Static Brain

The weirdest realization I’ve this year about success is that I was subconsciously waiting to FEEL successful before allowing myself to consistently take action. It wasn't just me. A LOT of people I knew where suffering from this trap. 👇👇👇

@unkonfined ..or gems from their personal experience.

𝕏 is where people give mental health advice they’re too mentally unhealthy to follow.

@stats_feed They need more Yogi's and Boo bears

Japan leads the world in number of bear attacks on humans.

@seezyou Manipulation tactics work best when each incident is viewed as a separate violation. Patterns completely ruin that illusion.

Your PATTERN recognition skills make you an absolute MENACE to folks who thrive on manipulation.

@NorthAuthority Self-respect will quick fast get relabeled once you raise above that baseline people are used to seeing you at. They'll just have to get used to the you that's putting yourself first now.

When you finally choose yourself, some people will call it selfish. Let them.

@um33m3 You'll notice at some point, you're not fighting the conversation anymore. You're fighting the answer they already give you.

constantly reviving a conversation with someone who lets the conversation die is a form of self harm

@katefeetie Those phrases have lost some of their seriousness because you have NPCs casually saying them but that doesn't mean they aren't valid advice. Those are honestly the only real ways to strengthen a vulnerability. 🤷

it’s great we’re finally acknowledging that responding to someone’s vulnerability with “do the inner work,” “go to therapy” and “heal your trauma” is passive aggressive mean girl shit

Your success is often used as "emotional compensation." Basically it's an attempt to build a wall high enough that you feel like people's judgment (which leads to what's worse, self-criticism) can't reach you.

You notice you are overwhelmed only after the system crash has already begun, because your "internal temperature gauge" is quiet while it's being uncomfortably built it up.

Emotional object permanence is a silent thief.. feeling like its hard to stack up your wins and take them with you. Every confident situation you leave, your self-assurance score is wiped to zero and every time you re-enter a situation, you're starting from emotional scratch.

You will spend nine hours avoiding a ten-minute task if that means you'll avoid being seen as "incompetent" or "failing potential".

@Beargirl_1 Life got A LOT quieter when you stop treating other people's decisions like clues about your own worth.

A lot of peace came from realizing that other people's choices are not a puzzle I need to solve and not a verdict on who I am.

@kush_147 Eventually you stop asking, "why is this really happening to me?" and start thinking, "of course it is."

There is a kind of emotional fatigue where you stop reacting, not because nothing affects you, but because everything already has

@Justtdavid_ Sometimes it's like they need you to be a certain way because it makes them feel better about themselves in relation to you.

People often struggle with the fact that their opinion of you doesn't define how others see you

@ghoulhag A lot of people feel like this. There is a HUGE difference between having people around and having someone who speaks your emotional tongue.

World is so cruel to neurodivergent women I don’t need a bunch of female friends to socially condition myself into I just want 1 person who understands me and be in a codependent symbiotic relationship with, ideally another woman

@ayojoestar At some point it starts looking a lot less like just a self-diagnosis and a lot more like a very specific type of networking.

if ur autistic friends also think ur autistic then that's not self-diagnosis that's peer review

@Jimmy_draco1 If they are still measuring themselves against you when you're struggling, they were never competing with your success in the first place. They were competing with your existence.

If they still compete with you at your lowest, you're dangerous.

The exhaustion you feel after a party isn't from the people per se, but from having to perform "neurotypical gymnastics" for three hours straight.

You often use self-criticism as a "pre-emptive strike," hoping that if you judge yourself first, the people's perceived judgments won't hit you as hard.

You don't have "social anxiety," you have "social debt." You constantly feel like you owe a version of yourself that you can't consistently provide.

You have just been living with your life's "volume dial" was set to zero while everyone else heard the music at a ten. Pick an area in life and just crank that bitch up.