Not me, trying to figure out if I need to scrub this account with any and all references to my fanfic days on tumblr now that Twitter is swirling the drain….
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“When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time—because I didn’t like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool—and it hurt a lot. Because it’s never ok when a person makes fun of you for something you didn’t choose. You know, we don’t choose to be nerds. We can’t help it that we like these things—and we shouldn’t apologize for liking these things. I wish that I could tell you that there is really easy way to just not care, but the truth is it hurts. But here’s the thing that you might be able to understand—as a matter of fact I’m confident you will be able to understand this because you asked this question… When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It’s not about what you said. It’s not about what you did. It’s not about what you love. It’s about them feeling bad about themselves. They feel sad. They don’t get positive attention from their parents. They don’t feel as smart as you. They don’t understand the things that you understand. Maybe one of their parents is pushing them to be a cheerleader or a baseball player or an engineer or something they just don’t want to do. So they take that out on you because they can’t go and be mean to the person who’s actually hurting them. So, when a person is cruel to you like that, I know that this is hard, but honestly the kind and best reaction is to pity them. And don’t let them make you feel bad because you love a thing. Maybe find out what they love and talk about how they love it. I bet you find out that a person who loves tetherball, loves tetherball in exactly the same way that you love Dr. Who, but you just love different things. And I will tell you this — it absolutely gets better as you get older. I know it’s really hard in school when you’re surrounded by the same 400 people a day that pick on you and make you feel bad about yourself. But there’s 50,000 people here this weekend who went through the exact same thing—and we’re all doing really well. So don’t you ever let a person make you feel bad because you love something they decided is only for nerds. You’re loving a thing that’s for you.”
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Why it’s awesome to be a nerd, by me, at the Calgary Expo in 2014
I’m going through five years of blog archives, pulling out things that I think will work if I put them into a collection to publish. It’s been a surreal trip through time, and it’s making me feel a lot of feels.
This is a thing I said, once upon a time, that is as true now as it was then.
wosushi reblogged
“Homeowners with citrus trees in their yards can apply online to have parasitic wasps mailed to them that can then be released onto citrus trees”
Thanks, Florida Department of Agriculture
I wonder if you have to PROVE that you own citrus trees so they can weed out the freeloaders who just want to cheat the government out of wasps
randomthoughtsofanerdgirl
@wosushi, can you explain to me why in the hell anyone would want wasps in their citrus trees?
A citrus disease that devastates crops is spread by a type of psyllid that a particular type of small wasp feasts on...so some grove owners import these wasps to kill the psyllids to protect the grove.
Read this. I have issues with anxiety and depression that I haven’t fully come to terms with and this meant a lot. But more importantly (at least in my head that doesn’t make myself a priority) I’m doing my best to help my 8 y/o who struggles with anxiety. I get relatives/associates who don’t get it. Who think it’s just a “high maintenance kid” who I’m coddling...and reading the words of @wilwheaton made me feel supported in a small way. Like, maybe, I’m doing the right thing by helping him instead of blaming him for his feelings. Finding what works for him. Just existing as a human being is hard, y’all. Taking care of one is a whole other level of difficulty. Thank you, @wilwheaton, for sharing. For reminding me that all the judgement around me means nothing when it comes to helping my kid. (Eventually, maybe I’ll learn to help myself better, too. Baby steps.)
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The history behind tipping is racist.
highlitemami
Interesting but not surprising. As a server/bartender, I know the drill.
gaijinhikikomori
Been saying I hate the concept but didnt have backup till now
Thassa Fact .
ayo spread tf outta this
the amount of people who are absolutely convinced that hugh hefner was a feminist/not a misogynist is everything that’s wrong with modern pop culture feminism, which has done its darndest to convince people that male objectification of women for profit=empowerment.
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I’m watching a documentary on YouTube and the person who uploaded it didn’t edit out the commercials, but I’m glad they didn’t because I lost it at this one.
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White supremacists are dangerous, immoral, and disturbing, but they are not “insane,” “crazy,” or “mental.”
The intersections of mental health, disability, and race are profound. Be a radical copyeditor and help your friends understand that mental health-related terms should not be metaphors or insults AND that white supremacists are not aberrations or rogue actors in an otherwise racism-free society.
Read the full post: https://radicalcopyeditor.com/2017/08/22/stop-calling-white-supremacists-insane
[Image description: graphic using speech bubbles to illustrate that when people say “insane white supremacists,” “these KKK marches are crazy,” “the USA has gone mad,” and “racism is a mental illness,” what they are really saying is “people with disabilities are abnormal,” “people with mental health conditions are dangerous,” “racism is irrational and isn’t current reality,” and “racism is caused by individuals, not systems of white supremacy.”]
“The reason a certain kind of person loves talking about ‘mental illness’ is to draw attention to the big bold scary exceptional crimes and treat them as exceptions. It’s to distract from the fact that the worst crimes in history were committed by people just doing their jobs—cops enforcing the law, soldiers following orders, bureaucrats signing paperwork.” “Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer have pointed out that conceptualizing racism as a ‘disease,’ a ‘mental illness,’ or a form of ‘deviant behavior’ is a way of painting racial inequity as 'simply the sum of the actions of individual bigots,’ leading to the idea that 'racial justice can be achieved by “curing” those individuals.’ It is dangerous to presume that racism can be eliminated by dealing with a few 'bad apples,’ because individual actors are not the perpetrators of racism—white supremacy culture is.“
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sugarplumlesbian-deactivated201
I know this is like a really controversial opinion but fat people deserve to be treated like a human beings whether they’re healthy or not
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chronicallytrying
THIS!!!
The Continue Reading link is somewhat small so I just wanted to point it out i the OP so people don’t just stop at this point of the comic. SUPER relatable, but the rest is so important.
sonictrek
hi i’ve experienced exactly this. please read if you have a second.
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Dr. Russell Barkley on ADHD (x)
Source: adhighdefinition
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Day 27 watch out I’m coming!
let your child be goofy and silly and make messes. teach them to clean up the messes without yelling at them. let your child be a child. not a mini adult who has to be perfect 24/7
wosushi reblogged
If hating fat people is about hating an unhealthy lifestyle:
- Why do fat people get harassed at the gym, while jogging, or while swimming?
- Why are fat people expected to cover up more? Changing what they wear will not make them healthier.
- Why are thin people allowed to get away with not exercising and with eating all the pizza and bacon they want? If the problem is the unhealthy lifestyle, why doesn’t that apply to everyone?
Never mind. I already know the answer.
And please stop lying like y'all say a damn word to skinny people eating trash. Y'all don’t. Y'all assume skinny people are healthy by default. So stop these lies