icon: "Kanika kitty (my cat in profile with a blown-out background. Kanika is stark black with golden eyes, and looks like a statue of Bastet)"

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icon: "ADD-PI (two electromicroscope photos of crystallized acetylcholine, overlaid & warped in several ways)"Neuro-divergent and mental health labels serve two purposes: helping you find your people, and helping you find the right professional to aid you in building coping skills and/or healing from trauma and/or prescribing you medication ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about my definitions of friendship: this is an update of friendships are important / my levels of relationship for everyone. I have four levels:

1) friendly acquaintances / "casual friends":

• people who are respectful and want to connect with me.
• people who I care about, but don't know well yet.
• people who I know share at least ( Read more... )

It has been about a year since I learned that the transverse abdominis exists and how it functions. This muscle wraps around your organs between your hips and ribs, behind your "abs," and helps stabilize your spine. A weak transverse abdominis can lead to back pain or injury ( Read more... )

I went to the grocery store today, where I wore a dust mask and carried disinfecting wipes which I used to touch every handle I had to use to get items out. I put all my items into bags which I carried rather than using a shop cart or basket. At the self-check I wiped down the touch screen, the pin pad, the handles on the bag carousel, and the ( Read more... )

Note: I don't want anyone to change their behavior because of this -- it's just me sharing a bit of how my brain works ( Read more... )

Dream: stranded, bus doesn't stop near me any more, people on the bus are cruel to me; dating a super-fat person and verbally attacking people who were cruel to them, toilet weirdness; combs are currency but mine don't work ( Read more... )

So far the only real emotional impact that being alone for the past 7 days has had on me is relief at not having to do normie social at work, and increased energy due to not spending it on acting normal, translating sound into words, and commuting ( Read more... )

Okay so I am pretty sure the last time I got a cold was January of 2016, and other than 2 bouts of food poisoning between then and now, I haven't gotten sick. (I just looked through all of my old texts with Topaz and all my old facebook posts) And some of this is luck but I did ride the bus 4 days a week for a good chunk of the past 4 years, and I ( Read more... )

After years of experimenting, I finally figured out the right temperature and cook time to make French toast with sprouted grain bread so that it is all cooked, but still fluffy ( Read more... )