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.
Moral Orel doesn't seem 100% like a show I'd feel seen in if you don't know me but then I remember the episode with the special ed kids and underneath the usual satire on extremist bible belt religion it reminds me WAY too much of how actual special ed departments treated me and other kids growing up.
Like the writers must HAVE BEEN THERE IN LIFE, man. I'd kill to sit down with Dino Stamatopoulos and find out what the fuck inspired him and the other writing staff that day.
crutchie being in the refuge during kony is literally just like. peak The Cripple Experience. ur buddies are all out there having fun , doing something important and ur stuck in pain at home and can’t hang with them. it’s as funny as it is devastating to me like Yeah! that’s the life!!! he’s the real crip rep we needed he is perfect to me.
Headcanon: Victoria has asthma and it made her complex even worse. She'd be on a nebulizer and her parents would be like "If you can't even manage the best lungs, what can you do?"
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that one post about being so mentally ill about something that mundane things in real life make you think about the characters except the thing in question isnt even fucking accurate. a wave of fatigue hits me like a truck and makes me too tired to function and then i wake up from a nap like wow this is just like ray tpn. no its not. ray does not sleep
anyway more es. ARE U GETTING. THAT ALTMODE MIGHT BE.... allegoric. of things......
[ID: Transformers Earthspark clip of Jawbreaker interviewing Elita-one on a camcorder. There's scanline and recording ui affects. Jawbreaker is a young terran transformer with squat preportions in his protoform (white, grey, and blue, non discript body). Elita is a large cybertronian transformer with a pink SUV alt mode, clear car parts like wheels, headlights, and grill visible on her robot mode body.
full transcribe below
Camera over JB's shoulder, looking at a city skyline with the sun behind it.
JB: It's so... pretty.
Camera whips to Elita as she speaks: This whole planet is. I... like to end my work outs by reminding myself what I'm trying to protect.
JB graps the camera and turns it around, setting it up: I want to keep it safe too. [Sad, comtemplates the camera] But how can I do that without an alt mode.
He sets down the camera and we exit the camcorder view. The camera is very small in his hands
Elita sitting behind, twisting to look at him: Kid, you don't need an alt mode to do that.
JB: But, I'm a transformer. I'm suppose to transform!
Elita gives a breathed laugh/huff: Jawbreaker, lemme let you in on a little secret, hmm?
She tap the space next to where shes sitting on a shipping container. We see in camcorder mode the profile shot JB set up, he walks over and sits. We exit camcorder mode, and see JB and Elita from head on.
Elita: Scanning your alt mode isn't some kind of magic. There's a special compotent inside of you, [hand to her chest] Inside every bot, called the T-cog. It's what lets us change shape.
JB points to his chest with his one large finger. Speaking deliberately: The T-cog. Wow... [normal speech] Oh! But I'm not cybertronian. How do you know I... have one?
Elita, prompting: Some of your terran siblings have changed form, right?
JB: But what if I'm... [voice break] different?
Elita, looks toward the city: You know it took me forever to find an earth alt mode too? Nothing I saw ever felt right. So I waited. I waited, and waited, and waited.
JB: And then?!
Elita, turns to JB, points to her chest again: My spark, told me what was right.
JB: BUT- [somber] what if I'm broken or something? When I look at- cars. I feel nothing.
Elita puts a hand on JB's shoulder: Then maybe... you weren't meant to be a vehicle.
(These thoughts brought to you by Clipping’s “Story”) One reason I’m drawn to family plotlines in a fallout setting, especially within the NCR, is because the mechanisms of maintaining an imperialist culture closely mimic the mechanisms of maintaining control over one’s children. All the chatter in-game about “soldier’s families” and how grueling and inconvenient it is for the NCR to be in the Mojave at all is used by the characters as unspoken reasoning for why they deserve control over the area in the first place: they’ve given sooooo much, their lives are sooooo hard, you’re not gonna let all that go to waste are you?
But it’s an untruth of the sort that you’d usually get out of a toxic, self-victimizing parent. The one who is actively and consistently upholding oppressive systems when they’re not complaining about how traumatizing it is to be apart of those systems. They’re not lying per se, this is a horrible situation for your average NCR soldier. They’re just leaving out the part where they choose this, they control these circumstances, and they stand to benefit the most from them. Very Dad of them.
genuinely the funniest part of my art is the fact that os cripplingly obvious i LOVE drawing guys who look like they'd get decked in the face for being silly