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GF: we could just…pretend and make noises by the wall–

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Autism Iceberg

Top of the Iceberg:

"What People Think Autism Is"

Being Emotionless

A genius

Lower Iceberg

"What Autism Really Is, + More"

Depression

Hyperfixations

Difficulty forming friendships

Social confusion

Auditory processing disorder

Executive dysfunction

Anxiety

Sensory processing disorder

Masking

Emotional dysregulation

Perfectionism

Strong emotions

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Sleeping issues

Difficulty with conversation

Stimming

Difficulty with change

being a kid is hard. the least you can do is make that easier and teach them the kindness that they'll have to learn to seek from the world.

teach them that this world is not inherently cruel. even a small interaction can teach them a little bit of something bc kids are like sponges.

It’s okay to say no.

Food, sleep and activity are a necessary foundation to build your healing on.

It’s okay to ask for help.

Bad days are part of the process.

But Harry Styles gets so much praise and gets viewed as a queer icon by many for for being slightly gender nonconforming or even vaguely non-cishet.

Lil Nas X is openly gay Black person who is actually breaking the barriers in a cishet dominated industry. He is absolutely, fucking unapologetically queer and throwing it in everyone’s faces in the best possible way and still an industry leader.

US Elevation.

They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.

There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.

That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.

those are over a billion years old.

that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?

algae.

those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.

the Appalachians are way way old. the fossils that ARE found in these ranges are ancient marine beings, whose fossil remains predate the anatomical structures of beings migrating to land for the first time. THAT’S how old the Appalachians are.

Hey

Look at this

Cute right?

That right there is a red panda.

They're adorable.

Let's talk about them for a second.

Red pandas live in the eastern Himalayas and southwest China.

They've got fluffy tails, and like roaming about on trees, usually alone.

They're about as big as a cat. So there much smaller than the all time famous giant pandas.

They usually eat bamboo and fruits, and tend to sometimes eat small lizards, insects and birds eggs.

They were discovered 50 years before the giant pandas

When they're threatened, or cornered, they tend to stand up to look more threatening

.... Yeah. Threatening.

BUT

It's not all fun and giggles

They're endangered.

They're on the IUCN red list, with an estimated fewer than 10000 individual pandas. And declining.

causes of them dying out are due to habitat loss, poaching, inbreeding depression.

Some sites if you wanna learn more about them :)

Hope you know a bit more about the lil fluffballs :)

The thing you practise is the thing you get good at.

You may not intentionally be practicing “being grumpy” but if you don’t put effort into practicing “not being grumpy” then I’m afraid that’s what you’re doing. It’s hard! It’s really hard! Sometimes, for some things, it’s pretty much impossible and that sucks!