Hey there, I just wanted to share a resource with you that I found a while back called Wildflower Alliance. They are a super radical mental health/peer support organization that's anticarceral and they believe in being able to talk openly about SI without worrying about it becoming an intervention episode. They have online meetings and a discord as well with a channel specific to being able to talk about this stuff freely, if you ever just want to vent to people who get it. They have warmlines you can call but the discord is just for anyone

This is the main website

Discord link

Sorry I know you aren't asking for help, I experience SI myself and I fucking wish I had people who I could talk to who wouldn't get freaked out. I'm sorry this world makes it so fucking difficult to want to live

You have no idea how badly I wish it was

I've been in the throes of autistic burnout for...who fucking knows how long. Luckily I'm not working right now so have had a lot of time to just lay and stare at the wall. Yesterday, however, I did a 4 hour volunteer shift then went on a 2 hour walk with a friend and cooked dinner. Now I feel hungover and am gonna nap til 11 or 12. I hate this

Damn okay maybe it's time for a rewatch

It could've been a joke, but there are hundreds of posts on there with users comparing Chinese and American society and the Chinese people are constantly shocked at how most of us live. I almost can't believe this lol

It's so hard to try to deprogram family members. I had to cut my mom off during the George Floyd uprising because I spent so much fucking emotional energy explaining things for weeks and she just would NOT budge. I only ended up talking to her again because my brother told me she had cancer (she's fine now).

As painful as it is, it's important to keep pushing back and having these exhausting conversations as you have the capacity. It might take a long time, but you may eventually make progress, little by little. For now I hope you can relax and take care of yourself

....The crylaugh emoji is so sinister. We are cooked

They did mean pads/tampons, yes. This shit is so sad, this seems close to normal standards of living elsewhere. I've known my country sucks ass but it never feels any less disappointing

I mean, I probably could have gone without but sometimes my thinking is just so rigid that my brain short circuits if I don't have everything I need instead of just improvising. The recipe is mostly beanises and the carrot is the one other veg to add different textures/flavor so it feels more integral to the dish than it would otherwise.

I did end up going to the store and getting a bunch, though, so NOTHING ELSE CAN STOP ME

I am so happy for you! I work with people who experience psychosis and I witness how painful it can be for most folks. Hope this medication adjustment remains a positive for you!

Oh yeah, I'm an American and I WISH that any of these were true

The fact that there wasn't one negative "rumor" really shocked me. My impression was that the entire world thinks of this country as a joke of a hellhole

Oh shit that's right I totally forgot! Damn that is pretty surprising considering the time it came out

I can't believe that shit, really. How the hell are there still people who haven't been paid? Because the tax system is such a pain in the ass or what?

Also I never thought about how little media shows families realistically. But even then it's still a father raising three kids and providing for a stay at home wife which is....lol. Maybe it was doable pre-2008 though.

It's just wild to me to think that, you know, the Chinese government is too fucking busy TAKING CARE OF ITS CITIZENS to even care to spread vile propaganda about the US like we do about every other country. We'll, maybe it's not "wild", because even if other countries fabricated lies about the US they would probably be accurate lol

Right? Literally all of it is so positive, yet all of our propaganda against China is so vile. Gives a pretty good picture of how much the Chinese government cares to brainwash peoples perceptions of the country even though their propaganda would be totally correct lol

Love the fried chicken myth in there along with fair wages, affordable housing, and government subsidies

There's a recipe I want to make for dindin tonight wherein I have all ingredients EXCEPT FUCKING CARROTS and I'm such a tired lil guy today I don't wanna put on pants just to go buy two carrots. Jfc

This is definitely the hugest contributing factor which is why I mentioned price fixing as well. Tons of different factors but I'm sure all big business owners were rubbing their hands together in delight at the thought of taking advantage of the pandemic

Have you ever listened to Volahn though?