When I was in middle and high school I was ridiculed by my peers for watching shows that they considered to be “immature” for my age.
It was the early-to-mid 2000s, and my classmates were watching shows like American Idol, The OC and Grey’s Anatomy. I was watching kids’ cartoons like SpongeBob, Fairly OddParents and Jimmy Neutron. These kids often bullied and pressured me into watching the shows they liked. Even my school counselor said that I had to watch the shows my peers were watching if I wanted to have friends, and I mentioned to her that I was lonely and wanted some friends.
My mom didn’t allow me to watch The OC, so I started watching Grey’s Anatomy and American Idol instead. I was starting to fit in with my peers at school, but it severely cost me my mental health. In my sophomore year, I became even more depressed than I already was. It was like my personality just completely changed in just a year.
To this day, it’s still hard to enjoy an episode of SpongeBob or any of the other shows I liked back then without being reminded of the times where I was ostracized for liking those shows.
I hate that neurodivergent kids are always being pressured into acting as close to neurotypical as possible by not only their peers, but the adults around them.
Leave. Neurodivergent. Kids. Alone.
Oh fuck yes Twitter is bringing back the 1970’s Maoist approach to gayness
but gosh i want to be a sad little cartoon villain man unveiling my backstory in an unnecessarily flamboyant musical number whilst my bumbling team of comic relief henchpersons stumble about providing the off-key chorus line
Too late. You already are 😘
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Cannot Stress Enough how important it is to read Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynn Jones immediately after watching Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. When he made the movie he was of course upset with war and thus included it in the film, but you gotta understand. You really Gotta Understand. Every time in the movie where Howl turns the door dial black to travel to an absolutely hellish warscape? You know where that same dial takes him in the book? The Real World Country Of Wales
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aromantic people being villains is like… yeah, that’s probably a bad stereotype n all, aromantics are also people, but like. as an aro myself im partially like “fuck yeah. we’re going to be evil and doing evil plans and dont like anyone other than our evil pets and our evil henchmen. lets get this (evil) show started.”
i’m sorry i know it was objectively rooted in logic but watching annabeth and grover plop percy’s pasty, anemic, dying ass down in some tourist fountain and intensely splash water on him like he’s some toddler they don’t know how to bathe is probably the funniest fucking thing i’ve seen in a good while
You say the sweetest things darling 😘
@lizza-yarnscaping you've finally made it as my tumblr crush. So hot 🥵 I'm like, so obsessed with you.