so many grown ass adults have no idea how to properly apologize.
if you fuck up, intentional or not, and someone gets physically or emotionally hurt bc of your actions, you’re supposed apologize by taking accountability for what you specifically did, & change your behavior.
Seeking neurodivergent diagnoses in 2026 is such a pain. No I don’t *want* autism or adhd because it’s trendy, I want to know why I feel like I’ve been cosplaying as a human my whole life.
the moment ChatGPT persuaded that first poor boy to kill himself, Sam Altman should have pulled the product from the market for emergency refinement. but he didn’t, & his glorified Magic 8 Ball has pushed child after child into the grave. hard to see him as anything but a monster
Ancient Greece literally had an androgynous god that was a god of intersex and androgyny but conservatives will still try to convince you that gender identity is a modern day invention caused by the woke mind virus.
How allistics think discovering you're autistic goes:
"That must have been devastating. You finally found out what was wrong with you."
How it actually goes:
"You spend three hours reading about autism and suddenly remember every teacher who called you 'bright but strange', every friendship that dissolved for reasons nobody explained, every family gathering where you disappeared into another room for twenty minutes and came back pretending you were fine."
And somewhere between the relief and the grief, you realize you were never failing at being a person.
Fun fact:
If you’re only valued when you’re radiant, sensual and sweet but not when you’re sad, frustrated, or needing emotional depth then you’re being objectified and this goes for friendships too
This is one of my favorite papers because it calls out the biggest bluff in academia: the idea that sounding complicated is the same thing as having “intellectual depth.”
Playfulness is the highest intelligence. Watch a genius work, he's joylaughing. Watch a fool work, he's furious. Seriousness is a mask worn by men who fear being seen playing. God made dolphins, puppies, and orgasms. The evidence is in. He wants us laughing.
“Men are natural leaders” until it’s time to plan dates or do chores and then it’s just “tell me what you want, make me a list, tell me what you need me to do”
Hm