#Supporting Autistic Loved Ones

[gwen-thinks]

something that people don’t tell you about depression, anxiety, trauma etc is that recovery is not this beautiful healing journey where you figure out the secret to happiness and a clear head and you just come out a different person. it’s hard. it’s really fucking hard and you have to work, probably harder than you even were working before while your mental illnesses stayed dormant.

and that’s what makes me so angry about people who misunderstand disorders and their subsequent treatment. getting help is not easy. you may think that all someone needs to do is wave a magic wand and stop being the way that they are but “getting help” often means signing yourself up for regular therapy, trying out medications, trying out different forms of therapy, processing complex trauma and emotions, reconfiguring your life, challenging yourself every single day to do things you couldn’t before. it’s fucking hard!!

and to everyone out there, like me, who is going through this process - i see you and hear you and i know that we’re going to get through it. and i hate the “you’re so strong” thing but holy shit, we are strong. i know how much effort and work it takes. it’s more than just “drink water” and “go on a walk.” it’s often about rewiring your entire brain.

[theceaselessidiot]

Eloise Bridgerton being an absolute mood:

and Cressida's reaction of 'this girl is so weird, but I'm into it??? Wait am I into this??'':

[puppygirlgirldick]

the more i look at it the more i realize human domestication guide stuff is really just "what if a species of benevolent but *extremely* patronizing aliens doms invaded, and their master plan was (in equal measure) cherishing and infantilizing autistic trans girls with problematic kinks (who love it)"

and wouldn't you know it, turns out i'm in the target demo

[atlas-dr0wned]

real love song by nothing but thieves makes me feel like i’m going insane but in the best way. it’s such a beautiful song, and the raw emotion in conor’s voice makes me feel like i’m a part of the song myself. the power in every ‘it won’t go away’ and honestly the entire chorus makes me feel like ascending to another dimension. it’s a song that i do genuinely think everybody should experience at least once

[katyspersonal]

To be honest I don't really want mutuals who instantly assume I commented in bad faith to act "condescending" when I was nothing but light-hearted in disagreeing about a point in the post about one of the characters and agreed with everything else. 🤔 Especially not when I apparently pissed them off so much it made them post TWO (passive-aggressive) posts on the topic of disagreement afterwards instead of.... actual discussion? At least if I assume someone is being mean on purpose I ask them about it

[unsaltedtoast]

the absurd amount of ppl on tiktok who are participating in the whole 'whats the definition of lesbian' and 'are lesboys valid' discourse who are so anti-discussion that they comment 'cringe' when you tell them to read actual lesbian history is so funny like ??

[phantomhivestims]

Today is my blogs birthday!! Its turning one years old, I would just like to thank everyone who supported my blog as a thanks I will be doing a stimboard event thingy if anyone wants to do it :3

Phantomhives one yr anniversary !!

Author note : These eventually became disorganized so themes are all over the place..

DAY ONE - Stimboard based off you / your blog

DAY TWO - Stimboard off your favorite blog

DAY THREE - Favorite style / fashion

DAY FOUR - Your identity(s)

DAY FIVE - Comfort object (or something that brings you comfort if you don't have one)

DAY SIX - Stimboard based off your culture or if you aren't comfort doing this one just make one off your favorite place!

DAY SEVEN - Your favorite Artist (can be any kind of art!!)

DAY EIGHT - Favorite kind of stim gifs

DAY NINE - Least favorite kind of stim gifs

DAY TEN - A piece of media you wish had more attention / a larger following

DAY ELEVEN - Favorite food / drink

DAY TWELVE - Dream career

DAY THIRTEEN - Favorite type of character

DAY FOURTEEN - Favorite book character (can be any kind of book, comics do count!)

DAY FIFTEEN - Favorite hero

DAY SIXTEEN - Favorite villain

DAY SEVENTEEN - Favorite anti-hero

DAY EIGHTEEN - Stimboard based around your special interest or hyperfixation

DAY NINETEEN - Favorite mystical creature

DAY TWENTY - An element ( can be fictional or real )

DAY TWENTY ONE - Do you have any pets? If so do one based off them, if not do one based off an animal you'd like to have as a pet!

