Might bite (affectionately)

the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

meditating on the shape of the great serpent this morning

long

my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20′s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba

Fun story my Great Great Grandma left Germany in the 1920s because she had family in the US and could get citizenship pretty easily and once she was over in the US she then smuggled over 15 jewish families out by forging family documents so now my aunts are currently in the process of trying to tell the real ones from the fake ones because my great gran just died and there are legally over 100 surviving descendants but we know that math is a lil screwy.

Sometimes a family is you, your kids, your grandkids, your great grandkids, and the 15 Jewish families you helped smuggle out of Nazi Germany.

And your tuba

you need to get it out of your mind that psychosomatic illness is just “making up symptoms” when it’s actually much more like your body is being actively poisoned by chemicals released from your brain

This and also "your body is desperately trying to alert you to the fact that stress is killing you"

"this thing is rare and only affects 1% of the population" dude that's 80 million people can you shut up

"this thing is so rare, if you put everyone it affects on an island it would be the 20th most populated country in the world, more than the UK, more than South Korea, and more than Canada AND Australia AND Tunisia all put together. we can literally forget about it that's not many people"

Guys, I can promise you that a bunch of the time you’re not even saying the wrong thing or missing a social cue, some people are just jerks or even just feeling contrary at the moment.

Like I genuinely know more Neurodivergent people who follow the strict regime of what society views as acceptable because they’re worried they’re gonna be seen and treated as rude or insensitive. So many neurotypicals just don’t give a shit. They will flip the script at the drop of a hat if they feel like they’re not getting their way, or that youre not checking their boxes of what they view as acceptable. And usually that’s a preconceived notion that happened before you even opened your mouth.