#speaking without gestures

[counselorssoapbox]

Negative symptoms matter a lot

Negative symptoms matter a lot

Negative symptoms.Photo courtesy of Pixabay.com Negative symptoms matter a lot. By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Counselor. What’s the difference between negative symptoms and positive symptoms? The terms negative symptoms and positive symptoms have a different meaning in mental health when applied to symptoms than in other contexts. Positive doesn’t mean good, and sometimes…

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but the irony of Nico calling Max unprofessional is sending me so bad like sir there's an entire garage full of people, who were literally in the trenches trying to survive the Brocedes fallout while just doing their jobs, who might have a few things to say about your (& Lewis') level of professionalism at that time 😭✋️

[mamawasatesttube]

i just think lois lane should put tim drake in her purse like a little dog. a scrunkly little companion who's even better at picking locks than she is, which is saying something. a nosy little freak after her own heart. the rubber duck she uses when talking her thoughts out loud to put clues together. her coffee gofer. her purse ferret.

[sophsun1]

Queer as Folk – 3.06: One Ring to Rule Them All

[thedeafprophet]

I really would just like to see more hard of hearing characters in general, esp with hearing aids in modern settings.......... i rarely ever see such in any of the media i engage in, and more often then not hearing aids are the butt of a joke about getting old.

it'd be nice to see more hard of hearing characters just... be.

[lith-myathar]

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[hellcatchvalley]

the way that if any bh member died now it wouldnt even be a "oh no im gonna miss them :(" feeling but more so a "man they didnt even really get a chance to finish anything" feeling is.

[asinglesock]

so uh

[ronanlynchbf]

and then an overwhelming sense of dread apear.

[friendlyengie]

i saw the post about sending tf2 asks so here's my chance. i don't know this blog's opinion on texas toast but i swear the game likes to pair pyro and engie for some reason. pyro has not one but two weapons for saps. in the comics most of the mercs don't really interact with pyro and seem to think they're weird, but the few times engie & pyro are together dell is really nice to them. they have matching little doll cosmetics of each other HELLO?? (pocket pardner & pocket pyro) y'know how heavy n medic have that too? is it supposed to be gay? i wish they did more with this i feel like i'm getting little bread crumbs by valve wtf (also sorry i just realized the block of text i'm sending)

I mean, i think theyre definitely one of the pairs with a designated Dynamic in the sense that yeah theyre paired together a lot in official stuff (re: true meaning comic and all that) but like. They can also be paired together without it being implied to be a gay thing. Sometimes characters simply have dynamics.

But YEAH just in general i would love to see more stuff surrounding any of the merc dynamics tbh… we get so little. Crumbs. Slivers, even.

[solidwater05]

When I have a sore throat I communicate with gestures because I'm very chatty and not being able to speak doesn't stop me from annoying people

So once I was having lunch with my mom and she said that we ran out of bananas, so I looked at the fruit bowl to confirm it and yeah, there were only lemons. We indeed ran out of bananas

My mom pointed out as a joke that those are lemons, not bananas, and I thought of a joke I really wanted to make. I immediately started looking for objects that would help me express what I wanted to say

So I point at the label of an oil bottle, which is yellow, and then at a lemon. And she somehow perfectly understood that I wanted to say that lemons must be bananas because they're yellow. I have no idea how but I managed to make it work

[dutybcrne]

No thoughts, just Kaeya outright crying in front of his partner bc they secretly went and learned Khaenri'ahn, even through the painstaking research and sheer effort it would take

[50thvictor]

remember that moment in c.atching f.ire (the movie), when haymitch not only steps between katniss and the gun during the flogging, but also immediately pulls peeta behind him too? YEAH :)))

[anthropwashere]

I've gotten two letters from my mom since my aunt died last month and they've both been just. So, so aggressively manipulative. Y'all can skip this post. I'm not looking for sympathy likes/replies. I just need a good rant and sometimes it does pay to yell into the Tumblr void.

Still—still!—she insists I have never told her why I refuse to speak to her anymore. She has the receipts on this, going all the way back over a decade ago to my early 20s when I conceded to communicate to her solely through e-mails. That avenue of communication ended with me blocking her pretty much everywhere online after she called me a sociopathic bitch on a public platform family, friends, and coworkers followed me on. Very cool of her, very mature.

