•"hey, y’see the red thing at the top of the shelf, will you get it?“ “Sorry, what?” “On the sh-” “oh yeah sure, I’ll get it.”
•*doesn’t hear teacher because someone’s pen is making a scratchy sound at the back of the room*
•*replays video 10 ten times to figure out what they’re saying*
•teachers asking, “why do you always stop writing in the middle of a sentence, just write down whatever I’m saying,” followed by the response, “I’m just processing it,” rebuked by, “we’ll stop processing it and just write.”
•*gets really focused on staring out the window and goes through four songs without hearing a single on*
someone is whispering to their friends in the library, you don’t even know who this person is but you know their major, what state they grew up in, and their hobbies during high school. you just wanted to find a quiet spot to do your chemistry homework.
wanting to chime in on other people’s conversations all the time, but don’t, because you’re not suppose to be “listening” to them.
being the only person in the house that can hear that awful buzzing sound certain electronics make
hiding in your room because everything is too loud.
motorcycles were invented by satan
being told that you have dog-like hearing by friends and family
being yelled at for “not listening” by friends and family.
God. God. God. God.
This entire post is so fucking relatable it hurts
“You just need to learn to tune it out.”
Forgetting how to think because ambient noise is drowning out your internal monologue.
“No, I don’t need the volume up, I’d just really like to put on subtitles. No, I don’t need to move closer, I just…”
Leaving the room whenever someone starts talking on the phone.
Pausing your video whenever someone starts talking but trying really really hard not to seem passive aggressive about it.
Struggling to explain why this one sound is the most horrible thing in the world while other very similar sounds are fine.
you’re trying to listen to what some very important person is trying to say, but you can only focus on the conversations of the ppl around you
sitting in a restaurant and thinking the people sitting next to you are being SO loud because you can hear everything they’re saying, but when you mention it you get weird looks so obviously you’re just overreacting.
not being able to handle the little keyboard sounds as your mom types a text from across the room, but when you ask your mom (who is a quadruple texter) to put her phone on silent you get a murderous look, like you’ve asked her to kill her cat.
turning on ambient noises and trying to relax, only to end up turning it off because it’s not actually helping you fall asleep.
“the speakers are making this high pitched noise”
“what the hell are you talking about?”
“THE SPEAKERS ARE PRACTICALLY SCREAMING HOW DO YOU NOT HEAR THAT??”
“Just ignore it, and focus on the show.”
Holy cow, i thought this was just me? Other people have problems like this too?
@permanentlyhighonlife it’s extremely common with autism and ADHD among other things, often part of a broader sensory processing disorder (SPD) category.
I… I just thought this was my ADHD or that everyone could hear the really weird buzzing sounds…. What the actual fuck?
Does ringing in your ears all the time happen to? Like when the power’s out I nearly die because there’s literally no noise (I have fish tanks so it helps keep my brain from going nuts) and my ears start ringing so badly I have to put on headphones and listen to music or a cd or something or I’ll get a headache.
What this trite imagery misses out on is the fact that kintsukuroi requires a lot of work to repair a piece like that. It takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, a great deal of investment. Sometimes parts of the original are damaged beyond repair, and you have to instead painstakingly create entirely new ones.
It’s still not the same. Maybe it’s something more beautiful. But it’s not the fact that it broke that makes it beautiful. It’s the work put into it. It’s the fact that people made the effort to salvage it, because it was worth salvaging, because it was important enough to salvage. It’s the care that makes the beauty.
An apology can’t always fix what has been broken. That doesn’t mean it’s not irreparable, sometimes you can go on to rebuild and repair. But it won’t ever be the same as it was again.
I really appreciate this addition because I’ve always hated the “more beautiful for having been broken” thing. Being broken sucks and I hate all those tragic romantic sensitivities that try to make it what it’s not. These pieces are beautiful because they’re repaired with effort put in to making them shine.
honestly none of the cis, straight ace folks I know IRL are blatantly homophobic/biphobic/serophobic like some of the straight cis ace folks on here & I think that’s important to acknowledge because the way the ‘discourse’ has evolved has led to some lgbt people thinking that straight people identifying as ace is somehow inherently homophobic, and it’s also provided way too comfortable a cover/justification for homophobes who can write this stuff under the guise of discourse.
Like imo the belief that ace identity is somehow equivalent to the belief in homophobic, biphobic, and serophobic stereotypes/views is not one anyone should be buying into because 1) it’s inaccurate and alienating to ace comrades, especially lesbian, gay, bi, trans, and nonbinary aces, and 2) it lets homophobes/biphobes/serophobes off the hook by viewing them as part of a collective that’s gotten caught up in bad discourse instead of holding them accountable as homophobic/biphobic/serophobic individuals.
If someone says “gay men are disgusting and they probably have sex near kids in public” the response shouldn’t be “oh ace Tumblr is at it again” it should be “literally what the fuck is wrong with you, you homophobic piece of shit?” and that reaction should come from everyone with an ounce of awareness and compassion for gay men regardless of their own identity. Those kinds of statements are not ‘ace discourse,’ they’re homophobic propaganda. In my opinion, treating them as part of Tumblr discourse minimizes the seriousness of the problem.
In some ways it’s like trans exclusionary radical feminists trying to hide behind the lesbian identity (despite the fact that most of them aren’t even lesbians). And lesbians are a whole are like no– most lesbians aren’t transmisogynist pieces of shit actually, that’s just you! Shitty people try to turn their bigotry into identity discourse on here, but it’s never actually about their identity, it’s about their behavior. Don’t let them hide behind identity discourse.
as always, reminder that I don’t participate in ace discourse, and if you drag discourse onto this post from any ‘side’ you get blocked.
there’s no point to there being an overwatch recall if pharah is not the center of of it like there just isn’t! overwatch CLEARLY suffered because of its poor management like jack ana and gabe really rode that shit into the ground, what overwatch post recall NEEDS is a leader who isnt deluded by nostalgia or one of them old asses, overwatch needs a smart leader who is all about JUSTICE, who CARES about keeping the people of the world safe, someone who knows what overwatch should represent and lives by it! and that person is PHARAH, the literal midpoint and connection between the new and old generations of overwatch who already got a leadership arc in her comic and is dedicated to doing whats RIGHT! now winston has been playing his lil strike commander game but honestly WHO is going to follow him?! he needs to sit his monkey ass down and hand over the throne to the QUEEN, the TRUE HEIR meant to bring overwatch back into the public eye, FAREEHA LESBIAN AMARI!!
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