When All You Have Is A Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like A Nail. When All You Have Is A Portal Gun, Every

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. When all you have is a portal gun, every problem looks like a puzzle.

Yes, I’m still obsessed with Portal. This cake is great, by the way

My knees hate me. Actually, my whole body hates me, but my knees seem to be extra hateful today

It’s getting bad again. The pain is always worse at night, when I don’t have as many things to distract myself with. I think I pulled every muscle in both legs. Hurt my knees and ankles, too. Of course. Just my luck that my joints are more flexible than they should be and that I was born with low muscle tone. And sensory issues, which essentially force my brain to focus on the fact that I’m in pain, making little to no room for thinking clearly.

All this because I tried to get some exercise. More than 24 hours ago.

I fucking hate everything right now

Another question for my tumblr census...

Do what you feel is most accurate, even if there is some nuance. If nothing feels accurate enough for you, do other.

Can confirm. A lot of those places are abusive, and even the ones that aren’t will make the person being put there feel like they’ve been abandoned and/or given up on by their parents. It’s a place built to profit off of those who are struggling, not to help them. And a lot of the time, these places won’t actually work with the parent, which is a problem. Because the parents are often part of why the teen is “troubled” in the first place. These places will make people more depressed and miserable than they were before.

Source: I’ve been to wilderness therapy and two so-called “therapeutic boarding schools”

To all the people who say "well, what if a parent sending their kid to a troubled teen facility is a last resort", I am here to counter that with the fact that sending your kid to a troubled teen facility will absolutely make it worse.

Sending your kid to a troubled teen facility as a "last resort" is like trying to remove a brain tumor by shooting at it with a gun. These facilities are so absolutely dog shit that they will make the problem you seek to remove ten times worse.

Do not send your child to these facilities even as a last resort. They will never help your child.

Me and who?