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You know those two scenes from Wild Blue Yonder? YeahâŚ
(Edit: made some minor tweaks to them, mostly rendering and trying to get more resemblance)
#something about british people on my screen experiencing incomprehensible horrors#dead boy detective fanart#dead boy detectives#dead boy detective agency#charles rowland#edwin payne#payneland#painland#dbd#dbda#fanart#dbda art#doctor who#kind of#jessâs art#i am so normal about them#been feeling very neurotypical today (lies)
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AITA for snapping at my brother for taking his iPad to the bathroom? (I donât think this is unsanitary despite the subject matter but idk)
Sorry for the long post !
Context: There are three bathrooms in our house. One downstairs, one upstairs and one ensuit in our parents room that neither of us use. He is mid to early teens and autistic, I am late teens and (as much as I know) neurotypical. I donât know if this impacts anything, but i also donât know much about autism. I donât *think* it does but mum keeps letting him get away with this because of his diagnosis so it feels important to include.
Everytime he uses the upstairs toilet he brings his iPad with him and his headphones. He sits in there and watches YouTube and it takes him half an hour every time.
I only use the upstairs toilet because the downstairs one grosses me out to the extreme for reasons I donât want to get into, (I honestly think itâs becoming phobic, I wonât walk past it if the door is open or even breathe if Iâm near it,) but this issue is isolated to me and everyone else is fine with it. He is fine with using both. He also knows I only use the upstairs toilet.
He says he gets bored so he has to have his iPad when he goes. Yes, every single time, he gets bored and needs his iPad with him. I find this ridiculous, and ironic. Now instead of taking maybe five minutes he takes half an hour. I ask him again and again and again not to take his iPad in because itâs insensitive to if I might want to use the bathroom, but he doesnât change.
We have had this same conversation over and over again, like, over twelve or eighteen months, and he keeps promising that heâll change and then he doesnât. It makes me upset how content he is to continue even knowing very well how it upsets me.
We had a really big fight about it awhile ago and mum suggested he try not to use the iPad when he thought I wasnât likely to need to go to the bathroom, because thatâs apparently as much as he can bear to do. He said heâll try to use the downstairs toilet instead and because my dad uses that toilet heâs been getting in trouble with him for the exact same reason.
Sometimes when I knock on the door Iâll ask âdo you have your iPadâ and heâll say no but when he comes out he does. He doesnât have any qualms about lying to me and about breaking the same promise he makes over and over. Itâs like he doesnât care what I think at all and like he doesnât view my problems as valuable. Itâs literally the only thing I ask of him.
AITA: Today, he lied to me again. I knocked on the door and told him to hurry up and he said ok and I asked if he had his iPad in with him and he went strangely quiet and then said Iâm coming out. when he came out he didnât have his iPad so I thanked him because I finally felt he was listening to me, but he was lingering weirdly by the door. I HATE warm toilet seat so I gave it awhile and he went downstairs. He happened to come up while I was about to go in and he looked at me strange and I said âwhat? Why are you staring at me?â And he said no reason but I pressed it and he said âcan I check the bin?â
In the bathroom we have a small bin that just got emptied today. He told me he had taken his iPad in there and had hidden it in the bin. I was peeved he had lied to me again and also that he had no problem with taking my thanks. If I hadnât caught him trying to get it back he never would have told me.
So I said no and when I was finished I kind of snapped and told him I thought he was becoming a ânasty, selfish person.â Itâs the only thing I ask of him and Im so tired of it. I felt especially upset the extent he would lie to me so easily. It seems like nothing gets through to him, and itâs like, I canât help feeling he is a nasty selfish person!! I probably would have said more and said worse if dad hadnât caught on to what we were talking about. Upon reflection I feel like I shouldnât have said those things to him and I was being too harsh.
My brother apologized but Iâm so sick of it and even after all this he said he would use the downstairs bathroom. It feels like heâs not making any effort to actually change the behaviour and heâs avoiding confronting it. Iâm so tired of all of this.
AITA? I really donât know what to do, but I feel like Iâm being too mean about it.
Tldr: my brother always takes his iPad to the bathroom even though I ask him not to and he takes way too long on the toilet (up to half an hour) each time. This has been going on for months upon months and heâs showing no change even though he keeps apologizing and promising he will. Today, he lied and said he hadnât and I thanked him because I felt he was finally listening but he had hidden his iPad in the bin. I snapped and said he was a ânasty selfish personâ but I think I was being too mean.
What are these acronyms?
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Tone Indicators, a Masterlist
Tone indicators are shorthand for words used to convey tone, which the Cambridge Dictionary defines as "a quality in the voice that expresses the speaker's feelings or thoughts". Tone can do so much to change the meaning and implications of a sentence. The intended use of tone indicators is in text, and they are prevalent on social media where miscommunication is rife, and posts and messages are often misinterpreted. Tone can be especially difficult to parse for neurodivergent people. This is not to say that neurotypical people never misunderstand tone through text, or even face-to-face, because they do â but that neurodivergent people may experience and interpret tone differently. They are simply paralinguistic signifiers used at the ends of statements to help readers fill in the blanks. They can also be called written shorthand for the posterâs (OP's) intent and emotion.
It's entirely too easy to use them, simply use them after, or even before, the sentence that you wish to clarify. "Can you explain this for me? /gen"
I'm going to make a masterlist of all the tone indicators I've seen so far, adding some that aren't in popular usage, some I personally use with my friends, some that I believe should exist, under the cut. In some cases, I've seen multiple versions of the tone indicator, in which case I've put the more popular one first (at least by what I've seen).
Tone Indicators I've Seen Popularly Used
/j: joking "i'll have to deactivate my account now /j"
/hj: half-joking "we should definitely date /hj"
/s, /sarc, /sarcasm: sarcasm "i absolutely love being sad /s"
/srs: serious "i'm just so very tired /srs"
/nsrs: not serious "my leg's hurting a little bit but i'm okay /nsrs"
/g: genuine statement "i'm thankful that you're talking to me right now /g"
/lh: light-hearted "isn't is spelled 'unnecessary'? /lh"
/nm: not really mad or upset "i think you got that fact wrong /nm"
/pos, /pc: positive connotation "the movie's back on for tomorrow! /pos"
/neg, /nc: negative connotation "i have work tomorrow /neg"
/ly, /l: lyrics "she's a, she's a lady, and i am just a boy /ly"
/p: platonic "i just want to hug you /p"
/gen: genuine question "are you okay with me talking right now? /gen"
/t: teasing "it seems your sense of humour is horrible /t"
Tone Indicators I Haven't Seen Popularly, but I Have Seen, and Also Sometimes Use
/ref: reference "it's like none pizza with left beef /ref"
/nbh: nobody here, for vague mentioning "i'm just so angry at someone /nbh"
/r: romantic "i really want to cuddle with you right now /r"
/sx, /x: sexual intent (Used for sexual innuendos, or similar hinting)
/nsx, /nx: non-sexual intent (Used to clarify the lack of any such sexual intent in a statement)
/m: metaphorical "i was just swept away by a wave /m"
/li: literal "the fish was as big as my torso /li"
/ij: inside joke "it's a whale on dry land /ij"
/rh, /rt: rhetorical "who even cares? /rh"
/hyp: hyperbole (exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally) "i've told her ten thousand times to stop playing that song /hyp"
/c: copypasta (a block of text which is copied and pasted across the Internet by individuals through online forums and social networking websites)
/f: fake "i saw this post yesterday /f", which could be accompanied by an edited or modified post
/th: threat "i will get you to read that book /th"
/cb: clickbait "this website saved my life! /cb"
Tone Indicators I Use With My Friends, or Believe Should Be Mainstream
/a: affectionate "you're a bitch /a"
/q: quote "get up, get up, there are worlds to conquer /q"
/nf: not forced "do you want to go out with me today? /nf"
/pa: passive-aggressive "looks like someone has been talking to someone else behind my back /pa"
/npa: not passive-aggressive "i think someone has stolen my pen /npa"
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A letter from Nat
21.8.21
Hi people,
That was the greeting of one of my favorite patients here. They do a mix of mental health + rehab, and the overlap between them, (and like they look at other physical stuff, so all my hormone shit), and the woman that announced that timeless greeting was very much here for rehab and still off her face on arrival.
âHi people,â she said, swaggering onto the terrace, âI have been sent here to drink less.â And unsurprised silence graded this. âWho can help me?â More silence followed. A few of us exchanged looks. âDoes no one have a drink?â She finally asked.
The moral to the story is never be afraid to go after your goals + to ask for help. The other moral is humor is everywhere if youâre just willing to see it because that was fucking funny.
I want to talk to you guys - you people - about two things today, and how they can interlink. The first is something I mentioned yesterday and want to expand on, and thatâs shame around so called âalternate sexualitiesâ and the second is stigma around mental health. âInterlinked, interlinkedâ as Ryan goslingâs character says in the bit of Blade Runner 2049 I stay awake for each time.
People - even gay people - often talk about coming out as a tick box process. Thereâs a closeted before, and a freedom-filled after. Iâm not here to rain on that pride parade; if that hasnât been your full journey, thatâs⌠fine.
Iâve been formally out since 20, maybe even 19. Itâs who I am, I am proud + confident of my sexuality. And Iâm very fortunate to have circumstances that mean Iâm safe - more or less and mostly more - in that identity. And yet I still regularly feel shame. It was just over me, brought on by a girl pulling down at her skirt when she âfinds outâ or a raised eyebrow in a group of dudes realizes Iâm getting the jokes a touch too well or when someone asks if I have a husband.
Shame is an internal acknowledgment of deviance, and for most gay people itâs a tragically familiar emotion. Now, how can people who felt shame - deviance, embarrassment, discomfort emerge with absolutely no issues? And therein lies our second topic of the day: stigma around mental illness.
Several people messaged to say I was brave to share this stuff + talk about it at all in their #lettertonat. Iâm not trying to be. I just want people to know that itâs okay to not be okay at all. Therapy, meds, clinic + whatever else you need in order to deal with your shit, is normal and fine.
Youâre not a worse human because you - like the character at the start of my letter - need help. You might be a worse friend or partner. We destigmatize, we donât sugarcoat or lie. Like yeah, you might be a right fucking nightmare. Thatâs on you by the way, not your mental illness. Sucking isnât something your mental illness makes you do. But it can be really fucking hard to not be a nightmare when your demons come a knocking. And then many of us - yes, this included you my fucked in the head hettys - feel shame. Feel embarrassment. Deviance. It feels unfair; âI didnât ask for this, I didnât do anything wrong.â You didnât. So what can you do now? Be a little kinder to your partner. Be a little braver about your gayness, a little prouder if you will. Be a little nicer.
And hettys and neurotypicals remember that youâll never hate or shame us more than we hate + shame ourselves. So make less YNTCDs, and realize that you probably arenât ânot like the othersâ but you canâŚbe funny, warm, clever + kind. And if we built a world on those 4 values, weâd have a better world.
