dyspraspie

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hello, tumblr, it is I, dyspraspie.  I have been absent due to doing things and stuff I guess.  I have a job now! It is a good job and I like it.  I am not very good at it but I am still just learning and it’s all going ok really.  My mental health has been pretty good, with minimal lows and mostly manageable anxiety- yay.  I went to manchester a while ago and saw manchester pals and that was great.  I went to edinburgh for hogmanay and spent time with family (avoided major tension, slept a lot) and that was pretty nice.  I have a girlfriend and she is lovely.  I am currently slightly tipsy.  All is well.  I am still alive.  Hello.  I may or may not be back on here more regularly.  Who knows.  but hello.  Hope you’re all doing well.  *sending kind thoughts and good vibes to you all*

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Refugees Welcome

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tv psychiatrist: I met you 20 seconds ago, but I can tell your entire past from this and I know all of your emotional weaknesses and how to fix them

psychiatrist according to anti self diagnosers: I will use my years of training to get to know you very well and discern weather you have this mental illness or disability. I know everything about the human brain and all mental illnesses and disabilities are completely understood by everyone in this profession. science is amazing.

real psychiatrist: so I printed out this list of symptoms. which ones do you think apply to you? yeah um many names for mental illnesses and disabilities actually just come from groups of symptoms that are often seen together and while we sometimes know the cause, sometimes we have no idea. your input is just as important if not more than mine.

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Man, for someone with no job and no social life, I seem to spend an awful lot of my time feeling over-stretched, overwhelmed, and fucking knackered.

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that executive dysfunction feeling when u can’t stop scrolling. u need to go to sleep or eat or to the bathroom and u don’t even want to be on tumblr anymore but ur eyes feel like they’re glued to the screen and ur body won’t move and ur fingers won’t stop scrolling and ur not even taking in any information but u can’t STOP.

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Never heard of "workfare" before. Could you elaborate on why you think it's bad? Do they want to make it 40 hours/week, for example? Because at first glance it sounds like volunteering, besides, the unemployed could get to network that way.

As it exists in the UK at the moment, workfare is compulsory, unpaid work for unemployed people. In order to retain the £50/week allowance you receive to pay for food, transport, etc, you have to work wherever the job centre tells you. If you refuse, you lose your benefits and risk, well… your life. 

The places where you work are usually places like supermarkets/chain stores, ie McDonalds, Asda, Primark, Argos, Poundland, etc, but there is a very long list of other companies that take workfare “employees". This is not an internship or a training opportunity; most people in workfare aren’t offered a paid job afterwards. The unpaid work will not necessarily have anything to do with your experience level, abilities, or career goals. 

People in workfare are counted as “employed” in government statistics, making it look as if fewer people are unemployed overall.

Workfare workers take jobs that might have gone to paid employees. Companies have no incentive to hire paid workers when they can just get a government contract for free workfare staff.

So, businesses are profiting from unpaid labour.

Plenty of these are basically full-time jobs. The “Help to Work” scheme = 30-hour weeks, for 26 weeks in a row.

There is no indication that workfare helps anyone find a job. In fact, it takes time away from everyday networking and job hunting.

Working in an unpaid, mandatory job takes away your sense of personal worth and agency, because you have no control over your life or income. 

TL;DR version: Workfare is not “volunteering,” and it doesn’t help unemployed people, it just helps the government massage unemployment stats, and allows businesses to profit from unpaid labour.

You can read personal accounts of people’s experiences with workfare here.

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fedora boys are always like “my dear, all i want is an intellectual debate, i am not looking to start an argument, you fucking bitch”

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i’ve been feeling rly sluggish and a little down, so just to motivate myself and remind myself 

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i luv when cats randomly burst into a full gallop across the house for absolutely no apparent reason. idk what ur doin or where ur goin but i support it

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things that are cute:

when girls put their hair up in messy buns and there are a bunch of stray hairs hanging around their face/back of their neck

when girls wear beanies

when girls wear backwards baseball caps

when girls do literally anything ever

girls

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Maybe even bring some toys into the mix?

You know what sounds really icky and clinical and not fun at all? “Mutual masturbation” What a shitty phrase for a lovely activity.  From now on I’m calling it a co-op wank.  So grab your consenting team-mate and go do some nice things to yourselves/each other.   Be safe, have fun, have a co-op wank.

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You know what sounds really icky and clinical and not fun at all? “Mutual masturbation” What a shitty phrase for a lovely activity.  From now on I’m calling it a co-op wank.  So grab your consenting team-mate and go do some nice things to yourselves/each other.   Be safe, have fun, have a co-op wank.

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Why, yes. Yes, I am a character designer that works in the game industry. How could you tell???

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still loving the it’s what young men did in the pre-internet age line