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Chinese takeaway tonight. Curry with half chips, half boiled rice please

I just love Chinese chippy curry me

I was pulling some rocks out of the backyard and stumbled upon a couple of salamander nests.

Wow that's something you don't often hear people say

I have less than a week left in Berlin. I decided to quit my job and live with my family again as I figure out what I want to do in life and when. Jobs aren't for me, but I also don't have the mental energy do work on my own. I need some routine to make things work but it's difficult finding a job that actually makes me happy and the ones that do make me happy never read my CV as I it's full of experiences in my dream jobs as internships 5-10 years ago or however the hell you properly word that in English.

Pisses me off how I spent three years of my life trying to make a single plan work and kept failing over and over. In an ideal world, I would've taken my gap year in college, moved to Berlin and hopefully have such an enjoyable life that I wouldn't want to return. And then by now I might have even lived in different countries. None of that went successfully. Stupid ass CEOs let AI get in charge of the job recruitment process and now people like me with several degrees and ten years of work experience can't even get proper jobs I'm confident enough to say I'm more than qualified for because I have the skills, even if my CV cannot translate it in a way that pleases the computer.

I don't even care about the whole capitalist life, school always bored the hell out of me and I did the bare minimum while actually spending my time being creative and making art, only pursued creative college degrees, ans eventually quit because college just felt like an escape from the real world, but as expected, the real world is much worse!

Not looking for unsolicited career advice, or any advice just need to vent and collect my thoughts as I know what I want to do, I just have way too many ideas and the past three years has proven I need to be more realistic, especially as I don't come from wealth.

How do I... Compile the entirety of autism advocacy in a less overwhelming way?

For absolute newbies.
And no biases of whatever 'side' -- just definition of terms and contexts.
Any biases demystified and explained.

Gained Number Post Count (1).
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Lose more time here - Updates at least once a week.

I feel excited, but worried at the same time.

Going back to school tomorrow, stress and anxiety explode

“Every single element of what we know of as Pride and gay rights and, especially, the pre-Stonewall homophile movement, was borrowed from the Black Freedom Movement."
ERIC CERVINI, LGBTQ HISTORIAN

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out ... y-n1259072

The Black Power Movement paved the way for all the other pride movements. People who celebrate being different and not fitting into social norms that existed during the 50’s. People who love themselves as they are; not as society thinks they should be.
Old enough to remember when being Black, and mental “disorders” were highly stigmatized. Something to be suppressed. Certainly not something anyone was supposed to be proud of. The Movement changed that. Rarely acknowledged.

I remember a time not so very long ago, when people with mental “disabilities” were under the constant threat of being institutionalized against their will. And depending on how much money they had the surroundings could be either good or bad.
Parents hid their children away (those who could afford it) in state or privately run businesses. That’s what they were. Some called them hospitals others called them communities. But the main goal was profit.
There’s one that still exists. But in a different capacity and with no stigma attached. It’s called Little City, Pallatine Illinois. Intimately acquainted with it.

Back then if you didn’t hide your differences they could land you in a place like that. Permanently.
The complete change is a wonderful thing I never thought I’d live to see.

I can just picture what my dad is going to say to one of his friends over the phone a week ago today. "Times are really tough. Cockney's actually losing weight because of high grocery prices." There are so many things that are comical but not in a good way that happen at my parents suite. I wish I hade a voice recorder so I can play back some of the stuff in the "Post something that made you laugh today" thread.

I wish I had the motivation to do exercise more regularly.

Females are taught to hide behind makeup because our bare face isn’t good enough.
Hiding is human nature.
Most of us use deodorants to hide our natural scent. Now that I heartily agree with.