I don’t think we talk enough about the psychological toll it takes on disabled people to spend your entire life navigating the societal assumption—sometimes made explicit, sometimes only implied—that you’re, at the end of the day, a burden.

sorry in advance for every work & life thing I’m behind on this week, it’s just that none of it matters at all and I’m losing my fucking mind

Please

Nervous systems heal in slowness. If you are putting the same pressures on yourself to heal that you put on yourself in your dysregulated life, your nervous system will remain dysregulated. Softeness and safety cannot be present where there is urgency and pressure.

Is anyone else overwhelmed by the overstimulating times we are living in?

Cats are great because they’re basically 12% teddy bear, 34% raccoon, 9% actual demon, and 45% David from Schitt’s Creek

I wasn’t built from millions of years of stardust to “reply to an email”

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

people say there’s no real magic in the world but the fact that markings on a page can instantly conjure visions in your head of extraordinary worlds that never were remains the greatest miracle we have.

real

timeless

“how do I fit the cry of 12,000 dead Palestinian children in my throat” Im wailing tears

Crucial reminder right now:

As I was saying. Americans are pissed. A LOT of Americans are pissed. Over a hundred million of them.

Neil Postman, damn

there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from always trying to understand others while no one tries to understand you back. it doesn’t make you angry. it just makes you quieter.