Ace / Aro visibility in Bojack Horseman! It’s great to not only see an ace main character in the show, but an entire ace community filled with people with different ace experiences. I like how the writers included a scene that explained some of the nuances of asexuality / aromanticism, as it helps break the stereotype that no ace would ever want to enter a relationship. One thing I would comment on is that asexual means “not experiencing sexual attraction” over “not interested in sex.” It’s possible to be a sex-positive asexual!
Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close….. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But, it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. Every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say, “Tell me something that makes you cry.” or “What do you think deja vu is for?” …..Find the others
Timothy Leary (via infj-misc)
i want to be as rich as paulina del ville but instead i’m as stressed as a toadfish
The worst trick a childhood anxiety disorder pulls is, you spend your early years being applauded for being so much more mature than your peers, because you aren’t disruptive, you don’t want any kind of attention, you don’t express yourself, you keep yourself to yourself - this makes you a pleasure to have in class, etc etc - and you start to believe it’s virtue. But you’re actually way behind your peers in normal social development, and who knows if you can ever catch up.
It’s easy to grow fond of the sketchy outline of a person, and fill in what you don’t yet know.
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
Barbara Marciniak (via infj-misc)
If you grew up being a smart kid™ whose main personality trait was being smart and didn't need to put any effort into getting good grades (thus never developed a work ethic), and now you're in an education level where you actually need to work but can't stop procrastinating all the time, which means your grades are slowly dropping and you feel unable to do anything about it, and you're realising you aren't actually that intelligent, but you were never anything outside of the smart kid so you feel lost and anxious and like a great failure clap your hands.
Then it’s hard to find what to do with that rolling energy.
Being able to name the thing makes it so much easier to deal with.