hello everyone, it sure has been three years
i totally forgot about this blog until just now so i thought i’d give a bit of a life update? im not sure how many of my followers are still active/remember me, but idk
a lot has happened! and i’m in a much, MUCH better place mentally than i was when i was running this blog. although i enjoyed making stimboards and posting stim content, i found the stim community extremely toxic and exhausting, and i also perpetuated toxic behavior myself (like advocating that the media you watch reflects on how good of a person you are), and i’m really sorry for that.
i was 16 when i started this blog and i’m 21 now! so that’s wild. i graduated high school, started T, worked on a farm for a while, got top surgery, got diagnosed with fibromyalgia, went to college, got diagnosed with ptsd, realized i want to be a marine biologist, got really really sick, and got diagnosed with lyme disease. i am now finally receiving treatment and even though i’m physically much sicker than i was in high school, i am so much happier and at ease with myself.
im not sure what the stim community is like nowadays but i hope its a more peaceful place now than it used to be lol
currently im working on a biology degree with a focus on ecology and marine science and i’m having an awesome time. i got to actually tag 2 wild sharks this summer and that was pretty much the highlight of my entire life.
not really sure how to end this but i just wanted to post a little update and kind of reflect on this blog
OH also -- if you want to keep in touch, im still on tumblr @owlpajamas and on twitter as spicysilmarils (though a good portion of it is fandom)
