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Asexuality. We can have crushes and romantic relationships. Asexual means having little to no sexual attraction, Aroace is when you feel little to no romantic or sexual attraction. They are different things. For example I'm Asexual and Biromantic so I don't feel sexually attracted to anyone, but I am romantically attracted to boys and girls. Hope this helps more people understand. :)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yessss....a thousand times,yesss..... And being asexual does not mean I'm gay....

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Being a pagan DOESN'T make me a satanist.... I don't sacrifice animals (or people) and I don't dance naked in the moonlight!!

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The fact that hating the ruling political party and hating the nation are two DIFFERENT things.

And stop fanboying over political leaders and blindly supporting them.

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I just want to complain for the sake of complaining. I want to vent and feel heard, not for you to start giving me advice or judging me.

Also, if I'm trying to talk to you, for the love of god, don't start monolouging. If I'm keeping my side of the conversation short, please just do me the same f*****g courtesy.

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Being Agnostic doesn't mean I don't believe in God. It's neither acceptance nor denial of one. I love my family but it is very tiresome being treated as though I completely disbelieve just because I don't believe it is something we could ascertain.

Just as a side note, I have tons of respect for people who have faith in a higher being. It's not something I can dedicate my life to and believe in but it doesn't mean I can't respect your beliefs and see value in them. I'm fine attending any service that has importance to you (my youngest sister's baptism was great!)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I consider myself polytheistic, like all those ancient civilizations whose religion was lost somewhere between its discovery and an american textbook. "They were polytheistic. They worshiped many gods. Their only important accomplishment was some giant building, we don't care about anything else they did."

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Please try not to let your mental health become your defining characteristic! You are so much than anxiety or depression. You are not depressed so&so you are so&so who is a beautiful human being who happens to suffer these conditions.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the message we all need. I have the perfect quote to go with this. “When you feel depressed or anxious, don’t let life get down on you or hold you back from what you love and want to do. Instead keep pushing through and conquer your inner demons and get to the light at the end of the tunnel.” -Me

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Making jokes like about being pansexual like so you like pans? It's not funny in the least so stop. if anything it's gonna make me want to punch you in the gut. Also not everyone in the LGBTQ+ community will try and cancel people cuz you got their pronouns wrong. Like I honestly SUCK at pronouns for everyone. EVEN ME!!!!! And my friends understand that so it's good but yeah have a nice day 😙💛

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cannot upvote enough. Also, being pan doesn't mean I'll hook up with anyone. Just because my type has nothing to do with gender doesn't mean i don't have a type!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah but if someone starts complaining about how hard not deadnaming me is and how its soooo difficult for them I'm gonna slap them like it's so much harder for me to exist like this that it doesn't even compare

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, theoretically pan in Latin means all. So if someone asks if you like pans as a joke, you can just say yes, because you do like all people. I’m pansexual and I’ve used this before!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a Greek prefix, not Latin. But you are correct about its meaning. My question, since you say you're pansexual, how does this differ from bisexual? Is it that bisexual is attracted to two sexes, but pansexual is attracted to more than two sexes, like male, female, and non-binary? Honest question, not trying to be annoying.

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Invisible illnesses.

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Patience and manners. People just push others out of the way, just bark "MOVE" and sulk, complain, and just try to barge through because they don't want to wait patiently.

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Being trans isn't a choice. If it was, I'd much rather be a cis girl than a trans guy, but here I am

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I am so sick of hearing, "You talk so proper for a black girl." Like...What?! What does that mean? We don't all talk the same, but people of other races don't talk the same either. So why am I proper for "a black girl"?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTH??? ALSO, when they say the only thing worse than being black is being mixed!?! What the 🦆!

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My voice. It is soft and a higher pitch. I've spent a lot of money on speech therapy and doctor appoitments.. Please don't mimic me and this means my students. I am the way I am unfortunately.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same. For some reason people just have a hard time hearing people with soft, high voices. I think they just need to pick their ears off the floor.

