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Everything is Arbitrary

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Rachel. 27. Lesbian. She/her or they/them. Jew. Femme. Trekkie. Feminist. Hit me up.

So I asked nonbinary reddit this a while back:

And they really went all out, here are some of my favorite responses:

And of course, the most confusing of all to cis people:

Edit: first off, wow I did not expect this to take off like it did, thank you! 

Second, this somehow made it onto TERF and anti-sjw tumblr and their replies are just proof they have no sense of humor.

nobody thought aziraphale and crowley would kiss but then a clip leaked where they did. everybody thought john and sherlock would kiss but then an entire episode leaked where sherlock's evil sister lured them to shutter island and put them in a saw trap. in russian

You have a thing at 2:00 PM so you set a reminder for 1:00 PM because you don’t want to be late, but you should eat by 12:00 PM. That means you should start preparing food by 11:30 AM, but you want to double check or confirm the appointment before 11:00 AM before everyone goes to lunch. So if you want to finish your other tasks by 10:00 AM, you ought to start at 8:00 AM, which means you’ve got to wake up at 7:30 AM and you may as well get ready to go out then ahead of time, and that’s how something that starts at 2:00 PM effectively starts at 7:30 AM and lasts the entire day.

ME. ME. ME.

Literally how I plan my day when I have a thing

This is literally just being a functional adult with basic organisation and planning skills.

It isn’t some special *thing*

No, it’s not. This post is about my executive dysfunction. It’s my performance anxiety and my depression. It’s dozens of people with ADHD in the comments remarking that this is the only way they can make appointments– often with each stage of this process tied to an alarm. Many of those people routinely fail even with that forethought. It’s people with chronic pain or disability who clock every activity in their day by how long it takes, when they have to prepare, how long they’ll have to stand or work, etc.

I am sure “functional adults with basic organization and planning skills” go through a milder experience of this thought process. But it’s comfortable to them– not something they think twice about, let alone make a post about. I made this post when I was dreading going to get my hair cut. A haircut. I made this post because I was reflecting about how crazy a simple visit to the salon was making me. It was an appointment I called for myself, on my own terms, an experience I enjoy and actively wish I did more often. But I don’t. Because making appointments is so hard for me, because I have executive function problems. It’s been about 9 months since my last haircut. 

I almost flubbed college because I dreaded meeting with a single professor once at the beginning of a semester even though I wanted to. I haven’t gone to the doctor since I got new insurance. I just struggled for three weeks to bring myself to arrange for a mandatory safety recall upgrade for my car so its airbag won’t explode into metal shards and kill me if I’m in an accident. I often fail to go out, to arrange meetups with my friends, to achieve my personal functional goals simply because all of that is going through my head whenever I have to make simple appointments or complete basic tasks.

Does that sound like “literally just being a functional adult with basic organization and planning skills?”

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I think the most humiliating object in the world is the Fleshlight sleeve warmer

Its only purpose is to slide into your fleshlight and get it to body temp. It's $30. I want to get every single man who owns one of these into one room and make them do long-form improv

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Jail!

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Different Jail!

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i think the determinism of LGBT discourse 10 years ago (i.e. “born this way”, “trapped in the wrong body”, etc.) really painted everyone into a corner now with the incessant identity discourse as of late. gay cis men dating trans women, cis lesbians dating trans men etc. stops being this huge existential dilemma for people’s identities if we could all just start acknowledging that sexuality is not nearly as rigidly defined as people would like it to be

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There are few things that annoy me more than misinformation that’s technically on my side. Misinformation in support of a cause that I wholly believe in, but which is still bullshit and false.

Misinterpretations of religion, mythology and history that are ostensibly in support of women and women’s rights, but manage to demonstrate that OP doesn’t actually care enough about the topic to seek out reliable sources. Simplified distortions of third-hard rumours, covered in a vomit of pathos and sparkles and dished up as LGBT history. Valid criticism of the medical and pharmaceutical industries, immediately followed by absolute bullshit dangerous pseudoscience. Valid criticism of the diet industry, immediately followed by some more bullshit pseudoscience, but at least it’s body positive bullshit pseudoscience. Anti-capitalist screeds that betray a frightening ignorance of history, and other anti-capitalist screeds that betray a frightening ignorance of economics, topped off with anarchist screeds that betray that nobody in the thread has any idea how to run a farm. Sex-positivity posts by people who couldn’t find their ass with both hands. The embarrassment is going to kill me.

buisinesses mislabeling their job offers in databases gives so much unintentional comedy, I just searched under "no experience needed" and "no degrees needed" and it gave me a job opening for 'dentist'. Like sure I'll have a go, give me the pliers

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the rudest most helpful thing anyone ever said to me is "why do you keep hurting your own feelings long after [the person who once hurt you] probably forgot about it" like literally just dear god you've split me open so neatly my entire soul is just flopping around on the ground between us now but thank you

Just fyi if you're autistic/adhd and struggle specifically with this sort of thing, please know what what might be happening is something called perseveration, which is a common neurodivergent behavior that can include, among other things, revisiting emotions repeatedly and being unable to break loose from processing or managing stressful events.

Don't keep hurting your own feelings. But don't feel bad if you get stuck there, either. Something else could be going on.