one thing tumblr has unironically done to improve my mental health is completely rewrite how i view disgust as a concept. there is no higher compliment to me than being told i have something wrong with me and should be ashamed of myself when i’m just living my life in a way that is perhaps odd and hard to understand, but ultimately as harmless as you can get in our society. which probably wasn’t the intention of all the advice i got in therapy to reframe my negative thought patterns as more positive ones, but it’s doing great things for me.
people around me: ugh what a freak. loser. weirdo. if i were you i’d be so embarrassed. how do you convince yourself your life is worth anything when you choose to live it like this.
me, who found some of the kindest and most passionately purposeful communities of people among the freaks, losers, weirdos, and other unwanted rejects:
ALT