neurodivergent and can’t stand sticky things? WEAR GLOVES! 🧤
as an autistic, i HATE the feeling of sticky things. it’s like every fiber in my being revolts. food-safe gloves are great way to make sure you won’t have to deal with an accidental drop of maple syrup on your hands, or ice cream drips in the summer, or even the dreaded cheeto fingers, etc!
obviously folks use gloves when handling food in a lot of settings (i use them a lot of the time, especially when cooking or cleaning), but there’s nothing wrong with implementing them in even more things if you need to and accommodating yourself.
happy eating! 🫶🏾
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video description: a plate of pancakes and eggs with the text “neurodivergent and can’t stand sticky things?”. then devin’s gloved hand comes into frame doing a thumbs up, with the text “wear gloves!”
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EDS & colostomy were mentioned on Kitchen Nightmares (S1 E6)! 🫶🏾✨
I very rarely see Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, ostomies, or other chronic conditions mentioned on shows like this, but it was nice seeing it here (granted in the context of the episode, the woman who has EDS is going through it with a TOXIC partner and a failing business). Gordon Ramsay was immediately focused on Tess's well-being and health after learning about her conditions and wasn’t weird about it, which I thought was really cool to see.
here is a reminder that being young doesn’t mean you can’t be disabled or chronically ill! 🩷
(if you watch the newer version of Kitchen Nightmares and get to that episode, just trigger warning for verbal toxicity/I'd go as far as to say ab*se)
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#gifted but i love 💅🏾
having comfy, helpful compression socks is SO crucial for a lot of disabled and chronically ill people, and i’ve literally never found a pair that work for me. they’re either too tight, not tight enough, aren’t inclusive size-wise at all, aren’t wearable with outfits because they just look super boring OR too out there (imo), etc.
but i finally did 🗣️ @comradsocks, thank you! definitely snagging another pair soon - the Rose ones are so cute for spring 🫶🏾
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THIS IS EXHAUSTING. tiktok is a lot of folks’ JOBS, their source of information, their connection. and of all the things to worry about right now, they’re STILL on this banning sh!t? wild, but not surprised.
i would simply like to live in a world where i dont have to fear for my life and neither do any other people, where i can put food in my fridge without overdrafting, where i don’t have the threat of possibly catching The ‘Vid hanging over my head every time i step outside my apartment bc people won’t mask, where children are being protected instead of exploited, where people can be confident that they’ll have housing tomorrow - but NO. apparently implementing any useful laws, passing any useful and protective bills, is too hard.
nonsense.
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crocheting is my favourite stim lately. when i crochet, my mind instantly calms and quiets. i feel so much more regulated. with the chaos of the world, and the chaos of living in it as a marginalised individual (especially a BIPOC, neurodivergent, disabled, and queer one) - little moments of reprieve are always welcome. and needed.
💭: what brings you peace nowadays? if you can’t think of anything - make it a priority to find one (1) thing that makes you feel regulated in a very dysregulating world! 🫶🏾
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[vid description: devin, a Black enby wearing headphones and a n95 mask, crocheting in a cafe. text on the screen reads “why are you always crocheting?” with loud chatter in the background. the voices fade into peaceful music as text on the screen reads “my brain when i crochet:”.]
it’s so funny to me that folks think you can only be part of ONE oppressed group bc otherwise it’s too much - like babes, think about it, what is the benefit of intentionally taking on MORE oppression??
it’s common to get these kinds of comments when you are multiply-marginalised, but that doesn’t mean they’re right. intersectionality is important! we ALL have intersecting, overlapping identities - you are allowed to be more than one thing, even if those things all come with hard aspects.
i love who i am, being Black and autistic are not bad things at all to me (being part of ANY marginalised group is not a bad thing), but bro the world lowkey hates us so hUH lol
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i’ve been in toxic, unhealthy, ab*sive situations for quite literally my entire life. partners, homes, family members, friends, bosses & workplaces, medical settings - you name it. i never thought i could get OUT of that. i didn’t think i deserved to.
so i definitely never expected to need to essentially retrain my nervous system now that i’m not trapped in chaos. now that i’m safe, and loved, and respected.
when you spend so long in survival mode and living in fight or flight, it genuinely does change your brain. there are countless studies that detail how folks with PTSD (& especially CPTSD) are *physically* altered by it. any kind of trauma is hard. the body truly does keep the score.
it’s completely normal to feel like you don’t even know how to process being in a healthy environment, or being in a relationship that is healthy after a lifetime of anything but. it’s understandable to feel like you don’t deserve it (especially marginalised folks like those of us who are disabled and/or BIPOC, as we’re made to feel less than so so often). you’re not strange if you feel that way - you’re having a common and expected reaction to being in an unfamiliar situation and your brain is trying to keep you safe from something foreign.
but all of those defense mechanisms that we developed to survive? they no longer serve us in a space where we are ALLOWED to let ourselves breathe. to let our guards down.
it’s not easy. it’s FAR from it - as i mentioned, i’m over 6 years into a loving relationship (i MARRIED him) and i still catch myself feeling like it’s too good to be true. but as Dad Chats in tiktok said in a video recently: love is not a finite resource.
we deserve to have it unconditionally. i hope you can let yourself be held.
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video description: Devin Norko, a Black disabled enby, is sitting in their bedroom chatting to the camera. they are wearing a flowy white dress an
