you know how it's been found that lack of exposure of young children to dirt, trees, nature in general, apparently leads to an increase in allergies? (not that this is the only source mind you)
and what are allergies? they're the body reacting to innocuous things as if they're invasive agents; the immune system basically making up enemies because it didn't have any real enemies when it was leaning the ropes
well
i read this ridiculous thing in another post
and it brought to mind someone once saying "someone didn't get stuffed in a locker/trash can in school" and i realized that these are the same thing
when people don't learn enough about interpersonal relationships when they're young - either first hand (direct experience) or second hand (observation, exposure, being taught or reading about how real people get along), they end up reacting in pretty bizarre ways to what should be normal -
they basically have allergies to normal relationships
social allergies
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I was scrolling through TikTok and the newest trend was people making cooking tutorials for dishes full of stuff they were allergic to and the goal was to finish it before going into anaphylactic shock.
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Pick the one you enjoy the most! Even if it isn't what ends up happening usually. (Socializing can be hard sometimes.)
This poll brought to you by a convo I had with my sister.
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Tomorrow is probably going to be rough. A phone call for the social skills class, possibly an allergy test, maybe some more rough stuff at school with the film study unit, etc. It's going to potentially be very rough. And bloodwork in a week or two. It's all stressful to think about. So I may actually make some more vent posts because of this. Because I have a lot of stuff going on, it feels like.
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hm, interesting. these "allergies" i caught feel a whole lot like covid 🧿
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sometimes i'm like "eurgh it sucks being back in [environment] because it's not like it used to be and i hardly know anyone and everyone i do know knows each other better than they know me so i'm always lurking on the edge of other people's conversations and never really part of anything"
and then i remember it was exactly like that when i was 21 too and i don't know why i ever expected anything different anyway
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I went to a friend's birthday party at their apartment and lasted like 30 minutes before I skedaddled on out. I only knew the birthday person there, but I'm a friendly guy and find it easy to chat with people, but like, 15 minutes in and I'm sitting in the corner with the cat cause the poly group is off in one area and the cishet couple won't even make eye contact with me. I tried chatting with a few people, but it felt like I was having to pull teeth to get a conversation going.
It's not the first time I tried to go out with that person and their friend group and was completely ignored. I'm trying to not get into my head thinking whether I'm too much of a weirdo or if there's something off putting about me. But like ??? It felt so uncomfortable and anxiety inducing to feel invisible like that??
I feel so dumb and lame, but I could really use some kind words if anyone has a moment to spare 😩
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Ugh, Im meeting up with some friends today and I Know its gonna be fun -- we’re going for some drinks, maybe food, and then to the theatre -- but right now Im sitting here stressing out like "the fuck, anxiety, could you give me a break??" this is ridiculous xd
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listening to off menu podcast in the park 👍
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The allergy test went okay, but it was a bit stressful and stuff. Still, I got through it. And I'm just happy about that. Same major allergies from 2011. Cats and Dust. Cats and Dust are my worst allergies. Dust is worse than cats, but they're both bad.
Now that the allergy tests done, I just have to wait to do the phone call for the social skills class in a bit. I'm sure the call will be okay (the kid I'm calling seems nice), but my nerves and anxiety still act up whenever we get down to the waiting to do it. But I know I'll get by.
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I used to use one of those third part reddit apps to look at certain subreddits. Mostly it was the food and cooking ones.
I need constant ideas for recipes to reverse engineer around my food allergies.
I have zero idea of how many ppl will actually leave reddit but it is a shame. I had already deleted Facebook and Twitter.
Once again Tumblr survived the purge against all odds.
What is Tumblr even? Some underdog protagonist in a YA novel?
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