Nat xxx
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The Silver Screen Savant: Thoughts on Hollywood Autism, Pt. 1
When I was a child, I didnât fit in.
A common statement, many people empathize with. However, to say âI didnât fit in,â is a gross understatement. I stuck out like a sore thumb, and at times, still do. Now, why was this, you may ask? Well, there are things I could name. A banal little checklist of traits and characteristics would probably do the trick. But Iâm not sure that would do it justice. So Iâll tell you what it felt like:
I had trouble reading facial expressions, because peopleâs face, and hands, and body would say one thing, while their words said another. Smiles that didnât reach the eyes. Laughs that were a little too hearty, or loud, or hollow. Disingenuous conversations and actions frustrated me. If lying was wrong, why were, as my mother used to call them âlittle white liesâ acceptable? Why did we smile and thank our new neighbors for their homemade casserole dish, before promptly throwing it away when they left? These things, and many others, puzzled me. But the thing that puzzled me the most, was interacting with my peers. I didnât understand the sensation of a hundred million bees, pricking me with electric anxiety when I went to school, or played with children in the neighborhood. I didnât understand why they werenât constantly talking, wondering, asking- about everything. I didnât understand how their minds worked. Most of all, I didnât understand why it physically hurt me to look into peopleâs eyes, child and adult alike. On the other hand, I did notice they didnât like me very much. âYouâre weird,â they would sneer. Or âyou talk too much.â And, they were right. I knew they were. Even as I would wax poetic about all sorts of nonsense, like the difference between a cocoon and a chrysalis. I knew. But I couldnâtâŚI couldnât shut myself off.
And thatâs just one tiny example, of a lifetime.
Back then, if youâd asked what was âwrongâ with me, on a good day, I would have shrugged. Other times, when I despised every fiber of my being, Iâd parrot back the sentiments of my peers. âFreak,â âloser,â and âr*tardâ were words I heard often. And for a long time, I believed them.
Today, I know differently. Not to say the above struggles no longer apply. If anything, some of them are worse. But now, I now longer blame or hate myself for being different. Now, I understand.
The Lightbulb Moment
In 2014, my daughter began speaking. She was four years old. Before then, she could say âdada,â âjuice,â âtwo,â and âgo.â The rest was garbled noises, when and if she made a sound. Most of the time, she didnât. My wife and I were concerned, to say the least. But it wasnât exactly a new worry. My princess never crawled, never pointed to get peopleâs attention, or show them things, and did not play with toys. Plus a host of other concerns. So we hopped on Google, and after about, oh, half an hour of research, got in touch with a doctor. Now, I feel like I must add the caveat here that we wanted to have her seen before then. However, many issues (including a bout of homelessness) prevented that. So we were a bitâŚlate, in that regard. No matter. Her doc sent her to a local play therapist, and after about fifteen minutes of interaction, the therapist knew exactly what was going on: Our little Princess was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
But wait! Thereâs more-
Once this became clear, my wife started looking into other things. Her own independent research, as it were. She kept it to herself for a month or three, then avalanched it all into my lap . Our Princess wasnât the only one, as it turned out. And really, had I ever bothered to lookâŚit was obvious. But I was in denial. I couldnât possibly be autistic. So, like the stubborn Taurus I am, I dug my heels in. I refused to discuss it, for almost year. But, my beloved wife, who is much smarter and wiser than I am, knew what to do. In the name of âresearch for Princess,â she had me read a list of common autistic traits/symptoms. And it all came crashing down. I couldnât deny it anymore. I was, without a doubt, also on the spectrum.
The gift of the Media: Fear, self hatred, stigmaâŚsuperpowers?
Now, you might be asking, why exactly did I doubt myself? Cultural association, of course. And by âcultural association,â what I really mean is âthe media.â Mostly, anyway. See, Iâve noticed a trend. In movies, tv and books, autism is usually presented in one of two ways: The Rainman, or the Idiot Perma-child, who cannot care for themselves. And Iâm neither.
On the one hand, I was a straight A student. I could sleep through classes and make 100%. I was reading by the age of three or four, and I graduated highschool at fifteen. On the other, I have been known to go a full forty-eight hours without eating, because I âdidnât think about it.â
But Iâm not the autistic person you see on tv. Now, that isnât to say those people donât exist. They do. For example, my daughter deals with much more noticable struggles than I ever have, while I have another member of my family (also on the spectrum) who is a certifiable genius. And Iâve known many others who are âobviouslyâ autistic, whereas I pass as allistic* (see footnotes below) easily. Which is a sad discourse altogether, really. One the one hand, an âobviouslyâ autistic person, what one might call âLow Functioningâ (I could write a whole other post about why âlow/high functioningâ labels are harmful, however, for the sake of brevity, thereâs some here, here and here) are often boiled down only to their struggles, where as people such as myself are relegated to âNot autistic enough to be my problemâ or âwell, you donât look autistic.â
To quote-
âThe difference between high-functioning autism and low functioning is that high-functioning means your deficits are ignored, and low-functioning means your assets are ignored.â -Laura Tisoncik
Why is this? As you might have guessed from the title of this post- I put a lot of it on the shoulders of the entertainment we consume. Nevermind certain hate organizations who swath themselves in the cloak of âadvocacyâ such as Autism Speaks, and Anti-Vaxcers, who think itâs better to have a dead child than an autistic one.*
I could go on. At length. However, Iâm going to try and stay on track, just this once. To put it plainly, Hollywood Autism often works exactly like âhighâ and âlowâ functioning labels: Weâre either uplifted to inhuman portrayals of superpowered savants, or downgraded to an âinspirationalâ invalid. In these stories, weâre props. The âMagical Disabled person!â as Tv Tropes puts it, there to uplift the neurotypical character from their adversity. After all, if this poor dumb sod (i.e- me) can be happy with their burdensome life, surely the pretty white able-bodied protagonist can! Weâre âfunny,â âscary,â or âsympathetic,â characters, who lack dimension, and nuance. Weâre âinhuman.â Weâre the lesser. Or at least, thatâs one way itâs written. The other is the hyper intelligent, almost âsuperhuman,â and definitely super jackass genius, whoâs much too smartâ˘, and logicalŠ to ever have feelings, friends or empathy. Thatâs it folks! Thatâs the show!
Thatâs what books, tv and movies told me, anyway. And what I truly believed for a long time. Itâs why I cringed away in terror and shame when my spectrum issues were finally noticed. And why it took me so long to come to terms with it.
So, there you have it. Part 1. On the next episode, Iâll give some examples, both good and bad, and maybe even a little âwhat not to do,â or at least a âplease consider real hard before doing this in your own work.â
If you like writing, talking about bad tropes and even worse marginalized representation, you can follow me at wordpress or at my âstill has that new car smellâ twitter. For now- thanks for reading.
-Your loving Vincent
*allistic= Non autistic.
*Vaccines do NOT cause Autism, however, if they DID, it would still be better to have an autistic child than one who died at the ripe old age of âeasily preventable but deadly communicable disease.â
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ok so um.......... .. . . ..
 i had a really bad time, went crazy and deleted all my maurice fics. Yes I have them in my notes and if someone wants them, I can send them to them, but still. i no longer feel confident about You Donât Own Me and To a Happier Year.
but i feel bad and guilty bc then i remembered someone who left a very nice comment in my fic. maybe ill rewrite everything and publish it again, but not today and certainly not tomorrow. so ill explain my outline for the two fanfics cus i already had a ending in mind
before anything-- do i plan to write more maurice fanfic? the answer is yes. i hyperfixate very hard on maurice so ill never stop, but ill try not to make it public till i trust my bilingual capacities
 so, You Donât Own Me
Percival Darsey is a young man who spend time in Penderleighâs after having an encounter with Anne in the village next to Penge. He becomes Cliveâs pupil bc of Anneâs desire, and so Percival bounces between them (wanting cliveâs attention, then wanting anneâs)
Clive doesnât really care about Percyâs attraction to Anne, bc he was sure it was silly love-at-first sight stuff. It was supposed to be explained later that Percy was really naive when it came to love. I actually had some dialogue written in my phoneâs notes app to show how percy views were when it came to love and how easy it was for him to fall in love:
âI canât do nothing but leave it to take me, Mr. Durhamâ, said Percy gently, with his back resting against the black slate of the roof; the light rays of sun --whose bright, blinding face was hiding behind clouds-- were worth coming the next day. âWhen someone smiles back at me, when someone touches my shoulder to get me out of the way, when they wish me a good day; I fall in love too easily, with many people. Approximately five times a day.â
âMany people?â, Clive laughed. âYou mean, many women.â
Percival contemplated the sky a while.
âNo,â he finally said, âmany people.â
 Percival was supposed to be Cliveâs opposite: excited about loving and be loved in return, excited to be discovered and being so happy with himself, he can barely hide it.
But when Percival got infatuated with a man, an acquaintance of Clive, Clive started to snap, to wander, to ask questions he couldâve never asked before. But Percival had nothing to hide anyways, and this would make Clive distant
Resume: with time Percival wouldâve become closer and closer to anneâs circle, and thus he wouldâve grown tired and exhausted. Bc Percival is autistic, and he has very little spoons (a metaphor about being autistic), meeting new people every day, being dragged to social compromises and being treated as some sort of servant that these rich ppl needed for entertainment, he wouldâve suffered a meltdown and avoid Pendersleigh for a while
But bc Percy is not dumb, he wouldâve returned bc he needs to eat, and bc of his neurodivergence he couldnât keep jobs that were mostly aimed to neurotypicals. So when he came back, he decided to stay in Cliveâs side. He found comfort in his cases cus all he needed to do was ignore Clive and sleep and little lol. And so this was supposed to be the first step to develop their relationship: Clive being interested in percy now that he has discover Percy likes men as well, Percival feeling drawn to Clive. They get to know each other and eventually, they fall in love.
But ofc everytime Clive perceives a hint of flirt, he panics and back off, bc hes an IâHSHFS- NOO- WAITâLMAO DLFAOFâIM SO SHY--- gay, and Percy is a ;)) bisexual, so they keep flirting a good part of my outline.
But then BOOm I planned Mrs Hall to visit clive. And so clive wouldve remembered everything with Maurice, feel bad, and reject percival once for all. Percival cries a lot and anne thinks he is sick bc he has an uncontrollable sobbing, but then he escapes again
Clive has some awful months and Anne notices. She knows, but at the same time, she doesnât: she knows Percy and Clive had a cute dynamic and relationship, she knows they loved each other, but she cant notice the homoerotism they had, and so she goes on looking for percival
I shpuld add that even tho I didnât outlined this, there was a subplot exploring Anneâs bisexuality. I was working on how to do it when I deleted the fanfic
She finds Percival and discovers that he lied this whole time: his real name is Daniel Darcy, son of Mrs. Darcy, a middle-class woman who fell in disgrace after her husband escaped with his lover. It is revealed that Percival has many brothers and is the youngest of all, being 22. It is also revealed that he have been running away from home and coming back since he was twelve. His mother openly talks shit about Percy and it is hinted that Percy is a  Bastard, a product of a love affair.
