They still want them to commute in to clean their houses though. Or perhaps live in the servant barracks on the estate.

I once saw a deaf patient fingerspelling off to the side to “feel out” the word they were trying to write the same way you might “sound out” a word. Blew my mind. Also the time we had a schizophrenic where the translator couldn’t make heads or tails of their signing so we tried BSL etc with similar results but eventually they got medicated and it turned out it was ASL just the ASL version of “word salad” (common symptom of psychosis). Like I know it’s just a language like any other but it’s always cool to see the different ways it can manifest the same functions and dysfunctions.

idk what mine counts as it’d be a hell of a vtuber persona

Same except everybody thinks I’m a butch when I’m really more of a twink.

Schizophrenics too, interestingly enough.

I can’t decide if that was likely part of the joke vs a genuine flub

Some people have more or less. I happen to have a LOT of it, at least in the context I work (inpatient psychiatry, violence deescalation). I’ve also noticed it occasionally happen at other times like one time my foot had the brake pedal flat on the floor for a full half second before I was able to consciously recognize the deer eyes on the side of the road. Sometimes the feeling just hits and I have to trust it or else.

From seeing which of my coworkers have or don’t have it here’s some observations. It’s partially innate / genetic, but very much affected by especially childhood environment (but other significant life experiences can sometimes strengthen it, few things actually weaken it but trauma can certainly make it more erratic). Overall, the kids who had to learn to hide for whatever reason as a kid have the strongest sense of it.

That said, the one important thing you can do to strengthen and more importantly tune that sense is to think about it and think about why you got that feeling. Even if you’re out of the immediate situation walk it back in your head. When you visualize it can you (mentally) point to a physical spot on the person or thing? You might realize you saw their fists clench or that you didn’t like their facial expression or that you saw them glance at the knife block. Was there a specific point in time you felt your adrenaline spike? Was everything fine but you got nervous when they mentioned going to a party? And the last question I like to ask is what was the worst case scenario you were picturing? When they talked about going to the party did you suddenly think about them drinking again?

Even if that moment seemed like a huge overreaction from your brain (and maybe it was!) but the human brain is a very powerful prediction engine and even if it was ultimately an overreaction / catastrophizing it’s worth examining what caused your brain to have a reaction at all because even if maybe it wasn’t worth all that maybe it’s still something you should still act on just in a more controlled manner.

I’m currently keeping people alive by force in the hopes that the blanket exists somewhere and they’ll find it someday. It would take a lot of weight off my soul to add more certainty to that statement.

My genitals are like a mystery surprise box.

don’t need a gender to be a slut

I liked the bit in the 3001 space Odyssey (the one where they unfreeze Frank and his lack of a foreskin gets him ghosted)

“Nowadays everyone’s either a deist or a theist. The theists believe there’s at least one god and the deists believe there’s less than or exactly one god.”

Ezekiel 23

Tumblr Heritage moment: Pear wiggler meme for added memetic context:

Will also crosspost to curated tumblr with thanks to OP

yeah it would be cool to not die painfully while waiting for that. quickly sure but maybe not neurodegenerative disease or smthg

His name is Adam Aleksic and his book (Algospeak) was REALLY good.

Meanwhile when lesbians talk to me I’m like “wrong kinda gay, sweetie.”

Helpful is the same as necessary and inspiring is the same as kind and true-kind-necessary is a more efficient and well known saying.

My personal saying to accompany it is

• Shoot for at least 2
• Don’t say things that aren’t at least 1
• If you ever think of something that’s all three, never leave it unsaid.

Is this referencing some specific current event that I should know about? There’s so many things happening that most of them I don’t even know about until I see a post like this…

The sample / fill-in medical advance directive provided by my state has a section for “what tasks / obligations do you want carried out on your behalf” and one of the examples provided is pet care, but this seems like a poor way to state that.

I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one.

i have a bmi of 17 and can take down 5 with two slices of bacon, hashbrowns, and eggs over easy what is wrong with you