Here's where the dog is buried

i really dont mean to trivialize it but being covid conscious and walking past random 20/30-somethings on the street talking about their mysterious new health conditions that 'came out of nowhere' really truly makes me feel like im in the prologue chapter of an apocalyptic video game

“Psychotic people aren’t homeless in the streets or psych wards!!! some of us are playing video games” some psychotic people ARE homeless in the streets and in psych wards and they don’t deserve to fucking die for it or be forgotten or swept aside because they aren’t a convenient poster child for your symptoms RAAAAHHH

some of the most repeatedly and routinely and brutally victimized psychotic people in U.S. society are actually incarcerated idgaf about your tamagotchi life

Someone being touch repulsed is not an insult against you, even if they're a loved one. Someone not wanting you or anyone else to touch them because it's uncomfortable to them doesn't mean they don't care about you or love you, minds and bodies are just complicated. There are a lot of ways to express affection without skin contact or touching in general and you can find ways that work for both of you instead of focusing on something that will just drive your loved one away if you choose to keep pushing.

I've been pushing myself down the Eco Punk slide for some time now and I've hit a bump recently and started to slip down so fast I'm going straight into Eco-terrorism territory It's not even funny

So, good news - I got a job at a nonprofit organisation that's helping the environment!

'Cause people tend to not get the memo: People acting strangely in public is not a danger to you. Pacing, talking to themselves or something you can't see, laughing to themselves, stimming, twitching, ticcing, making "weird" noises--it doesn't fucking matter. They're not your personal freak show, they're not broken, they're not a murderer and they're definitely not going to be fucking helped by you calling the authorities or anyone else on em. These actions alone are not indicative of danger to you, as a random person on the street. Shut the fuck up and move on, leave disabled people alone.

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

This. Teenagers should actually get to do fucked up shit to a certain degree. They should watch horror movies and get nightmares, and then deal with it, and ideally have a way to talk about it. And they should get to watch porn, and possibly be disgusted, but possibly also not, and just deal with that. Because that is what... is just gonna happen. And I kinda hate how older people today go: "Well, yeah, I did that and it was fine, but it WAS DIFFERENT FOR ME!"