For Anyone Who Needs To Hear It: Homeschooling Is A Good Option.

For anyone who needs to hear it: homeschooling is a good option.

I was vehemently against starting homeschooling for so long when I was first ill because I just wanted to be like everyone else and do things like everyone else.

Eventually I became so ill that I had to join a medical needs teaching programme and they started teaching me at home a few days a week.

I got a few weeks into it and realised I was the best thing ever. I couldn't cope being in a school but one to one lessons adjusted to my needs meant I could start getting one hundred percent attendance most weeks for the first time in two and a half years.

It helped so much with my struggles around school as an audhd person as well!

My contact with my friends didn't change. I actually started seeing them more because I wasn't wasting my spoons by trying to fit in!

Obviously it won't work for everyone but it's not as scary as it can seem and it's always worth looking into things that can help you.

Two part answer because I have DID.

We collectively are:

genderfluid - a non-fixed gender identity that shifts over time or depending on the situation

sapphic - an umbrella term that includes lesbian, bisexual, and pansexual trans femmes, mascs, nonbinary folks, and cis women

a-spec - an umbrella term for anyone who identifies on the asexual/asensual/aplatonic/anaesthetic/afamilial/aromantic (etc.) spectrum(s)

xenogender - a gender that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender

I (Ash) am:

lesbian - non-man attracted to non-men

agenderfluid - in which one is fluid between agender and its spectrum

(I'm a paradox because I'm every gender and no gender at the same time)

omniaspec - someone who is a-spec in every attraction

aegosexual - enjoying consuming sexual content but not desiring sex yourself

(I like reading smut for the intimacy but the idea of having sex myself is repulsive)

demisensual - only experiencing sensual attraction (a desire for non-sexual physical contact) after a specific bond has been made

demiqueerplatonic - in which someone only experiences queerplatonic attraction after forming a deep bond/connection with someone

caedfamilial - where one feels like their allofamilial attraction disappeared or changed to either strictly afamilial or afaspec due to trauma

neuroplatonic - when your neurodivergent condition affects your platonic attraction

polyamorous - the practice of, or desire for, romantic relationships with more than one partner at the same time

(I would be okay dating one person but I'd prefer to be in a polyamorous relationship)

cupioromantic - someone who doesn't feel romantic attraction but desires a romantic relationship

stargender - a xenogender in which one's gender is or is like a star

mittgender - a xenogender for when one's gender is influenced by a feeling of cosiness and warmth

gendersea - a gender that is vast sea of caverns and depths yet to be discovered

gendervoid - referring to the sense that there is “an empty space,” a void, where a gender identity would be

astralgender - a gender that feels connected to space

deathcute - a xenogender that feels like death, darkness, horror, and monsters – but in a wholesome way that is also endearing, comforting, beautiful, and whimsical

caelgender - an aesthetigender identity in which one's gender is largely focused on space-related things such as stars, aliens, planets, galaxies, and/or black holes

greyalterous - when alterous attraction is experienced infrequently

frayaesthetic - attraction that fades as one gets to know the individual they're attracted to

disclaimer: I copied and pasted the definitions from Google/Reddit

in honour of pride month, im starting a tag game! if you feel comfortable, share your labels and what they mean! if you dont label yourself/dont know the correct labels for yourself, you can just describe yourself instead :)

its important for us in the lgbtqia+ community to remember that, while a lot of us just sit under the 'gay' or 'queer' umbrella when talking about ourselves, many of us use labels that are more precise, but feel we cant share our full selves with others because its 'too much' or 'too confusing'. yknow that tiktok sound where one person describes a long complicated coffee and the other just says 'tea'? share your complicated coffee!! be your full selves!

to start us off, im abrosexual and genderfluid (flags in my pfp)! i use they/she/he pronouns. abrosexuality is a fluidity of sexuality, which in my case means that my sexuality fluctuates in tandem with my gender. so, when im feeling more fem/genderless, i only really find myself romantically attracted to non-men, but on more masc days i might have some romantic attraction to someone of any gender. some days, i have no romantic attraction at all, no matter what my gender presents as. my sexual attraction fluctuates too, but less in relation to my gender identity. it also holds no correlation to my romantic attraction.

reblog and tag to share!! np tags: @my-castles-crumbling @starmanbutitsregulusblack @siriuslygay1981 @icarus-last-fall and an open tag!! if you see this, youre officially invited to share!! no matter what your sexuality/gender identity is, this is a safe place to share it! <33

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TODAY

wait ok mutuals what do you guys call your parents???????

My therapist agrees that I have narcissistic traits.

It’s a weird thing to be proud of but I WAS RIGHT. I KNEW IT WASN’T NORMAL.

happy juneteenth! support and celebrate the black disabled people in your life today and every day