Elven Time Travel

As Elfkin, TARDISkin, and Gallifreyan kin, I autisticaly ask you take care of yourself.

The idea of "anxiety" as a disorder of a person having inappropriate fear responses to harmless or safe things causes a framework where the impact of fear is measured by the person's ability to "function" and outwardly respond in "normal" ways, not their internal experience of suffering.

At a certain level of fear, "pushing through" or "doing it scared" loses its power to alleviate fear and instead creates another acutely negative experience of helplessness that increases the fear in future.

Likewise, if a person is extremely, inescapably afraid, telling them that they must "get better" by learning to tolerate and push through fear encourages dissociation and judgmental, domination-based attitudes toward the body, and reinforces the idea that existence itself is negative and scary

I've been given a lot of ideas for how to sense this distinction from notes on my posts, but i have to refine them.

Characteristics of "manageable" fear where "pushing through" might be productive:

Breathing exercises and other "coping skills" calm you down to some extent.

You still feel somewhat connected and responsive to your surroundings and your body, and you can drift between paying attention to different things.

Your memory of the event feels relatively normal (?)

The negative feelings and bodily symptoms resolve quickly do not last after the event is over.

Characteristics of fear that is extreme and severe enough that it needs to be addressed in a different way:

"Coping skills" do not help you to feel any better.

Paying attention to anything is difficult; it's hard to hold a conversation with someone and comprehend what they are saying to you.

Your memory of the event is extremely fixated on a small detail or aspect of it, or you can't remember the event clearly at all.

You feel like you're being pulled out of your body or that your body is limp and being dragged through the scary thing.

The way the fear is making you feel in your body is extremely distressing and unpleasant in of itself (severe nausea, sensations of suffocation, painful bodily tension)

The sensory memory of the event is extremely vivid and keeps replaying itself in your mind.

You do not experience a sense of relief after the event is over.

you have hopefully gotten your college acceptance letters and have decided where you're going next semester. if you have an accommodation that you absolutely must have by the beginning of classes it is time to schedule an appointment with the department that manages your accommodations now.

at the beginning of the fall semester there is a rush to get accommodations that can push appointments back for weeks. if, say, you can't understand your lectures without an interpreter you need to make sure that accommodation is planned out by day one.

be prepared with the documentation for your disability at your appointment. it will save you time and additional appointments.

Email template:

Hello,

I am an incoming freshman at (college) who needs to set up accommodations for the fall semester. I have (disabilities) and I need (accommodations) before the start of the semester in order to access my classes. I was hoping to set up a meeting to discuss getting these accommodations.

Thank you,

(Name)

When the Federal Aviation Administration shut down air traffic to El Paso Airport earlier this year, nobody could have guessed than an experimental high-energy laser weapon was the cause. After days of chaos and speculation, it was revealed that Customs and Border Patrol officials had fired off a laser volley from a US Army base adjacent the El Paso Airport. Though the trigger-happy Border Patrol grunts evidently thought they were firing at drug-smuggling drones, their real target turned out to be a kids’ party balloon. Regardless, it was later reported that the cutting-edge weapon was taken for a test-drive a week before FAA and Pentagon officials had a chance to discuss how to safely implement the laser device, making it a small miracle that nobody in the air was killed. Not every use of an experimental aerospace weapon goes off without a hitch, however.

Not to mention that this is part of a concerted effort to control what young people see and thus understand (at least in the USA). For example public libraries are continuously being shut down and are almost always underfunded, especially in certain states. Coupled with statewide book bans, school district book bans, and bans on certain topics in school districts this will result in a lot of young people having a worse off understanding of the world, and of themselves simply because they will see less.

Israel was founded as a state for a specific ethnicity, the Jews.

It has never officially annexed Gaza and West Bank specifically because doing so would increase the Palestinian population of Israel. This is also why Israelis, even Liberal ones, find the idea of a one state solution abhorrent, because they'll be a minority.

The "Nation State Bill" declares Israel to be a nation for the Jewish people. Imagine if a country with a significant minority like the US or Australia declared that the nation was meant for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Would this be racist?

Palestinians can not get Israeli citizenship even if they can provide proof of having lived in Israel in living memory. People point out countries like Polands "citizenship by decent" law but Poland doesn't only do so for ethnic Poles. A descendant of Jewish or German Polish citizens has the same rights as a descendant of Polish citizens.

On the other hand, Jews with 0 known ancestry in Israel (including converts who have very little ties to the "imagined Jewish people") have the right to move to Israel.

"Arab Israelis" can not pass their citizenship onto their spouse or children if their spouse is from Gaza/West Bank. This has led to Palestinians born in Israel to an Israeli parent and with an Israeli spouse and children being deported. If they were Jewish that would not occur. These are legal discriminations based solely on whether you are Jewish or not.

A Palestinian born in West Bank does not have the right to Israeli citizenship. A Jewish settler in West Bank does have those rights. They live in the same territory, under the same government but the sole difference in their rights is their ethnicity.

This is not even really discussing the occupation of West Bank and the de facto occupation of Gaza but these facts are already far more radical than any other supremacist state on earth. Not Sri Lanka (which gave Indian Tamils citizenship in 2004), not Myanmar, not India, Malaysia or Bhutan. Definitionally, not the pseudo-ethnostates of Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini.

so secretive in this planet of rocks and absolutely no plant life to be seen in the area