#and are chronic af

[shamelesslymkp]

am torn between the two reactions of laughing bitterly and laughing jealously, because yeah, the migraine part of my headache condition is more treatable than the CDHS part, but the comparison there is doing a lot of heavy lifting

[itsmeagain4]

Hi hi hi 🌚

[trianna-phoenix]

That man showed up to bilbos door step wearing eyeliner and a resting bitch face. Literally opened the door already serving cunt.

Do you think he was applying eyeliner on the way to bilbos house like “there might be a baddie here, gotta look my best 😌”

And then there was

[sleepysleepysleepybaby]

people who hate slow walkers are ableist

[xxwhokilledremirandomxx]

MCR being debated about whether its truly emo or theatrical rock or whatever is such a ridiculous argument because regardless what it's "official" genre is its been cemented as part of emo culture but it's even funnier when people pull up the "Frank said he didn't even consider himself emo"

My brother in christ, if I had a nickel for everytime an artist who helped grow a subculture tried to deny their participation in that subculture I'd be so rich I could buy Hot Topic. The lead singer of Sisters of Mercy who has the stage name Andrew Eldritch tried to deny the fact he was goth. I think it's just a thing they do

[aestheticofalifetime]

I WANT TO RIP MY FUCKING LEGS OFF FUCK THIS SHIT

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

“Winners don’t hit snooze” drop dead actually. Fucking die.

Winners don’t go around assuming everyone is just as privileged and healthy and well rested as them

Winners don’t shame others for whatever accommodations they might need to maintain a decent quality of life

Winners don’t act like pretentious ableist assholes in fact I’m pretty sure winners are perceptive open-minded kind and understanding. Idk

[houstonxbreed]

I live the same day over and over again 😔

[enbycrip]

Tbh I love seeing people do things that Maybe Aren’t That Good and people celebrating them for the dedication and scope nonetheless?

I keep thinking about that quote somewhere about the thing about art being a human behaviour and not just a collection of skills that are only worth doing if you are professional-level quality at them. Because I think that mindset is really damaging and stops a lot of people from doing things enough to get better at them, frankly.

I know it’s a big problem for me, esp because, frankly, my energy is so limited that doing things I am Bad At, which for new artistic skills in particular is very energy-intensive and tends to make me feel like shit. Making myself feel awful to produce a Bad product at the end, because it is a new thing I haven’t done remotely enough to be good at it, is incredibly disheartening. I have to *actively* keep telling myself “This has value that isn’t about producing a professional-level product.” And that, frankly, is *difficult*.

One of the things in anarchist activism is making arts and crafts that might not be that good because it’s valuable in itself to disrupt this mindset. Because it keeps us buying cheap things from underpaid and exploited workers instead of making our own things, which may eventually be good, or may eventually just be better than when we started.

And yeah, disableism, including internalised disableism, does come into this. Because there is a social expectation that if, in theory, disabled people *can* do something, we *should* be able to do it as quickly, well and reliably as abled people. And, at least for those of us who deal with any form of cognitive or energy impairment, including chronic pain (because no one who does not experience it *ever* appreciates the cognitive drain that constant pain puts on someone) that is *rarely*, if ever, the case. In my case at least, my impairments actively affect how well and quickly I can learn new skills.

You can almost certainly imagine how well that intersects with ADHD. I can summarise it as “badly”. The frustration makes it *incredibly* difficult to keep plugging away at this thing you are fucking up because you are new to it in a sustainable way, ie by taking rest and learning it in regular bursts. The idea that it has to be professional-level good or it is simply laughable is most unhelpful to me at those times.

Basically; please think about where the attitudes you have learned and internalised come from and the effects they may have on people around you when you display them. It’s not about you being A Bad Person; it’s about the fact that we have all grown up, and live, in a fucked-up society, and we owe it as human beings to learn better and be better than that. To ourselves, as much as anything.

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

Showing off all my random bruises...

[pessimisticgh0st]

For some reason I can really imagine Tori having a letterboxd account, though she doesn't tell anyone about it (obviously) and is under the same username as her blog, so no one actually knows who she is on there. She would log every film she watched even if she does it days after she actually watched it, sometimes give reviews (which are probably unhinged in some way or really indepth or extremely concise and to the point), constantly change her ratings of films because she would end up thinking about one she watched in the past and end up realising how it wasn't so great as she initially thought it was (like what she said about Garden State in Solitaire) and her top 5 films would change all the time. She would have had this account for years and because of that she would end up having a fair amount of followers from obscurely named lists and random reviews she's made over the years.

And then one day, Tao goes to log a film he just watched and sees her review though he doesn't know it's Tori and vice versa. They then realise they like a lot of the same films and have a similar opinion about loads of them and sometimes watch films they see the other just logged and maybe Tao starts debates in reviews with Tori. (I know in the 2023 Q&A Alice showed Tao's Letterboxd and his username is his actual name, but in this he doesn't haha)

[marionmabelle]

it’s so hard being a restless leg syndrome princess who just wants sleep 😔

[mybodychoseviolence]

next time i see someone push in front of a person in a wheelchair to get on the elevator first i am destroying their kneecaps with my cane

[crwatters]

What if I don't get any answers? What if I do?

[nintendont2502]

How tf do people just. Make friends with their mutuals. How

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Honestly it takes me like twelve hours to get like four hours of sleep