11 months later, I still agree, I wish this place were popping because I can't handle the reactionary nature of Outragebook.

Suicide is something that I was fucking weaned on, my mother talked about killing herself from my earliest memories. I knew she was going to kill herself, so for most of my young life was spent in anticipation of that moment, ( Read more... )

We are all people of colour.

We are all people.

These divides, skin tone, or sex, they are concepts I have a hard time wrapping my head around. I see it, I understand the way things are, but what I fail to understand is how it ever got this way and why it continues to be this way.

Imagine a world where people with big noses were a maligned or ( Read more... )

I have friends who have autistic children and I know how extremely hard it is, and I feel very deeply for them.

I am incredibly concerned with the incline of diagnoses and I really hope that those researching have breakthroughs.

I have sympathy, I have understanding, but what I don't have is a tolerance for the idea that it gives people a free ( Read more... )

For all the things I want to say but don't want to alienate people who I otherwise like and mostly respect. Also known as - I'm not as left-wing as you, because everything can go too far.

A posted video about when "men lose it" - and mostly it was tennis players taking exception to bad calls. I'm going to make an educated assumption that the two ( Read more... )

These days, and maybe it's not just these days, but it seems that people want to community in such a way that it binds them by, and thus gives validation to, their common faults.

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Understand that when you are depressed or anxious, you are not lovable. You treat people poorly and while you may want them to keep loving you and caring about and for you, it's going to wear on them eventually and they might, assuming they aren't codependent, choose themselves first.

Because that kind of thing is just dragging someone down with ( Read more... )

This one is a photo of a guy in fatigues and two dogs.

"Please be considerate, not everyone likes fireworks"

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So many memes fly around about what not to say to people with "mental health problems" and how people claim to love and support you until those "mental health problems" rear their ugly head.

Well, for 10 years I lived with someone who had every single criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder, including the childhood abuse history. Now, I'm not ( Read more... )

And today's distraction is yet another facet of the polarity that is rocking our world. This time, the battle seems to be between feeling and thinking.

It's not all that different from pitting science against art, to be honest, both have their place in the world and in the spirit of the serenity prayer, knowing when to apply one and when to apply ( Read more... )

I have no need to tell you not to fuck with my family or hurt my children or I'll rip your heads off. The truth is that I won't. It's not because I don't love or care for them, it's because they either can take care of themselves (they're adults) and moreover, should take care of themselves, and I hope that I've helped them learn how to do that ( Read more... )