There was a silly joke I had in my notes app:
âMany years ago, Mr. Darcy ran away from us, in the gay ninetiesâ, he spat, struggling with laughing and bitterness. âGay, my mother hates the word, just like she hates me and everything that is stunning.â
Then Anne wouldve told Percival about Clive but he wouldve stop her and ask her to go. But he wouldve return to penge a few weeks later cus he a dumbass who doesnât value himself. Then he and clive wouldve kissed in the rain while he sees percy in the darkness of the night at pengeâs garden, but then percy wouldve been like âlol byeâ bc he just wanted to let clive know that he loved him too and that he would be back in the morning.
Fluffy ffluffy fluffy flufly
Then BOOM Maurice makes an appearance, telling clive everything about what happened with kitty, then asking for money lmao so he and alec can look for another place, and he tells clive that didnât anywhere else to go. At fisrt Clive says no but then percy manages to persuade him into helping Maurice, who is surprised to see Clive with a man. Clive and Maurice have a nice chat, clive apologizes and cries and then the next day Clives calls Risley and cries too and say something like sorry I wasnât there for you yoy didnât deserved to go through that and it was so unfair, and then he -in  a very subtle way- apologizes to anne. And thus Clive is clean of guilt
But then Clive and Percival have a fight bc he wants to participate in Cliveâs life but Clive refuses. Angsty angsty angsty. Percival reveals he was promised by his mother his part of the heritage if he married and became a proper gentleman. He tells clive he will accept his mother offer if clive keeps being ashamed of him
Clive wants to be with percival but he sees himself in another drama, so he does what is easier: letting Percival go.
But percival didnât expected that shit to happen ?? as extra as he is, he thought clive wouldve comfort him and kiss him. .. .. . . .
Bc he doenst know anywhere else to go, and doesnât want to get married and hates his mom and he would hate it if he became clive, he goes with Maurice and Alec CUS HE WANTS THEM TO BE HIS DADS ÂżâÂżââ93 me too bitch get in the line
So advices advices advices. Percival has a clearer mind and he runs his way up to penge
So kisses kisses kisses, he and Clive are in love nd stuff. JUMP TIME, Maurice and alec live in France and they are Percyâs and Cliveâs neighbors. Anne is looking for adventures and kisses many women and many men. Everyone is happy YAY I can cope
TO A HAPPIER YEAR
Ok I am a little tired I want to sleep jdswiow io
So Cliveâs durham first love. Fluffly fluffly fflufy
It cover events during the movie (clive being tired of bullshit after Christmas vacs).
Bc clive is an asshole, he ignores Quinn (his first love and stuff]) and quinn wants to know why he is being pushed aside and why is clive so distant. But then he discovers it and wish clive luck
JUMP TIME they are both in their 36 and clive is miserable during a trip in Italy. They both meet during said trip, reconnect romantically, Â and HAPPY YEAR YES EVERYTHING IS HAPPIER THE YEARS HAPPY ENDING WHATEVer. I swear it is cuter Im just very sleepy now lol
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buckle in, i have some Personal Shit to get off my chest and fling into the void. might as well before iâm Purged, right? lots of triggery stuff ahead.Â
so last week i got a job. it isnât a spectacular job. the pay is shit and itâs extremely physically taxing. but itâs a job. iâve been unemployed since july having put countless resumes out and done a handful of interviews with absolutely no luck. so weâre just happy iâm employed and going to have some income again.
on my very first day of orientation last week, my mom texts me asking me about christmas plans and i tell her iâm unsure what my schedule will look like while my brother is in town because i literally just started and donât actually have any sort of schedule yet, obviously.
she proceeds to get pissed. starts calling me selfish for getting a job right before christmas. blames me for messing up plans because now sheâs gonna have to work around my schedule. says i did this on purpose because i could have easily gotten a job like this at any time. iâm floored.
like, my mom is a grade A special class cunt, but she took it to new levels. i couldnât even think of anything to say. i was so appalled and upset by the fact this woman couldnât even say a simple âcongratsâ to her own daughter, knowing the troubling financial situation weâve been in. eventually my s/o took my phone from me to text her himself because he was Done with her shit. i proceeded to have a mini-breakdown. i thought she had finally changed. like, i went without speaking to her at all for two years before because of bullshit like this she pulled on me in the past and told her if she wanted me in her life she needed to take a hard look at herself and change some shit. and she did. for a long while there she really did. she stopped drinking (sheâs a raging alcoholic who will deny that until her dying breath) unless it was a special occasion and even then it was only like one glass. she started being nicer, friendlier, and a lot more grateful for the things we help her with. she stopped complaining and bitching about every possible thing. hell, she even started finding some social events to get out and go to. For a while she was actually kinda nice to be around for a change.
and then she did that and it made me realize nothing about her has actually changed. she canât change. she has so many unchecked mental problems she refuses to see a doctor about. sheâs in denial about 90% of them. she is sick, needs treatment, but refuses it at all. refuses to even acknowledge sheâs sick. sheâs extremely narcissistic. her selfishness knows no bounds. she honestly believes that giving $50 to someone in need while dropping $2k on herself(on shit she doesnât need at ALL) is being generous. she has no concept of saving money. she has to spend it. sheâs a hoarder and shopaholic. sheâs paranoid of everyone and everything; everyone is out to get her, conspiring against her. any time her phone acts up sheâs convinced someone is trying to hack her. a company accidentally overcharging her and she thinks someone within that company is personally trying to steal from her. she believes her doctors are trying to fuck with her when theyâre literally just trying to obey the law. no matter what it is, its always about her. it doesnât even fucking cross her mind even once what another person might be going through or dealing with or that accidents happen. she believes because a waitress working a double shift on thanksgiving didnât bring her napkins in 5 seconds when she asked that she doesnât deserve a tip. she feels personally attacked when i talk about her generation as a whole. she canât ever be wrong. she believes because sheâs older that she knows everything. she believes because she has had an encounter with something that it makes her an expert on it, or because she read 1 book or 1 unsourced article on the internet that she knows more. she believes, in her mind, that i am still 13 years old. honestly. she continuously pulls up weird shit from that time. thinks i still dress the same, still have the same preferences about everything no matter how many times i have told her âi havenât like that since i was 12/13/whatever age.â hell she even talks to me like iâm a child half the time. She hasnât worked a job since she was in her 30s and lies to live off the government, mooches from literally anyone she can, and gets oil royalties that she didnât even do anything to invest in, she just inherited them. but then has the gall to bitch at me about jobs when iâve been working since i was barely 15. she believes the world owes her. she believes that we kids owe her for being a mother and frequently tries to hold that over me as if that werenât her fucking duty anyway when she decided to keep us. she is always angry and negative and prone to violence - especially while drunk. she has literally pointed a loaded, cocked gun at my chest, thrown glass dishes at me (which ended with glass shards in my hands and feet), dragged me by my hair, and has done ten times that in emotional abuse. sheâs called the cops on my brother over an argument, and has thrown a computer monitor at me (one of those old CRT ones) because i said she was acting crazy. she would get so nasty with me my brother would have to step in and tell her to shut the fuck up. she didnât even try to get me into counselling or therapy or even talk to me when she found out i was being sexually assaulted as a young child. all she did was remove me from the situation, which ultimately removed me from half of my family and didnât explain why. she never told me is wasnât my fault. she never talked to me about what sex actually was and how itâs supposed to be. she never told me about consent. she did nothing for me to cope with and process the years of physical and mental trauma i had endured, and i am still fucked up from it to this day because it defined my view of everything sexual. it created deep and strong neural pathways iâll be lucky to ever be able to change. she went through my mail and read a letter to a long distance friend, finding out i was queer and genderfluid and outed me to the rest of the family, called me a disgrace and disgusting. she would go through chat logs and shame me about everything she could. sheâs racist as fuck, still uses the N word, and has told me several times if i ever dated a black person she would disown me. she has always played favorites with my brother because he is the smart one, the one who graduated at 16 and got into university on full scholarship at 17, the one who has always been a social butterfly, extroverted with lots of friends, neurotypical by most standards, handsome and always had good taste in girls, successful in everything he does, and has a great career as an environmental engineer that pays well enough for him to take multiple overseas trips, pay off student loans(when he decided to switch majors and stay in college longer) and is just over all the perfect son (he and i have always gotten along fantastically. i love him immensely, but itâs no secret to either of us who she has always favored),and sheâs an opioid addict - another thing she will deny until sheâs dead. and thats just everything i can think of at the moment. theres more. theres always more.
so she texted me a couple days ago apologizing without actually apologizing. blaming her attitude on the fact her pain meds are being reduced (not once did she actually say sorry) and sheâs been in a bad mood because of it. today she texted me, still without a real apology, just saying how sheâs wondering how my job is going. but the truth is, i know she doesnât give a fuck. she only wants to feel better about herself. she wants to believe sheâs forgiven so she can have things her way again. she doesnât actually give a shit about my feelings, about what sheâs done to me, or about how this is the same cycle of bullshit weâve been through countless times. she doesnât care.Â
and yet, i still find myself feeling guilty to cut her out like the tumor she is. despite everything she has done to me. i canât help it and i wish i could. she has manipulated me so much throughout my life that i have an almost pavlovian response to feel like its my fault, that iâm the failure sheâs always said i am, that iâm the one letting her down. i know iâm not. i know that isnât the truth but itâs still there and i hate it. but still, iâm trying my best to just fucking ignore her. she doesnât get to have the satisfaction of thinking all is well and forgiven. iâve been through this too many times and frankly iâm just so fucking tired of it.
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Today the world broke.
My followers knows that I havenât had the best relationship with my parents. They kicked me out when I was fifteen and left me to rot in a psych ward because my alcoholic stepfather didnât want to share his apartment with an autistic person. Which understandably made me suicidal.Â
But I pulled through, moved into my own apartment when I was sixteen and managed to regain control of my life. I did that on my own, no help from anyone. I even managed to obtain a semi-functional relationship with my parents again, even though they didnât deserve forgiveness. The only downside is that I was stuck with a contact person who came by a few times a week to make sure I didnât become suicidal again. But aside from that, everything started working out.
But as my followers also knows, I recently fell back into a pit of despair. I donât know what the fuck happened. I lost some friends, got bullied again, drank a bunch of alcohol to cope and suddenly Iâm a paranoid mess. It all happened so suddenly. I was fine (by comparison) in 2017, but the moment it became 2018, everything I loved just fell apart and my life has only gone downhill since.
But I have been pulling through. I have been keeping up with school with damn near perfect grades. I cook my own food, I buy my own groceries, I clean my own apartment and pay my own bills. All that stuff. Despite being a paranoid mess, I have somehow managed to remain a functional, responsible adult.
