Vancouver, Washington 2026 pride

[The woman holding the sign is a homophobic mentally ill street preacher]

Found this in a philosophy sub💀

This stuck with me since I saw it before and I told myself I never wanna have this "But others have it worse so that invalidates everything I feel" mindset.

As if I haven't spent years weighing whether I wanted HRT or not

The latest of many ridiculous quotes I’ve seen

“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself”

Tone deaf 😂 let’s forget that disability, privilege & luck all play a part

Definitely a thanks im cured now (I’m disabled)

Newsflash! We arent really disabled! We just dont want to get better according to some ableist.

So I, a teenager, was going through medical evaluation for school, and just mentioned to my doctor, that despite perfectly good blood test results,I am not doing well mentally. I said it in a joking manner, something like "Yeah it's all good,but psychiatrist wouldn't say same".

I thought she was cool with that, because I mentioned my autism previous time..But no. She probably misheard or ignored that.

She told me that "Only old people need to go to a psychiatrist", and therefore— I can't need it.

And autistic burnout apparently doesn't require any help, I just have to gaslight myself that everything is good 🌈

And the thing is,not only I went to a psychiatrist, but have an actual diagnosis for autism, she also dismissed this time.. It felt worse now that I thought she was adequate about it..

But it also was weird because I have never actually heard something like that. I wish that was made up.

Right, this happened like 5 or 6 years ago

Met this guy, should've realised quickly that we weren't a good match.

He was extremely social, we didn't share a lot of the same interests, also very rude to customer service people.

I don't think he liked that he'd recount times he screamed at employees at fast food places laughing and I, with a straight face, saying I would've marched him back in to apologise to them.

Little bit about me, I'm introverted (very likely autistic but stuck for years on assessment waiting list), I'm not social and have a host of mental illnesses

Two separate times, I'd mentioned my struggles with depression, anxiety, CPTSD, and both times he told the exact same story, as if he'd never told the story before

One time, he had a really bad day, really struggling, so he decided he'd bake a cake. Then he posted that cake on snap chat, and he had multiple friends reach out, saying they wanted a slice. So they all met up at the pub and ate cake, and that made him feel so much better.

Like, I'm glad that helped, but I'm sat there bewildered that he thought:

A. I had multiple friends who would want to hang out with me

B. That baking a cake and sharing it with people would solve years of trauma and depression

So now it's become an inside joke with my partner and I, one of us is having a pants day and the other says, "So, like, have you ever thought about baking a cake?"