Of fucking course
What sick bastard doesn’t
yeah people shouldnt be meanspirited and make fun of your harmless interests to your face for no reason but
1. you need to learn how to be secure in your interests, autism/adhd or not. its a life skill.
2. criticism shouldnt make you cry or get overwhelmingly defensive. worse things have happened then someone pointing out your interests have issues.
3. part of life is accepting not everyone likes what you like and move on. not for just everyone else's sake but your own.
4. its important to try and split your attention between more than one thing, and to have interests that are lower stimulus than your special interest.
Southern Gothic: Abandoned Churches, cryptic gospel signs, don’t go near the marshes, elusive and overly religious people that are probably Up To Something but everyone is too afraid to ask what
Midwestern Gothic: Something Lives In The Corn, broken down trucks, gravel roads that lead nowhere, empty gas stations placed between tiny towns with only one attendant who makes too much eye contact but never speaks
Southwestern Gothic: Animal skulls hung from posts, shacks miles into the barren desert that still look lived in but nobody is ever seen around, They Watch From The Mountains, shapeshifting creatures hiding in the brush
the line between doing some things as self care vs doing them as depressive apathy is soooo fine, like oh do i wanna sleep all day because i’m tired and i need it or because i’m depressed and trying to escape? same with not going out, canceling plans, isolating yourself, like, ANYTHING comfortable in even a little excess is liable to be one or the other... the line is thin and im a tightrope walker who just joined the circus to get away from the family farm and ive never walked a tightrope before and i am lying in the hay on the ground.
Samson, Regina Spektor
Little Beast, Richard Siken
Vicious, V.E Schwab
If Not, Winter, Sappho (translated by Anne Carson)
from earth you came and to earth you shall return
mid season two zuko hair is his best
If you visit the Cheerios website and submit your address, they’ll send you 500 wildflower seeds for free so you can plant them and help save the bees. Source
brahms from the boy needs help making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and also his arms are just cloth
(prompted while @gayassflowers and i were watching the movie The Boy and wondered what it would sound like if brahms had porcelain hands and a porcelain torso, but cloth arms with no stuffing, so his hands just flop around when he runs)