Laura

Vegetable plotter. Reverb lover. Anxious punk. Hard Femme. Autistic. they/her.

[Lauryn Ipsum @LaurynIpsum]

I fucking live for unhinged Victorian Christmas cards. Some years I just share the terror with friends, and others I choose to spread the chaos. This year I pick the latter.

Let’s start with the truly inexplicable.

Frog + beetle waltz
Sky jellyfish
Mutant beet-man
GOAT
🧵

[Laura @hello_thursday]

Lockdown at least gave me the chance to stop having to interact with the world, exist in a quiet place and just be who I am. In how I dress, act, my gender, my interests.

[Laura @hello_thursday]

I don’t think I’d ever dare tell a psychologist that I’ve used codeine/valium to deal with sensory overload and to mask. It makes me really sad that I had to numb myself in order to survive for so long and that I had no idea I was autistic or how to be myself without it hurting.

[DynamicallyDisabled 🟥 @dynamicallydis]

As I plunged into autistic burnout I started losing my ability to mask but since I was in environments where I couldn't be unmasked and I didn't know I was autistic, I turned to alcohol and relied on it as a masking-catalyst. I just wish we talked more about autism and addiction.

[Laura @hello_thursday]

Pictures and peoples memories of me do not match my experience at all. People think of me being chill and quiet, being very girly and plain. That’s because I was full of opiates and benzo’s and was copying everyone else and trying not to stand out.

[Laura @hello_thursday]

@marfsummers Huh, these tweets just summed up my entire life and the last two years in particular. Ty.

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

Every word of this is why I'm attached to theory.

[Laura @hello_thursday]

Urgh, I’ve had every type of this “friend”

[Laura @hello_thursday]

@wigglymittens @jtheseamstress Aw thanks! I’d definitely recommend getting into making your clothes, it doesn’t have to be expensive and it’s completely changed how I feel about myself and wasting clothes that I don’t hate!

[Laura @hello_thursday]

@wigglymittens @jtheseamstress I second peppermint magazine patterns. I started with those, lots of elasticated skirts, jumpsuits and really nice trousers! Really well drafted patterns and for free!

[BB @thespiraltimes]

Here's a way you can 'Do Something' - my team at Women's Aid are doing a run of free 1hr workshops aimed at individuals, community and mutual aid groups - you can and should afford to take an hour out to up-skill yourself! https://t.co/aVZljfxLLW

[Stewart Who? @DJstewartwho]

Photographer Gideon Mendel refused to fan the flames of prejudice that characterised the AIDS crisis, instead documenting the humanity he found on London's specialist wards.

The Ward by Gideon Mendel is published by Trolley Books.

[Laura @hello_thursday]

Step-child cat is staying for Christmas. Lovely. Projectile vomited over rug, throw and blanket at 7am this morning. Not lovely.

[Laura @hello_thursday]

Anyone looking for a short term admin job at a rad LGBT+ org with the added bonus of working with me?

[Galop @GalopUK]

Do you want to join the Galop team?

Are you the most organised person you know?

We're looking for an administrator to join us and work with a team comitted to working to end violence and abuse against LGBT+ people.

Information on how to apply here: https://t.co/aRpxunOr60

[Laura @hello_thursday]

@joan0fsnark Yes, I’ve done this, happy to chat :)

[🌱John Hyphen🚲 @JohnHyphen]

the local council in my part of brussels will install a mosaic on the path outside your house for FREE, and I realise that a bunch of people use it to get portraits of their cats

[Laura @hello_thursday]

@juniordrumkit Like ya manifesto, put it to the testo

[Laura @hello_thursday]

Not that any of this applies to me, I don’t even know 6 people. I just want to understand!

[Laura @hello_thursday]

I don’t understand the new 6 person rule...so you can’t meet more than 6 people from 2 households - but as many 2 household six person groups can sit in a pub/cafe? Or are inside businesses restricted to only 12 people from 2 households of 6 people? Honestly asking because 🤯