#low paranoia

[puriette]

✙𓈒 paranoia flags ❞

1st flag is for those who experience low paranoia. 2nd flag is for those who experience fluid paranoia (could be going from none to low to high, etc.) 3rd flag is for those who experience high paranoia.

these flags are for people who have paranoia, i made these with people with paranoid disorders in mind (like me), but anyone who experiences paranoia can use these. the first three colours don't have any meaning but the last/bottom one means (in order) the level of paranoia! first one being low (green), second being fluid (yellow), and the last one being high (red/pink), almost like traffic lights!

don't use these if you're transid/transx.

dividers by @/iv-ry

[hermit-frog]

not me just randomly realizing, one month later, that this was a Truman Show moment lmao right?

[whimsyprinx]

I feel like now is a good time to announce that I’m in the process of moving blogs! Im doing so for a few reasons, the main one being paranoia, so for that reason I won’t be saying my new urls publicly so like please dm me if you’d like my new url so you can follow me there! I’ll be reblogging this post a lot so ppl can see it (so sorry if you get annoyed by that)!

I’m also remaking my discord account as well so if we’re friends on there then feel free to message me for my new username!

friends and mutuals please do reblog so shared friends/mutuals have a higher chance seeing it!

[fideidefenswhore]

the downfall and execution of a tudor queen (2023) / the boleyns: a scandalous family (2021) / the king's pearl: henry viii and his daughter mary (2017), melita thomas / anne boleyn (tv miniseries 2021) / the mirror and the light (2024) / elizabeth (1998)

[seaweedstarshine]

RIP Krakoa 🌹 I can’t lie I’ve been kinda behind since midway through Fall of X I’m gonna catch up before my first SDCC this summer but I hear Vulcan didn’t see much action anyway. Anyway my hand slipped and I found myself looking into the eyes of my canonically psychotic son the best Summers brother who’s never done anything wrong in his entire life, (he’s done lotsa wrong things but I love him more for it)

[healingwgabs]

idk who needs to hear this but the necessary time you spent and things did while recovering from varying delusions, in order to be a functional person, is time not wasted <3

[a-healthy-dose-of-apathy]

i hate the way i get angry at people for showing normal human emotion when i’m a constant emotional wreck it’s hypocritical and unfair but i can’t help it

[solreefs]

something I need people to understand is that I can, and often do, say/do hurtful and insensitive things, because I have low empathy and find it hard to gauge how people will react, or sometimes I forget to consider their feelings at all. and even if I didn’t mean it that way, I should still be held accountable for hurting somebody, and learn from that mistake. my lack of empathy does not get me a pass to hurt people. but at the same time, it needs to be acknowledged that low empathy is not just finding it hard to relate to people sometimes.

there’s these two conflicting attitudes I see online and offline about low empathy, at least in my own experience. offline, the general view of non-empathetic people is that we’re cold, we hurt people on purpose, we don’t care about anything, we’re inherently dangerous, etc.

this is obviously incorrect and harmful, but in online circles (again, this is my personal experience), there’s a tendency to go completely in the other direction. non-empathetic people are just misunderstood, it’s everyone else’s fault for getting mad at them, they just have a hard time relating to other people, etc.

this is also untrue, missing a lot of nuance, and leads to harm as well. when low empathy gets misrepresented as just social quirkiness, people who talk about their genuine struggles and mistakes due to low empathy are met with anger. anyone who admits they’ve caused harm because of low empathy is ostracized, because people don’t want to be associated with freaks like that.

I think that’s people’s way of rejecting how having empathy is seen as the only way to be morally good, which I agree is bullshit, but we do need to accept that non-empathetic people will hurt people because of their lack of empathy. we need to be able to talk about this without being faced with immediate rejection from mental health discussions.

tl;dr: low empathy is more than just “uwu I find it hard to relate to people sometimes”. it can and does lead to conflicts with other people, and people with low empathy will make mistakes that are sometimes harmful to others. demonizing this is not the answer, but ignoring this does not make it go away. we need to be able to have nuanced conversations about this complicated topic.

[triglycercule]

i want to headcanon the mtt having absolutely terrible hygiene and struggling to keep themselves clean (this MAY... just QUITE POSSIBLY.... only in the SLIGHTEST bit be projection) but i think it would be too gross and man EVEN I dont wanna think about that

also killer canonically smells good and i actually really LIKE that idea so oh shit there goes that idea out the window. horror and dust youre my only hope please let me make you smell bad for reasons you won't understand

[neverendingford]

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[this-should-do]

barney canoes every blunt hes given and gordon is extraordinarily bold when hes high

bonus/alt ending

anyways everyone thank these tags on my last weed boys post for this post

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

Gah

[autisticbokutoenthusiast]

where do you think bostonnick fall on the cokementos alignment chart

the way i think they are both cokementos and sodium chloride.... they both have layers and those layers have different chemical reactions

[stabyou]

been kind of manic lately it's fucking weird after having been so depressed for like 7 months. it's like oh there you are you crazy minx

[aikuma]

the term "mental illness" and "mental disorder" bother me a little...Indeed, they are real concepts. I used to be heavily mentally ill. But I was able to "cure" it a little bit...But like all life-long illness, it will never leave fully...Maybe.

Well, I feel that sometimes, many (and especially those who have never experienced it themselfs) are too quick to blame everything on "mental illness"...But is the way I think and feel so wrong? It is just me. I am just me. You say my thoughts are "bad" and "abnormal" but they are just thoughts. Why am I "ill" for being me?

I do not feel like I am "too paranoid" or "too extreme"...I think my feelings and reactions are perfectly normal in response to the abnormal world we live in.

Think: If you get sick because of bad food...You are ill. But it is because the food made you sick. You will heal if you stop eating the bad food. But if you keep eating the bad food, every day, you will stay sick forever...

Mental illness can be that way too, I think. Maybe I am like this because I am forever trapped in this unhealthy society. If I got to live in a perfect world, maybe I would not think or feel this way? Why say it is I who has the issue, and not the world? Is it just an excuse to advert your eyes? To not better the world?

"She is suicidal because she is mentally ill..." they say to the bullied girl.

Of course, mental illness can be inherent...Like disease, some is from the outside, some is from the inside. But people who think all mental illness is the fault of the person...They are narrow-minded.

I know for a fact I would not be half as paranoid as I am if the world were different!

[ghoulodont]

i feel like the popular image of paranoia is looking out a window peeking through the blinds like hmmm thats suspicious and while it certainly can look like that i feel like that doesnt really capture the thoughts or the mindset or the reasoning of it, to the point that it took me kind of a long time to recognize my own experience of paranoia. for me its like everyone is being very hostile to you and i just accept it as reality without question. the looking out the window seems very passive and observational whereas when im paranoid im actively defending myself. im fighting back and being confrontational and accusing people of trying to harm me. and its hard to even notice im doing it sometimes