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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Welcome

Welcome my darlings. Call me Jay. I’m a neurodivergent, 19 year old, black, female, aroace disgrace. I reblog as I please. I have a couple of ✨side blogs✨

Media That I’m Currently Obsessed With: Across The Spiderverse, Bubble, ROTTMNT, Bungo Stray Dogs, Jujutsu Kaisen, MHA

Favorite Singers Atm: SZA, Melanie Martinez, Nova Twins, and Kendrick Lamar

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My posts: #jay’s attempts at communicating

Reblogging from a side blog: #whoosh.reblog 🌊

Mutuals posts, asks, etc.: #{🫧}bubbly babes

Things that I want to come back to: #save #important #for later

Queued Posts: #biddy da do queued up

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women should lift weights because it prevents osteoporosis in old age and makes you a more capable person in everyday life please shut up about butts and waists and hourglasses i'm going to fucking kill

endangeredlove

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mothric

genuine question from someone who would rather chew their arm off than go to a public gym, and also doesnt have a lot of money: how do you safely get into strength training? are there youtube channels, apps (android), etc anyone recommends that makes it approachable and don't lean into diet culture / body shaming?

also the biggest thing that keeps me from working out is that I already have joint and spinal issues and moving the wrong way can fuck up a knee or a shoulder or my spine for days. I really don't want to injure myself, and have unwittingly done so before. resources that are extremely clear on exactly how to move and offer gentler / alternative ways to move for people with limited range are vital.

feenyxblue

Okay, so this may not technically be strength training, but muscles are dumber than bricks and cannot tell the difference between your own bodyweight and actual weights.

So, may I recommend:

Hybrid Calisthenics
Hey everyone! My name is Hampton and my brand is Hybrid Calisthenics. You can find me by that name pretty much everywhere on social media.
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He runs a YouTube channel where he goes over how to work your way up to more complex exercises (for instance, his pull-ups videos start with using a door jamb and moving your weight back and forth) so it's good for easing yourself into things.

bundibird

You also don't have to fork out for expensive weights and such if you don't want to/can't. Substitute with stuff you either already have at home or can get from the supermarket and build up the weight you can exercise with. 500 gram cans of butter beans then 750 gram bottles of pasta sauce. 1 litre drink bottle then your 1.5 litre milk bottle. 3 litre bulk-buy bottle of laundry detergent. Etc. One of my dogs weighs 13 kilos and I pick her up on the regular (to her delight). One weighs 16 kg and I pick him up too (to his consternation and mild disapproval). You don't have to fit out some fancy home gym before you can start strength training.

theygender

I second Hybrid Calisthenics, that's the program I use. It's run by one guy who's taken it upon himself to make exercising more accessible and it's completely free! Each exercise has different variations based on your ability and each variation is further divided into different levels of difficulty so you can work up to where you want to be. If you can't do a single push up for example then this program will help you work up to the point where you can, and if you're a master of push ups then there are more advanced body weight exercises you can tackle so you can keep moving forward in your training without stagnating. The routine offers a full body workout with absolutely no equipment required for the beginning levels. The only reason you would need to buy anything is if you want to work up to a full pull up, at which point you would need actual pull up rings

Here's his actual website which I feel is easier to navigate than the YouTube channel on its own and organizes things in a way that's easy to understand. He explains everything you need to know about the routine and each individual exercise has both a text description and a video tutorial

Hybrid Calisthenics
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zipperzapper144
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in your 20s you must rediscover the joys of arts and crafts to stave off spiritual decay

a-hundred-jewels

I am eighteen and have recently begun inviting friends over to do paper mache and LET ME TELL YOU. If you can stand the goopiness (it took a long time for me to get used to and i need to be the one making the shlop so i can remind myself that i know exactly what’s in it and there are no scary chemicals - autism is very weird) it’s literally life-changing.

awkward silences bc both of you are neurodivergent and subpar at socializing? DOESNT MATTER, YOU HAVE GOOP.

unsure how to phrase “please come hang out with me so i can stave of the evil spirits aka depression” without feeling too vulnerable? shoot a little “WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A PAPER MACHE MODEL OF YOUR OWN HEAD” and, at the very least, you have a conversation starter! people are weirder than you think, you may be pleasantly surprised.

just remember to

a) TEAR the paper - u need those rough crunchy edges

b) the magic recipe is 1 part flour to 2 parts water and always fucking add a bit of salt to avoid mold

c) wrap it AROUND something, like a balloon or a recycled bottle

d) put down cardboard or some other barrier between the Goop and the Floor

e) while newspaper and tissue paper works best, there are no rules against using normal paper (as far as i know) and its a GREAT way to use up old school assignments and turn them into something useful (a 3D dragon, for example) especially if you’ve just graduated highschool

f) always err on the side of making LESS solution and if you have extra, don’t leave the bowl under your bed for a month “just to see what happens” - it’s disgusting and you will regret it. also i’m semi sure you can compost the stuff, but give that a google, esp if you use some kind of composting service - different places have different rules, and also i could just be generally wrong

g) have funn :3

(also sorry i derailed your post with a soliloquy about paper mache)

save for later crafts
zipperzapper144

Anonymous asked:

i realized something. i’ve been in rooms of classmates, friends, and people in general gushing over crushes, both irl and celebrity and felt out of place, stressed, and pressured…

i’m realizing that i want that but with a room filled with aspec people who experience other types of attraction and or attraction differently. i want to be able to gush unabashedly and freely.

must be nice for people to be able to that honestly. i’m jealous. i want to be able to without people not understanding and saying it’s something else or questioning my identity.

aroaceconfessions answered:

Submitted June 16, 2023

wish i could just gush about my favorite characters without someone going you need a man or she's simping again like it's said in jest but like these things have no correlation whatsoever
zipperzapper144
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Allow me to elucidate, @a-sour-nectarine

When most people "roll their eyes", they flick their eyes directly upward, usually as far as they comfortably go, then resume looking normally.

