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Since childhood, it's been like this. I'm grateful to understand why I'm built like this now because not knowing why, caused me a lot of personal turmoils. I love who I am. It took me years to love & accept myself fully. That's why I don't accept lesser than I deserve treatment from anyone these days.

The long journey to genuine #SelfLove & #SelfAcceptance as an ND living in an NT privileged society was worth embarking on. I had to put in a lot of heavy work to get where I am now.

Oh man, this article hits so hard.

"Loving how you look, right where you’re at, is about experiencing life to its fullest without waiting to meet some imaginary standard."

I've struggled with this my whole life, but it has been especially difficult over the last year or so. Perimenopause is only making it worse.

I hope you can take a moment to accept yourself just as you are today—and I'll try to do the same. 💖

#SelfLove #SelfAcceptance #Perimenopause

thegoodtrade.com/features/self

The Good Trade · How To Like — And Maybe Even Love — How You LookWith a world of comparison at our fingertips on social media, what does it take to love how we look in this day and age? Our editor explores.
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Autism is an illegible feature

"How disabling it is depends as much on your social circumstances as it does on your symptoms."
"It turns out that, actually, most people are uncomfortable around social difference and get considerably less comfortable when you point it out."

Laurie Penny: observer.co.uk/news/first-pers @socialpsych via @hosford42

The Observer‘I came out as autistic. Everyone said: That explains a lot’ | The ObserverAn autism diagnosis helped Laurie Penny make sense of their experiences, but its real value was in helping them understand the rest of society

Resistance

I keep seeing exhortations and excoriations from justifiably very angry folks, asking what other folks are Doing About It. Reasonable enough.

It's taken me a while to gut-level realize that until my father-law-finishes dying, which he wants to do before seeing another winter, all I can do *right now* to improve the world outside my little bubble is be kind to people here that I see struggling.

Modestly decreasing misery. That's it. That's what I'm doing.