I'm so frustrated rn. My dad comes with me to my doctor appointments for my medication check ins and stuff for my adhd & autism (which is totally fine, I prefer to have someone there to help support me and be an extra ear), but my mom wants my dad to ask the doctor "how autistic" I am. She wants him to find out what level of support I need and everything, as if she can't just ask me herself. The doctor hardly listens to me and doesn't know the level of support I actually need and regularly tries to gaslight me into thinking I'm much more high functioning than I really am. But my mom doesn't want to ask me or listen to me when I try to tell her what kind of help I need, she wants a doctor to tell her. So she's making my dad ask the doctor at my next appointment how autistic I am, which is honestly embarrassing. Like I'm sorry, but you could just ask me instead of asking someone who hardly knows me and how I function. I'm a real human with feelings and thoughts and lived experience of being autistic, just ask me instead of making it a whole thing with my doctor who is going to say that I need very little support and should be able to do *allllll* these things when in reality, I can't. And the way my mom talks about me being autistic is so demeaning? She talks about it in such a negative way as if I'm a burden on her and my dad, I hate it.
all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.
It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).
Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.
One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.
*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.
Whether or not the adage that chronic stress is as bad as smoking is or true or not, hearing that and knowing that a huge stress factor is often one's continued financial, housing, and food security really should radicalize more people. The idea of stress being damaging to long and short-term health should make you stop and wonder what contributes to stress in the first place, and if preventative measures would inevitably be a net benefit to the overall health and wellbeing of everybody
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Update: It did indeed feel like my heart was going to explode and I was doing deep breathing exercises for over an hour 😅 Did I learn my lesson? Nope. I woke up today and downed two cans of Red Bull 😬
I’ve had almost 400mg of caffeine today, I think my heart is gonna explode soon 😅
omfg it's taken over three months for two different stores to review my job application and get back to me. They're both still going over stuff and will email me with the next steps, but omg this is ridiculous. I literally gave up on thinking I'd ever hear from them since it was taking *so* long to hear back. It was literally 3+ months ago that I applied. I'm glad to hear that they're reviewing my application but if you have job openings that you're hiring for, it shouldn't take *months* to get back to your applicants. Companies need to stop with this resume/job application hoarding nonsense. It's deceptive to the applicants, people who are applying need a job *now,* not months down the line.
Advice if you love/care about an addict but they're not ready for abstinence. This is meeting people where they're at- the most important part of harm reduction