DO YOU HEAR ME? GET UP.

“You need someone that loves your soul more than your body”

— Unknown

40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back. 

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“why is this a disorder this is normal it’s just soci-“ girl what do you think the social part of the biopsychosocial model of psychology means….

if it were a social norm to scream to communicate and someone quietly waved instead they’d be disordered in that society.

“doesn’t that mean that disorders are all socially constructed?” no because autism and adhd (i know y’all are only talking about these when you argue this stuff…) have a biological basis AKA you have structural abnormalities in the brain.

“but maybe those structural changes are just a social-“ uh i mean if you want to call an abnormally small hippocampus that results in memory loss just a social construct you can…i guess

next time you’re thinking “it’s just society that makes me disordered” uh yeah that’s literally part of it. psychology is a social science. but also like don’t forget there’s biology behind it and there’s never one reason why you’re disordered, it’s a mix of genetics, cultural influences, nature v. nuture, etc…

you, me, and the gap in between

1. Larissa Pham, Crush // 2. pinterest // 3. Casey McQuinston, Red, White and Royal Blue // 4. @orpheuslament // 5. pinterest // 6. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet // 7. Richard Siken, Meanwhile // 8. pinterest // 9. Florence + the Machine, No Light, No Light //10. Larissa Pham, Crush // 11. Hanif Abdurraqib, It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off // 12. Holly Warburton // 13. Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart // 14. Frank Bidart, Guilty of Dust // 15, 16, 18 and 21. Larissa Pham, Crush // 17. Holly Warburton // 19. @nativephunk // 20. Karman MacKendrick, Immemorial Silence // 22. Emma Hunsinger // 23. Before Sunrise

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“A cage went in search of a bird.”

— Franz Kafka