I Gonna Be Blunt With You Mr. Car Salesman, I Dont Care How Fast This Car Goes, Or How Many Horse Souls

i gonna be blunt with you mr. car salesman, i don’t care how fast this car goes, or how many horse souls you trapped in the engine, i only care about the horn. now please stop talking so i can hear this bad boy beep.

who needs therapy when you can gaslight yourself into thinking everything is fine

genuine question:

what’s the difference between romantic and platonic love? and if the difference is sexual attraction, does that mean the asexuals can never have a romantic relationship?

c'mon guys, it's 2021. it's time to tell the difference between opinion and fact.

opinion: tea is better than coffee.

fact: sharpay evans was a lesbian dealing with compulsory heterosexuality by having a conditioned crush on troy and hyper-fixating on gabriella, her REAL crush

Hi! This is your reminder that, as you're looking for Halloween costumes this year, please don't dress up as a "Native American" or "Indian Princess" or whatever other gross stereotype it says on the packaging.

Indigenous People aren't a costume. We aren't a joke. We aren't there for you to make a "sexy" version of or to slap a felt "headdress" on and make mocking war noises. It's rude and offensive and you don't need to perpetuate the harmful views against us.

There are many ways to have fun with dressing up, and hurting others shouldn't be one of them!

As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, one thing that’s been helping me grapple with the intense shame I have over all my “wasted potential” is accepting that potential doesn’t exist and never did.

This sounds so harsh, but please bare with me.

I procrastinated a lot growing up. I still procrastinate today, but less so. And yet, I got good grades. I could write an A+ paper that “knocked [my professor]’s socks off” in the hour before class and print it with sweat running down my face.

I was so used to hearing from teachers and family that if I just didn’t procrastinate and worked all the time, I could do anything! I had all this potential I wasn’t living up to!

And that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s like saying if Usain Bolt just kept going he could be the fastest marathon runner in the world. Why does he stop at the end of the race??

If ANYONE could make their top speed/most productive setting the one they used all the time, anyone could do anything. But you can’t. Your top speed is not a speed you’re able to sustain.

Now, I’ve found that I do need to work on not procrastinating. Not because the product is better, even, but because it’s better for my mental health and physical health to not have a full, sweating, panicked breakdown over every task even if the task itself turns out excellently. It’s a shitty way to live! You feel bad ALL the time! And I don’t deserve to live like that anymore.

So all of this to say, I’m not wasting a ton of potential. I don’t have an ocean of productivity and accomplishments inside of me that I could easily, effortlessly access if I just sat down 8 hours a day and worked. There’s no fucking way. That’s not real. It’s an illusion. It’s fine not to live up to an illusion.

And if you have ADHD, I mean this from the bottom of my heart: you do not have limitless potential confounded by your laziness. You have the good potential of a good person, and you can access it with practice and work, but do not accept the story that you are choosing not to be all that you are or can be. You are just a human person.