:)

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

9-1-1 | S02E06

and here's the steward's document describing how oscar was in carlos's blind spot. blind spot means out of sight from the mirrors. f1 drivers cannot turn their heads to see what's in their blind spot, the HANS device prevents it

and here's my impression of gaëtan on the radio:

Taylor acting like Travis was some kind of sweetheart in high school when THIS was him in college 💀 ⬇️

*looks inside*

first, these people have to be deep-diving night after night after night to drag this stuff back up. then they get on twitter and go “good, finally, hope this ends him,” which is such a bizarre level of investment in a stranger’s life. these aren’t things he ever shared publicly. they’re photos pulled from other people’s posts, loosely connected to him, from more than a decade ago

but what actually gets under my skin is that he’s a man of color. frankly, that’s half the reason this witch hunt exists in the first place. the internet will bend over backwards for white actors and then suddenly discover a passion for accountability when it’s a man of color people have gotten too attached to

but also he isn't just a man of color now—he was a man of color growing up in a small town full of WHITE white people. everybody always thinks “oh, polite little canada." no. it is not like that. genuinely bigoted people. anyone who grew up as the minority kid in a town like that knows exactly what i’m talking about.

people don’t understand what it’s like when you’re surrounded by people who constantly do weird, degrading, or outright awful things to you and around you, and your survival strategy becomes rolling with it because fitting in is already hard enough. you don’t necessarily participate, but you don’t always push back either, because you’re already the one on unstable ground. you cannot afford to be the person who rocks the boat!!

and what’s striking to me is that in every single one of these dipshit posts, the constant isn’t him. it’s the people around him. every photo has the same dynamic: a crowd of people turning him into the class clown at the center of the joke while they laugh. and sometimes when you’re fifteen and outnumbered, you just take it, what a fucking crime

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

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