A day late, but posting a story of when we first got married to celebrate our anniversary:
The thing about having an autistic husband, is as much as I love him, he just is not capable of picking up on behaviors or facial expressions and knowing what they mean. He needs me to speak the words I’m feeling.
Early on, this was a problem. When I was exhausted after work and didn’t have the emotional energy to deal with anything, I needed some time alone.
I would say “I’m tired,” get up and leave a room.
He’d follow.
I would shut a door.
He would open it, and keep talking to me.
I had to actually speak the words, “I would like a little bit of space for a while.”
And then he would say, “Oh.” In a sad voice.
And then I’d feel like an asshole, because he always seemed so sad when I did that. I didn’t want to hurt him. I loved him, and I thought I was a bad wife for wanting time for myself. Things were not good.
One day, I came home, and on my desk was a card, laminated. It was simple, black text on white background, in 36-point font. It said:
I love you. Fuck off.
And he took my hands and said the reason he was sad wasn’t that I needed space— he needs his sometimes too, but I pick up the signals and leave him alone.
He felt bad that he couldn’t understand me, and I always looked so uncomfortable and guilty when I told him.
So now I have a card that I can hand to him, any time, and he will understand and go away for an hour and nobody feels guilty.
“dinner”. 17.40. that’s not dinner, come on. Unless you go to bed at 19, dinner is whatever your eat 3 hours after that.
I loved the food in Spain when I visited for my honeymoon, but I don’t understand how everyone could eat so late! We were always starving by the time dinner came around. How do you go so long between meals?
Because
There
Are
Five
Meals
In
A
Day
!!!!!!
Desayuno (breakfast, whenever you get up)
Almuerzo (around 11- noon)
Comida (lunch, around 2pm)
Merienda (between 5 and 7 pm)
Cena (dinner, between 9 and 11pm)
You folks need to just stop pretending to go thought the day with just three meals!
GOD Yuri on Ice went hard. My man Victor fell in love at a party, spent a year making a sweepingly romantic program about it after he got totally ghosted, made another program about getting cruelly abandoned by a flirtatious playboy, THEN watched the guy who ghosted him perform the grand romantic program he wrote ABOUT HIM and post it on the internet without saying ANYTHING TO HIM. And was like “oh my god I guess this is my sign to fly to Japan”
Like this is 6 years old now and I am still shaking in my boots
The symptoms to look out for are fever, rash, headache, body aches, swollen lymph nodes, general GI symptoms and a crusty nasty looking area around the bite. Not all of these symptoms may be present but if you were bitten by a chigger in North Carolina and you don’t feel well, go to the doctor. Antibiotics can clear it right up but if left untreated, the fatality rate can be 40% for some strains.
Here’s a map of the places tested and the places where chiggers were found to be infected:
(Also, because I saw this in the notes, typhoid and typhus are radically different diseases. Typhoid is caused by salmonella and usually transferred through contaminated food and water while typhus is caused by several different bacteria and typically transferred by insect bite.)
Are you fucking kidding me
Warning for non North Carolinians. Stay off North Carolina beaches!
The beaches are the only part of the state that seems safe LMFAO
Do you think people don’t draw the purple Pikmin nearly as often because of fatphobia or do you think that’s reading too much into it? I’m just SO fucking sad every time I see Pikmin art that has every color but purple. I love the purple ones they’s my favorite!
I’m fully committing to this now until someone proves me wrong. If you don’t showcase the purple Pikmin alongside all the skinny ones then you are fatphobic. I don’t make the rules I just enforce them!
i think its funny how facial scars are seen as like a major character plot point where they reveal that someone tried to kill their dad or something when i know a ton of ppl (including myself) who have facial scars bc they rlly arent uncommon and all of them are like. from tripping and falling as a toddler
i could use this post as an oppritunity to talk about how scarring is a natural and human thing and everyone has scars, and larger scars as well as facial ones and burn scars should’nt only exist in media as a storytelling device but im also gonna just say that your oc is still hot as hell if he has a massive slash going through his eye i just think it would be funnier if he got it from falling down the stairs and then picking the scab too many times
