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People tend to view self sacrifice as akin to suicidal tendencies, which while can be true, I don’t think fits Leo (or any of these characters). Leo has insecurities, yes, but he doesn’t view his life as less valuable. I don’t think he believes his brothers think that, either, even if he doesn’t think they trust him, worries they may not like him sometimes. Leo knows they love him.

Leo understands the strategy of self sacrifice. The only situations he’s willing to throw his life away are when it will save his brothers (and, perhaps ironically, when he believes he’s at fault for the danger they’re facing). He offers himself up in the maze of death, to Piebald, and to stop the Krang.

This is not because he thinks he’s less than, it’s because losing one of his brothers is his worst fear. He was devastated by Karai’s death, CJ throwing his families mortality in his face is what gets him to learn a vital lesson.

Leo doesn’t want to die. It’s written in the despair paralyzing him in the prison dimension. ​It’s is his last resort because the idea of losing them is scarier than his own death (which also terrifies him). If it means saving them, he’ll do it every time.

Every single one of these characters would die if it meant saving each other. None of them want to live in a world where someone is lost—they’d rather it be them. Because the most important thing to them is each other.

It’s not that they view themselves as expendable. It’s that they value each other more than anything else in the world, even their own beating heart.

People tend to view self sacrifice as akin to suicidal tendencies, which while can be true, I don’t think fits Leo (or any of these characters). Leo has insecurities, yes, but he doesn’t view his life as less valuable. I don’t think he believes his brothers think that, either, even if he doesn’t think they trust him, worries they may not like him sometimes. Leo knows they love him.

Leo understands the strategy of self sacrifice. The only situations he’s willing to throw his life away are when it will save his brothers (and, perhaps ironically, when he believes he’s at fault for the danger they’re facing). He offers himself up in the maze of death, to Piebald, and to stop the Krang.

This is not because he thinks he’s less than, it’s because losing one of his brothers is his worst fear. He was devastated by Karai’s death, CJ throwing his families mortality in his face is what gets him to learn a vital lesson.

Leo doesn’t want to die. It’s written in the despair paralyzing him in the prison dimension. ​It’s is his last resort because the idea of losing them is scarier than his own death (which also terrifies him). If it means saving them, he’ll do it every time.

Every single one of these characters would die if it meant saving each other. None of them want to live in a world where someone is lost—they’d rather it be them. Because the most important thing to them is each other.

It’s not that they view themselves as expendable. It’s that they value each other more than anything else in the world, even their own beating heart.

no one fucking tells you this so here it is:

when signing out forms to apply for disability / filling out a form for diagnosis

you’re supposed to fill it out as you on your worst days

like, I filled out forms that said I could do most things usually

like, my doctor added in the conditions like “yeah, they can feed themselves when not stressed” “they can do this when not stressed”

but how I should have filled it out was more like

“some days I can’t feed myself” “some days I can’t leave the house”

My doctor didn’t even know this, but I talked to someone who had worked with people with both developmental and intellectual disabilities for a number of years, and she told me to write down how it is for your bad days

this should be a thing they tell you, but it isn’t