You're allowed to be weak. At least with me.

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

a bottom-tier autistic experience is being told throughout your entire childhood that you are just an overthinker when it comes to social situations and later finding out that your friends did, in fact, hate being around you and tried to communicate that through weird little hints

northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

you know other people have probably articulated this better than i can, but honestly, on some level, transphobes don't actually see gender as something that is biological and innate, and they do have a concept of people who are outside of the gender binary - they just don't see that as a valid identity, but as a punishment. in their eyes, you can fail at being a man or a woman, and you can fail so badly that you are not seen as any gender at all, but you are not allowed to claim this as an actual identity, you are not allowed to intentionally express yourself that way, you are not allowed to enjoy it. gender is something that is given to you and taken from you, and you're not supposed to have any choice in the matter. your options are supposed to be to conform, or to be dehumanized. they don't want you to be able to choose anything else.