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GROSS I HATE THAT GET OUT MY FACE MEMORIES YOU HAVE NO PLACE HERE WITH YOUR LIES

nobody's saying you have to ground yourself in the reality that makes you dysphoric. fuck this place. let the body space out doing something minimal (like a casual video game, or watching TV, or just sitting and staring off) while you either immerse yourself in a better fictional world, or your own [not necessarily exclusive obvs]. For me, I default to minecraft often. Become The Blocks

Hah yeah no way do I try to ground myself in this reality much. But even my headspace body feels wrong sometimes (why can’t I get out, why do I still feel so mortal etc.)

But video games sound nice. Part of the problem is that these bad episodes always happen when I’m dicking around on the phone while we should be sleeping / while pretending to sleep. Just need to find an engaging enough phone app :/

Polyamory is also always worth at least bringing up to the people involved... the ideal of "devoted" monogamy or w/e often mentally programs ppl to force good ppl out of their lives because they "cant feel things for/be good to multiple people @ once." ??? Like theres some hard limit to love or kindness. Talk to both of them. See where every1's comfort levels/boundaries are and work & make compromises w/ each other from there. Mutually open & honest communication is key.

i love her because she’s been hurt and abandoned so damn much but she still keeps love in her heart and she would die for the people she loves and i love chloe. no one talks about how brave she is. more people should.

I’ve been looking around for autism-related shit to see how much of my weirdness is from that and it’s so hard to geT AN ACTUAL ANSWER

but most of it doesn't even OCCUR to me that it could be that like what other, say, random eye related shit is my body doing that it shouldn't be, is also from that like what how are there so many??? things it can affect???

one idea that comes to mind is to look at various theories of autism’s central mechanism? mindblindness / theory of mind stuff is the most popular, and addresses the most popularly thought of symptoms (social things, emotion things), but it ignores a shit ton of other equally autistic characteristics, so you never hear about them. but there are others out there. the weak central coherence theory in particular highlights a lot of things generally overlooked -- it’s how we found out about the peripheral vision thing. intense world theory is what probably leads a lot of people into “oh some autistic people have hyper-empathy-type problems??”

reading older (~70s/80s, not necessarily earlier than that because you don’t really see an autism-psychosis difference before that) can also be fun. when folks hadn’t yet really coalesced into talking about autism only as Empathy or anything, and it’s just a bunch of “we grabbed a bunch of autistic kids and they seemed to have this in common?? no idea if that’s relevant or anything lol”.

though, a lot of it definitely is “lmao wait that’s something that even could be connected to autism in the first place?” :V

Hey there, you! Thanks for asking this questions. The short answer is no, we sadly can’t do it like that.

The longer answer is that we’re choosing only two styles that we produce for several reasons:

We don’t have permission from other brands to use their names and products when donating to charity

Keeping it to two complementary styles is simple for us to track in our system and allows us to create a theme when possible

Using only our brands allows us to give the highest amount to donations, so we’ll always give between $3 and $5

We totally understand if the socks aren’t someone’s thing! That happens, and is going to happen with at least one person per promotion. It’s part of the reason we’re changing promotions and socks every two weeks. If anyone can’t or doesn’t want to buy the socks we have on offer, we totally understand. We do urge they to give a donation directly to the Flint Water Fund instead. 

So then if Tagalog is the root of the national language as well as some dialects, if you were to try and learn the language, would it be better to go for Tagalog specifically or Filipino? Are the different dialects mutually intelligible once you know enough?

Filipino is usually just a version of Tagalog with a lot more borrowed words [than Tagalog has] mixed into it (more freedom to sneak in a bit of English in there!), so learning basic Tagalog should be practically the same as learning Filipino, and is part of the national curriculum~

though yea there are also different Tagalog people with really varied dialects and accents so sometimes one Tagalog person might have difficulty understanding another, and some Tagalog people have modes where they could actually code-switch between two Tagalog dialects despite them being rooted on the same language *U*

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Of course, Tagalog dialects are one thing, but languages are another. It’s safer to learn Tagalog as a language to get around, but it’s also important to note that some parts of the Philippines do have people who can’t speak or understand Tagalog despite it being the national language~

[I used to have this misconception that the separate languages were dialects but then my Linguistics prof went on this MegaRant on how most of them are all actually separate languages and they’d only be considered dialects if they were actually Tagalog based but most of them aren’t lmao]

some of the languages have similar words and/or structures- as a Bisaya, I could understand a bit of Waray and Hiligaynon, due to a ton of similar words, but I’m not able to completely understand or speak either of those two. Davao Bisaya and Cebuano are virtually the same but with slight differences in accent and a few words, born from geographical separation I guess? Also, if you know Spanish you could probably understand some Chavacano, since a lot of its words are Spanish, though the grammar is very different~