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You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

this disability pride mouth i wanna shout out my fellow level 3 autistics, people with severe mobility impairments, people with cognitive and/or intellectual disabilities, and others who need full time care from a caregiver. sometimes it feels like a taboo to talk about not being able to do essential daily living tasks by yourself, or needing someone to take care of you because you can't, but i think there's beauty in the way people care for one another and there isn't any shame in needing help, even if you need that help lifelong, or for a lot of "basic" seeming things!

Posting this early in the morning but does anyone have any drawing requests I could doodle in my sketchbook while I'm at work today?