Normal Newt

happy pride, yall. happy pride to everyone who's getting or has been misgendered. happy pride to everyone who's had to defend their choice of partner (or lack thereof). happy pride to everyone who can't come out, and to everyone who didn't get to choose who knows. happy pride to everyone who has to choose between being themselves and being safe. i see you. i love you. there is so much joy to be had in being who and what you are. we're in this together and we're going to be better than okay.

Maybe it's no coincidence that I really love movies like Everything Everywhere All At Once, I Saw the TV Glow, They Cloned Tyrone and more recently I Love Boosters. The surrealism feels so relatable to me as someone with schizophrenia because the world suddenly bending and not making sense is how I experience life. I know these types of movies can be distressing to some schizo-spec people, but for me they feel more true to my life than other movies and I really enjoy them for that reason.

WOW I AM INCREDIBLE. I AM MADE OF BLOOD AND ELECTRICITY AND I CHANGE THE WORLD ALL THE TIME. VERY COOL

[Image ID: An edit of the "they don't know" meme. A party scene. There is also a cat. A wojak wearing a party hat talks about the cat, saying: He doesn't know he'll be loved and remembered many times longer than he lives /End ID]

i do think we need to detach hygiene from value as a person. as someone who has dealt with not being able to shower or brush my teeth due to depression and executive dysfunction, it usually is not a choice. sometimes there are situations in which you CANNOT care for yourself properly and that shouldn’t mean you can now be stripped of your worth. physically disabled people who have trouble with hygiene i love you, mentally ill people who have trouble with hygiene i love you, neurodivergent people who struggle with hygiene i love you, people without access to adequate hygiene products i love you. it’s going to be ok

“i agree but we shouldn’t normalize this” actually i think you’re wrong. the word you’re looking for is promote. we should not promote lack of hygiene, true! but when i think of “normalize,” i think “make something socially acceptable.” and i absolutely think not being able to care for yourself for some reason should be socially acceptable and not demonized.

Ableists hate it when a neurodivergent (or otherwise disabled) person says "no, I can't do that" because they demand visible suffering from disabled people to prove they're not Faking It.

Oh yeah this whole "demanding visible suffering" thing also applies to things that aren't inherently disabling but clash with how society is structured. For example fatness or transness.

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it

knowing when not to open the comments is a skill

blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them

"why'd they block me? we've never talked" bro if i see you being nasty to the bartender i'm not gonna chat you up

mathematics is a sort of goo/ooze secreted by human minds when they rub against a universe