Shout Out To All The People Who Identify With Gifted Kid Burnout Syndrome Who Are Probably Just Neurodivergent

What they don’t say is how the storm doesn’t knock on the door. It gets into your shoes, climbs into your lungs, you try to smile but your face doesn’t know how, you try to speak but your throat is filled with water and people keep telling you it’ll pass but what they mean is: "they hope you survive it"

they mean: "please stay long enough to see the sun again" and you nod because it’s easier than saying “I’m already gone.”

But you keep walking or crawling, or dragging yourself by your own breath. You make it through a minute and another and a thousand more. You don’t even notice the moment the storm starts to pass. You just look up one day and the sky is…not clear, but softer.

You laugh and it doesn’t feel like lying.

You cry and it feels like release, not drowning.

And no, you don’t remember how you survived. You don’t remember each battle you had with your own mind or the nights you wanted to disappear.

but you’re still here and that means something, even if your voice trembles, even if you don’t know what comes next.

You stayed.

You stayed.

You stayed.

Ashes of the Academy 🔥

spoilers in the tags

Sketch is done ✨

One thing I could never understand about parents is how you could associate your child's worth with their exam scores. You're supposed to be their safe place, the people they run to when they need help, and yet you make them feel unworthy of your love because they fail to meet your expectations. You've taught them that they're only worthy of affection and appreciation when they obtain good scores or achieve something. Do you have any idea what it does to them? The fear of disappointing, being scolded, compared, and punished eats away at their mind 24/7. They think about the consequences they'd face if they failed. How could you make your own child hate themselves? How could you only be proud of them when they're winning and not when they've lost, even though they tried their best?

-vesper

• an asexual hero who people cannot avoid even if they go out of their way to try, once the hero has picked them; veey useful in catching supervillains

lgbt rep on television, otherwise known as:

the dead lesbian

the token gay

the suffering bisexual

the non-existent trans person

Not Marmite being our strongest soldier

While putting your favorite condiment on a sandwich, you accidentally make a magical occult symbol and summon a demon.

we finish this together

Read them hashtags folks! Vik is probably reading High Hawk Season and Jayce..well, not so lucky.