Heads Up That You Dont Necessarily Have To Go Through The Earlier Numbers Before You Arrive At That Higher

Head’s up that you don’t necessarily have to go through the earlier numbers before you arrive at that higher number. The way it’s written, number 5 in particular, it sounds like it’s a progression, getting worse. That’s not always how it works.

I was reading through these and not seeing myself in numbers 4, 5, 6. But boy is #7 recognizable. So if you’re thinking you’re not doing so great, but you you can’t remember when your mental health was just starting to impact your everyday life, keep reading. Still valid.

A simple mental health pain scale.

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Anybody know if there is a link between ADHD and absolute pitch? I know there’s lots of sensory processing stuff. I thought I’d seen a reference to autism and absolute pitch once in an article, but I’ve lost that.

was trying to sleep but then my third eye snapped open involuntarily so I had to make this

At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.  At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

The NYC AIDS Memorial website says that by the end of 2000, 448,060 people had died in the US of AIDS. Not in New York City. Not only gay men. Not during the 1980s. More context on the original post here.

I get the sentiment. It’s important to remember those who died due to national inaction. But comparing numbers of deaths in tragedies isn’t the only way to show respect for the dead or outrage for their mistreatment, and we can still be careful to share true things in service of justice goals.

Getting this right matters because the gay men and other people who died of AIDS matter, and their deaths deserve to be contextualized correctly as we remember the atrocious tragedy of the AIDS crisis. It matters because I’m seeing people reblog these numbers as a way of shutting out trans and bi people from the LGBTQIA community, as if those people did not also die of AIDS. It matters because opponents of gay rights can jump on things like this to undermine the entire argument. It matters because truth matters--more than winning a point.

During the 1980s, more gay men died in New York City during the AIDS crisis than all recorded deaths of American soldiers in Vietnam. You need to know that.

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