I am a monkey that draws ninja cats

Take a few deep breaths, have a snack, take your meds.

It’s time to wash out your water bottle/cup.

The Cursed Object has retreated to Curseyland (the cupboard above the fridge) and is saying “no!” to every question.

Pop: Trauma bonding is when you're bonding with someone over shared trauma or similar past experiences.

Actual: A trauma bond refers to a situation where someone develops strong feelings of sympathy, loyalty, dependence, and attachment towards their abuser.

Pop: Gaslighting is when someone lies to you, questions you, or disagrees over something with you over what happened.

Actual: Gaslighting is an abuse tactic that where you are manipulated to question your reality, memory, or sanity - not just a disagreement over what happened.

Pop: Being triggered means that something makes you uncomfortable or annoyed.

Actual: A trigger is something that causes a sudden increase in symptoms - like flashbacks in PTSD or compulsions in OCD. It's not just a source of general discomfort.

Pop: Intrusive thoughts are random impulses you might want to act on; e.g. wanting to something unexpected like dye your hair pink or eat cake for dinner.

Actual: Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, involuntary thoughts that go against your real values and desires. You don't want to act on them, and them coming true would be your worst nightmare. They can be very prominent and distressing in disorders like OCD and PTSD.

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Shoscombe Old Place

Even though it is the last in a series of six, there’s nothing to indicate that “Shoscombe Old Place” was supposed to be the final Holmes tale. Perhaps Watson, now probably in his mid 70s, felt rather daunted by the “mass of material” he still had at his disposal, and it is just as well that he decided to finally retire from his biographical duties to enjoy what, we hope, was a well-deserved rest after a successful forty-year-long writing career.