Elyse Marie

Thirty-something she/her basicterrestrial
Instagram:elyse_marie89
$Scharris0727

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

Ill equipped to feel joy

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

This reality:
0/10
Where's that alternate reality when you need it?

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

It's such bullshit that a company will cancel your store credit card because your score dropped 5 points, even if it's paid off, which then causes the credit score to drop 40 points

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

Fundraiser for Sina Johnson by Casie Parker : Ra’Miyah Worthington https://t.co/xGTfstDnOj

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

I turn 27 into 30 and add that to 45

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

How do you do it?

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

My ADHD makes me able to sit at my work desk for 15 minutes, but able to clean/update my kitchen for 9 hours

[ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse]

ADHD is _desperately_ needing a cup of coffee, taking one sip, and then forgetting about it completely until it’s gone cold.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I see a lot of far-right pundits saying “do you really want to live in a world with reliable public transport and fully funded schools and FREE lunches for CHILDREN” and… yes?? take me to that awful place

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Been doing it wrong my entire life

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

The red buckets at dr's offices really get me. While I understand my body's reaction is considered irrational. I know they usually aren't terribly painful. I know it's quick. The only way I can describe it is that my body thinks it's going to die

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

@EveAinsworth I'm interested in seeing what the suggestions are. I'm 34, I have needle phobia from a trauma as a child and I do not get any care involving needles. When I had heart surgery they had to knock me out completely for the IV because Ativan, haloperidol and Xanax didn't work

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

@EveAinsworth I'm interested in seeing what the suggestions are. I'm 34, I have needle phobia from a trauma as a child and I do not get any care involving needles. When I had heart surgery they had to knock me out completely for the IV because Ativan, haloperidol and Xanax didn't work

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

It's one of those days where I have to tell myself not to cry repeatedly

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Every word of this 👇

[🎏 | autistic gay wizard @wizardsofautism]

shoutout to my fellow Autistics

[Elyse Marie @ElyseHarris22]

@dustychipura I get told to slow down, do one thing at a time, stop helping outside of my assigned work tasks, FOCUS

[Dusty Chipura @dustychipura]

The weirdest thing about #adhd is that you can tell people you have it and they sort of SEEM to understand, and then later are surprised and upset when you do all the things that a person with ADHD would do. Like bro what did you think I meant when I said I had ADHD?

[Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories_]

FYI... Autistic people tend to think in complexities.

Someone can ask us to do something seemingly straightforward, but our brains will often make it into something extremely complex and nuanced.

We ask questions to untangle our thoughts.