As An Adult You Must Cultivate The Skill Of “Gross! Oh, Well. Not My Business.”

whenever i like your vent post pls don’t imagine me standing there with a thumbs up pls imagine me bringing you a warm blanket out of the dryer and a cup of your favorite drink bc that is what i am doing mentally in my own mind

If you cannot be proud of "all the progress you've made" because you haven't made much progress yet, be proud of the fact that you're still trying despite having yet to see any results. That part of recovery requires real strength and you deserve to be proud of yourself for sticking with it.

“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”

— Marianne Williamson

I'm all for the movement of "if you're going to accept all autistics, that means all autistics. Even the weird ones" etc

But I much more fancy that we just accept weird people point blank. They don't need to share a diagnosis. They don't need to make themselves smaller just to fit into the world.

Cuz, as a late diagnosed autistic, my weird ass could have used just acceptance. Regardless of why I was weird.

you are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. you are here to create yourself, continuously.

every mother who’s critiqued her daughter’s appearance based on ~what men do or do not like~ owes that child an apology

Trauma didn't make me nice, I consciously made me nice because I don't want anyone else to suffer like I did. Trauma didn't make me strong, I made me strong. Don't you dare ever tell me my trauma made me anything but scared, broken, and confused. Don't give credit to the abusers for me being a good person. They didn't make me good, I made myself good.

“I’d spent so long trying to fit in, trying to be someone I wasn’t, that I had no idea who I was any more.”

— Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach