little quick thing. i know how to wield a pen and paper sometimes
{ID - line drawn comic featuring finn and jake from adventure time Finn enters the treehouse, a sword on his back. As he closes the door, he flaps his free hand and calls out, βHey Jake? I just got back from dungeoning! I think I have all the answers. for everything.β Jake descends a ladder, eating a sandwich as he asks, βWhat are the answers, brotherβ Finn holds his hands to his chest and smiles as he says, βI think I was born to hang out. and love a lot.β The pair fistbump, smiling. Jake says, βThatβs awesome man.β END ID}
Notice: not only do your friends actually like you, they secretly like you twice as much as they let on
An experience that made me feel much more assured in my friendships was at college, a friend and myself were talking about a third friend of ours and how cool and knowledgeable and smart she is and how we feel like we could never be that cool. The next day I was working with a professor on some paper presentations we were about to have and when I came out of the staff room I was informed that these two aforementioned friends were having the same discussion about me. And it turns out we spent a lot of time thinking about our friends who aren’t currently in the room and gushing over how cool and smart and talented they are without being able to say all of it to their face.
Your friends secretly love you a lot more than they already express, just like you love them so intensely that saying it all to their faces would sound clumsy to your own ears. It’s true though
This is a reminder that, even with all the accommodations in the world, disability would still exist. I see so many posts saying accommodations would remove disability, and that’s just not true. All the accommodations in the world would not fix my chronic fatigue or my chronic pain. All the accommodations in the world would not “cure” my autism. Disabled people exist regardless of level of accommodation. Don’t try to erase us and our struggles.
