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Have you ever wondered how someone meets Santa? Well, you need to follow a very specific ritual to summon him.

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pick one you bald genderless idiot

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there should be snakes in mimnecraft an they should look like this

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just kicked this dude so hard his worms came out

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biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell

chemists will be like this is a molecule

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*Mutual reblogs something you posted*

Me: They still like me. Thank God.

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It hasn’t even been a week yet inspo: x

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i have a terrible habit of sometimes just doing 100 squats in the shower. It’s right on the intersection of “hard enough it’ll fuck me up tomorrow” and “easy enough to be done on a whim” and i always regret it

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fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

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things that can be symptoms of autism

- having no empathy. at all

- anger issues, being easily frustrated, explosive anger, destructive behavior

- being "over emotional" and sensitive- laughing for too long or too much, being easily amused, having big meltdowns over things people think "don't matter", having meltdowns because of even being able to hear horror movies or something sensitive someone told you. you could argue this is a type of "taking things too literally" too

- being too rough. i personally throw things i mean to just put down and slam doors i mean to shut quietly

- experimental behavior (saying or doing things just to see what will happen)

- not understanding boundaries

- not understanding consequences

- not understanding that other living things are real and have thoughts and feelings and bodies

- not understanding good and bad

- not knowing how to express emotions

- expressing or feeling a different emotion than is expected

- expressing an emotion you don't feel because you have no other way of communicating

- systemwide flat affect (tone, body language, and face)

- shallow emotions (feeling something but not feeling it as strongly as is expected)

- just flat out not feeling what you're expected to, at all

- what's considered manipulation because your brain just doesn't... work another way

- self absorption. both in terms of "only i exist to me" and "i will walk into the fucking road unless someone helps me watch where i am going". something parents of autistic children often complain about is their child coming out of their room, walking into the room where they are and they say hi and the child doesn't even acknowledge them. that. not acknowledging other people or objects or your environment at all. for me it's because my brain just literally doesn't "see" stuff but also sometimes i don't acknowledge people for reasons i don't even know. if anyone else gets this and knows why you do it lmk

- impulsivity

- incontinence

- not being able to understand, interpret, or process body signals like hunger, exhaustion, or needing to use the bathroom

- dysphagia and problems with eating and talking. can result in drooling

- issues with balance, proprioception, and motor skills (frequently bumping into stuff, tripping, falling, knocking stuff over, spilling, missing trash cans, being unable to grab something, missing your face when you eat, having a hard time dressing yourself, messy handwriting, having a hard time with buttons or staying in the lines or drawing a straight line)

- atypical gaits and mobility issues (may require the use of mobility aids)

- not being able to understand sarcasm or jokes. by themselves. just sarcasm and jokes. no complexity.

the point of this post is "please keep all of this in mind when you think about and discuss autism, and when you interact with others, especially people you know are autistic."

happy autism month.

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it’s funny when my friends who aren’t on tumblr send me tumblr posts from other sites cause their either an extremely popular post that i’ve seen 20 times on my dash in the last day or like. the children’s hospital post. don’t get me wrong i still appreciate their gifts but it’s like. thank you for foraging these berries for me unfortunately i live in the bush

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sometimes i think i miss high school and then..this is pretty accurate

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Rainbow flag colorpicked from the original 1978 flag <3