(If memory serves she was arrested shortly thereafter. Pity it wasn't for something more serious than, jeez, I can't be assed to remember. Something to do with her driver's license? I know she asked me for a couple grand about it and cussed me out when I told her my baby Airman ass literally did not have the money even if I were inclined to help her.)

Every single letter she sends me includes a brief tangent about how she's been watching YouTube videos about estranged families (both sides! she always includes the both sides!). She always says she wants to understand but she can't because I've never told her why I refuse to talk to her anymore.

How many phonecalls, how many HOURS, have I wasted crying in rage and despair as I try to tell her all the ways she hurt me, physically and emotionally and mentally, before I realized she'd never accept it? That she would always, always try to gaslight me like this? That she'd give me that guileless, wide-eyed and furrowed brow anxious stare and that high, plaintive goddamn voice. That she'd convince me time and time and time and time again that maybe, maybe I'm overreacting?

This most recent letter was a real treat. She went out of her way to say she wasn't trying to guilt trip me, really, but she's JUST lost both her sisters AND her parents in the last year and she's terrified she might die soon next so WHY won't her ONLY DAUGHTER just TALK to her? 😭

So, firstly. I can only speak for myself and my interpretations of what my extended family will feel, but I'm pretty goddamn sure we're all gonna CHEER when she finally fucking kicks the bucket. Ain't nobody gonna miss her when she croaks. Even if her sisters outlived her that'd be the same. My only complaint when she does die is that I'm gonna insist on paying for all of the funerary expenses because she's already leeched too goddamn much from the rest of the family. No way is anyone gonna pay for her bullshit one last time, even if that means paying folks back with interest after I fly back to California. And you can be sure I'm gonna go out of my way to take the cheapest route possible at every opportunity out of spite. This woman doesn't deserve better than the bare minimum. That's all she's ever given everyone else after all.

Secondly, I will concede the fact that yes, she's lost both her sisters in the last year, not even a full year apart from each other. And that sucks! It's extremely fucking sad! My aunts raised me as much as she did, and they both sure as hell paid for more of my childhood needs than she ever did. I was able to afford to go to my younger aunt's funeral last year, but even with the surprise disability backpay I got this year I've been dealing with a lot of owning-a-100+-year-old house expenses (such as replacing the entire goddamn original roof) this year, so I genuinely couldn't make the trip for my older aunt's funeral. Two family members offered to pay for my flight and I just couldn't accept that kindness because I grew up watching my mom take and take and take and take from the family.

THIRDLY HOWEVER.

Her mom, my maternal grandma, died TWENTY YEARS AGO. Her dad, my maternal grandpa, died THIRTY YEARS AGO. And she hated her parents! She fucking loathed them! I spent more of my childhood being her psychologist instead of her goddamn child; ALL I HEARD ABOUT was how much she hated and resented her parents. This is THE first time I've heard her trot them out since I lived with her back in the 00s, and it might damn well be the first halfway-positive mention of them since long before that? This is so transparent an act I can't help but be insulted that she'd think I'd take the bait? Using the LITERAL DEATHS of others to try to goad me into talking to her?

Like. Jesus. Last year at my younger aunt's funeral just about every single member of the California-centric family pulled me aside to ask if my mom was being too much. My aunt's CHILDREN, damn near non-functional with grief, asked if I needed help handling my mom. And there were a couple occasions where I damn near admitted yeah! She's being too much! She won't stop fucking touching me! She won't stop making her sister's death about herself! And here she is, a year later, doing the same goddamn thing again with her other sister's death!

She's a manipulative, gaslighting abuser who refuses to grow up and accept responsibility and/or repercussions for her actions despite being in her late-60s. She gleefully twists the knife into whoever she can get her hands on and acts SO distraught and SO betrayed when people find fault with her actions and behavior. I don't know a single person who knows her to like her anymore once she's shown her true colors, and somehow she's still convinced she isn't the problem.

What a waste. What a fucking waste.

[skitskatdacat63]

The way he's not even meant to be in frame but is like, alright, let me gesticulate as much as humanely possible

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

well, well, well, if it isn't my old nemesis: Dialogue Between Three (3) People