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If you’re in that kind of depression where everything is blurry and days blend into one another, taking a lot of photos of positive things might help. If your pet does something cute, you ate something good, got a high score, you cleaned your room, the weather was nice… I’m not saying this will fix your depression, it’s just a good reminder that you are in fact living regardless of the depression distorting your memory and making your past seem like fog of sadness and nothing else.
IDEA: a social media site for ADHD/autistic people where you can list your special interests / hyperfixations and then talk to people about them who also love them and who won’t judge you for infodumping
Now is a good time to remind people that it’s almost impossible to reverse climate change. If we were to start releasing zero greenhouse gasses now (which is impossible) it would STILL take decades or even centuries to see effects.
So the goal isn’t ‘stopping’ it, it’s attempting to avoid the worst possible results. You can hardly call it combatting at this point.
What we have to do is live with what we have—ensure people have access to food, shelter, etc during disastrous weather events. Food insecurity is and will be more of a huge problem. This is where capitalism fails. The number of people hungry/malnourished is increasing. We have the money and tools, but not the system to feed people.
I would rather let a “special snowflake” into the autistic community than exclude an autistic that needs support and cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather validate ten “special snowflakes” than invalidate one autistic who needs support and cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather welcome a hundred “special snowflakes” without question than force an autistic to disclose their entire life to me just to get the support they need when they cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather help those that don’t need help, than deny help to those that need it.
and as someone with a complicated situation that means I’m not officially diagnosed and am currently between being self diagnosed and professionally diagnosed, I’ve known the whole time since I started looking into autism (almost 5 years ago) that even on the off-chance that I’m not autistic and it’s something else (or a combination of somethings) I would rather be “wrongly” accepted into the autistic community and get the help I need from a knowledgeable, experienced, supportive community than pushed away and left to suffer alone.
^^^^^ THIS
Thank you!
I can afford to be ‘tricked’ into helping someone, but I cannot afford to miss the chance to help someone who needs it. That’s my essential mode. It just is not worth the risk.
I absolutely love the rewording of the OP! This is amazing way to look at it.
