A Gathering Of Water Type Pokemon.

Bless me, Miku

reddit but in the pokemon universe

returning to my roots (making redraws)

things that are okay

being on medication

seeing a therapist

seeing multiple therapists (join the club!)

asking friends for help

asking parents for help

asking for help

being in partial hospitalization/intensive outpatient therapy

having a history of suicide attempts

being hospitalized (inpatient or residential) in the past

coping maladaptively sometimes (or a lot)

having scars

having a mental illness.

you are okay! you are not any less worthy of a happy fulfilling life if any of the above apply to you!

there is so much stigma around having mental illness, and sometimes i need a little reminder that my mental illnesses don’t make me a bad person, don’t make me a burden, and don’t mean i cannot heal. if you needed that reminder as well today, here it is!

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PSA: Stop Infantilizing c!Slimecicle

I’m making this post because it frustrates me a lot. Treating c!Slime as a child harkens back to some very shitty and ableist opinions about autistic adults and I’m begging this fandom to stop.

c!Slime is not a child. He is explicitly an adult. Other characters don’t treat him like a child. The only reason any of you see him as childlike is because of the autistic traits he shows.

While I don’t think the coding was intentional, it is extremely strong and is there regardless.

Let me explain. Canonically, c!Slime doesn’t understand human social cues. He is seen as naive, innocent, and gullible. He takes everything literally and doesn’t understand non-literal meanings. He seeks sensory stimulation through repeated phrases and the pressure of enclosed spaces. He tends to overshare and struggles to understand social boundaries. He doesn’t understand personal space, and greets people and says goodbye by kissing them, not seeming to understand that this isn’t normal. He lacks typical fear when put in dangerous situations. He copies other people’s mannerisms to better pass as human.

These aren’t child-like traits. These are autistic traits. And the entire narrative of pretending to be human just drives this home more - it mirrors the real experience of how many autistic adults have to “mask” being autistic.

Regardless of intent, c!Slime is coded as an autistic adult. Not just in a way where you can interpret him that way, but in a way where this is the strongest interpretation.

And this is the problem. Autistic adults constantly have to face infantalization as allistics don’t see us adults. They see us as mentally being children. They see us as lesser.

This is why I’m begging you guys to stop treating c!Slime like a child. Because to the autistic people in this fandom, it’s extremely uncomfortable.

Stop calling him c!Quackity’s son, stop treating him like an “innocent little baby”. Stop making jokes where the punchline is him not understanding an “adult” topic or complex social situations. Stop making jokes where the punchline is that he needs a babysitter.

Because while c!Slime isn’t canonically autistic, he is so strongly coded as such that treating him like a child in this way feels really uncomfortable. And I know I’m not the only autistic person who sees it this way.

Allistics can reblog, do not clown on this post or I will bite you

Apparently, they absolutely WILL NOT HESITATE to hold you back a grade as many times as it takes 😅

I've always had this headcannon that when Chaos got his own scar from the ninja star, he just got told he looked stupid. No help, no 'are you okay, holy shit dude, what happened?!'.....he got nothing. So I feel like Chaos would feel more of an attachment to Karen now, like a weird 'why do i feel a need to protect her' attachment that he would have NO IDEA how to respond to. Why is that? He sees her as a younger, different version of himself, and he doesn't want her to feel as horrible about herself as he did when he was younger. ik this was long, but it's been bothering me since the latest comic upload, and now i'll make it bother you. >:)

FUCK YOU ANON

THEYRE BOOBOO BUDDIES !!!!

I agree. People need to be prepared before they see something like this. It can be traumatic, and could bring back some pretty scary memories for some people. Knowing that it's coming can be all the difference, some people need to click off before it happens.

hey just a heads up/warning for those of you who don’t do well dealing with the heavy subjects or videos portraying violent acts, sandyhook promise has a new gun violence school shooting PSA that is probably going to be going viral and is slated to play on television and in AMC movie theaters and it’s pretty heavy, especially at the end. I know it’s a topic that needs to be discussed but it’s not a video that everyone will be able to watch, so just a warning for those of you that might not be able to handle it.