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1 year ago

As a kid, I wasn't taught any concept that there's a difference between wanting to do something, and enjoying it. I was a largely unsupervised kid with undiagnosed ADHD and parents who expected their kids to just raise themselves on their own. So when I was capable of spending hours drawing or reading a fun book, but couldn't even remember that I had homework, ever, I was told that I simply didn't want to do well in school. And who was I to question that, I'm eight years old.

Enjoyment and passion were the only forms of motivation I knew, and if I couldn't make myself either love doing boring math homework as much as I loved my hobbies, or force myself to push through things I hated with sheer willpower alone because I want to succeed so bad, then clearly I was simply not as good as all the other kids, who could do that. And that attitude carried onto adulthood. Every time I struggled to muster genuine love and passion into something, I thought that I just don't want it badly enough. Not to enough to love it, or to suffer through it.

Being medicated for the first time was a game changer. Like holy shit, so this is your brain on dopamine. And suddenly I wanted to do things, turned my life around, took up the passion career I had never dared to try. And when the first "honeymoon phase" of the meds wore down, the same fear came back - I don't like this anymore, do I not want it bad enough? What else could I possibly want?

And I shit you not I was literally 30 years old when I understood that life isn't just either loving every minute of pursuing a passion that you love, or joylessly dragging yourself through things that you don't even want to do. I can just tell myself "just because I don't like doing this doesn't mean I don't want to be doing it." It's not a mark of failure, weakness or lack of motivation, if sometimes the career you want to be doing just feels like having a job.


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5 months ago

One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.

It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.

Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”

Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”

How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?

5 months ago
This Is What I’d Look Like If Minecraft Added Dog Breeds Btw
This Is What I’d Look Like If Minecraft Added Dog Breeds Btw

This is what I’d look like if minecraft added dog breeds btw


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5 months ago
Collecting Joans Of Arc Like They Are My Little Pokemon Team

collecting joans of arc like they are my little pokemon team


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3 years ago
DERRY GIRLS | 2.06 “The President”
DERRY GIRLS | 2.06 “The President”
DERRY GIRLS | 2.06 “The President”
DERRY GIRLS | 2.06 “The President”
DERRY GIRLS | 2.06 “The President”

DERRY GIRLS | 2.06 “The President”


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5 months ago
Outlines Of Two Alligators That Slept Through The Rain.

Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.


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3 years ago

Babe wake up, Orla McCool is now canon nonbinary


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1 year ago

I’ve printed this out before but that big myth of how the Harry Potter books got turned down by 12 different publishers doesn’t sound that rediculous once you learn literally anything about how the publishing world or actually any other creative field works

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