Wild how just being allowed to do the "if it looks stupid but it works" fixes to regulate your mood actually fixes things?? Like your mood is now successfully regulated because you were allowed to do that. Had to sit in a car for 3,5 hours straight today - we were supposed to take a break every hour or so but because of trucks and other traffic nonsense we could only manage one stop during the whole way, and by the end side I was so irate and agitated I was pissing myself off with it, I had been Sitting Too Long, it was hot, I could feel bedsores developing on my ass and the back of my thighs, I was getting mad about my face being oily and ugly and the sun was touching me and I was too angry to wear shoes.
And just when we were just about to get home, and needed to stop for something, found the shop closed, and the next one was a 3 minute drive away, I was not going back into the car. I get that my boyfriend had been sitting right next to me and driving takes more out of him than being a passenger takes out of me, but I was done being in the Hurty Confinement Box, I can't make myself go back in and he can't make me. I'm walking there, it's a 3 minute drive and it's going to take like 15-20 minutes by foot but I NEED to walk.
And he was just like "alright I'll meet you there" and I angry-speedwalked there, mentally and physically cooling down and decompressing, and was completely fine once I got there.
Funny how just being allowed to do the stupid shit you need to do for the betterment and maintenance of your mental state actually does, indeed, help improve and maintain a better mental state.
This hit home, and I think it will resonate hard with all my creative friends, here. You are amazing and brilliant and I BEG YOU to keep creating!! ❤️❤️❤️
Fang nabbit furries...
I love this so much
If you went to a bar and the bartender was a mousegirl you could ask for a drink and she would balance it on her head and say "for you, it's on the mouse"
Makes sense
My body works in mysterious, absolutely dumbass ways. I don't have normal and sensible heat regulation for some reason, so usually my body heat levels are directly proportional to the temperature of whatever beverage I had most recently - if it was cold, I'm cold, and if it was hot, I'm hot. I can go from "sitting in my underwear because it's freaking sweaty in here" to "ah fuck it's cold" and back within an hour for no sensible reason. And if it's cold/raining outside, I'm going to be cold. It's stupid but I don't make the rules.
Today it's been cold and rainy, and we've spent most of the day in the car (with my seat heater on max, but never feeling hot because The Rain Outside). Getting home, I was still fucking freezing at 21 celsius indoors, and since I still needed to take my meds, decided to trigger the overheating response on purpose by having a hot beverage first, so I'd feel the need to remove clothing for comfort and could apply the gel on bare skin as one does.
And for some stupid reason, it freaking worked.
hey I'm sorry I stopped in the middle of that sentence my brain decided to flush its cache and I totally forgot what this conversation was
when i type '!!' separately after various words and phrases that is because !! is a word herself. learn this rule
Hi everyone,
I thought I would share this interesting Infograph about ASD I found on Pinterest. I found this very fascinating so I hope you all do too.
Autism Spectrum
my mythology pet peeve is when someone describes a scenario in which they keep nearly getting something and then having it snatched away, and everyone's like "one must imagine sisyphus" no!!! one must imagine TANTALUS!!! sisyphus = being made to perform a pointless, aggravating task over and over without ever making any progress. tantalus = being offered a glorious reward only for it to vanish as soon as you reach for it. they are NOT the same
That's it. It's solved. It's nice seeing it written out.
I find it kind of stupid how 'half full' vs 'half empty' is framed as an optimist/pessimist thing. If it starts full and gets halfway drained, it's half empty. If it starts empty and gets halfway filled, it's half full. If you don't know the starting state it's both simultaneously.
Ok, God, I am fucking wheezing, I got trained to work with mice today since I’ll need them for some experiments and the guy who trained me was like, “Yeah ok so if there’s a day where you just absolutely cannot get your mice to cooperate you can always do this” and picks up this cone-shaped bag and just put the mouse face-first into it and shows it to me and I lose my shit because deadass it was a piping-bag of mouse. Like, the whole mouse was pressed into this cone, fur and ears and feet all pressed up against the plastic, tail sticking up absurdly out of the top of the thing. It was so unimaginably fucking funny but like the mouse was perfectly ok with it, there’s a hole for air at the bottom so she could breathe and all but it was genuinely the most absurd thing I have witnessed in months
this man will accept any harmful interference this man will not generate harmful interference this man is tested and proven to not spontaneously combust under normal conditions (surface of the ☀️)
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