Scrolling Twitter Today And Then Coming Over Here Is Like Walking Out Of A Burning Building And Then

grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. ugly man. shitty palm tree. clear evidence of air pollution. conservative bumper stickers. roadkill. why do i feel worse

Is anyone else ever a little baffled by the cis women who consider women’s restrooms and locker rooms these safe havens from abuse and sexual harassment?

Like I feel like there are two options here:

1. They did not have mean girls in their school

2. They were the mean girls in their school and didn’t realize all the shit they were doing to the other girls in the locker room was absolutely sexual harassment and sometimes assault

the thing is. so many posts out there are like ADHD is NOT 'oooh a squirrel'. i gotta be honest besties. sometimes it is a bit ooh a squirrel. i do in fact have to make sure i am facing away from the window while working. lest i be distracted by squirrel antics

A few days ago I came across a video that really resonated with me and I can’t find it but what was said is stuck in my head.

“My whole personality was being smart and then one day I wasn’t ”

I was always just the smart and nerdy kid and after the pandemic, and everything else that happened to me, I ended up failing exam after exam. And with that title of smart being gone I’ve come to realise I never developed an actual personality.

2022 Grand Prix de France - November 5, 2022 Maé-Bérénice Méité → I Surrender by Celine Dion, arranged by Maxime Rodriguez, choreographed by Rohene Ward

Petition for my partner to comment on all figure skating events like this:

Mini batch of NHK 2022 x text post memes

I feel like a lot of the “burnt out gifted kid” stuff is just the realization that very few attributes viewed as “promising” in kids actually translate into real life promise and skills. Learning how to easily pass tests doesn’t actually prepare for much more than passing tests. Being a “delight” in class often just means you were too anxious and shy to engage with other students or push boundaries (which is an important part of learning as a child).

Sometimes this leads to taking on more work and getting burnt out from that, but a lot of it is just realizing that that same skill set and those same weaknesses don’t continue to benefit you. You end up having to learn how to interact with people, and while you may be good at critical thinking or problem solving, you have to figure out how to apply to jobs and to relationships. You have to learn a lot of stuff you were supposed to learn more naturally as a kid, and that’s what causes a lot of the burnout. It’s not a loss of skills, just the realization that they weren’t the right skills.

Capitalism obviously plays into this a little bit, especially in America, because of the insane pressure to do too much work, but that burns out everyone. You’re not unique in being hurt by capitalism. But the whole idea of “burnt out gifted kids” does reveal a lot of flaws in our education system.

me irl

reading A Study in Scarlet the first time like

Arthur Conan Doyle: hehe thank you for picking up my silly little book about a silly little man going on silly little adventures haha! hope he can solve all the silly little mysteries hehehe! come on in get comfy– *locks door* MORMONISM IS A CULT