#Matters

[rubypomegranates]

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”

Cassandra Clare “City of Glass”

[diaryyun]

[nightbunnyusagi]

I'm ditching the "masking" response. Many allistics don't know what that means and I feel like it's only a factor, not the whole equation.

Person: yeah, but like, how did I not know you're autistic?

Me: masking because you probably don't know much about autism and/or never cared to know about me enough or make me feel comfortable around you as well

We're not entitled to be made comfortable around everyone or that everyone knows about autism. They're also not entitled to information about us. No middle ground = no relationship.

Also

Person: but you don't look autistic, I don't think you are

Me: it really shows how little you know about autism and about me

Talking to people who want to learn is nice, but I'm not wasting my time begging for people not interested in anything but their perception to see me. I was evaluated by a medical professional and got diagnosed. My diagnosis was acknowledged and confirmed by other medical professionals. That's enough for me. (Yes, random family member, your opinion is invalid and I don't care about it!)

I'm not offering kindness to rude people, I'm offering indifference. Their opinion is not my problem.

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

I hope you know how much it matters that you have not given up, even though you hold persistent fears that you are not good enough. You have given your all with courage. You have learned to rest and trust. Your story is lined with healing and hope. Oh, what light stirs to life from the dust!

Morgan Harper Nichols - How Far You Have Come

[jimmortensen]

[tonguetyd]

Why put a new address on the same old loneliness

[endlessandrea]

"'Land and the way it is worked,' Ross argues, 'is the most important factor in an alternative ecological society. Capital’s real war is against subsistence, because subsistence means a qualitatively different economy; it means people actually living differently, according to a different concept of what constitutes wealth and what constitutes deprivation.' Marx knew this too, and a direct line might be traced from his early articles on wood-theft in the Rheinische Zeitung and his account of primitive accumulation in Capital to government land grabs and the march of monocultural agribusiness that threaten many of the cases studied in The Commune Form."

[monkeydluthy]

How can you lose when you started with nothing?

No handouts. No shortcuts. Just drive.

Every step forward is a win.

Every lesson is part of the climb.

You're not behind—you're building from the ground up.

Keep going. You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.

#StartedFromNothing #KeepPushing #BuiltNotGiven #MindsetMatters

[karda]

Sorry to hear about your dog :( do you have a kofi or anything to help with expenses

if u really want u can commission me but id feel weird just taking ur money. i appreciate the thought though that is very nice of u. my stepdad said it might take him a while but he's gonna help pay me back, considering its more his dog than mine. it was just an emergency situation and i was the only person with access to that kind of money. i should be alright

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

Your mind floats over the trees to where you want to be to that wide-open space where you feel the water's breeze, and you struggle to manage the space between expectation and reality. I cannot tell you that you are free from feeling insignificant as you work quietly. But I can tell you faithfulness matters even when progress feels small. Your attention to this moment is a seed being sown, and will lead to a garden of growth. It may take years to see how all your hard work blooms, but don't let the waiting interrupt your gratitude. You will not miss out on what is meant for you.

Morgan Harper Nichols - How Far You Have Come

[fashionlandscapeblog]

matters.ge

[nightbunnyusagi]

this disability pride month I will do myself a favor and get that goddamn cane because I've needed it for too long just as I self sabotaged for too long and this is enough suffering if I can make my life better

and a big ol' fuck you to everyone ever saying I was over dramatic of my pain and fatigue, I'll make sure each and every one of you lick my cane 💜

[sunmisbf]

champions league final todayyy

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Forever walking the line of "Words technically do not mean anything people mean things by words" and "I am a writer and an amateur (og meaning) theologian and as such the meaning of words, especially etymologically, is really important to me"

[runningfromadream]

It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the story honestly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says good night, resists temptation, wipes the counter, waits at the yellow, makes the bed, tips the maid, remembers the illness, congratulates the victor, accepts the consequences, takes a stand, steps up, offers a hand, goes first, goes last, chooses the small portion, teaches the child, tends to the dying, comforts the grieving, removes the splinter, wipes the tear, directs the lost, touches the lonely, is the whole thing. What is most beautiful is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed.

Laura McBride