#and then make it a pathological problem

[impzone]

hm. after all this time i still get angry about this so i think it’s about time i make a comic about how i feel about personality disorders

[whimsicalforestfairy]

Chat, should I dye my hair purple for the third time? 🤔

[thelaurenshippen]

ah yes, the sweet sting of rejection from a billion dollar corporation who believes that "action stories don't appeal to romance audiences", welcome back my old familiar friend

[snowleek]

had a dream I jumped from the crumbling foundations of a sagging castle into bone-cold water clearer than air and a joy so potent it turned to horror seized me like a fist. and when I tried to swim back to the ruined banks they were too slick and the sand was the color of oxidized blood and as I tore my palms on the ragged roots that stuck out of the steep, silty dirt like fingers I saw among them the pale limp bodies of children in the reeds. and I heaved myself onto the shore and dug my own fingers into the cool-blood sand and coughed and coughed as warm arms held me from behind.

which could mean nothing.

[anothermisanthropist]

So who's ready for October 7th 2024?!

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

I keep trying to motivate myself with spite to participate in discords after being accidentally bullied but I just end up crying about it instead rip. This shit does not seem to be working on my end lmao

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

The eternal tension between genuinely wanting to watch/read good horror media and wanting to sleep for the next week.

[twinktorturer]

honestly a lot of the posts that are meant to encourage people with anxiety and social problems to get out and how like you just have to get over it and it will resolve itself basically always end up just making me feel really hopeless because ive tried making myself get out or whatever and it's never really worked and i still don't end up finding anyone i talk to after, and sometimes i don't even talk to anyone period. like at least 70% of the time ive went to a party or social event ive come feeling anxious and left feeling suicidal lol....

[badolmen]

You know if everyone could stop saying compliments that make me question my career path that’d be great.

[pcetstcrtured]

HI BESTIES!!! guess who's back? back again? pluto's back, tell a friend!

i'm sorry i kinda disappeared there on y'all for a few days - as i had said in that post i made, i was babysitting wednesday & thursday. plus i was adjusting to a new ('fixed') sleep schedule which always kinda needs an adjustment period. plus it was my sister's birthday on saturday ... so yeah, i've kinda just been busy -

but! i'm here now! & i'm gonna try to write! though tbh i might be sticking to writing stuff on my halloween blog first since that is what the original plan was but then shit happened & all. honestly just gonna see where muse takes me - but yes i'm here!

[cicidraws]

how tf do i explain pathological demand avoidance thati deal with without my dad using the explaination against me and thinking im being a bratty person who just wants to ignore things on purpose???

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[mabelsguidetolife]

my dad doesn’t know he’s probably autistic because he’s what one would call a ‘functioning autistic’ and he’s a senior citizen so he has never questioned these aspects of himself

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

Okay why does this make so much sense???

I was diagnosed with autism when I was three years old and enrolled in an intensive ABA program, which attempted to use operant conditioning to train me out of acting autistic. One of the things that always confused me, reading over the ABA practitioner's notes decades later, is just how sweeping the category of "autistic problem behaviors" they were trying to extinguish in me was.

For instance, one such “autistic problem behavior” was my "reluctance to attend to non-preferred activities". When I was asked to do something I didn’t want to do, sometimes I would say 'no' or even cry before relenting and doing what I was told. Which is indeed uniquely disordered behavior, because neurotypical toddlers are famously obsequious angels who relish being ordered to do things they hate! (/sarcasm)

In all seriousness though, it's alarming that perfectly standard toddler stubbornness was something the ABA therapists felt they needed to condition out of me. It wasn't enough I learn to be indistinguishable from my non-autistic peers (which is already a messed up goal in its own right), the standard of “neurotypicality” I was told to aspire to seemed nothing short of being a perfectly obedient automaton. 

None of this made sense back when I thought neurotypicality was about normalcy. But it does now that I realize neurotypicality is, and always was, about control

it does more harm than good to prop up the myth of the ‘neurotypical’ who completes tasks cheerfully with no issues. this person is a capitalist fantasy. the more you define yourself in comparison to this myth the more you justify social structures staying the same with minor accommodations to the ‘exceptions’ and the continued pathologizing of discomfort under hostile conditions

[anauwhere]

Y/n fics are important bc sometimes I'm like the blorbo from my show needs a serious dissertation and romantic or heartwrenching books about them. Sometimes this girl needs to read and imagine to be dicked down to little death by said blorbo and their best friend okay?!

[devotedlystrangewizard]

not yet final elden ring thoughts but first time credits thoughts