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When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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Guys I moved to a new town and did not meet 5 pale strangers, 1 of which reacting with volatile rage at my presence. Love really is dead.

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Put everything away. It should be a few steps to start working so it's less enticing to "just work on it now". Also do this for your phone and laptop if necessary.

Do bedtime things (such as brushing teeth, changing into pyjamas etc.)

Turn out the lights

Come up with a complete plan for a reasonable set of scenarios for the next day. You are allowed to pick at most two eventualities at key points for an "if this happens I will do x, if this happens I will do y" construction. Assign the things you're stressed about a time to be dealt with, whether that is "tomorrow I will do this" or "Thursday I will figure out what to do about this".

Put on a podcast (I like to use episodes I have already listened to) phone face down a decent distance from your bed, with a sleep timer for half an hour or forty-five minutes (Spotify has this I do not know what other platforms might).

Any time your brain tries to worry about something, tell it sternly that that issue has already been assigned a time, and refocus on the podcast. Ideally this will happen with decreasing frequency and if you listen back to the podcast you will not remember having heard the last ten to twenty minutes.

If your timer runs out, do not be alarmed. Just set a new timer, and remember that lying in bed listening to a podcast is more restful than staying up stressed about the thing. It isn't sleep but it's honestly pretty close.

How to make yourself fall asleep when you're too stressed

"set up a healthier sch-" "change your lifesty-" "invest in a white noise m-"

No! I need a way to sleep NOW! Tell me how to knock myself out right now immediately so I get at least 7 hours of sleep so I can actually be functional and at least hope to get shit done tomorrow! How to force myself to sleep when I can't stop sinking into despair!!

And no, breathing in and out and emptying my thoughts does not fucking work, those negativist fuckers are back in my head the moment I stop using 100% of my brainpower to make myself Not Think

#this is the process I have found most effective for myself #You kinda have to give it a little bit of lead-up to work best

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Some obvious facts:

The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by between one third and one half.

Vampires are immune to mortal ailments.

Late 14th-century Europe suffers from a massive vampire surplus.

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#looks like you're getting the 60 000 by tomorrow

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You are more important than the rules

If you would be better off doing something, but you only have the bandwidth to do it wrong, or sub-par, do it anyway. Throw out the thing that could be recycled if you took it apart. Don't sort the mess before you clean it. Have a shower with no soap.

#adulting #advice #affirmations #nacricontent

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Seeing a steady rise of people using the library as we carry through summer break, so here's a quick thread from a staff member on little things you can do (for free!) to make life easier on staff. Let's go!

If you want to put a book back, DON'T put it back on the shelf! Put it on the return cart or bin, or give it to a staff member. Not only does this make it MUCH easier to catch misfiles and gather abandoned books in one trip, our budget is literally based on returns. Putting it on a cart gives us more money!

(To expand on the above: not only do we get paid more based on more returns, our book-buying budget for next year is based on what titles seem popular. Even if you don't check out a stack of books, putting it on the cart lets us know there's an interest so we can order more in that genre and support that author.)

Conversely, if you see a cart already full of books being pushed around by staff, PLEASE don't yank books off it or loiter around it. Carts are unwieldy and returns can build up quick, so let a shelver have space to move around and do their job.

(Again expanding on the above, especially please don't yank books off a staff person's cart if you see them pulling books off the shelf instead of putting them back. Books are pulled for a reason--hold requests for another patron, damaged, need to be relabeled, etc--so taking one can really throw off our list.)

If you rent a DVD and notice it's scratched or doesn't play, please tell us! We don't have the time or resources to watch every returned DVD, so we rely on patron feedback. Even a note tucked inside the case helps it get flagged for damage inspection when we're processing returns.

Pay attention to news related to your local branch! The VAST majority of book-banning demands we get are bulk lists from only one or two people--which means contesting them (or requesting a challenged book) also only takes one person.

Remind your friends that most libraries don't do late fees anymore! We want to be a safe haven for low income and disabled/nd people, so don't let being late or disorganized or poor or anything else discourage you. Bring your books back whenever you can, or just mention to a librarian if you lose it, and you're always welcome to come back.

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#boost

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why is my version of this post getting notes? I literally added nothing?

(Writing an average of 100 words per day) haha I love working on my novel

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My decision to schedule the reblogs of posts I really like to months in the future is paying off handsomely. I get the joy an extra time, after I had forgotten the post existed!

#nacrambling

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we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

#I'm most likely to do a lil oh shit #because of the aforementioned delay in figuring out this is in fact a corpse

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Humanity has finally reached the stars and found out why no one had contacted us. The universe is in a sad state. As such, Doctors without Borders, Red Cross, and many othe charities go intergalactic.

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(wakes up in a cold sweat) ga, ga, goncharov, member of the russian mob

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MY WIFE IS CRYING BECAUSE I HAVE ACTIVATED HER INFERIORITY COMPLEX AND ABANDONMENT ISSUES THE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE THIS IS TO EITHER CONVINCE HER I"M NOT LYING DESPITE HAVING CONVINCINGLY LIED TO HER BEFORE OR HAVE SEX AND IT"S GETTING REALLY HARD NOT TO MOVE TOWARDS THAT SECOND OPTION

would have loved to see the absolute mental unraveling of Edward Cullen during his honeymoon. in just a few short days the man goes from "oh no, i'm going to have to be physically intimate with my new extremely breakable wife," to "Oh No, that was the hottest night of my existence & i almost broke my new extremely breakable wife so now i definitely can't do this again even if it's hottest thing i'll ever do," to "oh nO, my new extremely breakable wife is wearing vIRTUALLY NOTHING on this hot tropical island & she's finally got the confidence to try & seduce me & i have to reject her despite kNOWING HOW GREAT IT IS TO HAVE SEX WITH HER" to "OH NO MY WIFE IS WEARING THE WORLD'S SCRAPPIEST BLACK LACE NIGHTGOWN & IS BEGGING ME TO HAVE SEX WITH HER BUT I CAN'T BUT I WANT TO BUT I'LL KILL HER BUT-

#team edward #edward cullen #twiight #twilight renaissance

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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

#imagine being so smart that someone could just talk at you until they controlled your every sentence

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Anorexic wizard's body dysmorphia keeps rebuilding their fat stores and blood sugar. They find the process of self-harm and then healing a more acceptable way of getting calories into their body than eating, and even they can tell it's getting out of hand but it's making it even harder to fight the patterns because it does work.

Okay, but what if fantasy world with healing magic that works by using your own perceptual template of your body to restore damaged sections, and a hero discovering they're trans because they're the party tank and have to get healed a bunch

#ed tw #ed trigger warning #worldbuilding