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both, depends on the kind of day I'm having. I need peace to recharge from too much stress or overexersion and to be able to meditate, but I also often need a lot of stimulation if I'm feeling numbed out or need a distraction from pain or overload

Autistics that are hypersensitive, who need absolute peace and no stimulation, are awesome.

Autistics that are hyposensitive, who need to constantly work their brains and drench their foods with seasonings, are awesome.

Autistics that are neither or both, are also awesome.

All of you are awesome.

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I love that this film looks like it's gonna be scene after scene of Thor being a total clueless idiot that everyone is laughing at him not with him. Been waiting for this for a LONG time, thank you Taika you beauty!

I really wish I had my hammer. Quite unique, it was made from this special metal from the heart of a dying star.

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Still hoping Hela will be Loki's daughter in Ragnaroc, and he's the only one who can do anything to stop her and save everyone

Loki is so done with everything

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Mysteria // The Rasmus

The answer lies  Beneath your eyes Just rise up against the pain No more tears  No more lies Take the fallen through the rain Make the world recall your name

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Wig Hack Wednesday #6 ! Want to make your ponytail wig more believable with top volume? Ponytail clips are cool but they can be uncomfortable after long hours of wearing. You can make seamless high ponytail with this method for characters like Kasumi (Dead or Alive), Widowmaker (Overwatch), or Medea (Fate/Grand Order) For this demo, I used a Sandy Brown Jeannie base wig from Arda Wigs. The Jeannie comes with a tied up ponytail wig with a ponytail clip. You can use normal non-ponytail wig as a start as well. Make sure to alter the wig so you can tie it up for the stubbed part and use extra wefts for the high ponytail part.

- Undo the tail of the Jeannie base wig and re-tie it higher. Use elastic band for this instead of rubber band so that it won’t melt against hot glue later. Cut off the extra length of the tail as closely as you can to the tied area. Stub with hot glue. - Cut a piece of cardboard for the tail’s “extension”. - Hot glue the cardboard piece to the top of the tail, going around it. I used a half-piece, but if you need extra support, cut a bigger piece so that you can completely wrap it around the tail. - Add paper to the top of the cardboard using packaging tape. You can stack it higher if you wish but keep the weight in mind. - Take the butterfly clip out of the ponytail clip that comes with the Jeannie. Cut the piece in half. - Use the bottom piece from the last step to glue onto the top of the tail. Start gluing near the tied area first. - Section off the hair so it’s easier to neatly glue it down to the paper form. Start from the top area, and then the two sides. - Remember the other half piece from the ponytail clip earlier? Cut it in half again and use one of the halves to glue to the underside of your big ponytail to close the gap. - Brush the hair and hairspray it in place and you have a strong high ponytail! Since it’s heavy-back, you may need to sew in some wig clips or zig zag flexi comb inside the wig cap by the hairline to make sure the wig doesn’t slide backward when you walk around.

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Hel yes! I'm in full Loki mode again! I need to rebuild my crown so I can finally wear it all day and feel like a KING. But I also REALLY want this armour. Damn it, there's only so much energy I can devote to cosplay right now! Loki give me strength!

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Hel yes! The king is back, and he's ready to kick ass!

First look at Loki in Thor 3: Ragnarok’s new trailer

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The Best Pet In The World

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The Agent of Asgard look kills! And the his new armour is magnificant! I just want Loki's whole wardrobe!

So we sort of have this Loki. Nice.

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This is a really helpful page in my CBT textbook for tackling some of the maladaptive beliefs we often hold. The first column lists the rules and assumptions we often may tell ourselves, while the second column is a more functional belief. Just thought I would pass this along. Be kind to yourselves, friends❤

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*sighs* yeah and have you tried battling through everyday with the energy levels of the average person who has the flu, and has just ran a marathon on no sleep and hasn't eaten in days? All while trying to stop breaking down in tears cos you don't want to be seen as weak and helpless? Cos that's how it feels to be neurodivergant in this backward and uncaring society. It's not easy, the pain doesn't just 'go away' magically. We're burdened with it everyday cos this society is geared to a lifestyle of high stress and anxiety; keeping adrenalin high and blood pumped full of artificial stimulants, pain responses dulled down with medication and obsession on outward appearance rather than substance and the power and potential of the human mind. Kill yourself slowly by living like a robot if you want but I'm a free spirit who's going to live my way, not anyone elses. And until this society actually crumbles and falls I'm gonna live like it already has, cos I can't live by its rules, they're killing me.

me: I’m mentally ill and struggling to get the energy to do tasks that are necessary for my everyday life

a neurotypical: having you considering taking on several time consuming and tiring hobbies, such as running, getting up at 5am to do yoga, and making green smoothies with 20 ingredients every day

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Björk explaining how TV works.

