The little things I like

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

Those with long-term/worsened disabilities because of their parents telling them to just work through it/get over it/"it's not that bad"

Those with disabilities stemming from childhood abuse

Those who know that they're disabled or suspect such, but can't get it diagnosed or checked out because of their parents/guardians disapproving

Those who know/suspect that they're disabled, but won't be diagnosed or checked out because they're "too young"

Those who struggle in or had to drop out of the harsh and mostly unaccommodating school system because of their disability or disabilities

Those who were lied to or not told they were disabled growing up so they could be raised "normal"

Those who have their privacy and autonomy violated as a combination of being disabled and being a child, as both of those groups are seen as not deserving their autonomy

Those who are disabled or had their disability (or disabilities) worsened because of the school system pushing them too far

Those who feel that they can never be one of the "normal" kids and that they'll always be isolated because of their disability or disabilities

Disabled folks who don't know or didn't know much about their disability as a kid because doctors would only explain to the parents/caretakers and no one bothered to talk to you

All disabled children having to deal with the intersectuality of being oppressed by both ableism and adultism.

A letter to the editor with the following text:

There’s nothing like teenage diaries for putting momentous historical events in perspective (Banalities and bathos, 31 December). This is my entry for 20 July 1969. “I went to the arts centre (by myself!) in yellow cords and blouse. Ian was there but he didn’t speak to me. Got rhyme put in my handbag from someone who’s apparently got a crush on me. It’s Nicholas I think. UGH. Man landed on moon.”

Dinah Hall

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

Screenshots of the tags in OP's follow-up reblog. The tags read:

Here is another reason Pluto is aro: Pluto has a heart shaped region called the Tombaugh region:

[ID: an image of Pluto and it's heart shaped Tombaugh region, with the moon Charon in the background. End ID]

What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.

Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?

I'm currently still in high-school and it sucks a lot, and I've been holding onto this hope that when I turn into an adult my brain will level out and I'll stop being scared of the judgments of people my age and I just want to know if that's indeed what I can be hoping for.

Sorry if this is weird :/

Growing up doesn't magically flip a switch and make life magically better when you cross the line to 18 or 20 or 21. Probably not what you want to hear, but it's true. Growing up does, however, offer several key opportunities for life getting better.

So being an adult means that you have more control over your life. Which is often a big improvement over being a teenager. You can change jobs, move to a new apartment or city or country, break up with your partner, stop talking to your parents. BUT all of these things require you to take action. So you actually have to buckle down and do it, which can be super hard. But you have the cards in your hand if you need them. You also have control over a lot of smaller things, which can help a lot - what you wear, how you spend your money, etc.

Getting out of your teen years often means that hormones will calm down a lot too, which is great. Your body will stop doing a lot of weird crap, and slow down on some more. BUT not every problem is going to go away. Major medical issues don't just disappear b/c you're 18 or 21. Mental health problems don't just disappear. So you still have to take care of yourself, and get help and support for whatever issues you have.