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The thinking process. That a complete thought has more than one sentence attached to it and the supporting sentences are to emphasize the initial thought. And that it’s not abnormal to have thoughts that branch off in different directions and that that doesn’t mean you’re mentally ill if you think about things differently. Once upon a time that just meant that you had a different view and then people would converse about the different ways of looking at things without judging one another and making it a competition over who’s right and who’s wrong.

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I have a friend, who was in a very bad depressive state caused by racism. They have been excluded from several of their passions because they're black. one time, when we were hanging out, I was telling a joke and someone walked up to me and said "why do you talk like a black person? Your white." and I got so mad, because my friend was right there and just walked away, crying, because they thought it was their fault I was also excluded from stuff because of how I talk. I want to say one thing, this person can go straight to something worse than hell. because just from one comment....costed someone's life.

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If 50% is the most I can operate at on a given day, that's ok, it my 100%
Also you don't have to give 100% all the time!

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lgbtqia+...I know this is common and everyone knows but I hate that people think it's a choice or a phase, they think its funny to say "your gay" as a joke. a kid in my class just said it about 5 minutes ago, its really not funny...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THIS! I’ve already came out to my parents as aroace, and they’re just like “you’re just in need for a label that’s all. You’ll get your crushes once your periods come.” Okay, I got them, WHERE ARE THE CRUSHES?!?

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Using a louder voice helps people who don’t understand you work better. I’m bilingual and I don’t know how many times I’ve stepped in to translate when someone just is getting louder with someone. Point and ask at things at the very least it helps, take a moment to try to rephrase what you’re asking. Also English isn’t the officially language of the United States.

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Grammer.

Help your uncle Jack off his horse.

Help your uncle jack off his horse.

Two very different meanings depending on the capital letter

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#19

That alzheimers isn't just forgetting things. There are far, far worse symptoms which have a devasting impact on not just the person affected but their friends and family. The fight families have to make to get help for their loved ones and themselves in this country (UK) is appalling.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just in the UK but here in America also. It’s devastating. I do agree with this 100%.

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Sometimes my depression and anxiety make me unable to do things. It sucks out all of my energy the worse it gets. If I don't feel like seeing you, it's not something I have against you as a person, I just don't have the energy or social battery. The amount of times the person I'm talking about has complained that I don't want to see them, or that I hate them, or something else, just because I don't have the energy to see anyone or talk to anyone, is terrible. I would already like to be alone and them complaining about it makes me feel worse about wanting to be alone than it already does. I understand wanting to see me, but I wouldn't lie about that stuff. If I don't want to see you, I don't want to see anyone. I feel like they don't believe I'm depressed because "I have nothing to be depressed about". GOSH I hate that so much. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ngl, I feel like you should get days off of school and work if your mental health gets too bad, both mental health and physical health matter, and they both impact your daily life

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Mental health. They are not seen with equal importance as physical health

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2 things:

If you r talking to me, and i stop speaking...
I am NOT ignoring you..
Im just tired of talking

Also if you ask me something and i take a while to answer...
I am not dumb, or sick...
I am just very tired :3

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But telling people you're tired and they'll still assume your sick or not sleeping right.

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Being on time. It may not mean much, but it is a great first impression. Especially if you’re going to an interview or a meeting because arriving on time all the time shows that you are reliable. Also arriving on time for a date again makes a great first impression.

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Just bc I’m a witch, doesn’t mean I worship several gods or any gods at all. This drives me low key crazy when people find out I’m a witch and assume I do deity work.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find it worse when people assume it's Satanism and try to convert you to Christianity or Catholicism.