But some days are worse than others. Some people may remember that I cut myself a week ago. It wasnât even very deep, it was more like scratch marks. I decided to share that story with my dad and mom. They promised not to tell anyone, because if my contact person found out, he would undoubtedly take my apartment from me and put me back in a psych ward. Iâm legally an adult, he shouldnât have that kind of power over me, but Iâm disabled and disabled people donât have any rights, so he can throw me in a psych ward if he feels like it.
My parents promised not to tell anyone. They lied. They told my contact person and now he wants to take everything away from me that I have fought so hard to obtain. He gave me an ultimatum; I can either rot in a psych ward (which would keep me away from school and ruin my future) or I can take anti-psychotic medicine. Just to be clear, I have never been psychotic. I can be paranoid at times, but I have never displayed any signs of psychosis. Anti-psychotic meds is a practice used to silence autistic people and turn us into energyless zombies if the neurotypicals get fed up with us. Giving a non-psychotic person anti-psychotic meds can often lead to intense depression, intense stomach pain / vomiting and suicidal tendencies, just to name a few of the side effects. You can find a lot of horror stories about these meds if you look them up.
I canât afford to drop out of school and rot in a shitty psych ward again. My ambitions are too great to give up like that. So naturally I agreed to take the anti-psychotic meds. In reality, I am obviously going to flush them all in the toilet and fake my side effects instead. I refuse to be turned into a zombie by a bunch of neurotypicals who wants to take my future away from me.
But this means that I canât trust anyone. My parents betrayed me again. I thought I could trust them, but as usual, they just want to ruin my future and lock me up. Same goes for my contact person.
I have nobody. I canât trust anyone. I am now completely alone in a world that hates me for being autistic. Today the world broke.
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big ass trigger warning: i dissociate half way through this text, itâs about sociopaths and manipulation
i donât even know how i got to this point. i was just thinking of how much i hated sociopaths - yes, itâs that time of the year, itâs almost november and I stumbled upon an aspd forum.
 I havenât been this tilted in forever, then it got me thinking, you know.
the traits I've observed in sociopaths are:
antisocial and lacking empathy
  conniving, manipulative, deceitful, and dishonest
  control freaks
  charming and smooth and use those social skills to get their way.
rule-breakers and risk-takers and commonly have repeated clashes with the law and thus a criminal record
will copy behavior of neurotypical/empathic people to not seem bad
and like, the more i think of it, the more i realise iâm partially like this too. i want to be in control of things. i am dishonest and manipulative for my own good, telling lies so that i can get myself out of situations i dislike. I've been told iâm very kind and funny to new people, but i wonder how far it really goes.
like till what point do i stay me
because i am capable of empathy, sure, i am capable to care for peopleâs feelings and care for their needs
but what if i like
taught myself all of that?
i know my grandmother managed
what if iâm doing the same thing?
they say ppl with aspd are incapable of love
and some days i wonder if i am too, because like
what does love feel like? i know that i want good things to happen to people in my family and my friends, and that iâd be upset if they didnât, but what does love really feel like? because at this rate i just
like idk
what if all this time of me hating sociopaths
itâs that i hate them because i see myself in them? itâs that i hate them for being able to not give a fuck about someoneâs emotions, whilst i want to do that, on particularly bad days like today.Â
like i have always tried to help people, but most of the time it was for my own benefit, and i always hated people who would use others as stones to step on to get to a goal, simply because i donât understand it. but what if this whole time I've been like that, too? just teaching myself not to do it because society thinks itâs bad?
a friend and i had a convo like this. about how weâd actually, genuinely be able to kill someone if we just âflipped the switchâ. itâs a phenomenon i canât really explain, but i think the talking about sociopaths triggered this dissociation right now. because i know that right now i feel cold, i feel empty, like a black pit inside, and i know thatâs how sociopaths feel. and i know too, that if someone were to ask me something rn, I've learned to deal with these sort of things, so i could lie to them and they would never know.Â
but if i were to look in the mirror right now, i know that iâd have those huge pupils again, the demon stare like i call it.
i donât know, you know.
like i went onto that forum, and now i keep thinking of all the times iâm faking being nice
all the times people ask me for things and i deep down donât give a fuck, but do it because i know itâll make me feel better about myself, not even because theyâll feel better, but because i will. most of the time, itâs because i just want people to shut the fuck up for a moment.Â
i donât know. itâs like going onto that forum about sociopaths just triggers that mirror in me, that mirrorâs everyoneâs emotions and such. but if you mirror nothing, you get a void.
like i donât know. i feel like iâm both sleepy and very awake at the same time, and my head is hurting a little. it might just be another episode.
itâs just like. i always thought of myself as a nice person, partially because i make myself do things for others because itâll help them and iâll feel good about myself, but what if being nice is something you donât learn, but you just feel? just like love is something you just feel?
like, i donât feel anything
not love
nothing atm
and i think i prefered myself last year
when i felt everything at once and it all went to shit
because this void is making me feel even more like
an alien
an outsider
than any fucking forum can
just
idk
like idk
iâm just thinking how iâm annoyed at these people, these sociopaths for existing
i know thatâs radical
but they fucking hurt people like me so much, they hurt my feelings and they threaten me and anger me just by existing
and the thought i just had, that i could even be something similar to that? that made me dissociate so hard. because now that i write about what i feel, like the keys beneath my fingers, the floor beneath my feet, the texture of my pants and such, i feel âwarmerâ, less of a pit. like a fire started burning again, and all of a sudden iâm okay.
and now i get it, mo. now i get why you didnât want me to talk about this that one time. i get it, because iâm the same. the more i get in contact with these morally inept, toxic people, the more i feel myself turn into one, just to cope.
and maybe thatâs what happened all these years. maybe this is just a fall-back to a way of coping and facing the world. maybe my way of protecting myself is also retreating, especially when things trigger me.Â
i donât know. like i really donât.
like i just keep thinking, what if all the people i hated for being arrogant, for not caring about other peopleâs feelings, for not considering me and what i needed werenât actually bad people, but were just normal kids, and what if instead of them being the narcissists, i am?
would that even be possible?
wouldnât i be fooling everyone? my two best friends, the two most emotional and empathic people i know, wouldnât i be hurting them? my family, my old friends, everyone I've ever talked to
what if it wasnât them
what if it wasnât
and what if itâs me
i know i shouldnât be thinking this
or even considering it as itâs really bad for my mental health and such
but in the words of my ex-best friend, maybe instead of blaming me, you should start and look at yourself, first.
(which was weird, considering i had literally just told her i thought i was the person at fault all the time, but ok, you canât heal stupid)
anyway, iâm going to app my aunt about this. the more i think about it, the further away from myself i get.Â
thankfully for me, though, ever since last year, i have regained feeling in my fingers. which is nice. took me a while. aunt had told me that would probably be a cause of like my meds and also just the sensory overload in my head.Â
but okay, a deep breath, and then i put an end to this text, because these disgusting emotionless words creep into my heart like they were branded on it, and i hate it.
clarification: i hate sociopaths, and everything theyâve done and do. and i get that it stems from trauma sometimes, and for those i would make an exception, if they werenât just as bad as all the others. and if youâre a sociopath, donât interact with me, iâll block you right away and you can go feed off someone elseâs misery
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The Unquiet Grave: Chapter 4
You can read Chapter 4 on Ao3 Here
Chapter 4: What Validations We Seek
      Itâs late when the flight gets back from Georgia, and Will sleeps in one of the bunks at the EBAU rather than make the drive home. He has his own blanket and pillowcase that no one touches, and he sets them up on the bunk before he sleeps. Sometimes, laying his head in the space where someone else slept gave him the ability to see their dreams if he didnât layer his own things accordingly.
      Itâs not their dreams that wake him in the early morning, though; thankfully, itâs not his sordid, dark ones, either.
      Itâs Hannibal Lecter.
      He opens the door to the room and squints, sleep still clinging to him. The knocking hadnât been overly repetitious, although itâd been firm enough that itâd jolted him from a dream where heâd been lost in a maze of ever-growing hedges. Lecter stands the way heâs come to expect a therapist to stand âback straight, shoulders back, and expression placidly open. When Will stares at him, he notes the lack of animal hair on the leg of his trousers, the smell of breakfast cooked an hour or so before, and a cologne of rich, careful selection. He sees things one would only see in having to look with their real eyes rather than his metaphorical ones. Itâs an interesting sensation, and it brings him one step farther out of the cobwebs that cling to his mind.
      âGood morning, Will,â he says cheerfully.
      âWhereâs Crawford?â Will asks. He glances past Lecter, sliding his glasses on. âOr Bloom?â
      âAgent Crawford is deposed in court, and Dr. Bloom is seeing one of her patients today,â Hannibal replies. âI was allowed into the headquarters to see you here.â
      âI have work.â
      âThen the adventure will be ours,â Hannibal decides. âIf you donât mind, of course.â
      Will minds very much, Hannibalâs decision to make his work their adventure, but he lets him into the small rest room all the same. The tabs on Beverlyâs tablet still contain his articles. Thankfully, it sits closed so that Dr. Lecter canât see.
      Itâs a haphazard version of the FBI, what with the scattered tables and the bunkbeds assembled against the walls. Itâs for any agent working at HQ with long hours, but years before itâd melded into the sort of space that only empaths used when the work became too much. Neurotypicals tended to avoid the place entirely.
      There is an empath sleeping in the corner with bad dreams, and when Will glances to his distraught face, he can see the edges of terror, the whisper of someone chasing and chasing and chasing and not letting the empath get away this time.
      He looks away and quickly pulls his gloves on before getting dressed. The clothes from the day before will have to do.
      Just across from him, pinned to the wall, is a picture of four people posed with a sense of comradery. Theyâre meant to be empaths, with their wide smiles and eager eyes, and the caption beneath it says, âYes, we can!â Will eyes it with a curl to his lip as he laces up his shoes. None of the people in the picture are empaths.
      They donât speak as he makes coffee and sees himself out of HQ, jacket buttoned against a cool breeze and a whisper that Abigail Hobbs still hasnât woken up. They stand on the steps, and he tries to wake himself up, small shakes of his shoulders and feet that rock him forward, then back.
��      âIâve got an RA,â he says. At Lecterâs furrowed brow, he explains, âRogue agent. If they didnât tell you, thatâs what I do here, for the FBI. I track rogue agents.â
      âThey send empaths after rogue agents?â he asks, surprised.
      âThey send empaths after empath rogue agents,â Will clarifies. âIf itâs an E-1, they send an E-2. If itâs an E-2, they send another E-2 with countering talents, or an E-3.â
      âWhere you are the only E-3, Iâm sure most of the responsibility of E-2âs falls directly to you, or if it is a particularly difficult E-1, theyâll ask for your help.â
      Will nods, staring out at a small scattering of agents walking in a not-quite group. He can spot the empaths from the way they walk close enough to seem âtogetherâ, but distanced by instinct, by habit. No one tries to move too near to them, and they maintain a guise of blending into the crowd without being the crowd. All empaths have that talent, to attempt at being the crowd while never being able to be part of the crowd.
