“you are not your disorder”
yes i am? i literally am? my entire personality is a disorder. how i react to any situation i am in is influenced by my disorders. all my interpersonal relationships are heavily affected by my disorders. what i choose to eat for breakfast and what i choose to wear for the day is a product of my disorders. i am literally my disorders. don’t you dare take that away from me.
It’s really interesting how several people can craft a whole new personality for you when you’ve been kept against your will in a different place for four years and haven’t been able to weigh in and say ‘hey, that’s not me at all, way to demonize me!’
I’ve been held against my will by an actual abuser for four years, not even allowed to talk to or visit my (abusive) family, and slowly saving up money by hiding it for a one way trip to jump off the Golden Gate bridge (I at least wanna see the west coast once before I die).
Perspective is a pretty key thing. Maybe you could’ve heard me out (I understand why you wouldn’t want to, but painting me as a demonic abuser sure wasn’t necessary, just like it wasn’t necessary for me to paint you as the understanding friendly helpful person you used to be to me, because it seems this karmic revenge is all you really wanted so good for you enjoy that suffering) but it seems you’ve already invented a personality for me, you think I’m a monster who was borne of your bad memories of me, the demonization come to life of every mistake I ever made. I grew up. You clearly haven’t.
Thanks for the chance to say goodbye, you were the only person who mattered and the only person I valued enough to reach out to.
- Established witches like: So I'm using this sparrow's skull that was delivered to me by my snake familiar, these nearly priceless gemstones, a few drops of Queen Elizabeth I's blood, and the leaves of a long extinct plant that I had to contact my friend on the next planet over for. (Interplanetary import prices are off the charts!) Okay and I'm gonna put it in my cast iron cauldron (my favorite one!) and leave it out tomorrow night for 53 minutes starting at 11:46 pm because everyone knows that the best time for brewing what it takes for this spell is exactly 6,532 minutes into the new year based on the lunar calendar.
- Me like: Okay I have a sharpie, an old red solo cup that might have some residue from the juice I used last time, some unfiltered water, and my imagination. Does anyone know if it's June or July right now?
Roadtrip AU where we run away from home problems, steal and deface signs, and fall in love along the way
I might be super late to this discovery, but I wanted to give everyone else a heads up just in case you haven’t heard
Whole Foods has a program called ‘try is before you buy it’. They do not advertise this program whatsoever. But all you do is pick up an item you want, and ask an employee if you can ‘try it before you buy it’. The idea is to get people trying new food, but you can ask for food you already know/eat as long as you mention the program/that phrase. They will pull out a green sticker, put it on the item, and give you that item for free. You take it to checkout, the cashier types in a special code, and it will come out as $0.00 on your receipt.
I know Whole Foods is shitty and inaccessible to a lot of people, and even if you have physical access to a store, you might have trouble getting service (as it is, I had to ask my dad to get these for me while my mom and I went to another aisle). But if you can in any way manage to get there safely, consider this an option for times when you need food.