iamyelling

[iamyelling]

something that's interesting about the way tumblr works that i noticed recently when talking to my dad is. i was saying to him like, "people on tumblr are talking about this thing a lot" and then i realized actually no, it's just one post that's going around. maybe a second post influenced by or in conversation with the first. and it's like. you can so easily get this impression, due to the nature of tumblr being so heavily based on reblogging, that there are these conversations happening or these topics being discussed, or like "people are talkign about this thing a lot" when really it is ONE post written by ONE person (or maybe one post with maybe maximum 5 people talking on it in reblogs) that is just being shared around a lot and making the rounds.

i know this is like stupidly obvious once you say it out loud but it feels like notable on some level. how like ONE post making the rounds can make it seem like something is really popular or common opinion. when in reality it is literally just one post.

[iamyelling]

something that should be taken with a grain of salt are the statistics talking about the high rates of mental illness + neurodivergence among trans people (ocd, bpd, adhd, autism, etc)

I see both sides of the political spectrum taking these studies at face value - conservatives say we're broken, and trans people try to come up with reasons why for example autism + gender dysphoria makes sense and why one of them feeds into another

at the end of the day you have to remember that we're the one category of people on this planet who are legally required to go see a psychiatrist in order to receive non-psychiatric medication and surgeries.

more trans people are in therapy by law than any other demographic of people, and as a result, this captures more comorbidities.

if I had to look at my own family & rates of mental illness?

mom, dad, 2 maternal aunts, maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, sister, sibling, and me all have OCD.

7/9 of them are cishet, never been to therapy, never diagnosed. 2/9 are trans, required therapy for hormone treatment, and were diagnosed.

you don't have to do any math to just see that the resulting statistics end up intensely skewed.

and we can think back to how autism was virtually never diagnosed more than 50 years ago - ruling out any grandparents being included in statistics - and even my parents' generation (they're in their 60s now) wouldn't have been included either.

I don't think it's to anyone's benefit to accept these studies uncritically. a lot of these things are hereditary and far more prevalent in the overall population than people realize

[iamyelling]

it actually really grinds my gears that for the last like what few years after roe v wade was overturned and people have already been dying due to lack of abortion access and gynecological care that wasn't enough to spur anyone into action but the minute the evil cartoon president gets reelected NOW all of a sudden everyone is like "oh no my abortion rights!" girl they're already gone! joe biden and the DNC saw to that! they're gone! and now this past year like every year they dangled it like a carrot in front of a horse in your face to try and get you to vote for them and it didn't work because they're not only doing nothing to protect healthcare for anybody but they're taking their time instead to sponsor and commit genocide. but no it's only donald trump who's evil and no one else in the world and once he's gone everything will be the perfect utopia it once was right? 🙄

[iamyelling]

a group of furblets encounter a fearsome beast.  kinda like a scaled-down version of this

patreon ☆ ko-fi 

[iamyelling]

Sure, we do need to take responsibility for our own education at the end of the day.

There are many resources out there to learn just about anything you want to from scratch, but everyone pointing this out doesn’t seem to resonate.

My advice, honestly, if you feel you can’t do what others consider the bare minimum in self-research is to work on your attention span.

Pick ANY long form media or game … and ONLY do that for the duration of the game or media until you feel like you can move onto something like reading for 15 minutes a day.

These things are like muscles and if you work on them you can improve.

I have adhd, I feel I should add and had to go off meds for reasons, but found creating my own structures and goals worked to have a functional attention span.

Now not all of you are ADHD BUT all of you CAN improve your attention spans which as studies have shown have been deteriorated by social media.

I think it IS up to you to work on your attention span because literally no one else is going to care, so you do have to make the effort to improve this aspect of your life. You have to workout your mind. I am terribly sorry to say.

[iamyelling]

[iamyelling]

[iamyelling]

Tubi is the best streaming service because it captures the feeling of a video store, but not a corporate video store like Blockbuster, or even a good indie store, but a rundown video rental place under a overpass weeks away from closing down. You'll find, like, 2001: A Space Odyssey next to a unwatchable copy of a 70s exploitation film and a micro-low-budget indie and a movie called STRIPPER VAMPIRE MASSACRE III but you can find no evidence of STRIPPER VAMPIRE MASSACRE one or two existing.

This is a real, commercial streaming service and they've uploaded films with the DVD menu visible for the first few seconds bc it's a recording of a DVD copy. What a titan in the landscape of streaming

[iamyelling]

Kitchen at Bozman Neavitt Road - Daniel Riesmeyer 

American , b. 1977 -        

oil on paper on panel        29 x 23 in.​

[iamyelling]

[iamyelling]

Léonard Pongo

[iamyelling]

A New Wonderland by L. Frank Baum

1900

Artist : Frank ver Beck

[iamyelling]

[iamyelling]

The Calling, Byron Bratt 

[iamyelling]

The cultural impact of “boomer” as a pejorative has been disastrous and I’m not even kidding

[iamyelling]

[iamyelling]

v