      âMost of them resent me,â he says. Lecter looks amused, and he hurries on to say, âNot because of my abilities. Empaths donât tend to draw lines like that. Itâs because they know that if they step out too far, Jack sends me after them.â
      âYou represent what happens if they cannot maintain control,â Hannibal realizes. âHow do you find your own methods of control, Agent Graham? How did you regain control of yourself after you killed Garrett Jacob Hobbs?â
      Will wants to say that he builds forts; that he is quite capable of maintaining control and placing walls between him and the man he murdered. He glances to Hannibalâs face, notes the serene expression of someone that is impartial, someone that asks because heâd said it was alright to ask. He canât say these things to Jack; he sure as hell wonât say them to Director Hansen. Thereâs something appealing about saying them to someone that another empath canât walk up to and pry the words from simply by looking into their eyes. Thereâs something appealing about saying the truth to someone like Hannibal Lecter.
      ââŚSomeone put my gloves on for me,â he reveals, quiet. Ashamed. âAndâŚI had a sensation like I was killing myself. Like Iâd put the knife to my own throat andâŚâ He makes a cutting motion with his free hand. âI just laid there, trying to build the walls up, trying toâŚcome back into my own head, and I couldnât. Agent Crawford had to haul me up and drag me from the cabin before I could even realize that I was Will Graham and not Garrett Jacob Hobbs or Abigail Hobbs.â
      âDo you feel that you have some semblance of control now?â
      He knows the right thing to say, so he says it, otherwise heâll be placed before his director and forced to face the music. âIâm in control now,â he lies.
      No one has time for an E-3 that canât maintain control. He heads down the steps to his car, and Dr. Hannibal Lecter follows.
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      Heâs smiling as they pull up to Dolarhydeâs address, and Will canât feel his amusement as he looks at him.
      âWhatâs so funny?â Heâs never had to ask that before. Normally, in a simple glance he can see the reason behind the smile, the rhyme behind the flicker of light in someoneâs eye. He steadfastly ignores the mild sensation of just how it feels to have to ask âalmost pleasant in the sense of ignorance.
      âYou see the police raids on television, you see empaths appearing in court to reveal the thoughts behind a murdererâs blank gaze, and you see the FBI releasing news to the press about terrorism,â Hannibal says, climbing out of the car. âYet now Iâm able to see the work that leads to that sort of media reveal. Itâs like peeking behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.â
      âHis name is Francis Dolarhyde,â he says, walking up to the fence. He hands the file to Lecter, reasons that if Lecter can keep his head on straight, he has every reason to see the file. âAttended the EA from the age of ten up to graduation, fast tracked through university. Worked in the Marine Corps for four years, chose not to renew his contract and instead began FBI training and education. A Field Agent, E-2 Seer and Dreamer that worked as an empath inspector. If empaths began showing signs of any form in instability, he investigated the situation to deem whether or not their position in the FBI needed to be reevaluated.â
      âThey allow empaths to work in the field like that?â
      âSome of them. Heâd have been tested extensively.â Will had been tested extensively. He stops at the fence that he has to open in order to walk up to the front door, and he stares for a long time up at the bleak, aged house. While Hannibal reads over the dossier, Will removes his gloves and delicately places them in his coat pocket. He flexes his fingers, studying the space Dolarhyde occupied once as a place of rest.
      His hands pass along the latch to open the fence, and he is a mailman, striding forward to drop off a necessary bit of mail. The feeling is bleak, a smear of a memory, and itâs cast aside as he walks up the path towards the house. The grass is aged, yellowed, more crab grass and weeds than anything, and when the wind blows, dandelion seeds scatter and cling to the bottom of his pants.
      He touches the railing as he walks up the steps, but there is nothing but a faint, echoing whisper that the rail has been used before. Someone was fatigued when touching it, but then it is gone. At the small mailbox by the door, mail is stuffed in. He doesnât touch it; he knows the mailman is losing his patience, having to cram more and more mail in with no one to retrieve it.
      âCan you feel everything?â
      âNot everything. Not even Iâm omnipotent,â he replies. He jiggles the handle, not surprised to find it locked. To the amusement of Hannibal, he retrieves a key from his pocket and unlocks it, walking in.
      âDo you have keys to the homes of every agent?â
      âEvery empath.â
      Itâs not lost on him that the right to privacy doesnât exist as far as the FBI is concerned with empaths. Although itâs fair, seeing as how the FBI doesnât think any citizen has a right to privacy âif youâre doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.
      Right?
      Itâs taken a step farther with empaths, though. Copies of their house keys, the right to read through any and all mail if they behave in a manner âquestioning of the integrity of the FBIâ, an ability to control just where they receive medical aid if the need arises. Will hasnât had to endure any of their invasive behavior, but he is well aware of the ability for that to change at any time. Perks of the job and all.
      The air inside is stagnant, the house not entirely clean but not quite cluttered enough to be considered messy. Thereâs an odd smell, something like musk, dry sweat and copper, and Will stands in the entryway, inhaling it. He passes hands along a dusty end table where odds and ends, knick-knacks from the fifties rest, a weird feeling of bitter nostalgia that curves around him as though he is standing in a tunnel.
      âThere is not much in the way of information from his time before he came to the institution,â Hannibal says. Itâs a jarring noise in the otherwise quiet, and Will manages a small hum of agreement, walking over a creaky step. The walls in his mind are slowly falling away with the sort of hesitation due when dealing with a strange place, but as he walks into the living room theyâre completely obliterated in the wake of the fury.
      Where the entryway had the sensation of a grandmother meticulously displaying her small bit of worth, the living room is that dream gone wrong. A floral print couch lays decimated by what could only be a hefty axe, the wall paper curling in desolate strips from the wall. Pottery lay smashed in shards, picture frames scattered across the floor. There is an untouched recliner that sits as a stark juxtaposition to the otherwise destroyed living room, and Will picks his way through, sitting down on it.
      Lies, lies, lies is this place that I rest, where I lay my head. They donât know; they can never know, and I take my secrets to the grave while I drag the rest of them with me.
      He tries to delve deeper, but the feeling is old, although strong. Will passes fingertips over faded arm rests, curls his bottom lip in and bites it at the sense of an honest, horrific injustice.
      âDid Dolarhyde do this?â
      âThey say itâs easier to just refer to them as an RA,â Will says after a prolonged silence. âYou need to distance yourself from them, Dr. Lecter.â
      âAre they afraid that if we donât distance ourselves, we will grow to pity them and excuse their actions?â
      âYes.â Will is mildly pleased to hear that Lecter doesnât say âyouâ, but humors him and says âusâ. Like Lecter has to be the one to force up walls inside of his mind.
      Theyâre down, though, and as Will looks about he can see the path Dolarhyde paved, furious in his actions, a twisted form of justice his adrenaline as he took an axe to everything he owned âno, not owned. Gained. This was his house, but it certainly wasnât his home.
      He continues on, moving from the living room to a dining room where the hollowed remains of an extravagant dinner lay. Bits of food still on the plates were a breeding ground for maggots, and he stares at their hungry but lazy path on the plate for longer than he should.
      In the kitchen he finds nothing but more dirty plates, although as his bare hands pass along the door he pauses. He palms it, focuses on the glowing pulse on the knob. Thereâs a desperation to the feeling of throwing the door open, a heady taste of betrayal. Fear.
      âHe came in through the back, not the front,â he says. âLast he was here.â
      âCan you feel how long ago that was?â Rather than the annotator that echoed him as they wrote, Lecter is engaging. Somehow, thatâs more grounding to Will, to have to think as himself rather than someone else in the moments with his walls down.
      âBefore he killed the Perkins family,â Will says after a thought. âThis is older than the feelings and thoughts of his murders there.â
      âSo he came home first, then made his way to the Perkins?â
      âWhy the Perkins, though?â Will wonders out loud. âWhy them? He had to travel to them, take time for themâŚâ
      âPerhaps Agent Crawfordâs work studying the Perkins will give insight to the why, when you meet with him once more to tell him the where and how of your RA.â
      Will nods in agreement, continues on towards the hall that leads upstairs. There are shattered shards along the plush but old carpet, and Will looks down to see his eyes reflected up. Dolarhyde smashed the mirrors.
      Bedrooms lay empty, spaces where someone once was but never again would be. Will stands in the tepid space of each one until he can confirm that Dolarhyde didnât enter there in his haste to destroy certain aspects of this place in which he felt so confined.
      He starts to enter the master bedroom and pauses at the doorway. Inside, the terrifying sense of panic lays.
      âWhat do you feel?â Hannibal asks when he doesnât walk in.
      Will grips the doorway with his bare hands, trembles in the wake of a dread that is cloying, grasping. There is no escape. There is no end. There was an end, but there is no more, utterly destroyed in the wake of this time that reaches and reaches, and heâd been stupid enough to reach back. He stares ahead to the faint, ever-so faint impressions of someone rushing through the room, leaving dresser drawers hanging out, a small chair near a vanity overturned. The bed is a disastrous mess of things thrown, things left forgotten in haste, and itâs there that he walks to, crawling onto the lumpy, aged material to lay down.
      Itâs there that the fear abates, a lulling and steady wave that crashes over, then recedes. In the dip in the center where someone slept the most, he lays back and trembles, one palm pressed to a ratty coverlet, the other palm pressed to a forgotten jacket. Although faded, old from passed time, there is a sensation that this is the only place Dolarhyde could settle his mind, settle the racing thoughts inside as he sees and dreams.
      âHeâs afraid,â he says when he can speak.
      âWhat does he fear here, Agent Graham?â
      âThere isâŚinformation heâs found. Something heâs learned that he canât reconcile. ItâsâŚthrown everything to question, and heâsâŚreverted.â
      âReverted to what?â
      âTo the death,â Will murmurs. âHe has to run. He has to run, but where to, heâŚisnât quite sure yet. Maybe Iâm just not seeing it. But here is whereâŚhe slept.â
      âYour rogue agent found something of great import that caused him to revert to a space where he was the monster rather than see it in someone else,â Hannibal says, and he doesnât enter the room. âWhat was he investigating when he didnât report back?â
      Will climbs off of the bed when heâs sure the fear surrounding it wonât overwhelm him, and he walks out of the room, looking around.
      âThatâs what I need to find out, I suppose,â he says, heading back down the stairs. After a beat, Hannibal follows.
      When theyâre outside, he dares to ask, âDid they ask you to follow me around, Dr. Lecter? Jack afraid Iâm not going to be able to handle it?â
      Itâs a taunting, jabbing sort of question, declared with bared teeth and an unironic gesture towards the door heâs locked behind himself.
      âYes.â He doesnât seem perturbed to be so honest and direct, blunt and unhesitating in his answer.
