Me in Australia: finally something we’re ahead of everyone on

If the UK had a preferential voting system the Tories would have won a lot more seats

Zillenial or younger millenial

If you interpret the appendix as an ending then it’s a lot less pessimistic as it implies that all totalitarian regimes eventually fall.

I have a bachelors in psychology so was able to pick based on my understanding of approaches. I knew I didn’t want CBT, so went with an ACT psych instead. Mine is also a developmental psychologist so I knew they’d be more likely to understand neurodevelopmental disabilities than your average psychologist.

I’m Audhd and pretty much use my psychologist for all of this.

Earthquakes

The boomers have been really successfull in simultaneously punching down across the generations and making us punch down on each other at the same time.

Gonna throw a hat in the ring here for the British Empire as the king of genocide.

Wonder if he got this advice from his dog

Subjectification. People normalise what’s normal for them.

Bonobos

This would likely mean my country’s (Australia) biggest trading partner going to war with our biggest ally (USA). We’re also close to this conflict geographically speaking so would likely play a key role in it. Honestly this conflict would really fuck our economy and make the entire region more unstable than it already is.

So I’d be quite concerned if this happened. It would destroy my country and be yet another reminder of how we are tied to the USA and will literally follow it to our own destruction.

His whole life story explains everything already. The drugs are just the icing on the cake.

Just finished reading the book and I wouldn’t say the bleakness has no purpose. The bleakness contrasts those brief moments of un-bleakness (hope feels like too strong a word in this context). Those moments like drinking coke or finding shrivelled apples on the brink of starvation became so much more meaningful because of how bleak their situation is.

Look our current Government is far from perfect but this is a huge improvement from our previous one.

I don’t dislike people. They just confuse and overwhelm me and this is incredibly exhausting.

This is my conservative father in a nutshell

I’ve always felt like conservative people are more likely the type of people who walk their dogs off leash. Don’t tread on me extends to their pets

I relate to this so much. Throw in trauma and my nervous system is running on overdrive.