Sarah Hollowell 🦝
@sarahhollowell
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Queer fat writer girl. Cryptid. She/her. A DARK AND STARLESS FOREST and WHAT STALKS AMONG US out now from @ClarionTeen. Rep by Thao Le.
Joined November 2008
Today is WHAT STALKS AMONG US day!! Here are some helpful links for buying my weird YA corn maze horror about friendship and processing trauma:. and yes!! there is an audiobook!!.
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I love when you ask someone about a thing they know a lot about and they start with "okay, so" because you KNOW you're about to get a novel's worth of nerd shit and it's going to be so delightful.
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I just don't understand why opening back up as people get vaccinated also has to mean closing down all the accessibile alternatives created in the last year.
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in my experience, ADHD is a lot of mentally yelling at yourself to DO something to do ANYTHING while you sit with absolutely no expression on your face, scrolling through your phone or continuing to play a game or whatever as if you have no control over your body.
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Oh my God stop taking your mask off to HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE do you understand what the mask is FOR.
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I'M SORRY BUT WHEN I FINALLY GOT TO THE NAME I GASPED SO LOUD IAN HAD TO TAKE HIS HEADPHONES OUT TO CHECK ON ME.
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"Get a kitten," they said, "it'll be fun," they said, "you definitely won't be listening to him play under the couch and then you pull it away from the wall and he's not there so you touch the back of your couch and it touches back because the KITTEN IS INSIDE THE COUCH".
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There is nothing that makes me question my entire being quite as much as someone casually saying "you're supposed to deep clean [this object/household thing] regularly" and it's something I've never cleaned at more than a surface level, if at all, in my whole life.
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Me, my whole life: [takes hours to complete something that should take 30 minutes].Me, almost every day: I should be able to do several days of work tomorrow so it's fine to take a break today.
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Honestly obsessed with how upset some people got at a woman being like "it's nice to spend time in the garden with my husband :)" as if her enjoyment was actively causing poverty and also condemning every other relationship.
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I think one of the great betrayals of adulthood is finding out things CAN be too sweet. You can, in fact, get tired of sugar really easily. Kid me would be horrified by how few Skittles I can eat before I feel like the sugar is in my blood and I need to eat a vegetable.
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Still can't do a load of laundry without thinking about that tweet about how humans don't have the ability to feel wet or something and that's why sometimes you're not sure if laundry in the dryer is still damp or just cold.
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hey. c'mere. [holds ur face, gently]. [whispers]. overpopulation is largely a racist myth that blames the destruction of our world on poor POC instead of the 100 mega-rich bastards whose guillotining could save us all.
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Laying in bed every night thinking "Wow, it would be so nice to read before bed." The book is right next to me. I have chosen the book. I have prepared the book. Why can I not pick up the book. Why can I not open the book and read the book. Why is there only Scrolling.
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I was going to make a joke about how if Artemis was your favorite Greek god as a kid, you're gay now, but then I wondered if it's the very act of having a favorite Greek god that means you're gay now.
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Basically every poor person I know, when asked about what they'd do with millions of dollars, first talks about how they'd pay their debts and the debts of their family and friends and omg wouldn't it be incredible to just fully fund a random GoFundMe every day.
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A doctor I saw a couple times said I needed a pregnancy test even after a year without sex because it's possible for a fetus I didn't know about to die and calcify inside me and that's had me solidly traumatized for a decade so this just makes me nod like "yes, as he foretold".
Patient went in for a bladder stone; it turns out it’s a calcified baby she never birthed
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I keep seeing people say "the word refresher should be enough to tell you it has caffeine" and I'm so confused about WHY. Like I have had these loads of times and it never occurred to me that "refresher" was meant to represent anything other than idk a pleasant cold beverage.
Okay if you read this description of Strawberry Açaí refresher, would you think there was caffeine in it? . B/c I drank these at work for like 6 months not knowing they have caffeine.
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A character in this book who was stated as having weighed 370 pounds, but has now lost most of it, just said he wants to finally learn to play guitar because "[his] fingers were too fat before" and I'm begging thin writers to stop.
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It took me a long time to understand that the Wordle word is the same for everyone every day (right? that's true, right?) because I never see spoilers, ever, anywhere, as much as people on my TL talk about Wordle I never see spoilers, and I think that's beautiful.