      âWhat are you going to tell them?â
      âYou seem perfectly capable of recreating your barriers and walls, even in the face of emotion that stopped you in your tracks. I would inform them that if theyâre searching for a psychiatric stamp of approval, they certainly have it.â
      Will nods, not sure if heâs happy to hear that, or if itâs some sort of sign that Lecter has as much trouble seeing his mind as he has in seeing into Lecterâs. Thereâs the chance that heâs being generous, that if he says it enough then Will will actually gain the ability to build effective walls.
      âAre you going to keep following me around?â he asks instead, heading towards the car.
      âFor an indefinite amount of time, yes.â
      Will nods, accepting this rather than fighting it. He did give the good doctor the okay to have conversations.
      âCoffee, then?â
      âCoffee sounds wonderful, Agent Graham.â
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      Jack returns from court to see Will waiting in his office, gloved and dozing in his chair a few hours later. Itâs the sound of his briefcase hitting the desk that jolts him up, and he blinks rapidly and looks around blearily, adjusting the glasses set crookedly on his face.
      âYouâre back,â Jack says by way of greeting.
      âDolarhyde hasnât returned to the house since the Perkins. Heâs scared and trying to hole up somewhere.â
      âHeâs scared,â Jack repeated.
      âHeâs found some information while undercover that really spooked him,â he says, shifting to get comfortable in the chair. âWhen I asked for the files, they wouldnât give them to me. Who was he investigating?â
      âWhy do you need to know what the information was?â Jack asks, sitting down. Itâs the way he shifts as he sits, adjusting himself and busying his hands that tips Will off. He can all but smell the unease coming off of him.
      Dolarhyde isnât the only one thatâs spooked.
      ââŚIf I know what made him so afraid, I can find out where heâd go,â he says slowly. His eyes track the hands that try to open a small pack of trail mix, yanking down so hard that Jack almost spills it across the desk.
      âI know itâs a classified operation,â Jack says after uttering a short curse. âAll of Dolarhydeâs work was.â
      âRight.â
      âOut of my jurisdiction sort of classification,â he tacks on after looking at Willâs unimpressed expression.
      âJack,â Will warns. âI have a hard time believing anything is out of your jurisdiction.â
      âThis is.â
      âThen so is my help,â Will decides, standing up.
      âExcuse me?â Jack looks up from his trail mix, and the stubborn, set expression on his face is one Will has seen a thousand times.
      âYou asked if I can handle it, and I canât handle not being able to do my job because of some internal political bull shit,â he says. âIâm not crawling into his head half-assed. Donât make me do that and then not help by refusing to fill in the blanks.â
      The air turns heavy as they look at one another, Will focusing on his mouth rather than his eyes. He knows that if he looks at his eyes, heâll see everything he needs âmaybe even the information Jack claims is confidential. Itâs not enough of a risk for him to try and look, though; heâs seen enough times into Jackâs mind that he, without fail, falls into the same memory, and itâs not a memory he wants to see at the moment. Heâs not in enough control.
      âYouâre a pain in my ass,â Jack says with a sigh of defeat. âIâll talk to Kade Purnell âsheâs the director of EI.â
      âThanks for letting me do my job,â Will says, and he walks out before Jack can snap back.
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      He doesnât go out with co-workers when they are kind enough to invite him out for drinks. Drinks mean bars, bars means people, and the amount of people that have climbed inside of the bone arena of his skull are enough to leave him exhausted, worn thin like a fraying, old shirt.
      Instead, he drives to Wolf Trap and greets the dogs that rush out from the house when he opens the door, dropping down onto the porch to give them each the attention they deserve. They are kind, lapping at his shirt rather than his face, and his gloved hands rub spots they couldnât have scratched themselves.
      Dogs are kinder than people, he thinks as he sits outside with a glass of whiskey and lets them run around. Their love is a pure thing, and when one of them licks his wrist, he only gains the impression of their wanting more treats than heâs willing to share at the moment. As a pack, they are a singular, cohesive unit rather than too many individuals existing within the same space. Alana has made it clear she thinks he has too many of them, but whenever another stray turns up, he canât find it in his heart to do anything more than let them stay.
      Dogs, in all of their love and understanding, are far better than people.
      He cleans up a dinner for one, feeds the dogs again and finds himself hunkered around another boat engine from someone down the road that couldnât afford to take to a shop. The wind outside glances off of old windowpanes, makes them shake, and he thinks of the sounds the cabin made when heâd rushed in, not knowing what heâd find. The cabin was quieter than his house, at peace with the monstrous death inside of it. When he finds himself staring down at his clenched, blood-stained hands rather than greasy hands holding tools, he decides itâs time for bed. Redirect, redirect, redirect.
      When he goes to climb into bed, he finds Abigail Hobbs bleeding to death on one side and Mrs. Perkins bleeding to death on the other. He sighs, considers them both for a long moment, then crawls in between the two of them to try and get some sleep.
#LiaS scribbles#the unquiet grave#hannibal#hannibal au#empaths au#seers feelers dreamers#hannigram#slowburn hannigram#will graham x hannibal#someone help will graham#he's having a rough time#hannibal is a cannibal#hannibal is kind of a pushy therapist
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TW: Religion. My personal experiences with mental health, psychiatric hospitalization, and suicidal ideation/attempts. Some mild discussion of the current political climate.
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So, this is a half-cooked essay Iâve had rattling around my head for a couple of years now, but hadnât really found a good time to write it all out. After watching the Jesus Christ Superstar Live special today, I think now is as good a time as any to put this out in the world. Please not the aforementioned trigger warnings, and also be advised that this is probably gonna be a bit ramble-y and not the best written piece on the interwebs.
***PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT A REVIEW OF THE JCS LIVE SPECIAL!***
Some background on me. I am an atheist who grew up in a Catholic family, and I struggle with C-PTSD and bipolar II disorder (which werenât properly diagnosed until about four and two years ago, respectively), as well as chronic autoimmune and pain conditions. When I was a kid, every year during Lent, my mother (a theater junkie) would play both the soundtrack and 1973 movie of Jesus Christ Superstar. The original soundtrack has always had some sentimental value to be because of this.
A quick aside on my faith, or lack thereof. I never considered myself a very strong Catholic. Fortunately, I grew up in one the lucky few liberal Catholic families, and was always taught to think for myself and question everything. My questioning of religion first started when I was in fifth grade, and became very interested in Greek mythology, which soon expanded to Norse and Celtic myths as well. I loved the stories and fables, and it didnât take me long to draw the parallels to Christianity and Catholicism. I began to think to myself, if these stories arenât true, then why is Catholicism the one true way? I also struggled with prayer and forming that âpersonal connection to Godâ that my youth leaders insisted I must develop. I grew up in a turbulent, and at times, abusive home, and my pleas to find some peace were, of course, left unanswered. I struggled for years thinking that there must be something I was doing wrong, or something inherently wrong and broken about me as a human being. This added to the depression that I struggled with as an adolescent, but I kept my reservations to myself out of fear of alienating my family and friends in the Church. Eventually, I found myself sitting on the agnosticism fence, finally making the jump over to atheism about a year and a half after I graduated college. I discovered that I found more sense of worth and fulfillment in taking responsibility for my own actions and accomplishments, more agency and knowledge in the presence of evidence and facts, and far more comfort in the love of those here with me in the physical realm. For a long time, Jesus Christ Superstar and any other remnants of religious music fell off of my playlists for many years as I came to terms with my beliefs.
A couple of years ago, as I was building a Broadway playlist on Spotify, I decided to put the original soundtrack on and see how it played to me as both an adult and a critically thinking atheist. Â I was expecting to experience that nostalgia that I spoke of earlier, but I was not prepared to be emotionally bowled over at the realization that this is a story of not only faith, but of struggle with mental illness. I mentioned this to my mother after my revelation, and she told me that she wasnât surprised. I didnât know this, and some of you may not either, but she told me that when the show first premiered, there was a lot of push-back and anger because people didnât approve of such a raw, radical and purely human portrayal of their Messiah, preferring the calm beatific and self sacrificing demigod of their scriptures. Listening to it now after being on both the loved one of someone who is mentally ill, and being a mentally ill person myself, I found myself relating to the characters in whole new ways that felt absent before, and it completely flipped the traditional Passion story on its head for me.
Iâm going to take the soundtrack (nearly) song by song and give my thoughts. The ones that are irrelevant to the overarching themes I mentioned, I will skip over. Iâll also provide YouTube links to the ones I do delve into.
Heaven on their Minds
Even though Iâm an atheist, and one would think Iâd relate to him more because of this, this is the only song in the show where I truly sympathize with Judas. I look at this song through the lens of watching an older family member struggle heavily with bipolar I disorder, which was left untreated for many many years. This came into stark focus for me when I reached adulthood and the two of us became much closer. He is hands down the most intelligent and one of the most empathetic people I have ever met in my life, but the flights of mania, ego and rage and the crushing depression he experiences has a major impact on everyone who loves him. I struggle with this as well to a lesser degree, and being on both sides of this coin, I really do sympathize with those who love someone with this disorder. The struggles we go through can leave us hyperfocused on ourselves, forgetting that the people who care about us are also deeply hurt and concerned for our safety and well being. Judas is begging for Jesus to take a step back and look rationally at how his (in Judasâ perception) egotistical and selfish actions are harming himself and those around him, imploring that he still admires him and cares for him as a person, but eventually ends the song in frustration as he realizes that his friend will not listen to him.
Whatâs The Buzz/Strange Thing Mystifying
I had two major thoughts on this song, and Iâll go through them separately.
This song is where my sympathy for Jesus begins and for Judas comes to a screeching halt. Judas proves himself to be a misogynistic prick as Mary Magdalene attempts to provide some small comfort to Jesus as he is growing more and more frustrated with his disciples. The slut shaming rubs me absolutely raw, and if I had been in that situation, I would have jumped down his throat just as Jesus did.
The second takeaway from this is that this is where I see parallels to mental illness start to take root in the show. Depression lies. Depression will tell you that nobody in your life truly cares about you, and that they will all leave you alone in the end.
âI'm amazed that men like you Can be so shallow, thick and slow There is not a man among you Who knows or cares if I come or go!â
This, obviously, leaves his friends reeling, and they beg of him, how can he possibly say that about them? He doubles down with the final lash out of âNot one, not ONE of you!â I have similarly lashed out at those who mean the most to me when in the depths of a depressive low. Thankfully, my circle understands that when I say things like that, itâs not truly me, but the monster that lurks within me that I usually keep quiet and calm in the back of my mind.
Everythingâs Alright
Judas, buddy, you really lose me here. He turns from slut shaming and goes into full on neurotypically ableist fuckery. The is implication that his friend doesnât deserve a few small comforts because there is some greater cause that must be served, and that he should suck it up because there are people who have it worse.
Jesus, in response, reminds him that there will always be people in the world who have it worse and who are suffering. This is a concept I struggled with for years. I would always minimize my pain by saying âWell, it could always be worse.â This kind of thinking just led to more self-berating, beating myself up when I couldnât pull myself up by my bootstraps and force happiness into my chemically-misfiring brain. And here he takes another emotional dig, saying that Judas better shape the fuck up, and leaves the vague threat of suicide hanging over his head as another lashing out, which I have also done in my worst moments of pain and despair.
