( SONGS THAT MAKE ME REALLY HAPPY, part one of ? )

( whining! )

So You're Dating Someone With a Mental Illness or Developmental Disability! Or perhaps you Want to Hook Up With Someone Who Might Have Ingested a Mind-Altering Substance Earlier in the Evening!

And you're wondering: can this person, in fact, consent to sexual relations?

The answer is maybe! Ask yourself:

-Is the person unconscious or unresponsive? Do ( Read more... )

I have giant chocolate chip holiday cookies and a headache and...hmmm, you know, I'm not sure if a person is allowed to say "spoons," as in, "I haven't had the spoons for writing long (and comprehensible, and suitable-for-public-viewing) entries, or for spending much active time on the internet at all, lately" if she hasn't got a chronic illness ( Read more... )

I can't help but notice you talk about some things that sound like they must have been quite painful. But you keep smiling. That's deliberate, isn't it? You've practiced that.

-- my new psychologist, who is perceptive

If I ever actually learn to play the guitar or anything, I'm going to do a cover of ( Read more... )

The Dragon's Egg.

My take-home idea from the article is this:

There’s also a sense in which the books, far from being escapist, offer familiar experience in intensified form. Some popular fiction really is straightforwardly escapist; no one’s life is like James Bond’s. We read it to be it. But we all see our lives from the inside to be those of lost ( Read more... )

There is a carnivorous giant snail called the Milky Bar snail and it is the color of hot, extremely soapy water, or of vanilla soft-serve ice cream. And I just wanted to say I'm glad I live on a planet where the previous sentence is a true thing.

I remember a conversation I had with my friend Charlotte once, when we were in the same senior-year writing portfolio class. We agreed that we needed to feel sort of anxious and agitated-- or extraordinarily happy and excited, which could be considered positive agitation, I guess-- to be able to write much at all, let alone write interesting things ( Read more... )

Oh, hey! Another young child with a diagnosed mental disorder misbehaves in a way that would probably just get a reprimand and a long trip to the time-out chair if the child did NOT have a diagnosed mental disorder, but instead is deemed to warrant manhandling, arrest, and a trip to a psychiatric hospital!

I can't even count the ways in which this ( Read more... )

Through a MetaFilter link-walk, I found this article. I'm not saying "I agree*" or "I disagree**," but it's an interesting perspective on the issues discussed, and one I honestly hadn't encountered anything much like before.

Also (in reference to a very minor point that takes up one short paragraph), I have to say, I am on the side of libraries ( Read more... )