Access to drugs have become easier and easier over the past few years. Along with Measure 110 being passed, little to no improvement has been seen. However, those who want a different approach regarding those who have abused drugs have a common purpose. There needs to be a safer way to handle those who are in possession of drugs and address the amount of drugs we see in the streets.
You need to start approaching this world as an improve act.
You do this thing, and then…. What
This thing happens to you then… what?
They do this thing, say this thing, then… what? You say some thing?? Do something?? Then what? What outcome are you hoping for here? Is how you’re reacting, actually reflective of the out outcome you desire? Do you really think that adding negativity to any situation is going to make it better?
And I’m not say to not speak your truth when you’ve been hurt.
There is such a difference as, “Fuck you man! You’ve got me fucked up!” And, “I don’t like the way I’m being talked to(!)”
Don’t add gasoline to the fire; in fact, don’t even add water. Let it burn out and approach the situation with healing and love in your heart. That is to say, if a person is having a bad day, or getting on your nerves, asses if you actually want to make an enemy (or a “not friend” that day).
Because as the saying goes, “You can always be perceived as kind, until you are mean. Then that is all you are.”
Silently and graciously offer grace to your close social circles.
btw. your search for the most morally upright and ethical piece of media that has the most correct “representation” will destroy your ability to find the most profound and beautiful and human of stories. and may even destroy the stories themselves before they are created. if you even care.
now that almost everyone's got polls, i feel like sharing this information for non-screen reader users : when you haven't yet voted on a poll, the screen reader will read each line one by one (you won't know it's a poll until you've reached the end of the options and the screen reader reads how long the poll will last); whereas once you've voted, the screen reader will read all the options, percentages included, as one block of text.
i'm not saying this because of accessibility issues, just you know, it never hurts to know how new, omnipresent features are actually experienced by disabled people.
The hardest, but most important, part of my transition has been untangling what my personal dysphoria is, and what is more a result of cissexism.
What I mean by this is that I learned that I am not dysphoric about certain aspects of myself, my body, and my life, but my discomfort in these aspects was influenced by the cissexist culture I live in which told me I couldn't exist as myself.
It's definitely a slow process, but I have found that it helps me self-actualize and actually see myself instead of what others demand of me.