Mary, bless her, proves herself to be the true caring partner as she swoops back in to attempt to soothe him to sleep, wanting to provide some form of comfort to the man she loves.
This Jesus Must Die
When this essay first started taking shape in my head a couple of years ago, I wasnât planning on including this song.
Then the election of 2016 happened.
I wonât ramble on too much on this one since it doesnât directly tie in to the overall themes I outlined earlier, but Iâd feel remiss if I didnât acknowledge the indirect connections.
The disturbing trend of othering, tribalism, and white supremacy that has taken hold in the US can be seen in the lyrics of this song. The willingness to outright harm and even murder those who are different because of ignorant fears of having their way of life destroyed is as much a problem today as it was then. This affects all who donât fit this mold: POC, non-Christians, women, LGBTQ+ folks, the disabled, and, you guessed it, the mentally ill. Itâs chilling to see these attitudes, which these types of Christians claim to revile when speaking of the priests and pharisees in the Passion story, so thoroughly inform their worldview and morals. It makes me feel physically ill to see this happening.
Simon Zelaotes/Poor Jerusalem
Oh Simon. You are that one âfriendâ or family member that every mentally ill person has. The one who thinks they have all the answers. The one who gives you all kinds of unsolicited âadviceâ and tells you how you should think and act, because thatâs how things are gonna get better for everyone else (oh and I guess you too). This isnât one of my favorite songs, so Iâm gonna end it here for this one.
The Temple
This is more regarding the second half of the song, when the lepers are demanding that Jesus heal them. This one resonated deeply with me. I am a very empathetic person, and I also have a very hard time saying no to people. I want to help as many of my friends as I can and make them happy. The problem is, I donât always know how to turn that off, and I end up overextending myself with either physical demands or emotional labor. When Jesus cries âThereâs too little of me,â I felt that on a very personal level, as I have said similar things when I take on too much. He finally breaks down and snaps, screaming at them to heal themselves. Again, I have expressed similar thoughts when I reach my limits and break.
Everythingâs Alright RepriseÂ
I Donât Know How to Love Him
The story now shifts the focus from the mentally ill individual to the partner/spouse/caregiver of the one who is ill. This is SO important. Itâs very easy for our caregivers to stay silent and power through for our sake, while they slowly burn out trying to help us and to continue to live their lives. They tend to stay in the background, shouldering enormous tasks, and very rarely do they receive help that they badly need.
Mary does her best to calm Jesus, keeping on her smile until he falls asleep. Once her job is complete for the evening, she goes off by herself to vent her fears and frustration into the ether. She loves him, but at the same time, he deeply frightens her. That monster that lurks in us is scary, and not just for the person who is ill. It reaches out and threatens everyone that the person loves, and for those who donât know what itâs like to have that in your head 24/7, itâs terrifying. But who does she tell? Who else could possibly understand? So she just lets her fears out to no one but herself, and at the end, collects herself and goes back to work.
Damned For All Time / Blood Money
Some of my sympathy for Judas comes back in this one, but only but so far. Being the friend who realizes that someone they care about may truly be out of control and a danger is a terrible position to be in. Do you call the police and have them involuntarily committed? Or do you keep trying to fix things yourself? It is never an easy call to make. He handled it EXTREMELY poorly though.
The Last Supper
This is where everything goes to hell and falls apart. Jesus and his friends gather together for one final meal, but his mind is already far afield with self destruction and suicidal ideation. Right off the bat, he makes throwaway comments about his friendsâ apathy.
âFor all you care, this wine could be my blood. For all you care, this bread could be my body.â
His own apathy launches back into anger as he spits:
âI must be mad thinking I'll be remembered - yes I must be out of my head! Look at your blank faces!
My name will mean nothing Ten minutes after I'm dead!â
The group immediately launches into rebuttals and reassurances. Judas is finally fed up with his friend taking his anger out on everyone and speaks up, telling him that he has alerted the authorities. Jesus doesnât care and goads Judas into blowing up at him and basically telling him to stop being a dramatic asshole. This is behavior I have both witnessed in others and done myself in my angry/manic swings. You think so little of yourself that you think you have deluded your friends into thinking you are a good person, so the addled logical next step is to make them understand just how bad of a person you truly are and shove them away, violently if necessary. Judas takes the bait and flees, while the rest of the group tries to placate their friend with, what we would perceive as empty, platitudes and optimism.
Gethsemane
The similarities to this song and my own inner dialogue when I struggle with suicidal ideation are staggering to me. The exhaustion, the âAm I really this worthless?â and âMaybe the world would be better off without meâ statements, looking to lay the blame on someone else, wanting someone else to do the deed for you because you donât have the guts to do it yourself, rage at a spiritual figure that you feel either doesnât exist or doesnât care. That was like a swift punch to the gut. I never thought that as an atheist, I would relate so heavily to the character of Jesus, but this song drove it home for me that I really do, and that itâs not a bad thing, and that I can relate to him as a person without it having to be a religious experience.
Pilate and Christ
Short blurb for a short song. I view Pilate as the role of the medical professional who is dealing with a particularly difficult case. In this first appearance, he takes on the role of the apathetic doctor that all of us neurodivergent individuals fear we will get, someone who really takes no interest in your problems and instead kicks you to the mercy of another office or the insurance company.
Could We Start Again Please
This is another one that speaks to me on a deep, personal level.
âI've been living to see you Dying to see you but it shouldn't be like this This was unexpected, what do I do now? Could we start again please? Could we start again please? I've been hopeful so far Now for the first time I think we're going wrong Hurry up and tell me, this is all a dream Or could we start again please? Could we start again please? I think you've made your point now You've even gone a bit too far to get your message home Before it gets too frightening, we ought to call a halt So could we start again please?â
These are very similar to what my husband said after my suicide attempt. He told me that he felt like the whole thing was a nightmare that he couldnât wake up from. He told me that he was terrified, and that he wished there was a way to do a hard reset on everything. He told me that he wanted to help me, but that he didnât know how to even begin to do that. Fortunately, with lots of therapy, we have been making it work, but that was his first experience with serious mental illness. When I was in psychiatric hospitalization, these points came up yet again, as he had never experienced this and didnât know how to handle someone he cares so deeply about be committed and see the bad and good that goes with it. Itâs all scary as fuck, and this is why our caregivers need support and love and someone to talk to as well.
Judasâ Death
Again, keeping this one short. The regret train rolls into the station as Judas realizes that maybe he made a mistake. Iâve heard fellow patients in hospitalization say this about loved ones who had them involuntarily committed. When they make the call, they think it will be a few days in the hospital and bam! Youâre cured! They end up coming to the horrible realization that psychiatric hospitalization is difficult, scary, and at times, dangerous. Some people step up to the plate and help their loved ones through it, while others balk at what theyâve done and bail completely.
Trial Before Pilate
We come back to the doctor/patient metaphor with this song, this time with Pilate taking the role of the  doctor who genuinely wants to help a patient, but the combination of the patientâs complete apathy/desire for self destruction and pressures put on by outside forces (like overwork, various bureaucracies, and bullshit from insurance companies) force their hand into making the harsh call of commitment. Pilate realizes that since Jesus refuses his help and also refuses to help himself, he has to make the hard call. I have been in the position of having a doctor ask me questions to help, and I basically told them to fuck off. Doing so forced the issue of hospitalization (which, by the way, Iâm not directly comparing to a death sentence, just pointing out connections that I see).
This is an inelegant collection of the thoughts and emotions that this show creates within me. Iâm not really sure how to close this out, now that Iâve finally written down the comparisons and analysis that has been in my head every time Iâve listened for the last couple of years. It feels good to get it out, even if the writing doesnât flow very well. So there you have it. How a mentally ill atheist can still find meaning and their own story in a work of entertainment based on religion.
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Iâm a bag of salt.
Alright, i though i could handle this today and calm down, but itâs something it kind of makes me angry so much, at least to me.
So, today i was in the bank with my mother and we touch the topic of bullying (donât know how, we were talking about corsets at the beggining!) and she says:
âNo offense, but...â
LIKE LISTEN WHEN YOU SAY NO OFFESE IT MEANS IT WILL FUCKING OFFEND ME
She thinks that when i call myself an aspie (cause i am maybe? duh) itâs considerate as a âetiqueteâ and itâs wrong. (Eh...... what?) For later says: âIf no one had discovered asperger the world would still be the same.â
WTF
âLike imagine around the 50â˛s / 60â˛s if a child had problems with begin social would keep with their lifes cause the parents believe they are shy!â
Alright, but you should know that in that era, parents were 80% more strict and use to always make their kids to do things as like socializating.
âWell, when i was a kid my mother never...â
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH no no just stop there.
âEveryone would believe you are just shy if we didnât knew about your condition and would have still a normal life.â
OH BY THE NAME OF ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD.
Every word sounds so wrong! Arlight, taking away the part of the parents, todayâs kid (specially when my condition started to show up more) are cruel and evil and would probbably bully you and make you feel like crap? Because we donât tend to understand the same thing as them or cause we like different things and like to focus in one think?
âKids are kidsâ You just... Donât.
âMaybe if we didnât knew about your condition would made a party with many kids so you could socializate.â
Yeah... What can i say.. No.
Sure, there are aspies who enjoy begin around people, in open places! Cause at least in my experience, I HATEEEEEEEEE BEGIN IN SMALL CLOSED PLACES WITH MANY PEOPLE AND TOO MANY LOUD MUSIC. I FEEL LIKE IâM BEGGIN ATTACKED.
âYou could have totally a normal life. I know as a mother. We could have totally find out just about your deficit of atenttion and brain irritation and everything would be the same.â
Yes, you are a my mom, but in this topic i know more. Sure, i was born with not one, but 3 things! AND GUESS WHAT? WHEN YOU ARE ASPIE YOU ALSO SUFFER OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY! *throws conffetti*
Yet you say i donât, that i over react!
âYou are just begin stubborn, you always wants to be right about everthing.â
Cause i am right in this???? THATS WHY????
Why it would have been a problem if asperger was never discovered? Many kids around the beggining of 7 years old since its the age you show the symptomes, would be conffused of why they canât be like their classmates, in why itâs so difficult to see in the eyes, to talk with someone with the same age. and as a said, kids tend to be cruel and rude when they see another kid having those smalls traits. By growing up, still having those problems because people believe that they are shy, thatâs when the bullying begins, in fact we would be more scared if we speak up, since we know it todays era most of parents wants to face every childs problems with psychologist.
BUT WAIT, IF YOU TAKE THEM TO PSYCHOLOGIST AND THEY DONâT KNOW ABOUT THE TOPIC, THEN HOW YOU HELP? YOU CANT.
