Me

About a week ago I posted this.

I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:

and my personal favorite

After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.

About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like

I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like

This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”

But I guess the lesson goes like this:

DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN

When your parents judge your friends based on race

You’re welcome

me: *constantly complains that there are no native speakers to talk to where I live*

native speaker: hey what's up

me, sweating nervously: sorry I have to go to my *looks at smudged vocabulary notes* yoghurt class

I literally have a pigeon in my room nesting in a bucket of fairy lights.

“To attract a man to a greater degree than to be drugged.”

I think I need a better translation than what Google Translate gave me...

And oh is it surprisingly difficult

People who self diagnose their ADHD are valid and deserve as much respect as those who are diagnosed professionally.

In Poland we don’t say “fist bump” we say “żółwik” which literally translates to “little turtle” and I think that’s beautiful

Kris Gottschalk

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