DAY TWENTY TWO - Winter

DAY TWENTY THREE - Autumn

DAY TWENTY FOUR - Spring

DAY TWENTY FIVE - Summer

DAY TWENTY SIX - what's something you dislike?

DAY TWENTY SEVEN - Favorite time of day

DAY TWENTY EIGHT - Your MBTI

DAY TWENTY NINE - Spicy, Savory or Sweet?

DAY THIRTY - Favorite kind of weather

DAY - THIRTY ONE - A character you relate too!

Tag me or use #Phantomhives one year so I can see your boards!!

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[vaguely-concerned]

obsessed with what we're meant to read out of rook's expression when taash starts to walk away in this scene. it feels like such an emotionally dense response from them, especially since they've only known taash or anyone else involved in these scenes for all of five minutes

sorry about the abysmal gif quality one day I'll learn how to make gifs properly yet that day is not today. but hello. rook. rook hello. what is this about. what's up with that. what are you thinking about. (also taash seeing that reaction and turning around to clarify that it IS what they wanted before they leave because they're upset, not unkind. aww.)

also flashback to this set of expressions rook makes later on, after the fangscorcher fight, if rook tells taash they're actually a lot like them beneath it all. taash apparently just consistently brings out some very tender rueful rook faces I guess haha

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[aaxzlyte]

i'm not sure i'll ever finish the wip i have where Near has a white cat named Jetfire

[dragongirlbunny]

love starting my day in a bad mood because of an asshole anon

[bagadew]

A detective who regularly investigates weird and inventive murders decides to start a blog…

Unfortunately rather than writing about his job, he decides to write about his interests: a collection of the most boring subjects known to man.

[pedropascallme]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5SD3RBr2it/?igsh=NmViYTZiaGZmaGUy in case you still haven't seen :D

Thank you!! I hadn’t seen the full thing this is wonderful <3 posting this so everybody else who might’ve missed it can see!

(Also leaving my personal opinions in the tags just to clarify where I stand because I’m so tired of everybody being weird about Damien specifically throughout this whole thing)

[moe-broey]

Forever thinking about this panel

He will NOT be accepting hugs for any mundane reason and if you try he will react like he's being hunted for sport

But I am ALSO thinking about

He will give a little sympathetic pat on the back........ if you're feeling down ......

Alfonse physical affection seems to vary and is situational 👍

[8-billion-wishes]

Being nerodivergent and having nerodivergent friends is great but also some times i feel like my symptoms dont count ad much as theirs or my special interest doesnt count as much as their hyperfixations do and i dont know how to explain it

[needlesandnilbogs]

Dr. Alexandra "Monty" Montgomery most likely has at least two PhDs and is probably also some kind of lowkey genius.

Reasoning:

The biophysics doesn't come up as much as her cryptography skills, but book 1 ch.2 does explicitly call her both a doctor and a "biophysicist-slash-cryptologist" (sic). She seems to have mostly focused on cryptography (and therefore one phd is probably in number theory or computer science, probably number theory given that she's not a computer scientist by trade), but the wording in that sentence seems to imply that she has equal levels of education for biophysics, meaning that would be her second phd.

In book 1 chapter 3, we get that she's in her mid thirties; assuming that she took a fairly typical path through her pre-undergrad education, this would put her at 17-19 when entering university. I did a two-second search on Oxford's math program, and its modern mathematical sciences program takes either 3 or 4 years to complete. Book 2 has slightly more details on what she did there, but I don't think it has a timeline of her university experience. Figure that she enters at the average age of 18 and graduates at 21-22, then.

As a recruit for MI6 during said time at Oxford, she probably worked on those PhDs with no concerns about time or funding, although with plenty of extracurricular activities. Figure 5-6 years per phd program, and that she probably did not get them at the same time, and that puts her at probably 31-32 before she's a full-time MI6 employee and agent. Book 4 makes this a little more complicated, because we know that she's doing other spy things during this time, but those could easily be things she does when not taking or teaching classes or working on her dissertation.

I don't have much of an actual *point* to make with this, except: - don't mess with the academic - she's probably a LOT more knowledgeable than she looks even though she already sounds very smart and well educated - James Ponti has never made any kind of timeline nor looked up how long phd programs take - if she isn't publishing papers from her work with the FARM and/or trying to get a third phd I will eat my hat