#0 out of 10 do not recommend

[caffeinatedopossum]

I keep seeing stuff criticizing unschooling and as someone who was essentially unschooled, I have a lot of thoughts on it. Like sometimes I hear the common remark "kids won't just learn to read on their own! That's ridiculous" and at first I thought "ok well I did learn to read on my own sooo"

except the thing is my parents DID try to teach me to read, they just did so in a way that was so deeply damaging and ineffective that at some point I just decided I had to learn on my own simply to get them to stop trying to "teach" me (yell at me that I was stupid and would never amount to anything until I cried, blame me for not succeeding and making them look good, etc.)

Anyways my point is not to defend unschooling but rather to hypothesize that my parents invented the completely novel strategy of "antischooling" wherein students are aggressively DISCOURAGED from learning until they eventually teach themselves out of sheer rebellion :')

[the-beccaria-cage]

Dear internet community…

Heads up that if for whatever reason you need to wean off Lexapro (aka escitalopram oxylate, a common SSRI anti-anxiety med) …

Don’t do what I did.

I misunderstood my doctor (who is lovely, if a bit straightforward) and weaned off my meds entirely in the month between appointments.

You know what you’re NOT supposed to do with lexapro?! Wean off them as quickly as that.

“What are you supposed to do?!” I hear you ask…

Weaning off it supposed to take about 2-3 MONTHS. NOT WEEKS. MONTHS.

It has some pretty gnarly side effects as you come off. For me, I’ve now been dizzy for a month solid, and the random crying episodes can go to hell.

I’m 6/6 with this checklist 😅😅😅

[sighs-and-delight]

I just want to CTRL + ALT + DELETE and hit restart on 2023

[horatio-fig]

I don’t really remember writing this. I have BPD and this post was just some racing thoughts I was struggling with. I know better than to open tumblr when I’m having an episode but these things happen. 

Eurovision always falls around the same time as an “Anniversary” of something awful that happened to me. With BPD certain things are able to distract me and pull me out of bad episodes and Eurovision is one of them.

I do plan on boycotting Eurovision but the stress and panic of potentially being alone with certain memories is terrifying to me and I crave the distraction of Eurovision like a drug.

I want to boycott Eurovision, but I want to support my local independent gay business’s at the same time and I get very overwhelmed and upset when I can’t make everyone happy.

Obviously I’m not trying to use my disorder as an excuse. I merely wanted to explain my headspace at the time and although my brain goes on these spirals, i know myself well enough to know it’s not the real me. And regardless of any mental disorder, I’m sure there are plenty of others out there who are sad not to be watching Eurovision this year and that doesn’t make them bad people.

I would normally delete my BPD posts but I’m going to leave this one up. Also I know you weren’t to know but I find the term “Mental Gymnastics” a rather ableist way of looking at my personality disorder. 

I should boycott Eurovision…but if I do then I’m not paying my usual Gay Bar money…but if I watch it at my local gay bar they get my drink money…and it doesn’t add towards the viewing figures coz there is 100 of us watching on one BBC TV License…and I can make informed votes for my faves…if I don’t there’s a chance only pro-Israel people will watch and vote…and then Israel will win…but if I watch the people of tumblr will tell me to kill myself…what do I do…I am a human with autonomy right

[waywardstation]

Whew! It took a lot longer than I thought, but I finally figured out how I wanted to format my Phione Akari AU writings!

I will make a proper post and begin a new organizational masterlist in the morning, but for now, five chapters for Heart Swap, my Phione Akari AU collection, are out now on AO3!

The first one is a repost from Minutes and a last-minute addition I was debating, but the other four are all new fics!

I hope you all enjoy, thank you so much for your patience with me!

[whimsicalcotton]

i fuckign died

[daisyswift3]

Just found a playlist that my ex situationship from 3 yrs ago made that I’m like 99% sure is dedicated to me and now I can’t stop crying. It kinda confirms everything I already knew. The universe has impeccable timing truly

It’s these songs being on there and it being a divorce playlist that really made it obvious what it’s abt. We had a mutual friend named Katie. At least she’s self aware and acknowledges what the whole thing was like from my point of view 🙂

[wildlifelover13]

I’ve been bitten by one!

Ahhhhh! So in the last week I have found two black widow spiders in my house and if a black widow bites you you could die. I killed the first one, but the second one escaped, so it could be anywhere in my house. And the first one was in my bed!

[revenantghost]

Just a heads-up: The covid brainfog is SO REAL and I cannot remember ANYTHING, so if I haven't done something I promised to do, or if I haven't responded to something, or whatever, please feel free to poke me until I do the thing. I keep discovering things I thought I couldn't forget and I, predictably, forgot them

[corpsecoded]

honestly one of my biggest motivators to get out of the psych ward was the fact that i was going through severe caffeine withdrawals and they only give you decaf coffee

[cherry-pop-elf]

Hey, it’s Belladonna here. Going through some health issues atm. Aka gene testing because of cancer that runs on both sides of my family

So I’m going to be kinda stressed for the next three weeks. Given it takes that long for blood tests to return back

So either I’m going to be even more invested into tumblr writing to cope, or I’m gonna be invisible.

Going through a lot right now, so wanted to keep my followers updated if I vanish for a while. I’m just very stressed

I wish Georgie was real. So he could hold me and tell me that he won’t leave me even if I have it. That he will help me through this. Very scary time. So fucking scary.

[sea-of-flxmes]

// Hey guys. Sorry for being away for so long.

Again, I'm going through a very convoluted moment of my life, and right now there are so many things demanding my time and energy.

I hope I can fully get back on Tumblr by late October or mid November at the latest. Until then, my activity will be very sporadic around here.

I'm so sorry for delaying threads, starters and other interactions between our muses for so long. I wish I could write with you all more regularly.

[yardsards]

living alone is all fun and games til you have a medical emergency and there's no one there to help you to the hospital

[breathofthewildyaverage]

My sister accidentally slammed the back of her head into my nose and made it bleed really bad, so I stood over the sink trying not to get blood in the floor and I had a seizure and almost passed out and now both my eyes are black

Anyways how was your day?

[corcnaiism]

;-- 🫠🫠

[right-on-the-money]

happy birthday to this guy!