I'm self-aware but not well adjusted

i am waiting for the context behind this one, because its always the most esoteric thing ever

There's a specific way of pacing your blinking frequency that you can learn to do to prevent tears from welling up if you can anticipate what, when, and how something is going to make you want to cry. I thought the correlation between knowing how to do that, and having an unhappy childhood, would be stronger than that.

I feel like you're always running some lowkey human science experiment with the polls whenever you end up on my feed.

I mean technically the biggest difference between "science experiment" and "fucking around and finding out" is taking notes.

I have also found that some varieties of onion affect me less badly than others, but this works too I guess

Natural disasters! I never see anyone talk about that one and as a result I spent years thinking that watching my hometown get destroyed on the news and subsequently having to uproot my entire life at the age of seven wasn't Real Trauma because there was no Abuser™

every couple of years there's a new superhero movie that will have many people telling you "no I know marvel is bad but this one is different, it's really good!" stay vigilant. it's gonna be bad

friendly reminder that skin picking, overwashing, finger biting, and hair pulling are not “bad habits” or personal failings; they are all forms of evolutionarily ingrained self harm disorder called Repetitive Body-Focused Behavior that is a natural response to high stress levels and poor quality of life caused by the same neurological processes that cause animals to overgroom when they’re kept in inhumane conditions

the best death note joke format will forever be L asking light a simple question in which logical answer A might increase the likelihood of light being kira and logical answer B similarly might increase the likelihood of light being kira and after a short internal struggle light comes up with answer Y, which no human being has ever thought of as being a normal response in all of living history

the "what are your pronouns" comic is my fave example.