#i KNOW it is demand avoidance. i know it
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i know it's just demand avoidance acting up sometimes but nothing is more stressful to me than feeling like someone is trying to manipulate xyz emotional response out of me. i do NOT need you to be my mother. please
#i KNOW it is demand avoidance. i know it#but it still makes my whole body tense up so bad#then i retreat and it makes people go all WAAAA YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE AND YOU DON'T CARE WHAT'S WRONG WITH U#literally. augh. screaming#i'm going to sleep i have done enough being awake for today#i will deal with my whole life. tomorrow#after someone massages my scalp and i'm normal again
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Love and hate can sometimes cross wires - DPXDC Ficlet
She props her up against the far wall, and kneels before her, fingers deceptively gentle against her cheek. Danyal is cold and trembling, her once bronze skin now dull. She meets her other half— self— sister— mother— predecessor’s eyes, and they are still wet. But now they are sharp, focused on Her face.
Danyal takes a shuddering breath, one that wracks itself down her spine. One that She can feel sinking into her — their? — shared soul. “You’re going to kill me.” She says, matter of fact, something like grief choking in her voice, making it shake.
She blinks at Her mother—sister—friend— predecessor, a feeling She knows is horror but thinks is hatred filling up Her lungs. Her cool palm trails kind down to her throat, Her talon fingers wrapping around the fragile skin. With very little effort, She could break her little neck. “Yes.” She murmurs, a sound only the two of them can hear. “I am.“
Her mother-sister-other half— predecessor shudders again, and yet makes no sound. Simply goes limp with acceptance in her arms. She doesn’t bother to even fight; she looks tired. Make it quick, it’s like she says.
I will. She promises, running the gentle padding of Her thumb along her jugular. It’s the only mercy She thinks She’ll ever give. But first…
“Give me a name?”
(Mother— sister— mine—) Danyal stares at Her, confusion parting her slowly paling lips. There’s silence between the two, thickening the air like the rise of an oncoming storm. Hurt and rage begins to toil beneath Her skin. Was the thought of naming Her so abhorrent, that she’d rather not say a thing at all? Her name is nothing?
Before She can take Her anger out, Danyal breathes in sharp. The sound is painful, jarring like jags of broken glass. She raises a hand, her palm — rough and calloused, proof of her fourteen years of life, of hardship — finds Her cheek too. It’s almost loving, the way Danyal swipes her thumb across Her skin, her clammy fingers tucking a strand of hair behind Her ear.
An emotion sweeps across her, boiling and toiling, burning hot and consuming her whole. Thick, bubbling in her throat, curling behind her teeth and under her tongue and tinging her peripherals with spots. An overwhelming emotion.
It must be hatred, she thinks. What other feeling can encompass one so much?
When Danyal breathes out, so with it comes a name; “Layal.”
Danyal always did love the nights.
(If you ask the Mother of Monsters why she killed Danyal al Ghul, she’ll tell you it was because she loved hated her.)
#dpxdc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc#dpxdc crossover#dp x dc crossover#danyal al ghul au#dpxdc ficlet#dpxdc prompt#mother of monsters danny#fem danyal al ghul#fem danny fenton#mother of monsters au#dpdc#love and hate aren’t opposites they’re sisters and friends#you know i usually dont care about dan that much but layal has made a special place in my hesrt#new blorbo unlocked: my hyperspecific handpicked au dan#killing your human half-mother-sister-friend can be so intimate you know#dpxdc dan phantom#dan phantom#sorry if its confusing i purposely avoided calling Layal by name because before that point she didn’t have one#layal is arabic for ‘the nights’#i originally thought that Layal would be much crueler. mockingly demanding dany for a name before she killed her. i changed my mind#tags are short because im on vacation and typing this on my phone#wrote this in my notes app at 11PM last night
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learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way
#experiencing some BIG FEELINGS OVER THIS REVELATION#listen i have never ever been bothered abt not seeing someone in a while or making time to talk to them bc in my mind its like not thst muc#time has passed. i mean it with every fibre of my being that when im like 'oh its ok even though we havent talked in a while and have our#own things going on it doesnt mean we're not friends anymore since we left things on a good note 8 months ago' i sincerely believe that#and for the longest time i just thought everybody makes peace with it at some point and not automatically assuming the other person doesnt#wanna talk to me anymore or smth. my longest lasting friendships are with ppl who work the same way i just thouhght that was normal#whatever organ everybody has that makes them reach out to their friends and plan hang outs i probably dont have it#i was already hesitant to ask out Alex bc i spend almost every waking hour doing smth that isnt talking to ppl unless they happen to be in#the vicinity. and at first it was bc i planned on making sure i had everything set up so i dont get stressed out and do it one at a time#but then i find out theres a friendship decay mechanic? and after dating and marrying someone you lose -10 friendship points for every#day u dont talk to them?? actually ive probably been losing friendship points this whole time without knowing bc of this?????