth your subconscious has been fighting for its entire insignificant existence: “everything is temporary.”

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Something I wish everyone would realise before they offer me something that I can't eat...

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Day 3: technology has helped me so much. I've found so many spoonie sisters and brothers to support and share experiences with. Thank you all!! #disabilityninjas #disabilityninjasphotochallenge