Lesbian Flower 🌺

i need to get off tumblr i’m at the aquarium admiring the fish and my brain goes “posts that make you want to get in the water” what are you talking about. these are live fish in the room with you. what post.

A very irritating thing about being disabled while also having a mental illness is that everybody and their dog will assume the mental illness was caused by the disability. People seem to think that being disabled must be a miserable enough life to cause mental illness. By doing this they write off any other causes and factors in mental health, and they act like mental illness is inevitable for disabled people and therefore normal and expected.

it also absolutely ignores the ways disability actually can lead to mental illness and very little of that is inherent to the disability. Some disabilities like ABI/TBI may bring on mental health symptoms and susceptibility, but many don't just make someone mentally ill. But how someone is consistently treated by the people around them, the people they encounter, and society at large, absolutely fosters an environment for mental health issues to grow. For people with disability that changes over time or who acquire their disability suddenly, the changes to their life can be very hard to handle and they may not have access to support that understands what they're experiencing. For people whose disability has been since birth, the constant battle of butting up against ableism and inaccessibility and the life goals nobody will support them with is incredibly emotionally exhausting. But when people think disability is miserable and mental illness inevitable, they never think of it like that. They don't think of the fact the mental health problems are still coming from the same stresses and lack of support that might cause them in any abled person. As soon as they don't recognise someone's life it's like they stop being able to understand the same ways we all need support when things are hard. Instead, it's treated like it sucks but it was always going to happen. That, or it's ignored, because they think you can only have one thing going on and being disabled is the only thing they see. It's not inevitable. We deserve support, not assumptions and ignorance.

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

cybertrucks are so amazing to me. sure it may be unsafe to drive and unimaginably expensive and ugly as shit but at least everyone who sees you driving it thinks youre a nazi

Thank god they decided to make more

But In doing so…she created her biggest enemy…Jolene

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