My best advice for people new to adulthood: keep emergency food around.
I don't mean like those prepper type people. I mean keep a granola bar in your purse or backpack. If you have a car, keep a jar of peanuts in there.
This is good for if you miss your bus, or forget your wallet somewhere, or get stuck in traffic. You never know when you are going to feel shaky, and it's better to have something quick and easy on hand, in case you need it.
Having emergency food around is your best friend. Trust me.
SHE THINKS HER LAUGH IS A SONG SO SHE SINGS BACK
building a bond with yourself, as in
- creating a gesture in lieu of giving yourself a hug
- picking a small object to be your ‘mascot’ that you can keep on you as a lucky charm. holding it every time you feel particularly nervous
- drawing your to-do list or other short-term goals as a board game, with rewards on some of the panels
- setting an alarm for a time of your choosing throughout the day, labeling it ‘intermission’ and doing nothing for five to fifteen minutes
Ok but I love these! Daily board game? Intermission? Shit, I'm doing these for me AND my daughter
wanderlust and what you could become
(they’re pen pals for the rest of the traveler’s life)
You deserve someone who’s good for your mental health and never stops trying.
i feel like disability advocacy and homeless advocacy go hand in hand. like overlap aside, if you can't be normal about homeless people then you probably can't be normal about disabled people either
i know there's an overlap in these demographics btw but like. both groups:
- difficulty getting healthcare (if not denied all together)
- treated like shit when visibly disabled/homeless
- may have the police called on them for being in public
- ignored + not looked at + not talked to. as if ppl are afraid to acknowledge these ppl as ppl.
- difficulty accessing public spaces for various reasons
- treated like they have no value to society as living breathing people
- often thought of as inherently drug seeking
etc etc. and being disabled can make you homeless and being homeless can make you disabled and society is a pit for people who are considered to be at the bottom of it
This is my new favourite headline I've seen all year lmaooo
become ungovernable
ok this is 1. funny, 2. courageous, 3. how solidarity works, and 4. based
of course lgbt people like horror. what did you think lgbt stands for? lycanthropy gore blood terror
the novelty of having pets really does never wear off i’ve had my cat for ten years and i still look at him strolling around like can you believe this. a cat. is everyone seeing this. he’s alive he has bones and all. unbelievable
Yesterday I said that bookmobiles are an instant reblog. Today, I learned that rule also applies to book donkeys.
BIBLIOBURRO
i think it’s really important that everyone knows that this man (Luis Soriano) has his own children’s books
and the donkeys are called Alfa and Beto, by the way. if you even care
theinformationcollector
via reddit.com
okay but the BEST part of the first study discussed (conducted by an autistic person!) Is that it shows that while easy, calm, mutual communication and social interaction is often more natural between two autistic people than it is between an autistic person and a non-autistic person, it is ALSO like this when an autistic person encounters a non-autistic person who imitates the autistic individual’s behaviours- neurotypical parents copying autistic children’s play, for example, apparently receive more positive engagement from their child- which is SERIOUSLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and VERY VERY GOOD because it is, once again, scientific evidence that bullshit like aversion therapy and enforced conformance and FUCKING “quiet hands” aren’t “”“”“solutions to the autism problem”“”“” and that “”“”“problems”“”“ with autism don’t stem from BEING autistic, but rather, from how NON AUSTISTIC PEOPLE TREAT AUTISTIC PEOPLE.
IE, once again, there is nothing bad or wrong about being autistic
“I’m independent and strong, but sometimes…just sometimes, it’s nice to be taken care of.”
— Samantha Towle