So...angst huh?

”there’s no glory in suffering” and “sometimes the effort is the point” are two ideas that co-exist but god damn if I can ever tell when’s the time for which

the thing with toddlers is that you have to take their emotions very seriously because they make sense for them and its how they are processing the world but the scale of the drama is objectively very funny and you have to develop intense self discipline to not laugh. ive met so many kids who will dramatically drop to the ground crying because they were told not to eat dirt

what i would always say back when I worked at a grocery store is that for us not getting a snack that we thought we were gonna get is a very minor inconvenience relative to our life experience but for a two year old that might be the literal worst thing that has ever happened to them and they are reacting relative to that scale. I want to live in a world where the most adverse experience of all children is not getting chocolate ice cream

youre in the circus while my money is reaching Amazing Digits

no one is talking about root rot by saskia nislow . i want to read abt the childrens naming conventions… and piece together which order it happened in bc i remember thinking wow the oldest is being so strange before i realised what was happening

i can't lie to you i loveee bad endings sometimes. what if nothing worked out. what if the characters gave into their worst instincts. what if they became worse. what if there's truly no hope left. what will they do out of desperation? who will they become as their worst selves?

caine does the slideshow for all the abstracted people and gangle screams "KAUFMO WAS ARIN HANSON?????" so loud that jax un-abstracts and climbs out of the fort shouting "HE WAS WHAT"

hot autistic adult women are always saying they're doing fine really and everyone is nice to them and they just need to figure out a few little things and then everything will be perfect

excuse me for dipping lower and lower into Neurodivergent Exceptionalism here, which I do not like, but the autistic assumption that everyone else is just as well-meaning and altruistic and empathic and informed as you are is one of the most dangerous parts of being Like This and I wish I knew the magic words to disillusion especially girls about this in about 5th grade. because the only other way to get there is through being personally brutalized and frankly not even that always works

hot adult autistic women are always looking up at you from a quarry full of trash and car batteries where they live and like shielding their eyes from the sun and smiling guardedly and saying oh yes I'm actually very lucky. i have everything I need. my life is actually very privileged. and a plastic bag blows in on the wind and clings to their face like a jellyfish and theyre like haha yeah that happens

your homework assignment is to actually get angry at the next person who either intentionally or through callous disregard for your needs makes your life worse. then, if possible through circumstance and safety, either make that anger their problem, or eject them from your life. enough already

the reason that wounds that break the skin hurt is because its always supposed to be dark inside your body and when your blood sees sunlight for the first time it gets scared. and that causes the pain. or maybe it doesnt