you wanna know what proper aftercare looks like?
- getting her a towel and wiping her down
- getting her a glass of water.
- praise her
- reassuring her that all the nasty things said were strictly sexual
- treat any bruises
- cuddle with her and telling her she’s beautiful
during autistic burnout, do you notice empathy fatigue? you still care about people’s feelings but your ability to console, offer encouragement, etc has sort if dwindled? i feel that i am always trying to build people up and make them feel better and sometimes i just can’t.
Literally when I rewatched Little Women a few years ago, I noticed they say Beth had a virus (scarlet fever) and it affected her heart. She kinda recovers & then deteriorates again. Like post-viral illness is not new so it’s BIZARRE that everyone acts like covid is no biggie!
The parentified daughter becoming the adult with an autoimmune disease is a missing link in health. A lifetime of carrying everyone else’s burdens will always show up in the body.
overheard 2 very frat sounding guys on the bus:
bro 1: "streamers are like 'what do i do, chat' but i'm like 'what do i do, chatgpt'"
bro 2: "bro, you are going to be incapable of independent thought in 2 years"