#and i notice a lot of my own habits are also reflected in how i play bc ive been avoiding getting close to pierre and marnie since its more#of a professional relationship. like i know theyre npcs but im approaching it the way i would in real life its fucking nuts#i think its a little relieving im playing /as/ a character than myself bc as im playing im just making up little interactions in my head#than approaching things the way i would myself so it takes a bit of the stress off trying to put myself in there as a spectator. but well#being in a relationship demands a certain amount of energy even more so when theyre things that already take up energy on its own#like making time to talk to your partner and make sure they know theyre loved. i dont always have energy to put all my mental focus into it#and this is true for real life so im not really bothered by not dating anyone. but when its a game and i want my character to be with someo#and i know its fully optional and i know i could just apply the same logic to this i dont /want/ to. sometimes i want to experience#the same things other people do at least to a certain degree without the same emotional andmental stakes#no offense krobus#yapping#stardew#stardew valley#puppy plays sdv#sdv#this game has me by the ankles man
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Every time I remember that canon!Will Solace kinda sucks if you think about it for too long, I feel like crying. Idk. Like, what do you mean my beloved boy whom I love dearly actually kinda sucks, but the narrative ignores it and pretends like everything he does is Totally Fine??/hj
(Not saying all fanon!Will is great! He’s sometimes not.)
#im just not a big fan of canon!will ignoring what nicos said about his own limits. and just being overall unhelpful#like. sure. nico might have died if not for will but. also. will doesnt know much about nicos powers#he doesnt know much beyond that they look kinda cool and scary at this point in the story#he doesnt really have the right to make demands about nicos power (ever. but especially not then)#but in my head. i Elect To Ignore That and see will as someone who avoids medically treating his close friends & boyfriend when possible#and i imagine nico taking care of will just as much as will does nico#(eg: nico. pro napper. consistently reminding will to go to sleep before he crashes#or if wills busy. nico brings over some food when its lunch time because 100% will often forgets to eat when hes focusing on something hes-#interested in)#i just hate canon solangelo. idk#why cant rick just write a decent. healthy relationship???#will solace#will solace critical#anti will solace#solangelo#anti solangelo#nico di angelo#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#riordanverse#rr crit
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one thing thats so interesting about being a vegetarian is you get to hear all about everyones hypothetical activism that they care about very deeply when talking specifically about your diet and why it's stupid, but literally will never bring up ever again in any other context
#good idea generator#ppl will honest to god hit me with a 'well what about the dmg caused by plant agriculture' when i say im vegetarian for the environment#oh please tell me more about all the things youre doing to try to minimize your impact on the environment#and all the things you know about agriculture. in your infinite wisdom of [checks notes] doing the exact same thing you always have#or is the argument that because individual choices make little difference that we shouldnt even try or talk about it in case its annoying?#its not necessarily that these people arent making good points also#its just that when you have these same conversations 75 times over and over and over and OVER and get nowhere#it starts to become obvious most people learn these arguments in order to avoid genuinely interrogating their eating practices#either on an individual or communal level. am not asking you to cut out meat or go vegan (not a realistic demand of everyone on earth)#but i AM asking that you please do some self reflection on why the idea makes you so defensive#and about what exactly is so terrible of the idea that we may need to produce and consume less meat#i thought about 75 disclaimers i could put on this post but honestly if they become necessary it would prove my point
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my emoooootional issues and my physical iiiintimacy issuuuues
#chirps#two dogs playing tug of war in my mind. one is 'its ok to have issues around sex whether they have a cause or it's just how you are'#the other is 'yeah but you were a bad girlfriend though. you werent easy or simple and you behaved nonsensically'#it's easier to assign all the blame to myself for our incompatibility. but i don't think that's the most realistic way of looking at it#or the kindest.#still. 'isnt it a good thing if you know your girlfriend wants to have sex with you?' I WOULD THINK SO TOO#i just turn 'frigid' as they say. im demand avoidant.#'they expect something of me' is the true terror. makes me turtle up#in any case. i think me and her just think too differently. like we are just really cognitively different#i mull over stuff a LOT (i chew over things a long time in my head) while she's a lot more direct and straightforward#im also just a hashtag introvert while she's a hashtag extrovert#i need alone downtime and that fundamentally doesn't make sense to her#this breakup happened 2 years ago. but we took a two week road trip in september.#ok wait i just remembered smth that happened to me that may contribute to this. nvm
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I really don’t like it when people tell me what to do, especially if I was already planning to do that thing. I will now not do that thing just because you told me to do it. You’ve ruined both our days now.
