The thing is, you don’t have to have a diagnoses to make simple “unmasking” changes that make your life easier. You don’t even have to self-diagnose! You are not appropriating anyone’s culture or struggles or hijacking anyone’s movement by allowing yourself to sway in line at the grocery store or buying a weighted blanket or using study or household hacks intended for people with ADHD. If you start favoring the needs that make your brain and body unique over the arbitrary norms of society, you’ll be better off, and you’ll be expanding the norms. It’s a win/win.
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my grandma had another heart attack today so they took her to the hospital and turns out. she has covid.
my mom had visited her today.
im currently chilling on the couch next to my mom.
watching outlander.
so uhh. @ black jack randall. if you're seeing this....... i really do think i hauve covid.
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Me: Did you know I was raised in a cult?
Southern coworker/acquaintance: Oh me too! I went to a really strict Baptist church!
Me, thinking about my church leader claiming to have psychic powers and using that to manipulate the congregation for twenty years: Oh yeah mhm :)
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something a lot of band fanbases on tumblr do that really irritates me is that they'll post a photo no ones ever seen before with no context and then caption it with a woefully unfunny one liner and then when you ask them the context of the photo 6 times out of 10 they will not answer or not give you a source for the photo. and like they assume everyone knows waht the photo is from already. andif you dont then youre just an idiot i guess. info sharing in band fandoms in general has always been kind of an enemy to me. like am i crazy or do so many fans leave other fans in the dark about stuff and gatekeep things like photos or interviews or information in general. its so odd. maybe i am crazy. i have insecurity issues so maybe im imagining things. maybe im just projecting or something. i dont know. not sure
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i know part of it is me being emotionally attached to a series for a decade now and making some excuses for it thereby but it really does irritate me when people act like sakura and hinata never developed as characters merely bc they loved sasuke and naruto and that was a centralized aspect of either of their character arcs. like would i have liked to see more of their interiority explored otherwise yeah obv but i do think shounen / naruto fandom at large has fallen into this group think phenomenon where they retroactively erase any aspect to sakura and hinata's characters not directly related to them professing their love bc it's convenient for them to do so.. with sakura it's esp egregious bc her own personal journey as a nin is explored with quite a lot of depth but i also take issue with it with hinata bc people for some reason act like her gaining courage as a result of naruto's kindness towards her is inherently regressive.. like sorry a victim of relentless abuse was comforted by the fact that someone would encourage her so strongly and it led her to take a stand for herself and for others on multiple occasions.. the horror..
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Okay... i don't want to be the person to bring up the s1 photo incident yet again for the 9 billionth time but since the discourse never seems to end regardless, I would like to say one thing....
I really dislike it when people say "Steve was so right to smash Jonathan's camera/I'd have done way worse than that/good for him!" and variations thereof. And not in a ridiculous "Jonathan can do no wrong/Jonathan should not face any repercussions for his bad actions" way but in a, "Steve did not smash Jonathan's camera for reasons that were right or fair or that kept Nancy, the subject of the photograph in question and the one who should have been centered in that situation, in mind" way.
Not to sound like a grandma pulling out my "two wrongs don't make a right..." line but I think beyond that, Steve just...he simply wasn't "seeking justice" as this righteous warrior for Nancy or whatever when he chose to do it. He did it solely to humiliate Jonathan. Because he could. Because he was a bully and it gave him a power trip. He did it for himself, not for Nancy. End of.
It's a very uncomfortable scene, and every time I rewatch it I'm more aware of how sidelined Nancy is during the whole thing. Steve + cronies wait at Jonathan's car for a confrontation they don't try to involve Nancy in. Even if Nicole didn't tell them about that Nancy photo (which I find hard to believe) beforehand, once they've seen it and Nancy approaches, they show her the photo but don't even let her speak? They're too centered on humiliating Jonathan. Nancy then indicates that she doesn't think wrecking the camera is the right thing to do, or at the least voices some hesitation ("Steve...") but no one is paying attention to her or bothering to listen to what she might want, so it doesn't matter.
Even weirder is how quickly Steve storms off afterwards instead of comforting Nancy? Like, I dunno, I just think he should have done his "Nancy? Come on," and arm-around-her routine right then instead of after he's walked away, then realized she didn't follow him. Nancy should have been his first priority there, but she isn't. It just seems like further evidence that, even in this act that's theoretically all about ~defending Nancy's agency~…she's still just an afterthought.
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