STRESSED, DEPRESSED, & ready to REST

the thing about being a Tech Person™ is the universe takes it as a challenge. oh you can handle normal problems easily? take some Extremely Not Normal ones. my friend just told me my outgoing voicemail message is in Italian for no apparent reason

seeing a new pasta shape is memorable and exciting

the funniest moment in dungeon meshi is when marcille is having her nightmare and brings up her dead bird while also talking about her dead dad, saying “papa and pipi” and laios automatically assumes pipi is marcilles third nonbinary parent on top of her mom and dad

people act like 20-22 year olds are adults who should be fully responsible and knowledgeable and with it and it’s like have you ever been 20, 21, 22? i knew nothing, i woke up every day dumb as rocks and made every bad choice possible until i went to bed

nobody tells you this growing up as a sped kid: not only are you not unintelligent compared to the average person, but you will meet people with degrees who still manage to be morons. despite these truths, you will continue to worry that you will never measure up to your peers forever

this truth hit me while i was being involuntarily institutionalized: intelligence is a social construct. It's a measure of conformity to the particular mental models, knowledge, and social performances valued by the powerful people in our society. you're not "unintelligent" so much as you are devalued for surviving differently. And the world should change for you.