Reject Reading Social Cues!! Embrace Collecting Personal Intel Via The Mycorrhizal Network That Connect

a comic about meeting your younger self :)

Thank you for reading :)

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

this is how the cold war ended

if 3 bitches named molly were in a polycule would it be a molecule sorry

[9:38 PM]

Why were ghosts ever scary?? Aren't they just people who died? Do only assholes become ghosts? Honestly if you’re dead and all you do is lurk in an attic making spooky noises, that’s kinda pathetic. You’re a ghost man. You could be solving cold cases. You could phase into space and explore exoplanets. But nooo you’re out here rattling chains in some old lady’s house because you died of cholera in 1843. Get a grip. You have cosmic power and you’re spending the afterlife knocking over lamps and making dolls blink. Embarrassing. Go haunt Wall Street. Go possess a CEO. Do literally anything other than throwing a Victorian tantrum over the new tenants.

Do better.

*meets plural person and learns about her experiences*

OHHH- that's what's wrong with me.

Being plural isn’t your choice: it’s mine. You’re plural now.

dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

Estradiol grenade