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Furthermore "I treat you the same as I treat everybody 🥺" isn't good enough. If you treat me like an abled person you're going to expect me to act abled and I'm not.

If you don't see my disability of course you're going to see every time I bring it up as an "excuse" because in your mind my disability and myself are separate entities. But I'm not ashamed of my disabilities and I'm not ashamed to say that sometimes I do things because I am disabled. I need certain things because I am disabled. I am who I am today because of my disabilities and if you can only interact with me after editing out the disabilities from your perception of me? You don't really know me at all.

To all the people who say "oh don't worry I don't see you as disabled!" or "I see you like a normal person!" and think they're doing us a favor.

Please.

Please see my disability. Please see everything that I'm unable to do. Please see how I'm struggling. See how much pain I'm in. See how slowly I get out of bed in the morning me.

Make me feel seen, and feel valid. Seeing "through" a person's disability isn't good. See me. See me as a whole.

Something way more okay to say is "I acknowledge your disabilities and your struggle, but it doesn't make you any less and I still value you."

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I don’t think I’m ever going to be over Edi Gathegi and can’t help but feel so happy for him with his role in James Gunn’s Superman

For those of you who don’t know Edi Gathegi starred in X-Men First Class as the character Dawrin (aka Armando Muñoz)

Dawrin’s powers are literally super adaptation, his body changes to every possible scenario in order to survive.

Gills to breath under water and fins when submerged

Stone skin when struck with an attack

In space his body will change to be able to breathe, when fire is directed at him he will become fire proof, etc. he is essentially unkillable dude to his mutation!

And yet in the movie he gets introduced solely to be killed

The unkillable, Black, Hispanic, Male, character literally gets killed first and acts as a ‘motivator’ for the rest of the cast even though they hardly mention him after his death.

Edi Gathegi even voiced his concerns, only for the studio to promise him that Darwin would eventually come back and be resurrected in future movies but surprise surprise. That never happened.

Years later James Gunn reaches out and askes him to audition to the point he sees 200 people and still ask if Edi Gathegi’s tape has come in.

Edi Gathegi despite his hesitation due to his last super hero movie experience decided to give it a shot and what a way to right a broken promise from the past!!

He not only doesn’t die but plays a vital role in the story, he’s been praised as a scene stealer being one of the most liked characters right behind Superman

Edi has been open in interviews about what this means to him and how happy he was to have this opportunity

Its great to see this come full circle

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CLARK KENT + being media savvy and totally cool

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Loki: “She was, um… A Queen of Asgard. She was good. Purely decent.“

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“villain attempts to go back in time to kill superman as a small child, gets shot in the face by ma kent, who buries him behind the barn with the others” would probably have niche appeal as a comic but i don’t care, i want it

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Is it possible to “beat” mental illness? Or does it depend on type/circumstance?

“Beating” mental illness is actually the norm, not the exception. Most people who have a major depressive episode never have another one. 80% of people who survive their first suicide attempt never make a second attempt. 93% of Borderline Personality Disorder patients achieve remission. Up to 74% of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder achieve significant clinical improvement in their symptoms, and 20% achieve full remission. Half of Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients achieve remission after the acute phase of treatment. Even disorders with relatively low rates of remission - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder - generally become milder and easier to manage as you age. Psychiatric symptoms tend to peak in your 20s and generally drop off as you get older, especially if you seek treatment. 

This is why the narratives we use to talk about mental illness matter so much. Right now, the dominant narrative is that mental illness is “an imbalance in the brain” and that it’s largely something that people are born with. There are upsides and downsides to this. The upside is that it promotes the idea that mental illness is not the ill person’s fault, and it helps us understand that mental illness can impact anyone, regardless of their life circumstances. The downside, however, is that it’s sort of given us this idea that mental illness is inborn and unchangeable. People have taken on the idea that “that’s just how my brain is”, when the reality is that, for most people, mental illness is less of a stable trait for them, and more of just a shitty thing that they are going through for a little while. The idea that mental illness is just “in your brain” also erases the very real connection between your life circumstances and your mental health - while it’s very true that a wealthy person in a happy marriage can become depressed, it’s also very true that living in poor conditions and being in an abusive marriage can be the cause of depression, and that improving your life circumstances can lessen or eliminate mental health conditions. 

If you have a mental health condition, it’s very important that you not resign yourself to the idea that you’re going to be like this forever. Chances are, you won’t. Even if you have a mental health condition that is associated with low rates of remission, it is possible to make leaps and bounds in your functioning, and to get to a point where managing your condition becomes second nature to you. Our understanding of mental illness is improving every year, and new therapies and treatments are becoming available all the time. If you seek treatment and do your best to manage your condition, you have every reason to believe that you will make huge improvements. 

Hope this answers your question!

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pnf revival challenge day 4: driver’s license!

Hosted by @howtonerdoutovereverything!✨

I wanted to add a page where they get pulled over by cops but ironically I spent 10 hours driving myself today and I’m falling asleep at my desk kfbshckm anyway here’s a bonus meme:

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Sketches sketches sketches

Actually starting to like the ponytail 😂

Pretty sure this is gonna be his hair when we meet him again in the new comic

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me: it's so funny how socially based humans are. like we have the life or death deeply ingrained fears and then there's just the primal "will people like me" fear

me: guys [deities] do you still like me😞/j. if a bear attacked us would you still protect me😞😞🤭

loki: mhm☺️

loki: i really like that you're being in tune with that part of being human

me, was kind of joking but the conversation did make me feel deeply safe in an animal way: hmmm

me: i need to be in tune with my inner human more

loki: yes, that's what i want. know that you are human

loki: you're the only animal who doesn't realize that you're an animal

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look at this overgrown wireless charger

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John Brosio (American, 1967) - Two Earthlings (2003)

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@bad-holmes-impression you get custody of Lance Strongbow and Varian Whateverhisnameis

custody of a fictional character should get transferred to you once you spend more hours thinking about them than their creator ever did

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@bad-holmes-impression

@chassmfizzm

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T-T I wanna play games with youuuu

having long distance friends is so fucked. do you wanna come over to my house and play (it will cost us 1 william dollars)