There’s a reason lots of good parents say to babies stuff like
“You’re excited to go to the park!”
“Oh, it makes you mad that we can’t go outside.”
And then when the babies get a little bit older the parents can say
“You seem upset. Are you sad?”
“Are you excited that gramma is coming over today?”
Which lets the kid (who is learning to utilize speech) respond with yes or no, which may prompt more questions, like
“So you aren’t sad, are you angry?”
“Yes, does it make you happy when gramma is here?”
And then, finally, when the child is learning to use language in a more complex way, the parents can say,
“How does it make you feel?”
“Why are you feeling like that?”
And it’s all about teaching emotional awareness. I really reccomend using the process on yourself. Learn to ask, “am I happy?” “Am I sad?” “Am I anxious?”
Then practice identifying, out loud or on paper if you can, “I’m happy.” “I’m upset.” “I’m sad.” “I’m anxious.”
Final step: “Why am I feeling anxious? I’m still thinking about that awkward conversation earlier.” “Why am I happy? It’s such a beautiful day outside.” “Why am I sad? None of my friends are responding to my messages.”
It really helps you notice patterns (“I’m more likely to be happy when I’m around this person.” “When I haven’t eaten, I often feel angry.” “If I don’t plan ahead, I get anxious.”) which is the first step in avoiding things and people that are bad for you and encouraging things and people that are good.
Basically don’t forget that you’re just a baby who got more complicated.
Not sure how to articulate what you are feeling? Try starting at the middle and working your way out to the more specific feelings!
Illiteracy is becoming rampant. Reminds me of the fact that a lot of children aren’t taught how to sound out letters and are instead taught whole words from the beginning. They memorize it like it’s a hieroglyphic instead of learning how to actually read and then picking up more advanced tricks on top of that foundational skill.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like 'good,’ what need is there for a word like 'bad’? 'Ungood’ will do just as well–better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of 'good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like 'excellent’ and 'splendid’ and all the rest of them? 'Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or 'doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still…In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words–in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston?”
- George Orwell, 1984
Our world is really good at taking something meant to be a warning and making it real
Warning: don’t let Queen Mihai take over the world! Warning, Queen Mihai is an immortal sorceress and will rule for all eternity if you hand over everything to her. It is bad idea, it is written! Heed this warning! She will make people happy and no one will be able to stop her from spreading joy and love and reason and logic. Do not hand the world over to the immortal sorceress Queen Mihai!
if ur posting “trans people you have to survive” go do something about it? how many homeless trans people have u materially helped today? nothing changed right now. we been suffering already. where the fuck have u been every day that’s not election day
that this has 4x the notes my “please help me not become homeless real fucking soon” pinned post is the thing
anyways please help me and my partner stay not homeless cuz my partners landlord hates trans / disabled people and we got 2 weeks left to pull $3k out our asses or we go live in the street
“where the fuck have you been everyday that’s not election day”
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They kiss passionately
It’s all ‘trans women must survive’ when Nazis take office but the other 364 days of the year you slap our hands away for daring to breathe the same air as you
Don’t pretend to care while it looks good
Actually care when no one else is watching
90% of cis people will cheer when they start founding us up
hurr hurr I’m a human body hurr hurr I’m gonna solve all my problems using mucus
“i require more fluids” well what did you do with the fluids I already gave you. hmm? did you make more mucus with them? you made more mucus with them.
wow okay, unfollowing sisyphus now. big fan of his boulder, didn’t know he was a tyrannical king who killed visitors to his palace to show off his power -_-
Concept: if you want to know what diagnosis and treatment is like and what to expect, listen to people who’ve sought and received a professional diagnosis - not self diagnosed people, doctor shoppers and those preaching validity culture.
wow okay, unfollowing sisyphus now. big fan of his boulder, didn’t know he was a tyrannical king who killed visitors to his palace to show off his power -_-
that man went on live television and talked about how poc are eating the cats and dogs, aliens conducting trans operations. he is a convicted felon. of 34 cases. he is a rapist. he proposed project 2025 which strips away basic rights from everyone except cis-het white men and he still had 51% popularity votes. that should anger you. that should be focus of the collective rage and disgust, not your fellow queer and poc acquaintances. please.
Project 2025 is not a creation of Trumps, it is the continuation of the tradition that Reagan started, the same one which allowed him to make his presidency as disastrous as possible.
The Heritage Foundation gave Reagan the very first edition of the Mandate for Leadership, the latest edition of which is known as project 2025.
Compared to the presidents before him, who used the research done by think tanks to inform decisions, Reagan allowed them to prepare all the decisions, and hundreds if not thousands of them, for him. He then simply implemented everything he could all with pre-prepared justifications. He literally gave his entire cabinet copies of the Heritage Foundations entire spiel.
The US becoming consistently more right wing over time is not a coincidence, it was a concentrated effort by the rich and powerful, not by Queers and People Of Color.
