#OCD maybe

[acethatlovesdinos]

PSA FOR MY FELLOW NEURODIVERGENT FRIENDS

Ever forget whether or not you’ve locked a door? Well I’ve got a hint for you!

It won’t prevent you from forgetting but it’ll make it easier to check from across the room, so it’s better than nothing.

For turn-lock doors, they have two orientations; ( | ) and (—).

I can’t speak for all doors, but most of these locks that I’ve encountered tend to be locked when in the vertical ( | ) position.

THE WAY I LEARNED TO REMEMBER THAT was to think that the upright was “standing”, like a guard ready to defend. The horizontal is laying down, or relaxed. Most things could get past a guy who’s laying down.

So if you want to lock your door, make sure that the guard is at attention! That’s the way I taught myself to remember, and it works so I don’t have to stand up or walk across the room to test if the door is locked. I just have to be close enough to look at the lock and see it.

Like I said, it won’t prevent forgetting, but it just makes it easier to check. And this might not work for all doors either, so make sure you know what kind of lock you have.

[non-beanary]

There are two ways to measure my mental health on any given day:

A. How messy my bedroom floor is

B. How much blood I have on my face and hands

[turtletoria]

one downside to digital mediums of art is that you cant see the tear stains (they just slide down the screen)

[frabjous-droog]

For the last. I don’t know, month or so. I’ve been thinking to myself. What would it take to make me snap. What would be the last straw? Not in a dark way, just like. At what point will I sit on the ground in the middle of Starbucks and cry like a scared toddler who didn’t get the right flavor cake pop from mummy?

[saulathan]

Sure dirk strider

[apearlogist-forever]

tw for intrusive (?) thoughts just a bit of a thing i changed my username (or url or whatever) to apearlogist-forever because my previous one was attracting the wrong crowd iykwim…

already i am beginning to loathe it, and going into this i knew this would happen but i went about it anyway.

the problem is that i liked the name apearlogist (referring to the film Pearl which currently occupies my mind with frequency). but of course it kind of is generic and predictable so it was already chosen. so i added -forever to it. knowing that this isn’t going to last forever. I already feel reluctant to refer to myself as a Pearl Apologist because Am I??? will i regret this? is this misleading? is this how i want to be seen? the truth is that i do have empathy for her at the moment; the writing and acting both made her very forgivable and even slightly (SLIGHTLY.) relatable. but i really doubt i’ll commit to any philosophy or belief or mere opinion based upon emotion forever, let alone one like this.

what if some day i’ll face some sort of punishment for lying to others? this terrifies me! we do not know what happens after death (a big part of why Pearl definitely does make me deeply upset and uncomfortable, but also intrigued) and what if it’s worse than we imagined?! all i have is my affirmations from tiktok and the religion i was raised with and will most likely continue to struggle with for years to come (i won’t say forever though!!).

anyway, that was just my two cents on a topic that not even my internal monologue asked about. having this documented in writing at least may serve me justice in this little unjust world my anxiety created.

[gleafer]

THERE’S A NEW SEASON OF THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF STREAMING!

You know what that means.

Will our hero FINALLY get The Paul Hollywood Handshake??? WILL HEEEE????

[lucabyte]

A belief in Nominative Determinsim

[eat-rock]

“nobody understands me” but not in the “edgy suffering from teenager syndrome mad at mom” kind of way, but the “lonely isolating young adult realization that the specific combination of mental illnesses and past experiences i’ve had have resulted in a pattern of behaviors that are often misinterpreted and misconstrued by others” type of way

[morsobaby]

Socially unacceptable disabled and mentally ill people: I love you. You're being really brave. You in fact have a right to be like this, and you deserve to have people who understand you the way you are. I'm sorry you have to perform social acceptability rituals in order to not have the people around you ostracize and punish you. You deserve better. No matter how socially unacceptable, rude, "taking up space" or an "inconvenience" you are. I'm sorry everyone always sees you and your symptoms as obstacles to overcome or bothers that you need to take care of for them.

You deserve better

[joe-spookyy]

so glad it’s not illegal to use lycanthropy as a metaphor for obsessive compulsive disorder cause i’d be in jail big time…. but i’d still be right give me one werewolf character you can’t apply an ocd lens to. exactly you cant. it’s about the guilt and the lack of control and the feeling like you’re irreparably bad or a monster and the fear of hurting others and the anger and. it’s perfect.

[jiraisupportgroup]

[charon-cries]

when OTHER people try to distract or comfort themselves, they call it "coping" and "self-soothing," but when i do it, it's a "mental compulsion" and "you have OCD"

[identitty-dickruption]

any other ocd-havers up feeling like something is inherently corrupt about them and their entire life is just one big scheme to cover that up or is it just me

[spirkbitch]

people who write spirk fics that are plotted and formatted like a tos episode but just with spirk included

i love you and i want to kiss you on the mouth

[theythemmer]

am i really a clique artist if i haven’t draw THE pic of tyler