Happy International Women's Day, comrades. We hold up half the sky.

Neurodivergent individual who used to be the weird kid then wrecked their mental health masking here, trying to shape yourself into something you are not in order to blend in is not sustainable and will leave you burnt out and hating yourself. Try to find your people who feel safe to be around. It's much better for your well-being. It gets easier as you get older and learn to just not give a shit but it's an uphill struggle until you reach that point. Remember that you are not defective, just stuck in a society that is actively hostile to anyone who differs from the norm.

After realizing the history of the past century I've been taught in school was incomplete at best and a malicious falsification at worst and the Soviet Union wasn't a looney tunes cartoon dictatorship that oppressed everyone around them because they were evil and cruel. Eventually decided to look up the actual history of Taiwan because libs kept libbing about it and I was getting the suspicion it wasn't just a random smol bean island minding its own business that the evil CCP is oppressing for no reason. Turned out it was a government in exile ruling through martial law and murdering dissenters.

The comfortable euromurderghouls who sit on twitter all day cheering on as thousands of ukrainians are sent to their deaths deserve a millenia of humiliation.

Much like how you are supposed to ask eastern europeans about communism except for the ones that tell you it was actually good, which are obviously brainwashed or just grumpy old people who are nostalgic for the times they were young and their gentials worked (literally heard this one on redditfront a few years back).

I don't think you fucked up by taking care of your health. Anyone who values you as a human being should support you and respect your need for space when you are struggling medically. I myself experienced a rough mental health crisis a few years ago when I felt like my friends were downplaying it and feeling entitled to me being present and functioning at my usual baseline while I was struggling to keep myself together. It felt horrible and dehumanizing and I am sorry you are going through this.

I remember hearing rumors for a few years now that the US military is full of evangelical doomsday cultists in the higher ranks. Always seemed like one of those actually entirely plausible conspiracy theories but I wasn't quite ready for it to be actually true.