I like how the tumblr app has an undo option immediately after you post or reblog something, but the desktop site just has a “view this” arrow. Represents a sort of divide between half-braindeadly scrolling on tumblr in boredom, and being able to undo an accidental reblog, versus sitting down to have a civilized tumblr session on The Computer and carefully considering the humorous additions to your lovely blog
This is the one thing that I would definitely do regardless of state. For those not in the know, a passport is the way to get an easy name or gender marker change onto your ID without a court battle, and that is highly dependent on the Federal administration.
stop putting touchscreens in cars and get to the features people actually want: oscillating vent fans, visors that move automatically to block the sun, and the ability to fire red koopa shells at people who change lanes without using their turn signal
me: today is going really well and i don’t trust it some shit: *starts happening* me: ah there it is. the Fuckening™
just wanted to shout out this ancient post i made like 23 years ago & since then has been grasped firmly by the internet but repackaged in memes divorced utterly from its painfully 2016 tumblr origins.
frauds and heretics have stolen this definition from its ecosystem. it came from here it lives here it is of this earth and should have never been removed. i love u fuckening post. i am sorry they shaved all of the cringe off u and made a simulacrum of u in their shame. but i remember. i know from whence u came.
me: today is going really well and i don’t trust it some shit: *starts happening* me: ah there it is. the Fuckening™
just wanted to shout out this ancient post i made like 23 years ago & since then has been grasped firmly by the internet but repackaged in memes divorced utterly from its painfully 2016 tumblr origins.
frauds and heretics have stolen this definition from its ecosystem. it came from here it lives here it is of this earth and should have never been removed. i love u fuckening post. i am sorry they shaved all of the cringe off u and made a simulacrum of u in their shame. but i remember. i know from whence u came.
The number of people in the notes of this being like “lol i’m the motorist” with 0 sense of shame or self awareness is crazy. You should all get your licenses taken away
If you are a USAmerican in a relationship that might be affected by legislation that dissolves same-sex marriages, who may no longer be recognized as next-of-kin, especially if you have children, get your rights in writing!
Your marriage certificate may not be enough to prove you have rights to make medical decisions for non-biological children or for a same-sex spouse or partner.
Go to a lawyer, get it spelled out as clearly as possible that you have a voice in emergency medical and legal situations.
For those of us who aren’t lawyers or well-versed in law generally, can someone clarify what kind of document, by name, people should be drafting with their lawyers? Is it a type of letter, or is there a name for this classification of document? I’m aware that it probably varies by US state, but a lot of people are likely feeling extremely lost right now and don’t know where to start on this. I definitely don’t. I live in a state that isn’t likely to nullify existing marriages or prevent new ones from taking place, but who knows what they’re going to try at the national level and enforce from the top down.
Power of Attorney should cover most partners and spouses to ensure that they will be making each other’s health care decisions in cases of serious illness. LGBTQ+ spouses and domestic partners must execute proper Health Care Power of Attorney documents listing each other as the highest priority agents for making each other’s health care decisions in case of incapacity.
Hey Germany, this is like the 15th ominous shitpost I see, this is starting to scare me! I don’t understand german or german politics. Can anyone tell me what’s going on? French newspaper are making it sound like a mild thing, like oh, the coalition isn’t working, let’s have early elections. But that’s NOT the vibe I’m getting from all the memes!!
uhfedsjs no thats basically it. chancellor fired the finance minister and wants to seek a vote of confidence in january to make way for elections by march. the 3-way coalition is unpopular and this whole breakdown isn’t a huge surprise, but announcing it on the night after trump’s re-election is just insane timing. besides, only 2 months ago the afd (far right party) became the first party of its kind to win a state election since the nazi era, and they’re polling second nationally at the moment, so new elections sound more than a little scary right now
@the-bibrarian important context: the finance minister is a neoliberal asshole who for 3 years has done his best to sabotage the coalition and constantly refuses to compromise or cooperate. He wants tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and absolutely does not want money going to things like retirement benefits, healthcare, defense/support for Ukraine and so on. He’s smug, arrogant and overall just insufferable. Seeing him being fired for the first time in his life was immensely satisfying (despite the likely consequences).
Terminal child syndrome lol sorry you’ll be infantilized forever and never get any basic respect we have the right to not treat you like an adult and make life worse for you in the name of helping, or shun you completely :)
Just stop doing that you useless cunt go the fuck outside and stop being a burden to society get the fuck up and stop having this illness. Have this list of pop psychology bullshit and get your shit together. We can still romanticize your struggle if you’re hot and manage it just well enough to not be a useless cunt
Irredeemable piece of shit disorder uh sorry but your vibe is off and you should go to jail for it I fucking hate you and you deserve nothing you vile piece of human garbage you need to be avoided at all costs everyone should cut you off immediately no one should have to put up with you you manipulative asshole
Actually there’s only two mental illnesses, the one that makes you a good artist and the one that makes you a serial killer.
And who the fuck are you
hey dont forget about the fucking wacko disease (me)
Petition to bring back the boop function next year for the ides of March where instead of a paw on the screen it’s a little knife that Caesar gets stabbed with