When someone who learned the phrase before the behavior does it, they usually go in a circular (ish) motion. Since most eye movements are lines, it's usually pretty triangular: the key points are usually a diagonal up one way, then to the far other side, then to a diagonal low the first way. Thus, the eyes basically make a loop, so they "rolled".

I've found that when people who learned the up-down way first try the circular motion, they might risk motion sickness, so experiment carefully.

tikkunolamorgtfo

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MOST PEOPLE JUST LOOK UP

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IS THIS WHY PEOPLE THINK I’M ROLLING MY EYES WHEN I THINK AND LOOK UPWARD

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thebibliosphere

Oh my god, food extract is not the same as an essential oil.

Food extract is the flavoring of something cooked down into a carrier oil or alcohol that is safe for human ingestion.

Essential oil is the pure extract of the plant refined down and distilled for concentrated medicinal purposes to a significantly higher strength than simply adding ground up mint leaves to your water. The two are not comparable in any way.

Cinnamon extract and cinnamon essential oil are not the same thing.

One is about 100 times the strength of the other and can also cause acute organ failure. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the food extract.

Sweet gods I’m not trying to be mean, I want you to be aware and safe and stop putting yourselves and others at risk. Please.

thebibliosphere

Like maybe my tone is hard to read, maybe it just comes off as really angry but it’s not, it’s fear and worry. I read posts and clutch my head in alarm going “no! No! That’s how people die!” And then I get exasperated because a bunch of people not formally qualified chime in with “um actually this is a lie” and it’s not, it’s really, really not.

I’m not some big pharma advocate. I’m a crunchy witch hippy just like you with salt rock lamps and rose quartz all over my house. I just happen to have spent the last 15 years of my life studying the actual science of holistic medicines and I’m trying to help you not get hurt (or worse) becuase you trusted a sales person with no idea what the ever loving hell they were talking about beyond a sales pitch designed to maximize profit. Gah.

thewoonderkabinett

I see this so often in the Mommy world. There was a lady not long ago in one of the mom groups who was really worried about her toddler. He’d had a persistent cough for weeks and the doctor couldn’t figure out why. Someone asked, well what have to tried to treat it with, so far? She said she was using a humidifier, honey, and eucalyptus EO in the shower every night.

Yeah.

In case you were wondering, eucalyptus can cause respiratory distress in young children.

thebibliosphere

Sadly I don’t wonder. I have a friend whose daughter died from a home made menthol oil chest rub. She wasn’t even ten yet, but her mom– a qualified aromatherapist– thought she’d be old enough to handle it. She went into respitory distress and died seizing in her mother’s arms on route to the hospital. It was one of the most harrowing stories I had to listen to during my holistic training. She stood up there, on this podium next to a bunch of ponzy scheme essential oil sellers who looked like they wanted the floor to swallow them, and said “I killed my child with good intentions”.

I’ll never forget the look on her face.

So to reiterate, children under the age of ten should not be directly exposed to things like eucalyptus oil, peppermint or wintergreen. If you are using such things in your house and your child starts to complain of headaches, lethargy and general “feel worse”, don’t just assume it’s the cold/flu. Those are all signs of menthol sensitivity and they only get worse with increased exposure. Ventilate the room, take them outside if you can until the air clears. Do not apply again.

Rapid onset wheezing may be a sign of allergic reaction or possible asthma attack triggered by the menthol too. If they tell you their chest is warm or fuzzy when you use it, that’s another sign it’s not going down well with them. Again, ventilate the area or remove anything you applied to them. Administer inhalers if necessary. Watch for any more labored breathing or if they suddenly go limp or you can’t wake them up. If they do call 911.

This can also apply to people with allergies and asthma who are otherwise healthy.

One of the safest, natural ways to alleviate congestion is with just pure good old fashioned warm steam. Keep the air moist, drink plenty of warm fluids. Menthol can help relieve the feeling of congestion, but there’s limited evidence to suggest it actually clears the airways. And for the love of god don’t inhale mustard or horseradish (I’ve seen that suggestion on posts too, though how you’d get those oils I don’t know). That’s literally what tear gas is made of.

thebibliosphere

I apologize sincerely for bringing this long post back into your lives, fam, but I’m getting inundated with questions about what can the possible harm be if you dab a little neat peppermint oil on your child’s skin to help them with a little head cold, and this is the most succinct way I can put it.

The harm you may do, is in fact death. I am not telling you these things to be a kill joy, I’m telling you so you won’t accidentally kill yours.

k9jocks

Re-blogging here since I know a lot of people apply EOs to dogs too and menthol/eucalyptus and the like are toxic for dogs as well. Same with tea tree oil which I see recommended as tick prevention way too often.

giannathetopgunfanwrites

Everything I’ve ever been told is that you should NOT use an EO diffuser if you have cats too. It’s toxic.