I take being told what to do as the other person assuming I’m stupid. I don’t need you to give me orders, I’ll do what I want and I’ll do it my way.
#just don’t talk to me I know what I’m doing.#i’ve already planned everything out I don’t need you to tell me what to do.#now I won’t do it and ruin my own day.#actually npd#actually narcissistic#narcissistic personality disorder#cluster b#demand avoidance
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a while back my mom discovered that the owner of the company was stealing basically all of the money that he was supposed to submit for things like 'taxes' and 'health insurance' and 'court-mandated payments' for the employees, listing them on the pay stubs but then pocketing the money to help keep the company afloat
she then made sure that everybody in the company knew, submitted her resignation effective immediately, and spent about the next week calling government offices to report every crime, regulatory violation, and breach of employment contract that she could think of. and now it looks like the series of investigations that she kicked off might be the thing that finally destroys this man's company.
sometimes I'm proud of her
#and if you want a succinct summary of the American labor situation#after she told her coworkers about all of this#including things like 'turns out we all lost our health insurance a month ago because he stopped paying for it'#nobody else quit. everybody else decided that it was worth putting up with very direct wage theft and tax fraud to avoid unemployment#even the people in very in-demand positions who could trivially find work elsewhere#also i used to work for the guy too because he owned a good chunk of the businesses around my home area when i was a teenager#i met him once and it was when he walked into the store unannounced and then grabbed some stuff and tried walking right out#and got all 'do you even KNOW who I am' pissy when I informed him that this isn't how stores work and you pay for things here#being rich rots your fucking brain i swear to god
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i dont get the complaints about like > reblog banners... everyones talking about how it pisses them off and makes them not want to reblog but ive gotten way better ratios ever since i added it . and quite frankly if you're rude about it and dont want to reblog artists i dont really want u on my posts anyways...? i mean most of these people were never going reblog in the first place, so if they're not adding to my like count, good riddance imo!!
#toxi.txt#i mean this politely as possible since i know some people just have. pathological demand avoidance or wahtever. but some people#are truly so rude about it for no reason
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Prayers please
Trying to help a chronically ill friend understand that she CAN say no to things that are too much for her,
and that she absolutely needs to do something Right Now about the fact that she's somehow let herself end up working 40 hour weeks late into the night (11:30 PM), while doing school,
when she lives at home and doesn't technically need the money and the main reason she's working at all is that she wants to be independent one day and hasn't yet accepted that she has to scale her efforts to what SHE is capable of not what "normal" people are capable of
#I've known her for years#though I only see her in person a few times a year#but she's gotten really honest with me and trusts me a lot with how hard her life is now#and she and I both know I can't demand anything of her and won't try#but this is not ok of her to be doing to herself based on my information#I don't think she's going to die from it or anything she's just turning her life into a weekly cycle of immense suffering much of which she#could avoid#IF SHE JUST ACCEPTED HER LIMITATIONS EVEN A LITTLE BIT MORE#*noises of loving frustration*#pray for her please she's been learning#she's just not to the application stage of not running herself into the ground physically and mentally
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#ALL POWER DEMANDS PAIN AND SACRIFICE: musings.#okay but this made me laugh so hard just because of how much it reminds me of misao JSJSJ LOL because she has had like casual 'flings'-#with people and is an addictive personality as i've talked about here once which includes her being a love junkie + getting into-#relationships with people because she is in love with the IDEA of being in love though falling in love with someone can't just happen-#like magic as it involves a bunch of hormones and stuff but misao kind of somewhat hopes that this person of interest to her will somehow-#complete her life anyhow which... yeah can definitely raise a few problems as people with a love addiction often attract love-#avoidant people because both of these types of people generally have a fear of being abandoned and controlled.#but whenever it comes to love-avoidant individual's they're also emotionally unavailable so 😬#it's unfortunately kinddd of a recipe for an unhealthy relationship that could very well lead to the both of them being in a bad place-#once they break up as misao as a love addict is constantly seeking out new love in particular as a lot of excitement and good feelings-#come with this particular type of love in particular. so yeahhh - i know that this may be a bit of a weird picture to do a meta to but-#SHHH lol i just thought it could possibly relate to her more long-term relationships that she's had with people as misao-#tends to avoid feelings of vulnerability with people as you may all know and so this leads to both her + the other person not really-#knowing what they are BC they haven't really established that deeper connection even though they've been together for a while.#not to say that i'm trying to blame misao for having problems with opening up or anything like that but she has a very disorganized-#attachment style i think and that leads to her often doing this continuous 'push and pull' thing in her romantic/sexual ships#where one moment she will want to be attached to the hip to them but the next she will be cold and distant from them.#so yeahhh. misao is honestly kind of like what i've said barton is before: a cake inside of a cake because i feel like she's got sides of-#herself that she doesn't even know about because she's been scared of being fully emotionally vulnerable with someone for a while now sadly#NO SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT. NOT FOR YOU: character study.