Also, an aspie person tends to be very easily manipulated or believe in someones lies, in fact if we are not teached or helped, we are not able to see the difference between good and evil. And it either helps the part of depression and anxiety.
In fact, in 2013, England, it was made a test to a group of people, 374 find out they were aspies, which 243 (66%) were told they had suicidal thoughs, 127 (35%) tried to kill themself and 116 (31%) had depression. it was show that more likely an aspie adult, WITHOUT KNOWING THEY HAD THE CONDITION, were more likely to be suicidal (and iâm part of that group, wohoo!)
So imagine, this test was 4 years ago, now IMAGINE, if aspeger wasnât know, what could happen? It was also told that we are able THE DOUBLE to kill ouselfs more than a neurotypical person or any person and that we have 4 times MORE suicidal thoughts (and itâs true!)
âPeople believe that they just have depressionâ YES AND NO.
Just imagine how many people would kill themself cause they donât know what they have and were never feelt themself ok after so many things that happened cause they were never able to feel ânormalâ or fit in society.
What am i trying to say this? That thanks to any creature, Hans Asperger discovered this condition and teached us about it. That we are in 2017 and people still unknow a lot? Yes, but the important itâs that someone find out about it! IT IS IMPORTANT.
#a neurotypical mother vs a asperger daughter#the topic: ASPERGER#who wins? aparently the neurotypical person#[ OOC ]#[ Trash Talk ]#tw: suicide mention#tw: depression mention
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No, Your Ex-Boyfriend Isnât a Psychopath, Heâs Just An Asshole
Today I want to talk about what people mean when they say, âoh my god, I really do think my ex was a psychopath!â. This is normally followed by loosely cobbled-together pop psychology, a quasi-working knowledge of psychopaths in popular culture, and a hard-luck story in which the speaker revels in a self-appointed victimhood, whereby a claim is laid that can gift said speaker with the metaphorical medal that reads: âFINALLY, I SURVIVED SOMETHINGâ.
We all have our fair share of fucking assholes in our dating past. Even those of us with the antisocial bent and the knack for Machiavellianism are not 100% immune from meeting and dating assholes. We may even love them. Actually, let me just say this about that: I have dated assholes. I have not fallen prey to assholes. Whenever I have dated an asshole I have done so knowing completely how truly terrible they are. One thing you will see me talk about a lot on this blog is a tendency to administer to lifeâs losers, its outsiders and marginalised loners. If I were cynical Iâd say this is nothing more than a manifestation of plucking the weakened from the herd and adopting them into my life for whatever reason, but to dispel a myth real quick, more often than not, I have loved them. I have dated cheaters, liars, scammers, the fragile, the needy, the broken - whatever word you want to use to romanticise the experience. I have been in situations that have spilled over into abuse against me, and I have fought back (abuse not lest ye be abused). But were any of my exes psychopaths? Even the abusive ones? No, no they were not. Because âpsychopathâ is not synonymous with âdidnât treat me the way Iâd have likedâ. I feel what happens here is a desperate grab for rationalisation of the experience. It is a much more palatable reality to kid yourself that the reason your ex-partner cheated on you, or didnât listen to you, or called you fat those times, or taunted you or ignored you or teased you or whatever, is because you have diagnosed them with a clinical deficit in their ability to love you how you want to be loved. If you tell yourself you dated a psychopath when you have no real basis for that, you are telling yourself the only reason you had a bad experience with someone you were in love with (how embarrassing for you, you think - and thatâs a normal thing to think) was because they were broken, because there was something wrong with them, because they were faultlessly fractured with a sickness, a disease. Get your head out of your ass. Thereâs a lot wrong with this but Iâm going to keep this as succinct as I can - first of all, itâs not your job to make decisions about psychopathy on behalf of the psychopath. I will go into this more in another post, but donât paint this fucking dreamy narrative of the antihero onto psychopaths you have identified (hint: youâll have got it wrong so many times), and therefore paint your ex as someone who desperately wants to love you, but just doesnât gosh-darn know how to hecking well do it.Â
Believe it or not, there is such a thing as an asshole who has no psychopathic tendencies. Some people are mean because they are mean. Even psychopaths cannot be excused, and thatâs fine, psychopaths do not want to be excused by you. But you are not helping yourself or anyone else by joining the clueless gaggle of embittered ex lovers - this need to be a part of a community is baffling. And itâs overwhelmingly and ironically arrogant and entitled of you to diagnose someone who has hurt you with a condition you have made clear you know nothing at all about - that thereâs a backstory of damage and psychological abnormality that lies in the hands of the person who did not love you, that they only reason they didnât love a loveable boo like you - is because - oh god, of course - thereâs something wrong with them! But the psychopath is rarely the fuckboy who is sleeping with your cousin and your best friend whilst claiming exclusivity and loyalty to you, he is very seldom the one you expect. Psychopaths arenât, on average, super-intelligent hyper-beings - but but rather the friendly man in the sweater vests who works in your local off license and has a computer rammed to the rafters with snuff pornography at home. Neurotypicals do not have to dig incredibly deep to do bad things, especially if those bad things seem to come with little consequence or condition. Conversely, not all psychopaths are choosing to use their super-mean-awesome-bad-person powers to date you and then ghost you or whatever they did. Just because they showed no empathy TO YOU when you were dating them, it doesnât mean that they canât feel empathy. Just because they never seemed to show remorse for what they did SPECIFICALLY TO YOU, doesnât mean they donât have the capacity. Even if that asshole decided to become abusive, doesnât mean theyâre a psychopath. The truth is, regular people are abusers more than you would care to know. I mean, if your logic in diagnosing your ex were true, then almost 100% of the prison population would be filled with psychopaths. But it isnât. The figure I read changes depending on where I read it, but it is never over 30%. Psychopaths donât tend to get caught, unless theyâre doing something you would consider quite horrific. So before you spill the gossip to your friends over a light Prosecco lunch that you dated - and survived - the horrors of the psychopath who is so good at hiding their psychopathy that theyâre not a psychopath in the least bit - consider the ugly truth. There was nothing wrong with them. There was nothing wrong with you. But that person didnât love you. Maybe stop loving them, too. Oh, and avoid this one like the plague.Â
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3/2/2020 i dont know
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tl;dr: today was a very bad day. why am i like this. seriously why
i feel like such shit!!! and you know why? its because i ***am*** such shit. holy hell, i am the worst fucking person. oh my god. today i got so heated for no reason at all at this kid luke. i guess he is annoying, and naia agrees that someone had to tell him at some point, but god damn, it should not have been like that. i feel stupendously awful. he did not deserve that. i was sitting there antagonizing him like i usually do.. which is bad in its own way but iâm not going to address that right now. he was spraying this hand sanitizer stuff that smelled like total and complete shit, like when that girl in the back of the classroom starts spraying her victoria secret bullshit for the entire class to choke on. it was that except so much more concentrated. i told him he was an asshole. mikko held out a water bottle for me to hit him with, and, not wanting to look like a little bitch i guess, i took and and went over to him. i hit him once, really, like one successful hit, the other two he caught. i told him just.. straight up. that i just hated him with all my being. which, i guess, is true, since he is so fucking annoying, and has absolutely no self awareness when it comes to him being annoying either, even though everyone except delia and maybe alex make it abundantly clear that he is not welcome. regardless, i guess it stopped being a joke when delia was like âum... calm down... sit down...â like i was a fucking idiot. jesus christ, that was what set me off the most. like... fuck you??? it was a joke and youâre acting like im serious, which, i guess, made it actually serious. which is so fucking stupid i know i am so full of myself and shitty i know that but god fucking dammit she was looking at me like she was the fucking peak of clarity and like i was some fucking dog that was barking at passerby. seriously, FUCK her. i literally am so sick of her. sheâs such a... how should i put it... heart player! she makes me want to scream sometimes, but other times weâre best friends. i fucking hate it. i fucking hate highschool. but more than anything, i hate myself! why did i do this! in the end, i have no one else to blame but myself. not luke, not delia, but me, and only me. no one else is at fault for my actions. and yet here i am complaining like they are. i donât know. iâm just so upset. what can i even do? after it was clear that things were Heated at that point i sat down and stared down luke for some fucking reason until he left. i started shit with delia too which escalated, but also ended, pretty quickly. god the more i think about it the angrier i get. she was like âyou didnât have to handle it that wayâ like i didnât already know that. and the hypocrisy! jesus fucking christ i have never met anyone in my life that is as ignorant and one sided as delia is. she does not care about anyone else but herself, and even then, sheâs totally and completely oblivious about her own actions. as if my outburst was any better than all the shit sheâs done over the past 3 years with alex and the string of boys she leads around on a fucking leash. god, i just hate her! i just hate her! i donât. but i do! sheâs so fucking typical (neurotypical, i might add) that it makes me want to bash my head against a wall. her boyfriend is autistic and she refuses to believe it, or even entertain the idea that he might be, saying shit like âdonât even say thatâ and âheâs not like that.â fuck you!!! my sister is autistic!!!!! fuck you!!!!!!! fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she acts like him being autistic is the worst fucking thing in the world. literally i just i canât FUCKING stand her. holy shit!!!! and she says shit thatâs like borderline homophobic like donât you understand that you canât say that if youâre straight??? like, what the fuck??? calling shit gay is funny, but when it gets to the point where i can feel my and everyone elseâs discomfort radiating off of them like a fucking sonar it gets to be too much. and the drama!!! fucking, all she talks about is drama! i donât care!!! i donât care at all!!! who fucking cares what alex sent you or that ellery didnât respond to your text within two seconds, i donât!!! sometimes i feel like im only friends with her because i feel like i want to be a part of something, and even then, iâm really not. i have maybe 2 friends at school total. literally, no one likes me. and why should they. they shouldnât is the fact of the matter. the fact that iâm typing up this entire fucking thing where i rant about a friend behind her back instead of just talking through our problems like adults is proof that i am toxic and unlikable. people approach me to talk to me and somehow i end up being mean to them. not on purpose, but god dammit, youâd think iâd be smarter by now? no, no apparently iâm not, because look at what that got me. i am just as bad as iâve always been. i am a shitty person and i have no idea what to do to change that. iâve always thought about suicide, of course, but i think thatâd be the equivalent of ripping off the bandaid of all the relationships i have with other people to reveal the third degree burns of lies and bullshit iâve conjured up over the past few years to paint myself in a perfect light. which doesnât even work, by the way. sometimes they see actual glimpses into my life, but the only people that really know anything would be my mom, ruby, and maybe aiden. my poor dad. he literally has no fuckin clue. even then, the people listed donât really even know anything at all. i donât want to tell anyone about it. i donât think anyone should or would want to know. itâs bad, and itâs ugly, and really is not something i should tell even my closest friends. i am so tremendously suicidal and self loathing, and the only way for anyone to find out would be if i finally just up and killed myself. wow this got so far away from the point! after reading all of this iâm sure anyone with half a brain could deduce that i am a whiny little teenage girl that likes acting all big so she posts it to tumblr.
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