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Feels like too many people have forgotten that everyone on earth also has feelings and interior lives and experiences and are themselves entire universes that exist beyond the current and fleeting moment…

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I feel like I would have been diagnosed with OCD a lot earlier if the vast majority of screening questions (for mental illnesses in general) weren't based on the person's perception of their own behavior, in isolation. and what i mean by that is asking someone with OCD "do you wash your hands excessively?" is not a good question.

a person with OCD believes they are washing their hands the correct number of times. it's not excessive. we believe we're exhibiting best practices and helping to keep everything clean.

better questions might be, "does it seem like you wash your hands a lot more than your friends or family?" "do you get dry patches or cuts on your hands from washing your hands?" "do you find it deeply distressing, more so than how you've seen other people react, when you get something on your hands that you can't clean off right away?"

being asked "are you overly preoccupied with bugs, symmetry, and contamination?" also got "no" responses from me years ago in my life. what they didn't ask for, and didn't know, was what *exactly* I was doing in my day to day life that genuinely ate up my time and mental space to a concerning degree, but I *didn't know* that other people don't do this.

"do you spend a lot of time cleaning?" -> no, it's not a lot. it's a good amount. why?

"do you become frustrated because it seems like no one else meets your organizational and cleanliness standards - do you often 'take over' for other people because they can't do it right - do new friends seem surprised by how strict you can be about your living space?" -> oh. yeah. yeah I get it now.

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It’s the ambiguously muted blue backdrop that is killing me

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the entire point of life is to be silly, kind, and really weird btw.

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this cookie so intelligent

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HAPPY ASEXUAL DAY!! (I’m sorry the image is wonky I’ll fix it if I can)

- April 6th 2025

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“I’m having my son in 2 months and I’m jealous of how cute baby girl clothes are” you can put your newborn son in a little strawberry print romper, I swear. he won’t mind. he won’t develop a complex over it, I promise.

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“This one’s for all the suckers who still believe in love, this one’s for you.” - Submitted by: fastman27

#9645B4 #9878F0 #5DB7F2 #79F6E1 #DAFBED

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I love black sapphire cookie

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MY SHAYLAAA

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BAD CINTH, BAD

LOST THE FIGHT WITH IMPULSE CONTROL. ATE RAW BEEF.

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i kept threating to gijjinka @barrett-leddy's cookie guy and now i just gotta live with it

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Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

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This is cheaper than journaling when you think about it