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PDA is crazy I finally sent an email reaching out to a specialist about getting evaluated for autism which I’ve been trying to get myself to send for weeks and she, amazingly, got back to me in the same day and instead of being relieved and excited about this my initial instinctive response was instead anger and disgust bc ew lmao why are you literally crowding me like that
#I know some people aren’t comfortable w the label ‘pathological’ and I get it but girl idk it def doesn’t feel NORMAL lmao#it’s been a looot worse since I hit burnout and was like ok I have to stop internalizing my pda or it might kill me#and like great we love growth we love to see it#but it’s been like opening a soda bottle that’s been being aggressively shaken for 25 years#brat summer in-fucking-deed#pathological demand avoidance#asd#autism
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GLITCH's response TL;DR
not even blaming management for this as they're apparently just as overworked as everyone else. Also why are they responding instead of upper management, come on guys if this was a mistake like your VA manager says surely you have something to say as well, they're your employee there's still accountability in that.
#Yeah I'm being overly critical but GLITCH is supposed to be a company 'by creators for creators ' they can at least. You know. Uphold that?#I'm not gonna go on a tirade and demand an apology I have better things to do#I just feels it's in poor taste to have your overworked workers apologise on your behalf. You're the ones who oversee everything#Like. Hire more people or cut back on your projects to avoid big mistakes like this it's not that hard#I fucking love drama HDGDUDJHSHSHDHD
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okay I am SETTING a DEADLINE for myself because if I don't I will fiddle with this fic forever and never finish it, and that would be BAD because I have to get started on my fic for the pale static exchange and I really need to get the one I'm currently working on off my plate
july 9th (to mark a year since I first beat disco elysium). next tuesday. 6 days from now. if I have not posted a new work to AO3 by the end of that day you all have permission to harass me in my ask box about it until I do
#I'd ask for folks to harass me about it now but I don't know if my demand avoidance would kick in even harder#but if I don't put some amount of external accountability on myself it's never going to get done#the finishing the fucking fic thread#<- might reblog this post with updates of how much I've worked on the fic in a given day so if you don't want to see it block that tag now
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my last week, a visual demonstration
#Robin processes emotions on main#hi yes I came back early. it's in order to process. I needed to like.... spill my guts on the dashboard tonight#IM STRUGGLING..#I have GOT to get a job#just one (1) more visit to a friend this summer and then I will be APPLYING for things again#also I'm having the very devil of a time trying to get myself to contribute to this household. I hate it#I hate that helping out makes me feel like I'm losing my agency—losing myself—like I'm dying every time. I want to be BETTER than this#but I also need to feel like an adult with agency but also I need to BEHAVE like an adult but even just saying that makes me feel nauseous#I need. something. to change. I hate this. I feel selfish and cowardly and I hate feeling selfish and cowardly#I need to . communicate. work something out with my mother so that I stop feeling perpetually behind and ashamed#if I could manage to feel good about chores and not just like I'm scrambling to keep up..... that would..... be... more... motivational#the problem is that I feel unsafe/unstable right now and my instinctive response is to close myself off to all demands#WHICH AS YOU CAN IMAGINE IS NOT CONDUCIVE TO BECOMING MORE STABLE.#demand avoidance makes me bad at contributing to the household AND terrified of applying to jobs and AUGH... AUGH.#I DO BETTER WHEN I LIVE ON MY OWN#living on my own‚ I don't have to deal with the whole soul-crushing horrorshow of negotiating my own emotions about doing chores#chores are GOOD and ENJOYABLE when they're for ME. they're only psychological torture when they're things I do as part of my ''rent''#ok. bedtime. I've sufficiently spilled my dang guts all over the place. it will get better eventually I think#I'm just having a horrible time Right Now#I'll figure this out though dangit#I KNOW the answer is to just Do the stuff and face fears and communicate and whatever I KNOW. but if anyone tells me that I'm going to bite#ok I'm done thank you and sorry to anyone reading this far <3 it really will be all right
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so I should be writing a conference paper but. instead I am thinking about jace and anger. specifically autistic meltdown rage. like. god. being told what you do looks easy and so why do you complain about it / what could you possibly be upset about you have such Talent such Gift. and just being absolutely furious with nowhere to put that rage except. no. I shan't say
yes I shall say. put that rage in his hole!!
#demand avoidance hitting me hard#and also the hyperlexic audhd eternal struggle#between writing so fast its like im possessed#and physically wilting if i come within 3 ft of a google doc#anyway#the rage is already in jace and i know why#yes im projecting#what about it#and to be clear#the he of his hole is porter#starbreaker#jace stardiamond#porter cliffbreaker
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