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Mistakes are mistakes if someone messes up then don't hate them for eternity (true story btw)

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Personal fu*king space. Don't breathe on my neck or I'll kick your teeth out. It's getting worse and worse. I always feel creeped out and claustrophobic. What the hell is the problem with standing in a proper distance? I could be at work going through contracts with a customer and the other customer would just stand NEXT TO THEM. How did some people not mentally develop past 5yo? It's my most massive pet peeve. It's literally not that hard to have manners jfc.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes!!! i can't stand it when people touch me/ invade my bubble

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Anxiety is not something I can control, nor my reaction to it. I'm not angry with you, but if you keep pestering me while I'm trying to calm down I'm probably going to snap at you. I get sensory overload and just need some peace and quiet for an hour or two, please just let me go and destress. No, its not you. No I'm not mad. Stop asking before you make me mad. Christ.

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The difference between religion and spirituality.
Sure you're not religious. Me neither. That doesn't exclude me from a search for deeper meaning, a greater understanding of what all this really is about.

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blunt honesty is better then a kind lie.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless you're using 'I tell it like it is' as an excuse to be mean. If you don't like someone's clothes and they're really excited about them, saying 'you look terrible in that' isn't better than just being quiet and nodding along while they're excited. If someone directly asks your for an opinion about something that genuinely matters, then you're right, but usually it doesn't matter and people use this as an excuse to be mean

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I recently had a person tell me to "Just get over it and push through" but it's not that simple with my diagnosis. I wish more people understood that depression affects the sufferer in so many ways big and small. It has taken and continues to take so much of life and what I enjoy doing away from me. I want to do some things and really need to do other things but I just can't. It's not laziness but a total lack of desire and caring about my surroundings. It immobilizes me to the point that I just can't get moving.
I am not a lazy person but someone who enjoys cleaning things (so much that I used to have a cleaning business where I cleaned people's homes and offices), sewing/making jewelry, gardening and being busy! However, when my clinical depression acts up, I lose my ability to be interested in all these things. I want to be doing the things I love but I just can't.
I really wish that society could understand that the life we live with depression is not a choice but is forced on us by a brain illness. as much as I want to "get over it and push through" it doesn't work like that.
Before anyone ask's yes, I am getting counseling and yes, I do take my psychotropic medication.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a fellow person suffering from depression, I totally understand where you're coming from. I hope you continue to get better. Stay strong and know you're not alone.

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#31

People at my school do this- and it makes me want to just… smash their face with a frying pan… but they joke about cancer, and their dads leaving them. (Even though they did not!) They do this with some other things as well.. it just infuriates me! Those are real problems, happening to real people it’s not a joke!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely, cancer runs in both sides of my family, and i've lost a couple close relatives because of it, and the jokes are j wrong

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Torrettes Syndrome. No, exposing me to my triggers will not "make them stop".

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Can you help me? I have had a severe, head jerking tick for the past few months and can't make it stop. I am a teen and don't have any other tics, but I was wondering if this sounds like torrettes to you? If I am misunderstanding something about it I promise I did not mean to offend anyone, just curious.

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Mental health. They are not seen with equal importance as physical health

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Just because someone might seem weird to you at first, or closed off, does NOT mean that they are not worth getting to know, and does NOT mean that they are not smart, and do not have interesting things to say! From someone with severe mental health issues as well as SPD and ADHD who is definitely viewed as strange because those are "Invisible problems," Make an effort to find and get to know other strange people, a lot of them are actually even more interesting to talk to than people who are considered 'normal', and often even, dare I say, more intelligent/wiser (at least from my perspective) and just might need a little help getting into a social situation. Best advice? Be patient, and make it clear that you do, actually want to talk to them (I can say from experience that this can be a struggle for some people to understand,)

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Christianity. Some people think they know everything about us when they've never opened a Bible. A lot of people I've seen on here have no clue what they are talking about, trying to argue about what the Bible says. People make things up or twist things in the Bible to make us look bad, when they're not true!

I'm not trying to make it seem like we've got the most hate and woe is me and all that- cause a lot of you are knowledgeable and kind- I'm just saying. If you must start a argument in the comment section just read a few Proverbs first.

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OCD. its not just wanting everything to be clean all the time. There are many different types. Its not "Quirky" to say " Im so OCD" Its a real mental struggle

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