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key takeaways from today

- this wasn’t a “gaff” or “bad PR”. this was open bigotry and a deliberate attempt (yet again) at erasing jewish people from the holocaust, and you need to recognize it as such

- this administration consistently and deliberately downplays and avoids acknowledging jewish suffering during the holocaust. that’s not accidental, that’s part of a concerted movement to marginalize and erase jews

- the trump brand is always about using incompetence as a smokescreen for bigotry and malice. yeah, sean spicer’s an idiot, but don’t let that be as much attention as you pay here

- “good” non-jewish people need to be vocal in confronting this. it’s not enough to tell your jewish friends you have their back and post memes about how stupid spicer is. you need to aggressively confront anti-semitism in your own circles, or else stop asking us to trust you

- finally, don’t let me catch you defending your shitty friends who promote anti-semitism or stand for this administration. if your shitty liberal devotion to “open debate” means shutting down jews so antisemites can have the floor, you and I are finished forever

gentiles can reblog this

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Stange should know better than to provide Thor with alcohol while they're on a job (unless it was magical alcohol free) (Loki wouldn't have turned his nose up at the tea, and he would have said thank you!)

I don’t drink tea.

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Tom Hiddleston and his dog eared copy of The Night Manager. They have come a long way together!

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Tom Hiddleston tries to answer someone else’s phone call while giving an interview. It doesn’t work.

Via Torrilla/weibo

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Aspies, Meditation & Role Models (Iron Fist)

How to help an aspie reach deeper levels of relaxation & inner awareness than they can on their own? Give them a role model who can do just that that they can connect to! So I've been watching Iron Fist the new Marvel Netflix series, and one thing I've thought is; 'Marvel have done it again, given me the right thing at the right time', honestly they are so on my wave length! I have been using meditation for over a month to try to get better control of things, I've tried various things over the years which I'll probably do a post for on it's own, but it's really been helping along with yoga, changing my diet and using things like bineural beats. I've seen a lot of stuff on the internet about how people have 'cured' their children's autism with clean diet and stuff like spiritual healing, and I just wanted to add that that is NOT what I'm doing, because autism cannot be cured any more than an allistic ('normal', neurotypical person) can be cured of being 'normal' (what is normal anyway if we're all unique and different?!). I've said it many times; autism is NOT a disease and people need to stop looking at it like that, stop trying to find a cure and making autistics hate everything about ourselves or the world for trying to change us, it's so dangerous and distructive. Instead you need to start actually helping that person be the best version of themselves. That is what I am doing. I'm working with my brain, not against it; to heal the negativity, the mental blocks, anxiety and pain. Letting go of all the things that have been holding me back, which by the way have been put on me by all the neurotypicals in my life that have wanted to change me or told me I wasn't right. This new approach has helped me get control of my life again, get in touch with my intuition and natural abilities, it's helped when I've been too ill and low on energy to do anything else, it's helped me sleep, and when things have gotten too much. It's not instantly fixed everything, stress from my environment is still a problem, but these things help ease me through the rough patches. Now when I'm close to sensory overload or meltdown, or getting too worked up & stressed I go into my safe space with my earplugs, a stim (stress) toy and a candle and I meditate, so I can go inside myself, calm my mind and block everything else out. No medication, doctors, therapy or intervention, just me getting back in touch with who I am! THIS is what parents and caregivers of autistics should be doing to help us, it's a hell of a lot easier, cheaper, safer and so much more affective than any medical alternative. So back to Iron Fist; I didn't know much about Danny Rand before, other than from a couple of comics and cartoons, this version of him is going to be different from those portrayals (I respect purists because I am one for many things), but this series is just beautifully done and is helping me even more in my quest for self discovery, improvement and healing. Danny's character is very like mine so I felt an instant connection with him, and the spiritual side of things has been right and in line with everything I've been doing as well. He is a survivor and a warrior, but at the same time he's at peace with and loves everything and everyone. He has a childlike joy, innocence and energy and is trusting and genuine which can make him seem naïve but he constantly subverts everyone's expectations of what he can do, who and what he is; there's his outward appearance, and something very different and unexpected hidden inside. When I find a character like this, or one that is going through something similar to me, or who fit me & my character (could be from anything, or even a real person), I start to feel like I am them, so I'm not just going on the journey with them while watching them, I become them. I'll have to go deeper into this another time, but it's connected with special interests, echolalia and mimicking (it's like studying a character/person and subconscious 'method' acting). And so with this character in my head, along with the stuff I've already been doing, the last few days I've been able to reach new levels of calm and serenity while meditating, resting or going to bed. I've been able to help heal my mind by becoming other characters before, when I put on their mindset and become them I can do anything; from helping myself through PTSD, severe anxiety and abuse from my past, to giving me strength to be able to get through very difficult situations, I just put on a character that best fits the circumstances. My cosplaying has done the same thing; allowed me to become a character so I can safely explore and improve a different aspect of myself. So on that note, another thing we aspies/autistics need is to be able to indulge in our interests, because through them we learn how to live and deal with a world that wasn't made for us, and to teach and guide ourselves on the path that only we can discover and choose to take. For those who are there to care for us you can either support & guide us on this journey or leave us alone, cause either way we can't be stopped from taking this voyage of self discovery!