a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said “does spock make himself ‘more palatable’ for others?” and had me promise to keep unmasking like:
I can clearly remember the moment I first realised my mother and I were living on completely different planes of existence. I was 7 years old and I came home from my school’s first track and field day having placed second or third in every event. the teachers had been making jokes all afternoon about how many times they had to call my name. my friends thought I was cool as shit. my enemies thought I was cool as shit too, come to think of it. I was proud as hell. so I get home with the entire front of my shirt covered in ribbons like I was a military dictator who’d awarded himself every medal, I walk into the kitchen and tell my mum all about my day, and she goes “oh, that must be disappointing not getting any firsts.” and I’m like no?? first of all the first place ribbons are red and I don’t like red. second of all look at me. there’s literally nowhere left on my body for accolades. I am fucking Jacked of All Trades. how could this possibly be a disappointment.
I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like “this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol” when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every “classical” looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad
In case you’re curious here’s what I mean.
Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):
Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):
Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):
Christians love doing stuff like this and making such a person the face of their religion then turn around and get mad when they’re (correctly) seen as insufferable.
Some of the same people upset a Muslim man is poised to be the mayor of New York. But sure, they give AF about supposed “religious discrimination”.
Let my Black behind have thrown a fit like this and I’m sure the same crowd supporting this girl would be telling me to sit my DEI ass down.
i think some people are misunderstanding what this girl is doing as her being stupid: she (almost certainly) did this on purpose to get attention in the hopes of becoming a conservative media/social media darling. it’s becoming a taught career strategy for young conservatives in the anglosphere, particularly white women. Get your name in the press - or your face on a talk show! - for standing up to Woke University with your Conservative Values, get a social media following, get a regular segment on a conservative news network or become a figure in the conservative party.
It’s not stupidity, it’s malice. The goal is not to get a passing grade for a garbage essay but to fabricate a controversy and ruin a trans person’s life. The posts in the screencaps above fail to mention this but the target is trans.
i saw someone lamenting that so many tumblr users block eachother before they ever even interact just because the blockee seems annoying. i went to their blog and i looked at their pinned post and then, dear reader, i blocked them
“fruit has sugar” warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don’t get “addicted to fruit”. yeah i’m also addicted to a nice walk on the beach
me after developing a debilitating fruit addiction