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Ah yes the wild episode of Gilmore Girls where Paris, after having sex, doesn't get into Harvard, while Rory (a virgin) gets into every school ever. Bonus - Lorelai hears Paris confide in Rory about having sex and after Rory says she's a virgin, Lorelai says "I got the good kid".
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This is actually my favorite theory, that she made up the story to explain to her husband where the $50k went and she stuck to it so hard that she ended up having to write an essay to maintain her cover.
i think that lady made the cia scam up. i think it’s a cover story for some way shittier thing she did.
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Are you telling me there are people who return home from a trip and unpack their suitcase that day instead of slowly across weeks or months as they remember they need something out of it.
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Genuinely cannot express how fucking vital it is to not embrace antisemitism while fighting for Palestine, and while this example is more obvious, you really have to keep checking yourself because antisemitism is so insidious and already everywhere.
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One of my favorite genres of internet content is parents explaining why their toddler is crying and the answer is things like "they're upset the sky is blue" or "they're mad I let them wear the clothes they asked to wear". Kids are beautiful, I love them.
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A friend sent me this last week and it has not stopped haunting me
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I think being 100% fully confident that you could never be drawn into a cult is actually a great way to be vulnerable to cults, especially since not all cults are super obvious or have the same external features.
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I wish "don't dress up as an abuse victim for Halloween" and "don't dress your children up as real serial killers for Halloween" weren't actual things that need to be said.
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"If you have ADHD or other conditions that make it hard to focus maybe being a writer isn't for you" boy oh boy do I have news for you about soooo so many authors lmao.
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the one Twitter constant is that if there is a woman tweeting "don't do this thing", a guy is in her mentions doing the thing as a joke and thinking they are very original and funny.
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Millenial here, born 1990, we had dial up until I was in high school. Like, the kind where you take a book with you to sit at the computer. We didn't have wifi until I was in college. I don't think you actually know what a millenial is. We're aging up, bro.
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My family has a pre-Christmas 12 Days of Christmas tradition where we get to open a little present every morning. This has continued into adulthood, and also expanded to include partners and children and close friends. This year my parents sent 12 Days gifts to thiRTY PEOPLE.
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she looked what.
4 Years ago today, Taylor Swift looked urethral at the Golden Globe Awards.
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I love it when executive dysfunction is like "no, you can't fulfill your responsibilities OR do the things that bring you joy. You get to just SIT HERE".
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People who have no problem forming habits giving advice to (usually neurodivergent) people who struggle with forming habits like "oh yeah it can be tricky but I have a good tip!!! Just do it every day at the same time :)".
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I love the way disaster movies are like "there is ONE kind of dad and he is DIVORCED and UNRELIABLE and will SAVE THE DAY".
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I think a lot about the little girl at Disneyland who saw my 1st time visitor pin and became very invested in making sure I was having a good time because Disneyland was one of her favorite places. I was in my early 20s and she was maybe 8.
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I found a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to covering drama in the knitting and crocheting communities and this is the exact kind of weirdly specific that I crave, yes.
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I still don't fully believe the news about Liam Hemsworth becoming Geralt just because that decision is so bizarre it feels like it must be a joke.
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We just bought a couch, which is terrifying as any purchase over $100 is, but the important thing is that when the sales guy asked what I do and I said I write YA books and his first reaction was "do you know Tamora Pierce" I was able to say "I mean I've met her".
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Me: I'm just really tired, like, I only have enough brain power to think "where's Kate Middleton?".Therapist: Oh I haven't really kept up on that.Me: OH HO HO.
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I think the thing about Gritty is that I've never looked at him and thought "that's a costume with a human inside". I don't know WHAT'S in there. but it's not just a human in a costume.
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I think "no you weren't poor as a kid, *I* was real poor" is my least favorite kind of Twitter discourse because oh my god what purpose does this even serve other than hoping to win the bizarre award of Poorest Kid Twenty Years Ago.
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Parents complaining on social media about their kids not being able to do things they see as basic tasks (like write a check, I've seen that one a few times) is so wild because like. why are you being so loud about your inability to teach your kid a basic task.
