#self-expression

[spiritualseeker777]

[tumbler-polls]

We've recently come across an interesting video about the ego and autistic people [this one], which got us wondering about authenticity in the context of self-expression.

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We know that there are other factors that go into it, such as mental health, being a part of the lgbtq+ community, etc.

[namitha]

If you keep living with confidence, the rest of your life will unfold exactly as it is meant to. It won’t always be comfortable. Some will recognize your brave; others won’t. Some will understand and like you; others won’t. But the way others respond to your confidence is not your business. Your business is to stay loyal to you. That way, you will always know that those who do like and love you are really your people. You’ll never be forced to hide or act in order to keep people if you don’t hide or act to get them. To be brave is to forsake all others to be true to yourself. That is the vow of a confident girl.

🌿 Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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[poligraf]

We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

Hildegard von Bingen

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[marzipanandminutiae]

speech is another mode of self-expression. and I will never understand the animosity some people have towards the idea of choosing one’s speech patterns as consciously as one’s outfit

it’s something I’ve noticed a lot with Bernadette Banner, for example. commenters will get so up in arms about her phrasing or enunciation being “pretentious” or “annoying,” but like. she’s not pretending to be anything but what she is: an American woman in the 21st century who spent some formative years in the UK and likes using somewhat archaic language

comments like that kind of hit close to home for me, because, to a lesser extent...same. I can’t speak to her background, but personally I grew up a theatre kid with a neutral American accent and more 19th century novels than friends. talking like a Victorian literary character ate a meme blog is my natural speech pattern

but even if it wasn’t- who cares? 

we have zany makeup looks and technicolor hair and every fashion style imaginable represented in the world today. why is it somehow bad if someone decides they like speaking a certain way and adopts that pattern? why is there so much emphasis on using your “natural” manner of speaking when we’ve- rightly! -decided that nature can be thrown over for aesthetic expression if one so wishes?

(note- this does not apply to people adopting culturally coded speech patterns of oppressed minorities to which they don’t belong, like the infamous “blaccent.” I’m talking about harmless, non-appropriative examples here. that’s a whole other, very serious issue)

I was watching Crimson Peak with a friend and, after some speech or other that the heroine made, she sighed and said, “I wish I talked like that”

I wish I’d said, "then do!”

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

Some people are artists, others are art themselves.

[pedros-immaculate-vibes]

when you see a character image with the artist’s own lil take on it—they’re own flavor 🤌🏼✨

When you read a work that has the writer’s special lil flair, their seasoning 🤌🏼✨

When you can hear that the musician is throwing their whole pussy in the solo they’re doing and you can practically hear their souls being spread out in front of the audience 🤌🏼✨

[the-healing-mindset]

Survival mode is nowhere near fun. You end up not being able to live your life to the fullest because you are just so bogged down by the things you went through at some point earlier in your life.

Being able to let go of these things that are holding you back allows you to be your fullest self - the "you" that you were meant to be.

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[scraebble]

me, revisiting poems I wrote this year: yes. YES. yes <3

[spiritualseeker777]

[gennsoup]

Do you ever feel like the best of you is something you're still hoping to grow into?

Andrea Gibson, "What do you think about this weather?"

[blueheartbooks]

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Link of the book!

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[gatewayofhealing92]

How Your Words Shape Your Universe (and Beyond!)

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[wolfie-wolfgang]

inferno. bathed. reborn.

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]