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It's unrealistic but my idea boys are in the form of anime men that look like women until someone says their male.

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I blog for the girls who cry on their birthdays and lose a little bit of themselves during the summer months

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Okay you know what? Schizophrenia is way too demonized and, as someone who has had it for ten freaking years, I want to dispel some myths about hallucinations.

Aka talking about hallucinations using my own personal examples because I had an actual fucking THERAPIST tell me I was the ONLY person in the world who experienced hallucinations that were not solely visual or auditory. Warning for…hallucinations obviously.

Visual hallucinations - These are hallucinations you see. I usually experience these by way of inanimate objects moving (like dolls or mannequins moving on their own, before you ask yes I do hate clothing stores). Sometimes these can be scary and sometimes they’re mundane! I’ve hallucinated monsters and I’ve hallucinated pretty birds. Hallucinations don’t always have to be scary.

Auditory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you hear. I commonly hear crying, talking, music, and video game noises. If I play a video game for too long and it has a repetitive sound in it, I WILL be hearing that sound for minimum three hours. You think the sound that plays in LoZ when you’re low on hearts is annoying? Try having to listen to it on loop when you’re not even playing the game. Like with visual hallucinations, they’re not always scary! Contrary to popular belief, they can be totally mundane. Hearing voices is not always scary either. Sometimes they just say random stuff, sometimes they give me little pep talks, most of the time they just all talk over each other at once and I’m like GUYS ONE AT A TIME PLEASE jeezy cheez-it’s.

Tactile hallucinations - These are hallucinations you feel. I hear common tactile hallucinations are feelings of bugs on you and fur but I don’t usually have these, I mostly have tactile hallucinations of being choked which is…not fun.

Olfactory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you smell. Yeah I thought of farts first too. So far I haven’t heard of that being a common hallucination though. I hear a common olfactory hallucination is burning? But I just smell wet metal. I…don’t know why.

Gustatory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you taste. I don’t know how to pronounce gustatory either. I often taste blood or metal. I hear those are pretty common gustatory hallucinations.

None of these hallucinations are inherently scary! As a child, I thought hallucinations were a super power. After living with them for over ten years, they just don’t phase me that much. Remember: you don’t have to be schizophrenic to experience hallucinations! There are many things that cause hallucinations including and not limited to trauma, PTSD, psychotic depression, etc. (sometimes even stress!)

But please please please be kind to people who hallucinate. I’ve lived with it for over ten years and (rarely) it can still be terrifying to me sometimes. People say “But there’s nothing there and you know that-“ yes I know that! But it’s still very very real to me and very terrifying! Minimizing what people experience with their hallucinations is not helpful and will only make them feel worse.

Thank you for reading!

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Follow your dream

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I literally do not care what the Bible says about any political issue. I am not Christian. Christian scripture should have zero effect on my life or my personal freedoms. 

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Only a matter of time before this is printed on a shirt

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Remember when we all thought we were alone in our excessive love for the “fav character held captive in basement and tortured” trope lol

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friendly reminder that asexual and aromantic are not the same thing so don’t use those terms interchangeably

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I have yet to see any positivity posts just for oriented aroace people so I'm changing that!!!

🖤 Happy pride month to all the oriented aroaces who have finally figured themselves out

💙Happy pride to all the oriented aroaces who are still working through their identity

🤍Happy pride to all the oriented aroaces in relationships. Whether they are QPPs, traditionally romantic, or other

💚Happy pride to oriented aroaces who don't want a relationship

🌈 happy pride to oriented aroaces who are sex and romance repulsed

💐Happy pride to oriented aroaces who are either/both sex and/or romance favorable

Happy pride to all of you! We are a small group but we are a valid one! Have a fun and safe pride month!

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from my golden birthday fête

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NO FUCKING TERFS ON MY BLOG NO RADFEMS NO ONE WHO CALLS THEMSELVES “GENDER CRITICAL” NO TRANSMEDS!!!!! YOURE ALL EVIL

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Hell on earth people who romanticise summers need therapy fr

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joining a friendship where 2 ppl were close friends already is the worst fucking thing. they r more important for eachother than ill ever be but its okay actually. they are friends and i just randomly become their friends too. they are ok without me cause they were ok before me. im just simply not important and thats ok, cause it needs to be ok.

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Hey guys, this is Pam, one of my absolute best friends. She has a painful genetic disorder called EDS that causes dislocations in every joint of her body and we are trying to get her a service dog. We found a reputable breeder that does genetic testing and even starts the training process, so now it’s just coming up with the money because insurance does not cover service animals. 

A service dog would greatly improve her quality of life and let her keep as much of her independance as physically possible. 

Please at least share this post if you can’t donate. Pam has pushed herself for so long and almost never asks for help. She deserves to be able to feel like a person again and this will help her do that.

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Pink Prison, a comic I did for my color theory class this semester! we had to pick a color, research it, and do a piece related to it somehow. i chose pink :)

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This kinda reminded me of Ghibli