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I just saw someone say the strip club they go to accepts KLARNA I can't

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sad blue films

thirteen ( 2003 ) dir. catherine hardwicke

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The Verdura Scarf emerald necklace, from the 75th Anniversary Collection, has been recreated for the first time since it was designed by Verdura in 1941 at the request of Dorothy Paley Hirshon.

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Thinkin about that old photo of that Kiowa girl with her cat in the cradleboard

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today i bought a homepod for myself and it fucks, i'm afraid.

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Laputa Helma Sanders-Brahms. 1986

Apartment Oranienpl. 2, 10999 Berlin, Germany See in map

See in imdb

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Some more “what’s in my bag” posts from flickr. We have always been the same…..

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the last two months…………………….

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getting back on abilify after experiencing the worst mental health episode i’ve had in at least four years!!!!!!

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might set fire to the dash and make a poll asking people how much they make an hour at their job(s).

pay transparency ftw!!!!

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we are going to have to bring back “smex”

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not to hand it to kylie jenner or whatever but she really did have a point!!! i fear 2024 is the year i will be realizing things!!!!

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perhaps cynically (and unfairly), i have written off a lot of the self-diagnosis trend as people trying to find a marginalized identify to latch onto to explain their own sometimes eccentric behavior. rather than trying to do the work of radical self-acceptance and understanding that so-called “neurotypical” behavior runs a very wide and diverse gamut that their behavior probably falls within (and that’s okay!), people who self-diagnose are far too quick to grab onto mental illness and/or autism as a shield against a) critical people in their lives (for both valid and invalid reasons) and b) their own fragile ego. i’ve also felt that the surge in self-diagnosis has not really led to any true, meaningful destigmatization of mental illness, since people who are more seriously mentally ill and/or severely autistic are spoken over, not really accounted for, and are still considered “weird” and often harmful by more high-functioning people who self-identify as whatever.

and maybe some of that is true for many people, but over the last month, it’s occurred to me that asking yourself these questions about your own mind, and the minds of people you love, can provide real relief. i wince at the idea of pathologizing every single human trait, but considering whether habits and characteristics that have chronically challenged you and caused you (and others around you) pain can potentially lead you towards a kind of personal enlightenment. this enlightenment entails taking true responsibility for what you say, what you do, and who you are. and i don’t mean “taking responsibility” in a punitive sense - i mean it in the holistic sense of knowing yourself, understanding yourself, accepting yourself, and being in a place where you can hold yourself accountable for good things, bad things, and everything in between. i think it has the potential to make you a more resilient person and someone who is kinder and more generous in your relationships with loved ones and yourself.

obviously, if you’re repeatedly asking yourself these questions about you or people you love in your life, it’s super important to bring these things up to a reputable licensed therapist. but after the kind of month i’ve just had, giving myself the authority to question these things on my own, rather than only exclusively allowing a therapist to tell me these things, has been very important to me.

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as for wondering about whether a family member is on the spectrum……. even the possibility has been kind of revelatory and a very helpful potential reframing of my relationship with this person. i love this person so very deeply, but over the course of my relationship with them, i have never been as frustrated and angry with another person as i have been towards them. considering whether they may be mildly autistic is helping me be more patient and generous towards them in a way i was really struggling to do before. some of the limitations of our relationship may be explained by them having undiagnosed autism, and that, in turn, is helping me be kinder and more understanding of both this person and myself.