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Here to have a little complaint because it's been on my mind. I have a younger cousin, nine years old she is, in year 4, primary school. I was out with her a couple weeks back in our local shopping centre and they had a small fair on for kids including face painting. Now my little cousin was really excited and asked if I'd wait in line with her to get her face painted which of course I said yes. As we were waiting I noticed a group of girls, around her age maybe a little older but 10/11 MAX, all in full nike with designer purses GLARING at my younger cousin and giggling at her for wanting to get her face painted. And like. What the fuck? I don't see anything wrong with a child being a child. However I don't blame these girls, I blame the way they were raised, societys expectations forcing them to think they had to be that way. What is happening to our youth is tragic. Tween years are being erased and teenagers practically have to be adults just to be deemed cool. It is sick. Let kids be kids.

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50 posts!

I reblogged a little too hard today lmao

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I know this is about Romeo and Juliet but why have I seen grown men talking like this irl erm

"others younger than her are already happy mothers"

SIR THAT IS A 13 YEAR OLD YOURE TALKING ABOUR

JAIL. NOW. STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM HER LEAVE HER ALONE FREAK

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Me whenever I draw my ships interacting lmao

Oh god they made eye contact

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Start drawing you most traumatized oc like this

me when

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THE BEATLES AND SPACE LETS F*CKING GOOOOOOO 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

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Get me on there!!

Anyone who reblogs this post will have their user written on a poster saying "We Stand With Palestine" that I hope to put up somewhere in the village I live in, or the town that the village is next to.

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Reblogging this for me because I'm sick of teachers and other adults think it's just a case of sleeping more or trying harder or just "not being so lazy", an adult told me I don't know what it's like to be tired, I have chronic fatigue, I had an adult tell me I dont know what its like to be stressed, I'm getting tested for fucking PTSD.

I've always had chronic fatigue. I remember being twelve, and an adult mentioned how I couldn't possibly know how tired they felt because adulthood brought levels of exhaustion I couldn't imagine. I thought about that for days in fear, because I couldn't remember the last time I didn't feel tired.

Eventually I came to terms with the fact that I was just tired, and I couldn't do as many things as everyone else. People called me lazy, and I knew that wasn't true, but there's only so many times you can say "I'm tired" before people think it's an excuse. I don't blame them. When a teenager does 20 hours of extracurriculars every week and only says "I'm too tired" when you ask them to do the dishes, it's natural to think it's an excuse. At some point, I started to think the same thing.

It didn't matter that I could barely sit up. It was probably all in my head, and if I really wanted to, I could do it.

When I learned the name for it, chronic fatigue, I thought wow, people that have that must be miserable, because I am always tired and I cannot imagine what it would feel like if it were worse.

Spoiler alert, if you've been tired for a decade, it's probably chronic fatigue.

Once I figured that out though, I thought of my energy as the same as everyone else's, just smaller in quantity. And that might be true for some people, but I've figured out recently that it absolutely isn't true for me.

I used to be like wow I have so much energy today I can do this whole list for sure! And then I'd do the dishes and have to lay down for 2 hours. Then I'd think I must gave misjudged that, I didn't have as much energy as I thought.

But the thing is - I did have enough energy for more tasks, I just didn't go about them properly.

With chronic fatigue, your maximum energy is obviously much smaller than the average person's. Doing the dishes for you might use up the same percentage of energy that it takes to do all the daily chores for someone else.

If someone without chronic fatigue was to do all the daily chores, they would take breaks. Because otherwise, they're sprinting a marathon for no reason and it would take way more energy than necessary. We have to do the same.

Put the cups in the dishwasher, take a break. Put the bowls in, take a break. So on and so forth. This may mean taking breaks every 2-5 minutes but afterwards, you get to not feel like you've run a marathon while carrying 4 people on your back.

Today, I had a moderate amount of energy. Under my old system of go till you drop, I probably could have done most of the dishes and wiped off the counter and then been dead to the world for the rest of the day.

Under the new system, I scooped litter boxes, cleaned out the fridge, took the trash out, cleaned the stove, and wiped off the counter and did all the dishes. And after all that, I still had it in me to make a simple dinner, unload the dishwasher, and tidy the kitchen.

It was complete and utter insanity. Just because I sat down whenever I felt myself getting more tired than I already was.

All this to say, take fucking breaks. It's time to unlearn the ceaseless productivity bullshit that capitalism has shoved down our throats. Its actively counterproductive. Just sit down. Drink some water. Rest your body when it needs to rest.

There will still be days where there is nothing to do but rest, and days where half a load of dishes is absolutely the most I can do. But this method has really helped me minimize those, which is so incredibly relieving.

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Spreading this because you never know!!

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

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This.

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Just so you all know :D

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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COME AGAIN?!??!!

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You're bundled up now wait till you get older

go sleep

HEY NOW

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Tweening and making gacha videos is so funny because anyone outside of the community would take one look at this and think I'm crazy

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 50 likes!

Small milestone but baby steps :3