You will drink more water if it tastes good. I’m dead serious. Throw some mint in there, throw some lemon or strawberry or a little flavor packet. Your brain likes things that taste good.
You know why people like lemonade? Flavored water
You know why people like tea? Flavored water
You know why people like koolaid? Flavored water
People like flavored water. Brains like flavored water. It’s like being forced to choose between a rock or a rock with glitter on it. You want the glitter rock
I am once again telling you to drink water
And to absolutely FUCK OFF if you’re going to be a dick on this post
It should definetly be noted that if you need a bit of flavor to get you to drink water, that’s totally okay. Do it through whatever means you need. It’s a thousand times better than the alternative of you not getting any form of hydration. Thank u op 🙂
also the purity of water makes a difference. i grew up drinking unfiltered tap water. i’ve hated water my whole life bc of that, and filters were too expensive for my family to afford, so i just avoided water. when i worked in a warehouse i would get super dehydrated because of my avoidance of water, and literally the only thing that would help get me to drink water would be these damn electrolyte flavor packs
and these silly little things literally saved me from dehydration and heat stroke
a few months ago my fiancé found a purification pitcher for $12 and i was skeptical but it changed my entire opinion of water. i was like “if this is water what the FUCK have i been drinking??????” because the water i had before would just taste nasty and leave my mouth somehow dryer than it was before drinking anything???
so yea. water is amazing. flavored water can actually save lives in cases like mine where severe dehydration was inevitable because i couldn’t STAND the taste tap water left on my tongue to save my life. and even cheap purification processing makes a world of difference.
where’s the comic with that guy with a badly drawn swastika on his shirt offering to share racist crime stats contrasted with the guy saying “just google feminism it’s completely unambiguous there are no internal disagreements”
here it is
ive been thinking on this for a while and i was just about to make a post like this. no, you do not “owe education” to anyone. it can be exhausting constantly having to explain your oppression and struggles to others, especially to a privileged group who will never live it. but if you want true allies, you have to be willing to share. saying “google it” to anyone who wants to truly understand you closes an important door to discussion. do you always have to answer every question to the point of mental and emotional exhaustion? of course not. but if you don’t allow people to hear from first-hand experience, the next place they’re going to go is some organization locked behind a pay-wall, and then a group/person that is going to enthusiastically share a misleading or even outright dangerous perspective. take it from an autistic person. i would rather have an uninformed neurotypical ask me questions about autism and ableism instead of going to Autism Speaks. if you want to combat misinformation, you have to be willing to contribute as an individual.
children don’t deserve to be cared for because they’re cute and funny or whatever. they deserve to be cared for and loved and treated with dignity because they are human beings who are routinely abused and mistreated by the very people who are meant to protect them. period, end of story.
You never deserve abuse because you’re too needy or clingy
You never deserve abuse because you “let it happen” or “didn’t fight back” or “didn’t stand up for yourself”
You never deserve abuse because you “let it get this far” or you “stayed this long”
You never deserve abuse because your abuser is your mother or father, sister or brother, other family member, your boyfriend, girlfriend, fiancée, husband, or wife
You never deserve abuse because you have a particular mental or physical illness
You never deserve abuse because you’re “too emotional”
You never deserve abuse because you were “asking for it”
You never deserve abuse even though you’ve made mistakes, or said something wrong, or haven’t understood something, or can’t remember something
You never deserve abuse for being “too much” or “not good enough”
You never deserve abuse for having off days or being vulnerable sometimes
You never deserve abuse for asking for help
You never deserve abuse, no matter how many times and how many ways your abuser justifies it or makes excuses for it.
“You shouldn’t identify as [blank] because it might confuse the cis/straights”
Honey with as much kindness as can be conveyed through text, that kinda sounds like the fault of the cis/straight people.
The world is filled with complex people and experiences and we don’t actually help anyone by saying it isn’t. Its the job of the oppressors to clear up their misunderstandings. Not the job of the marginalized to somehow become… not… themselves.
Also? Even if ur not cis or straight, you are absolutely gonna be confused if you try to understand literally everyone’s identity, because it’s infinitely complex. Like, you’d sit there and have time for nothing else. What’s more important imo is learning how to accept someone’s identity even if you personally don’t understand it
one helpful thing to do with psychotic people is, if you’re joking about something unreal and a psychotic person wants you to clarify, actually fucking clarify that it’s real instead of treating it as a joke or getting annoyed when we want to see proof. seriously, the amount of times i’ve had this happen, even in family.
to give an example if this doesn’t make sense:
one time my mom and aunt were joking around about whether or not a house on a certain street exists and treating it as some sort of conspiracy. I got freaked out and demanded I go to the spot the house is and see with my own eyes if it’s real. well, no one took me seriously, so I just had a full on mental breakdown over this fucking house because I DIDN’T KNOW IF I WAS IN REALITY. it’s embarrassing to explain later on. if someone is genuinely distressed by the idea of something not being real, just be honest for a second. this can be TERRIFYING.
it sucks because I see so many posts on how you should explain sarcasm to people who don’t get it, but never unreality. instead you all seem to assume just tagging things “unreality” solves the problem. guess what, those tags only exist online, and psychotic people have to live offline too. pretty simple!
Pro tip from a college student and a biochem major: if you’re drinking alcohol and you feel like you need to throw up, just throw up. Your body’s natural response to too much alcohol is emesis, aka vomiting. If you wanna vomit it’s because your body has had too much. Just throw up. You will feel SO much better both directly afterwards and the following morning.
I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears repeating: this is why you shouldn’t mix alcohol and weed. Your body’s natural response to too much alcohol is emesis (vomiting). Weed is an anti emetic. This means that if you have too much alcohol, the weed will make it very fucking hard for you to throw it back up.
It also means that you won’t feel how much you’re drinking because usually, you gauge when to stop when you feel like throwing up. But weed takes away that nausea sensation. So you’re also a lot more likely to drink in excess and your body won’t be able to get rid of it.
Another important drug fact since pharma is my main study focus: if you do drugs, particularly hard drugs, TELL YOUR DOCTORS. Especially if you’re going in for surgery. If you do hard drugs, especially if one of those drugs is cocaine, some anaesthetics can literally fry your heart and kill you. Your doctors and surgeons won’t rat you out, they just don’t want to accidentally kill you out of ignorance.
man splaining isnt when a guy is excited and talking about something he likes thats just called sharing your interests with people man splaining was when one of my male coworkers started explaining storyboarding to me (a sequential arts major) because he “learned about it from a simpsons dvd extra”
man splaining is when a dude is explaining something to a woman (or in my case someone he perceived as a woman) who has like. way more knowledge of it than him but he thinks he knows more simply by virtue of being A Man. like, i am an artist who has been drawing all my life and i am studying for a degree in visual storytelling. he was very well aware of this, it was what i told him right before he started explaining the basics of my field of study to me. thats just like… unconscious misogyny, and it happens to lots of women in professional fields, most egregiously in STEM field but it happens pretty much everywhere. but that being said, if youre a dude and youre just like, info dumping intricate lore of your favorite movie or talking about a science topic youre really passionate about thats not mansplaining especially if your talking to your friends chances are they probably are enjoying your genuine enthusiam for whatever you are talking about and thats the diference, mansplaining comes from a place of smug condescension and excitedly talking about your interests to your friends does not
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