just a normal horse

i genuinely dont understand why most of the professional class of practitioners that deal with mental health find it borderline impossible to be empirical about their approach. its genuinely not as complicated as these people think, theyre literally making it more complicated because the concept of "systemic inequalities and violence and deprivation cause adverse events in the lives of the oppressed, which makes them sad and/or crazy" would require some sort of political self reflection

going to therapy should be like when they called the CIA interrogation survival specialists in to teach jim carrey how to tolerate his 6 hour grinch transformation without going insane

i was joking but now that i think about it this could explain some of the "regression" seen in toddlers who develop normally up until they start really showing autism symptoms. that is about the age you would pick up HSV1 from casual contact, in theory

Absolutely love how emotionally aware my child is for a 4 and a half year old do not however love stubbing my toe on the island for the 100th time today and hearing "hey mama it's okay to cry! It's not okay to throw a fit though, and we hafta re-...we have to reconitize the difference"

I fear I keep falling into the trap of "if I can do it it clearly doesn't take any skill/talent and is therefore no longer impressive" and I don't think that mindset is beneficial for me (feels bad), people at a similar skill level as me (feel like their skills and efforts aren't impressive), people at a higher skill level (diminishes the work they've put in to be at this level) and people that struggle with it (if it's not a skill that takes work they "shouldn't be struggling")

Reblogging thrice for effective reach

true love is mostly about bringing each other antihistamines

Watching a bunch of plane crash videos on YouTube has genuinely made me a somewhat better driver. I used to be more prone to going "oh my god I gotta make a move now!!!" and just letting myself be pressured by circumstances, but seeing how pilots train to take a step back when they get a sudden jolt that seems to demand urgency has taught me to be better about not doing that. It's fine if I miss an exit, Google will redirect me and the worst that will happen is losing a minute or two.

dammit I literally said this exact thing out loud today, I mean I'm talking about plane crash stories every day of my life so it's not that big a coincidence but still, eerie.

Thank you for making this the most reblogged post of all time