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People think being self aware cancels out mental illness. That when you realise your thoughts or behaviours are irrational you just stop having/doing them

Instead what happens if you're extremely self aware and mentally ill is that you just think in a resigned kind of way "I'm being really fucking crazy right now" while being very loudly mentally ill

Sometimes you are able to tell the people around you "oh, you can ignore me rn. I'm just being extremely mentally ill rn. It will eventually pass" and then continue your erratic behaviour. But mostly it's just privately thinking: "well this is embarrassing but I can't turn it off so just gotta deal with it I guess."

It's infuriating honestly

There's a line in the movie As Good as it Gets where someone tells Jack Nicholson's character that he's depressed, and he replies, "I'm drowning here and you're describing the water!" and it's honestly about the realest thing I've ever heard.

When you're struggling to keep your head above water while everyone around you is walking around on dry land, you can both see what the problem is, but that doesn't make the water less wet.

Yaaaaas 😍

“Son, you best get t’steppin’ if’n y’don’t want this lil doggy.”

*aggressively brandishes gnoll who speaks like a rural Canadian*

i almost scrolled past this like a fool

Him😍

who is even pulling bitches by being autistic the bitches hate my autism

the bitches have texted me "sometimes I think you don't have feelings" and "your kindness feels fake because you never smile at me" the bitches are not pleased with my autism in the slightest

the bitches have yelled at me for being clueless or not understanding what they're saying under the idea that I don't care the bitches have been saying that I make no effort at all to be kind when they're down when I have very often asked what I should be doing best to help and changed my behavior accordingly the bitches are telling me that I am the unfair one for pointing these things out and that I make them feel like monsters the bitches are now surprised and upset that I don't like them as much anymore and saying that actually them being reprimanding to me is normal the bitches hate me so bad but they won't admit it they'll keep saying no I love you but everything you do makes me upset. and I can't help it but see something to agree in that anyway. because I genuinely have a consideration for your opinion. I could still be the villain here this whole time and I am constantly trying to find ways to make people happy or to at the very least not disappoint them completely as soon as they get close enough to me to realize that I am not the person they want to talk to

your fucking autism memes mean nothing to me. you have no fucking respect for us until you show respect to everyone.

From Maurice Tourneur's The Blue Bird (1918).

Fujimoto in Ponyo (2008)

fascinating to me how quickly we forget that the cycles repeat. people treating 5-15 year olds like this breed of superchild created to do evil and taint the world. that was all of us. "they're wrecking sephoras" you would not survive a 2015 hot topic with this mindset. "they're falling for the stanley cup thing" buying on trend overly robust camping gear for every day use is like. a middle class tradition in this country. our glorious kånken backpack vs their wicked stanley cup.

they were in so much stupid love with each other from the very first frame

Mutuals every time we’re all online this is what we’re doing

when doctors ask if i have any history of cancer in my family and i have to say that yes my grandmother had 2 types of gastrointestinal cancer and they're like oh wow okay so we'll keep an eye out for that but i'm like no it was probably just all the nuclear radiation and they're like ok hm ok what the fuck do you mean and it's very weird seeing the look on american doctors' faces when you have to explain to them that believe it or not atomic bombs were dropped on this earth 2 generations ago and it did have consequences

i can’t believe this is happening… i’ve been thinking of the al-shifa siege for the past five six days and it has literally made me sick. when will this end?