Darwinism

i love when characters are just autistic and it’s not a plot device like the autism is just there

what doesn’t kill you makes you cry on a bright sunny day

i’m doing really well for someone who goes through the five stages of grief every day

I will probably get through this just like I have gotten through everything before but I need to be really stressed and scared first

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

okay first of all unclench your jaw

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

turn your attention to The Character

i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people

people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!

currently liking the character so much that all I can do is pace around my darkened house saying "they make me die"

Imagine all the things I could do if I just did them.

"whats your 5 year plan?" buddy I nearly go insane thinking about what I should have for dinner

“they’re just looking at each other” you could not begin to understand the complexities involved in looking at each other