✨✨EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION✨✨
(or at least, how I experience it)
when your brain is a car that won’t start, it’s pretty annoying.
Today is the only day you can reblog this
did anyone else get a weird thrill as a kid from correctly imitating Normal Kid Things
like I would drink a Coca Cola (hating every sensory moment) and feel excited about participating in a Normal activity. I listened to 20 second samples of Avril Lavigne songs at Barnes and Noble and think, “oh yes, this is what normal American children do, look at me, I’m doing it too”
8 year old me: [eats a slice of pizza]
8 year old me: “Wow. I’m doing it. I’m really doing it. I bet I seem just like a Normal Kid. I bet this looks natural, like I do it every day without even thinking about it. If those people see me eating this pizza they will think, ‘Wow, what a regular child! Just like the ones on TV!’”
Frankly I still do this, to some extent--back in 2019 I went out with a friend after work and sat there like “Wow, I am in a city, drinking wine at a bistro with a friend from work, having an engaging conversation about our dating lives. This is what Normal Adults do. Look at me, a Normal Adult! Like from TV!”
Reblog if you are a Normal Adult, Like from TV
....is it not normal to do this? Because i do this
i feel like its definitely a neurodivergence thing, so for neurotypical people yea i dont think thatd be normal to them
I think it’s normal for anyone growing up outside of a particular lifestyle or culture, neurotypical or not... so neurodivergent people as well as immigrants, non-Americans, very rural, isolated, and poor folk, probably also people who spent a lot of their childhoods bedbound or hospitalized.
Transcript:
“Most of what you think you know about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is wrong.
This is the model that we all learned in psych 101 is wrong [image of Maslow’s pyramid is shown] where our basic physiological needs are at the bottom of the pyramid and achieving one’s full individual potential is at the apex.
What you may not have known is that Maslow spent 6 weeks with the Blackfoot First Nation in the summer of 1938. He learned about their worldview and the Blackfoot Tipi, appropriated and misrepresented their perspective to establish his own Maslow’s hierarchy, and then didn’t give them credit.
[Image of Maslow’s pyramid and Blackfoot tipi shown, described below]
According to the Blackfoot Tipi, self-actualization is at the bottom of the pyramid. In the middle we have belonging and community actualization, where people take care of each other and help each other with their basic needs. And at the top, we have cultural perpetuity, which is teaching each other how to live in harmony with the land and achieve community actualization through generations.
It makes so much sense, right? Taking care of oneself is not enough. We need to take care of each other and our community.
This is why we need to decolonize psychology.”
If a British person makes a post talking about how we're having our rights to protest taken away because of this country's extreme policing, racism, and general bigotry, and your response is to be like "lol who cares they're British!!" then you're just an asshole actually
Literally. I know everyone likes to say 'Fuck the British' in the same way you say 'Fuck the South' but we are actually people and yes, that includes POC, disabled and vulnerable folk who will suffer because of these new laws that are generally related to bigotry and racism. So, for once if you could get off your performative woke high horse here on tumblr.com where you think your generic ass statements that condemn thousands of vulnerable people to systematic oppression is somehow 'quirky' or 'lol so funny' as long as it's aimed at the right group, that'd be great.
You can buy Peace by Chocolate’s Pride Bars here! While quantities last.
This post is from 2018, and it’s a year old now, but don’t worry because they still have pride bars, and you can buy a pack of them here!
They also have Nitap bars:
“Nitap Bars are a fundraising project made in collaboration with and endorsed by the Paq'tnkek Band Council of the Paq'tnkek Mi'kmaw Nation, located just east of Peace By Chocolate in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.Profits from Nitap (the Mi'kmaw word for “friend” or “buddy”)
Bars help fund indigenous nitap programming that highlights, celebrates, and helps keep alive important Mi'kmaw community traditions such as drumming, dancing, basket weaving, and elder story telling, as well as traditional outdoor skills like fishing, hunting, canoeing, and tipi rituals.“ ♥
Not to be an Andromeda good truther but,,, I thoroughly enjoyed the game