Me: Constantly Telling Other People To Reach Out When They Need Help

This broke my heart and made me cry 💔

Aww I love this!! 😍😍 

this is EXACTLY why representation matters 

as a child, i had this really interesting way of dealing with executive dysfunction:

when i needed to do something but did not get the impulse to actually start, i counted to 20.

and at 20, i did the thing.

i started this in order to get me out of bed in the morning, and after a few weeks it was a reliable source of starting impulses. every time i hit 20, i got started. 

somewhere along the way i stopped doing it, because it was weird and nobody else needed to count in order to do stuff.

it makes me wonder, how many brilliant coping skills do we loose or never develop because we live in a neurotypical world and nobody teaches us these things? because we think they’re weird, because we don’t have words for what we’re doing, because they seem to have no place in this world?

STPD summarized

StPD, or Schizotypal Personality Disorder, is a Cluster-A personality disorder.

The symptoms of STPD are as follows:

-Ideas of reference -Odd beliefs or magical thinking (In children and adolescents, bizarre preoccupations or fantasies) -Unusual perceptual experiences -Odd thinking and Speech -Suspiciousness or Paranoia -Inappropriate/Constricted Affect -Behavior/Appearance that is odd, peculiar, or eccentric -Few or no close friends/confidants -Excessive Social Anxiety that does not go away with familiarity

I’ll go over these symptoms in more detail later, but there they are!

Basically, STPD is like a very mild form of Schizophrenia. Those who have it are very detached from their peers, but not by choice–their separation is generally very painful for them, because they WANT to have close friends, but they don’t trust people enough to get very close.

They may also have mild psychotic symptoms–their ideas of reference and magical thinking resembling delusions, and odd perceptual experiences resembling (very mild) hallucinations. The difference, however, is that they can tell the difference between reality and fantasy. They will usually be able to tell that, realistically, no one is watching them and that the things they hear are just illusions. It’s still terrifying, though, and they’ll still feel very anxious and paranoid about it!

There are two subsets of STPD, which are timorous and insipid. Timorous schizotypals are more passive and fearful, and share some characteristics with AvPD. Insipid schizotypals are more withdrawn and indifferent, and share characteristics with SzPD. I’ll go over these more later, but that’s the gist of it.

Around 1-3% of the population has StPD, (which is the same statistic for people with red hair.) Very few people with StPD receive proper treatment, both because of the bias surrounding personality disorders and the disconnect between Schizotypals and themselves. People with STPD can’t often tell that they have a strange way of thinking until they consciously compare themselves with others. However, that doesn’t mean they will NEVER see their thinking as strange! Some schizotypals are aware of their own disorder, and some psychologists theorize that this is because their disorder stems from cognitive deficiencies rather than their environment or predisposition.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Thanks for reading :)

This is glorious and even thought it doesn’t fit in the range of all the paranormal, I MUST share

It works like this: You tell Kitestring that you’re in a dangerous place or situation, and give it a time frame of when to check in on you. If you don’t reply back when it checks your status, it’ll alert your emergency contacts with a custom message you set up.

It doesn’t require you to touch anything (like bSafe) or shake your phone (like Nirbhaya) to send the distress signal. Kitestring is smarter, because it doesn’t need an action to alert people, it needs inaction.

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This is what it looks like when non-straight, non-white, non-male people get to host late night shows

Dunking on the “Blacks for Trump” woman and a Carmilla shoutout is the kind of glorious content we have to look forward to when networks finally stop hiring only straight cis white dudes to host late night shows. Please.

Gifs: Late Night with Seth Meyers

nobody talks about how ugly taking care of yourself can be

yes, sometimes it’s taking a warm bath and texting memes to friends and keeping an aesthetically pretty journal.

sometimes it’s crying silently on your couch at 3am, hugging yourself and reminding yourself that you’re a good person.

self care is not always ‘aesthetic’ and cute…and that’s ok. don’t be embarrassed, just do what you need to do.

He can do whatever he white. All men are created equal, but the cream rises to the top.