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I will not be naming anything specific because I've seen what happens on here when people give any details about their cleaning habits.
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Seriously though it's really not hard to not give JKR money. You can struggle with your relationship to Harry Potter, you can be undecided on what to do with the books you already own, you can even still enjoy them . But for the love of God just STOP GIVING HER MONEY.
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People keep trying to defend the Krispy Kreme thing with "but no one will ACTUALLY eat a donut every day!". I want you to hear this, I am saying it with all my heart:. It doesn't matter if people DO eat a donut every day. That wouldn't suddenly make it OKAY to be fatphobic.
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Every time I'm reminded of Susan Boyle I just really have to sit for a minute with that time the media got obsessed with woman because "we don't find her attractive but she can SING?? WITCHCRAFT".
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like there's parts of ADHD that I kinda like and I'm happy for people who can see it as a superpower but for me, on the days when it's not under much control, it's mostly a NIGHTMARE that exacerbates all of my mental illnesses.
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Some days it's just extra hard to cope with the fact that the biggest problems facing our whole species are absolutely solvable but the people with the most power to solve them just. don't? So people with no power have to fight and scream for the smallest bandaids.
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Them: How can you have ADHD, you get to most things early and don't miss appointments. Me: [hair flip] Thanks, it's the anxiety disorder that convinces me I'm going to die if I'm one minute late and forces me to waste whole days fighting my ADHD to prepare for one event.
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WE ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BE LOOKING AT THE SAME PICTURE IF THAT IS YOUR TAKEAWAY.
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So many weird book takes on Twitter this week!! "It's an insult to the author not to finish their book" and now "It's an insult to buy their book but not read it". For the record please feel free to buy my book for literally any reason
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Absolutely incomprehensible to me that there are people who can just DO things. Like they think "oh I'm going to complete this task" and then they?? just do it?? what the fuck???.
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I have not been able to stop feeling a boiling rage over this AITA since I saw it yesterday
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I am begging thin authors to understand how often they write fat characters in a way that sounds no different from this
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"I got the good kid" seriously??? Paris is a neglected teen that Lorelai has seen work extremely hard and go through a lot, and she sees Paris have a rare vulnerable moment after having sex with her boyfriend and is like "yes, a bad kid"????.
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You can be happy to have Biden instead of Trump while ALSO being really angry and disappointed in how he's doing so far. I promise you can do both, you can hold both emotions, you don't have to go run and defend him to every person criticizing him on Twitter dot com.
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I saw people saying her tweet was making a judgement on the value of other relationships and Y'ALL I THINK MAYBE THIS IS A CASE OF PROJECTION AND YOU SHOULD TALK TO UR PARTNER INSTEAD OF DOING THIS KIND OF REACH ON TWITTER DOT COM.
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How do you see your boyfriend wearing this shawl and have a reaction other than "excuse me where did you get that I need one".
Man loses dead weight girlfriend because he wore a cool shawl. I can't believe several grown women got so upset that men decided to wear cool stuff. Imagine being that upset about clothes.
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There's a lot to unpack in this episode (and the show's messages about sex in general) but you might as well throw away the whole suitcase.
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Sometimes I don't know what kind of book I want to read, I just want to feel the way I did when I was 15 and tearing through whole trilogies in one day.
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In general, the response to more people being diagnosed with ADHD (self diagnosis and by a doctor) is. so fucking weird. Like to me the increase is obviously because there's more open information about adult ADHD than ever before. But so many people act like it's all FAKERS.
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The way people take Marie Kondo's advice as a personal affront is truly an example of how bad we are at accepting that some things aren't for us, and that's okay. You don't have to dig for something problematic to discredit it. It can just be not for you.
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The thing I can't deal with re: the fake tradwife with the flowy sleeves is the way she touches everything as if she's never touched anything before and she's not sure if the spoon or egg or whatever will explode on contact.
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We have this story every week, Rob, because for some reason it's extremely difficult for the people writing them to understand the concept of "caring about other people." It's been tired and boring since the first one and it's tired and boring now.
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Old Rose in Titanic like "yeah I MIGHT tell you where to find that priceless diamond but first you have to pay the toll, and that toll is listening to my elaborate boat sex story".
