parks closing at night for no reason other than to stop homeless people from having a covered place to sleep is high key insidious as fuck. what do you mean it’s closed?? it’s the outdoors
Doctors to trans people: are you really sure you want these hormones? I don’t think you are. I don’t believe you. There are risks, you know? It will change your body. Tell me your entire life story and I’ll decide whether you’ve wanted this for long enough. Oh you didn’t know when you were 5 years old? Yikes, ok. I think I’ll need you to jump through all these hoops and then we can maybe consider it in…100 years
Doctors to fat people who literally didn’t ask: have you heard of this surgery that’ll mess up your digestive system, just absolutely fucking mutilate it? Mess with your ability to eat and drink normally? Potentially fuck up your ability to absorb nutrients? Yes, and you don’t want it? Are you suuuure? Are you really sure? I’m going to bring this up 1000 more times just to be sure also there’s this diabetes drug…
im so serious about this but if youre autistic and especially if youre chronically ill creative labour cannot be your only way to relax. working on a creative project is still working. take time to do nothing. its good for you i promise.
How does one do nothing? This is a genuine question. Very chronically ill autistic who wants to create all the time.
I don’t know what OP would suggest but here are some restful activities that I’ve been trying to force myself to do more of:
watch (or preferably rewatch) movies and tv shows that aren’t emotionally challenging
read longform books/stories or nonfiction
play chill or simple video games
listen to music without doing anything else. Like put on a full album and just lay there and listen to it
meditate
take walks
take naps
I could definitely give a lot of that a try! Thank you!
I’m so glad. It’s definitely a process for me, too. The brain’s pressure to “create, create, create” and the way it equates ‘chilling out’ with 'losing’ or 'wasting’ time.
But I just have to keep reminding myself that resting is NOT a waste, it’s nourishment and enrichment. I can’t grow my creative crops if I don’t nurture them with idleness.
i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to
unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school
things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)
some very basics on how to use “"developer tools”“ on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)
internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl
as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on
vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)
ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)
