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I love you demigods with gifts from gods of other pantheons, I love you demigods who’s powers don’t make sense with your godly parent, I love you demigods who don’t match the “aesthetic” of your godly parent, I love you vengeful children of Iris, I love you giggly children of Hades, I love you demigods with disabilities, I love you hoh/deaf children of Apollo, I love you physically disabled children of Nike and Ares, I love you children of Athena with adhd. I love you, welcome to camp. 🫶

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Thinking about being a demigod as a metaphor for neurodivergency

Thinking about demigods fighting monsters no one else can see, thinking about the mist, how mortals just can’t see it. Thinking about Mrs Dodds, and how everyone told Percy he was crazy for remembering her. How ableism and insults are just so typical in places like a high school and yet if you’re neurodivergent and remember it years after school, you’re called crazy and obsessed because “it wasn’t that bad” and “you need to move on”. How Nancy Bobofit called Percy special. How Chiron (a centaur) was the only teacher to be actually nice and understanding of Percy, since he too wasn’t a mortal. How mortals can’t see the monsters and swords, how they can’t see the struggles we face and our defense mechanisms/ways to cope. How demigods just trying to defense themselves against monsters are seen as “evil” or a threat by mortals, because they can’t see than the reason they made that thing explode was to survive, than the bump on their car wasn’t actually made on purpose, but by a monster throwing them against it. How the world is dangerous to demigods, how they always have to stay alert, how there was always something off about them growing up. How they might have known they were demigods since a young age, or if not demigods, they knew something was different about them. Like Annabeth, who kept attracting monsters and decided to run away at just 8. She knew, her father knew, her family knew. There was no point in hiding it, no point in pretending it wasn’t there, everyone could see it. Thinking about Percy, how his mom knew, and how she made sure to help Percy no matter what, how she never cared. Thinking about Leo, who didn’t know until he was a teenager, who figured out on his own, who’s childhood was traumatized by his powers, how being a demigod completely ruined what would have been a lovely childhood. Thinking about Percy’s time in school, thinking about the demigods having adhd and dyslexia, thinking about how “their brains are trained for ancient greek/latin” and how they have trouble understanding what everyone else can easily read. Sure, it’s dyslexia, but it can also be something else. Their brains are not trained for neurotypical social cues, that’s not a language their fluent in, they have their own language, which neurotypicals can’t understand. How if they tell someone they’re a demigod, they won’t believe them, and think they’re weird. How it’s not something they can mention unless around the right people (other demigods, gods, mythological creatures, or parents of demigods kids, which in this scenario, is anyone with a connection to neurodiversity). How the parents sometimes are aware their kid is a demigod (like Sally), because they know the other parent was a god, in this scenario, they’re aware of the possibility of a neurodivergent kid because they slept with a neurodivergent person. Except sometimes they don’t know the other parent is a god, they don’t know their kid is a demigod. How someone can have neurodivergent kids, who’s neurodivergency is passed down from their other parent, except the other parent is not diagnosed. How, even still the neurodiversity community, there’s still stigma and stereotypes. How they treated Nico, even if he was just like them, simply because he didn’t fit. How the more visibly demigod you are, if you’re the child of one of the big three, the more monsters you attract, the more dangerous life becomes, how the moment a demigod realizes they're a demigod, they can't hide it, they attract more monsters, there’s no turning back.

Thinking about being a demigod as a metaphor for neurodivergency

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I think so? Another term could be “Child of ___ with the gift of _____” for example a child of Apollo with the gift of Veles/Anubis/Fenris (I’m still struggling to chose mine 😭)

Can a child of Apollo be a legacy of Asteria? I have no idea how tf legacies work in PJO😭

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stop hoping to shift/enter the void and start KNOWING that you will.

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Hiyo! I’m Adam/Arrow! I’ve been in the shifting community for a little over a year and a half and I’ve successfully shifted around 5-6 times, I’d love to be moots!! ^^

Hi! Idk how to start this but, call me Rez! I've been trying to shift for over two years with no success. I have two DRs I'm actively trying to shift to (and LOADS of others)

Lookin for any moots in the shifting community, positive vibes ofc :)

Basically just runnin low on motivation cause two years is a long time yaknow 😭

Anyways! Hi! Hope you're all well, it's great to meet u all, happy shifting!!!

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i know what you are (queer and alterhuman)

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Да yes ano

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i am shifting tonight.

and you are too, i believe in us!!!!

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I try to shift since 3 years. I have friends who tried and they gave up without ever succeeding in shifthing. I haven't succeed either. But one day I'll be able to send them a text at the morning :

"Hey loser. Guess what happend last night..."

And that's one of the THOUSANDS reason of why I keep trying.

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guys 😀

hey guys 🤭

guess what 👀

ur shifting on your next attempt 😲

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Important Announcement

Hey guys, I had made a post yesterday that got a lot of attention really fast and I’m not sure it’s the best idea for my mental health to go through with it, I’m so sorry if you got your hopes up but I have so much going on and I’m not ready for organizing a project this big yet, I might try again in the future but as of now I’m not ready, I’m so sorry. I’ll do my best to get out there again and organize a project this big once I can settle down and get in a better place but until than I won’t be having the group shift open, thank you for your patience and I’m sorry if I had gotten your hopes up, but I need to wait until I’m ready to handle a project this big instead of rushing into it. Thank you for your patience and it means the world to me no accepting everyone is. I will continue to post about my DR’s outside of this, this is just a small update after rushing into a project I couldn’t handle yet, thanks!! ^^

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Normalize stimming! How do you stim? I pinch my hands like a crab when im excited~

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reblog if your name isn't Ashley.

2,121,566 people are not Ashley and counting!

We’ll find you Ashley.

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