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I promise you don't have to defend Taylor's fatphobic artistic choice just because you like her. She can have done a thing wrong. You don't even have to stop liking her because of it!! You don't have to fight fat people for your right to like her lmao.
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thinking about the people who told me I was making it up or just trying to get attention by saying I thought I had ADHD, like, LMAO I WISH I WAS MAKING IT UP THIS SHIT SUCKS ACTUALLY.
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The BA Test Kitchen is staging a revolt to support and protect their BIPOC coworkers and I'm really hoping everyone else joins Molly and Carla
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God the build up was so worth it for that reveal.
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Pretty fucked up that if I decide I want to write a murder mystery, not only do I have to actually write it, I also have to plan AND solve the murder???.
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Like oh my God imagine having a mother describe clear signs of burnout and say she doesn't really have support systems and she's really struggling and your response is "try harder. Have you considered using a support system" AHH I'M SO MAD.
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It's such a throwaway line and his current and former weight come up pretty rarely, but it's so indicative of the way so many thin writers seem to have just. not actually gotten to know a fat person. Or maybe never even really looked at one.
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make sure to NEVER!!!! learn new information and allow it to change your opinions!!!
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As someone with ADHD, I struggle with maintaining much regularity in my life, like hobbies or habits, but at least I'll always have one constant: screenshotting things that I want to remember and then never ever again looking at anything in that screenshots folder.
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Nancy Drew really made me think I'd have to worry about getting chloroformed basically every day of my life.
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FINALLY realized that it's almost definitely this tweet. It still goes around other platforms all the dang time.
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The way Lorelai treats teens is often wild in general, in that she's very ready to throw them in the "bad" pile with little to no provocation (including Rory at times), which may be because she assumes they're all like she was, but also makes me want to scream.
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Have you ever had those kind-of-sleep-paralysis dreams/experiences where you think you're awake and there's Something Bad and you're trying to scream but you can barely open your mouth, so you're just screaming silently and desperately trying to wake up,. that's ADHD.
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when someone responds to your ADHD tweet in such a way that it's clear they've just realized something about themselves, and you're like, "You're welcome, hope you find a good doctor, also I'm so sorry".
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I weigh more than this character did at his heaviest and admittedly I've only like dabbled in ukulele, not guitar, but I don't think my Terrible Fat Person Fingers have in any way been a problem with that.
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Never felt such relief opening a picture.
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Absolutely baffled by the number of businesses Stars Hollow is able to support, particularly the number of restaurants.
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There's a lot about Gilmore Girls I wasn't able to see critically until I watched it when I was older, but this episode was bad to me even as a young teen.
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I am so irrationally annoyed by the people responding to tweets about the debris field like "uhmmm yeah it might be debris from the Titanic". Do they really think searchers wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 100+ year old debris and three-day old debris or.
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I got an email from eShakti that my order is delayed because they've been using their production capacity to make masks for hospitals and honestly that just makes me want to shop with them even more.
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confession:. I get really nervous using heart emojis because I'm scared different colors have different secret meanings that I don't know, so I just choose colors at random and h o p e.
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for days I haven't been able to stop thinking about the person I saw who said that Marie Kondo and her methods are ableist because some people have depression and can't feel joy. it was the moment the discourse murdered me and now I'm cursed to spread it.
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Saw someone say that Jorts the cat only came into our internet lives six months ago and I feel like I need to crouch on the floor and do some slow deep breathing because truly I have no concept of the passage of time.
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I am filled with an indescribable rage at this man,,,
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Extremely thankful he got himself out because oh my God I wouldn't know where to START with extracting him.
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my entire kingdom for a way to turn off the autoplay while browsing Netflix.
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I feel like you have to do so, so much work to miss the message of Legally Blonde this bad
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Been in the corn maze for like 10 minutes. Just passed a lone woman coming the opposite direction, who laughed nervously and said "I don't know. I thought I knew where I was going." and walked on into the corn.
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One of the most confusing parts of my neurodivergence is the way my emotions are so big and loud and all-consuming but they apparently hardly ever translate to other people.
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Not really sure how anyone is supposed to be able to handle their own problems and responsibilities while also having space for other people and also holding the constant influx of horror from around the world, and then just like, do the dishes or go to work or exist at all.
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