We're Alright Though

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

don't worry, your'e still in time for 3/22/23, 32223, palindrome day the second

I missed BOTH of them.

don't worry, you're still in time for 3/28/23, 32823, palindrome day eight

im very exited for next years weed palendrome day of 4/20/24

so it's weed day and palindrome day, on leap year. perfection is achievable

oh shit, it's 4/20/24, 42024, weed palindrome day

The zoo in my hometown posted this picture of one of their cheetah cubs and I'm obsessed

HIS NAME IS YAM ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDINF ME

cant wait to start feeling normal again I think to myself knowing that i have not once felt normal not at all my whole life not ever

"cost of living crisis" give me a FUCKING break it's called "unprecedented corporate greed and income inequality" fucking cost of living crisis like it's just a natural or unexplainable phenomenon Christ

Posters seen at Riis Beach, NYC

Remember The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock? The movie showed how a kid who had an extremely rough upbringing got help from the family of a school friend, found success in football and ultimately ended up being adopted by the family. Turns out he was never adopted.

Michael Oher says that he was tricked by the Tuohy family into signing documents that made them his conservators. Since he was already 18 at the time the family told him, “that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took [his] age into account.”

Oher also says that papers were signed so that his story and likeness were given away for free to use in The Blind Side. He also never got a single royalty check for the hugely successful, Oscar nominated film in the 14 years since its release.

It just continues to baffle me that they essentially purchased a young Black man's life to make football money off of, like buying a racing horse, except a person. Like, I don't know how else to say it. And then made everyone think it was something wonderful they did to "save" an "impoverished, Black boy", and he's been saying it for years to no avail that they took advantage of him!

It makes perfect sense when you learn how white people have used the black body to their advantage for centuries. This story and film hasn’t sat right with me almost since it came out so I’m not surprised, but I am deeply saddened for Oher's experience of being taken advantage of.

Like for Jowling Kowling Rowling to be eaten by orcas. Reblog for Jowlong Kowling Rowling to also be eaten by orcas

Anyway adults saying “I don’t know isn’t an answer” is part of the reason I learned to lie and bluff so well.

Really though, what was that about? I don’t know is a valid answer. It communicates very clearly that the child cannot answer your question, and therefore maybe needs more help understanding the question/situation. Why do you try and push them to give an answer they don’t have? That stresses them out and it makes them feel like they’re being punished for not knowing something.

i thought i was the only one with an “i don’t know” problem because my parents made it seem it was the strangest and also most horrible thing in the world. i genuinely didn’t know and they got angry and that only blocked my thoughts more which meant i didn’t know the answer to anything else.

THIS ^^^

Also “I don’t know” is a commonly used sentence for children with ADHD/Autism. We DON’T know why we can’t do our homework. We DON’T know why we can’t eat certain foods sometimes. We DON’T know why we forgot to do a chore. It’s really distressing when you genuinely don’t know and people think you’re just lying or indifferent

This is my depression~~

Didn’t know why I wanted to lie in bed as a kid and just vibe to my music. Didn’t know why I couldn’t stand living in the real life, waiting for time to tick by in an imaginary world instead of enjoying and exploring the very cool and vastly more complicated world I was actually living in. It felt like I didn’t have anything, even though objectively, I was EXTREMELY privileged. Loving parents and extended family, good friends, understanding teachers and other authority figures who just wanted to understand and help me.

But I couldn’t help them understand because I didn’t understand. Nothing felt good or okay even when I wasn’t physically ill or hurt. Something was broken and I couldn’t do ANYTHING and I didn’t know WHY. It was a constant frustration. For all of us.

So I started faking it. And that… went about as well as one thinks it does.

I thought I had anxiety for most of my young adult life, but it turns out when you hold shit in and fake a bunch of crap, you body… REALLY doesn’t appreciate it! : D

nothing but respect for my trans cow best friends

happy pride to my trans cow best friends

like does anyone else still feel the exact same age they were in march 2020 like 90% of the time

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