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19th October 2014

Hate when I see people whinging about ‘self-diagnosis’ just because folk have multiple mental illnesses listed in their bio.

1) do you want a certificate from their doctor or something? Because I’m diagnosed and I don’t even have one of those
2) is it coz there’s more than one? Do you not realise how many mental illnesses are frequently comorbid with one another? I have depression, anxiety and PTSD…so implausible! Wait…no.
3) I *am* self-diagnosed with PTSD because I’ve been suffering symptoms of a STRESS DISORDER since POST- experiencing a serious TRAUMA
4) THE FUCK IS IT TO YOU?

18th October 2014

It’s a beautiful mild night and I was gonna go out for a very late night bike ride, but it turns out my mum’s sleepy family neighbourhood is full of lone dudes sitting in their cars down cul-de-sacs or going for 2am walks. I mean, they are *probably* in the same situation as me - can’t sleep, want to enjoy the nice night. But I don’t feel comfortable taking that for granted.

17th October 2014
My kids were conceived with IVF. They look nothing like my husband or I, and, although we have never voiced our fears with each other, I know he wonders too… what if they aren’t ours?

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(via parentingconfessional)

Whattt I never understand this kind of thing. Chances are the zygotes implanted held yours and your husband’s DNA, but if they didn’t? You grew those children, you gave birth to those children and much more importantly, you are raising and parenting those children. They are your children.

Resemblance is weird anyway. My stepson looks nothing like his parents (except when he’s annoyed, he has the same annoyed expression as his mum) and the older he gets the less like them he gets. I look nothing like my parents and also have very different mannerisms and personality. On the other hand, one of my best friends from high school was adopted as a baby and she grew to be the exact same height and build as her mum as well as resembling her facially, and in mannerisms she was uncannily like her dad. Her sister was also adopted as a baby and was the spitting image of her aunt and other relatives.

Why waste time worrying about stuff like that?

Reblogged from : parentingconfessional
16th October 2014

If you read Lundy Bancroft’s “Why does he do that? Inside the minds of angry and controlling men,” published in 2003, and Anne Brontë's “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” published in 1848, in close succession…….well……it's depressing but enlightening.

16th October 2014
We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who’ve never harmed anybody, would never touch a child. But they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons, went too far and got into child porn. I have no sympathy for real pedophiles. God, please lock those people up. But so many of these guys do not deserve harsh prison sentences, and that’s what they’re getting.

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- Author John Grisham 

I guess all those children who are having their bodies displayed on the Internet aren’t being harmed. All those children being raped for these people’s pleasure doesn’t equal harm.

(via shitrichcollegekidssay)

You can’t accidentally access child porn! It isn’t kept with the regular porn! I shudder to think what you’d have to do to find it since I’ve seen some dark corners of the web and I used to have very incautious browsing habits - I’ve seen just about every shock video going around but I have NEVER seen child porn.

This guy is either a paedophile apologist and probably a paedo himself or he is just mindbendingly fucking stupid about how the internet works.

Reblogged from : shitrichcollegekidssay
15th October 2014

I was getting harassed by a jake on the bus, he was up the back when I got on but he came down to the front to sit opposite me. He was fussing the dog but telling him to sit and getting angry when he didn’t. He kept calling me darling and asking me for fags, money, the time, and where we were (I was getting the bus from one end of my town to the other whereas he was going into Glasgow so the answer was always the same), then getting aggravated by my answers. The bus had a few folk on it but they ignored the situation even though it couldn’t have been more obvious that I was uncomfortable and intimidated. 

Near the end of my journey, an Asian bloke gets on and stands near the jake. He looks over when the guy is being particularly loud to me, and the guy goes “what are you looking at?” Then mutters so only I can hear “fucking P****.” Only then do I recover my inner bitch and tighten up the dog’s lead so he is out of the dude’s reach, and glare straight ahead, ignoring his shit from then on. I kind of wish I was as energised by disrespect to myself as I am by disrespect to others…….. Frazzled.

11th October 2014
kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.< kindofleigh: The last kid knows what’s up. My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.<

kindofleigh:

The last kid knows what’s up.

My little cousins recently moved back from Algeria and I’ve been getting to know them, first time I went to visit I thought I’d better get a load of gifts but I knew they all had tablets, their own phones and shit so I wasn’t sure what to get them. I’ve got a three year old, so the youngest was easy enough - some dinosaurs and one of those magnetic doodle boards. But for the older two I was just like “what did I want when I was 8-10?” so I got em a bunch of scented gel pens, jumbo chalk for drawing in the street, skipping ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls and one of those ^ It was a great success, but they were confused by the youngest’s doodle board. I was like “it’s a bit like an etchasketch” they were like “what’s an etchasketch?” I’m only eight years older than the eldest. >.<

Reblogged from : kat-blaque

I'm 19, I'm engaged and have a nearly 4 year old stepson who is an exhausting joy. I live outside Glasgow and study psychology. My interests in terms of who I'm likely to follow: intersectional feminism, all social justice issues, body positivity.

I'm white and AFAB non-binary but it's pretty complicated and mainly I am just read as cis. I don't tend to know where I fit in conversations about trans issues but I'm trying to learn. I love SJ blogs which don't hold back or mince their words, I feel that I have learned so much more since learning to read on after things like "ugh white people" rather than going "but I'm not like that!" and checking out.

More general interests are sci-fi and fantasy, psychology (as you might expect) and music from reggae to metal to EDM. And animals. I love my pets - Ada is a 1 year-old rescued grey/brown tabby cat and Alice is a 4 year-old rescued black lab.

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