Compilation of the massive fucking N.E.R.D. squad. I’m not sure why Tumblr isn’t letting me change how the pictures are shown, someone tell me what I’m doing wrong.
Tag: long post
Pretty sure I already reblogged this but what the hell. Love this campaign.
campaign bringing awareness to homeless youth
I adore this campaign so much.
Okay just going to inform people about being young and homeless for a second
In most states, it is a status offense to run away from home, and in most states your parents can drag you home kicking and screaming.
46% leave because of physical abuse.
17% leave because of sexual abuse.
50% of homeless youth were kicked out, or their parent/guardian didn’t care/try to stop them when they left.
40% of the homeless in America are under 18.
Okay, so obviously in trying to fix homelessness, fixing youth homelessness is very important. But our society is completely restricting of youth being independent. A youth who is unhappy at home has very few options.
A youth is restricted from getting jobs without parental permission (and of course few homeless teens can get that). Without the option of getting a legal job, youth are forced into prostitution (survival sex), drug selling, and theft.
A yout cannot rent an apartment without parental permission.
Most hotels and motels will not let somebody under 18 book a room.
A youth cannot even get medical help without parental permission (even if they could afford it).
To house a homeless youth for more than 24 hours is a felony.
To aid a homeless youth in finding housing (besides a homeless shelter or their parent’s/guardian’s residence) is illegal.
Even shelters place 48 hour restrictions on youth without parental permission.
40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ.
Our misguided belief that these restrictions help youth- that these kids will go home and all will be well- is naive and harmful. It is ridiculous that we place parental rights and our notion that kids shouldn’t leave their parents above youth safety.
PLEASE EVEN IF YOU DONT LIVE HERE PLEASE REBLOG FOR SAFETY There’s about 8+ fires going around the San Diego area. I just really hope everyone’s okay because I know I have to evacuate soon.
PLEASE: if you live by San Marcos/ Escondido/ Carlsbad/San Bernardino and you haven’t evacuated, PLEASE pack a bag just incase and make sure you pack clothes along with water and any needed medical equipment, along with possible food.
If you have pets, please if you have friends or relatives that live somewhat farther away please call them and ask for you to stay there instead of an evacuation center because most centers DONT allow pets.
Most importantly: please be safe!
UPDATE: MAKE SURE YOU TAKE VAUABLES, NOT ONLY BECAUSE YOUR HOUSE CAN GET BURNED DOWN BUT BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WAIT TIL PEOPLE EVACUATE TO BREAK IN HOMES!!!!Something else for people in the area that aren’t directly involved:
Remember the wind has been really bad so if you can see smoke or if there’s ash in the air there is a risk that there could be embers blowing over to you so try to keep your windows closed.
Again with the ash and smoke affecting the air quality so if you have any respiratory illnesses please take really good care of yourself!! Wear masks outside if you have to.
If any of your friends or family or colleagues are in the evacuation zone and you are in a safe zone with a fairly large house, I highly encourage you to invite them to stay with you for the time being. I can tell you from experience that evac centers can get pretty crowded and these fires are only spreading out more. There are only so many firefighters in this city.
Even if you don’t think you’re at risk as long as the weather is dry and the wind is strong there could be more fires and as we’ve seen today they can spread so quickly.
For all I know a fire could break out down the street later tonight and I will have to evacuate. Please be aware of everything above about evacuation that is all so important.
Oh since I didn’t say crisis averted with the Valve thing. Apparently my smooch (totally using this now it’s so cute) bought a few games and thought it was charging to his card. Which is good because it means I don’t have to do a bunch of phone calls and stuff.
In other news with all the Valentines Day stuff on Tumblr lately it reminding me about my birthday! I still need to figure out what I’m doing for it if anything. It always gets lumped in with Valentines Day and my dads bday (his is Feb 11th, mine is Feb 13th)
I already know what my sister is getting me (my nephew mentioned how they already ordered something and i immediately knew it was RWBY because it’s what they wanted to get me for Christmas but there wasn’t any copies in town)
i wonder if my mom will actually try this year, she regifted a $50 prepaid visa her sister have her for her birthday last year, which I mean it was nice it paid for my new phone but it just kinda sucked that she didn’t even try to hide that it was a regift. Meh, I’m just being whiny and I feel like typing a lot for whatever reason.
But I’ll be 21 so I’ll be able to drink everywhere now! So if I do go to RTX I’ll be able to drink.
But I must go I have to put on pants and do grown up stuff.
I’ve had lots of different types of panic attacks, what kind of panic attack are you trying to describe?Sort of a fear of the unknown type? In the scene, the character hears something outside scraping the door and window, before jiggling the handle. I’ve known some people to have slight panic attacks when situations like this arise, but have never asked how it felt/what they were thinking/how to help. Basically, a ‘simple’ panic attack, if that makes sense?
That mostly makes sense, yeah. A small one like that I would aquate it to the panic attacks I get when I have an asthma attack. So that could range from just shortness of breath and some tears. It would feel like something is pushing on your chest really hard and someone sucked all the oxygen out of the room. If it’s bad enough then it can lead to hyperventilating which is a lot more tears and broken talking between breathing. If that goes on long enough (like a few minutes depending on the person if it gets bad right away which it can it might just be a few seconds) they will collapse, not pass out though. I guess they would go into a like fetal like position, backs against the wall if they can, knees tucked to their chest but not too tightly because that hinders breathing. They would either hug their knees or grab their head.
Thoughts wise it’s basically lots of racing thoughts of “oh my god I’m going to die I can’t breath how will I get out of this I’m going to die somebody help me.” Even if they have a lot of panic attacks and know that they have panic attacks they will think like this, uncontrollably fast and it take a long time for any coherent thoughts to break through. If someone is saying something to them it will probably take them a few seconds to register what they said and might ask for a repeat of the question. That will last for a usually a few minutes after the panic has subsided and may last for up to half an hour.
And if they attack is severe enough it might cause all of their muscles to seize up, making it almost impossible and painful to move. I know the last huge panic attack I had I had to get my boyfriend to slowly move each of limbs to get feeling back into them. I was crying and snotting everywhere but I literally could not get my muscles to cooperate to ever wipe my face. (that was one of the worst attacks I’ve ever had though) Seizing is likely to happen and the severity depends on how long they’ve been having the attack before someone intervened.
As for care, I know I personally like to have someone in close proximity to me, that I can grab if I need to. If they have a comfort item bring it to them (I use my pillow, it’s soft and squishing and I won’t hurt it from hugging it too hard). Don’t let people crowd them and ask too many questions, it will make the panic worse. Placing a hand on their shoulder or back and moving it in a soothing motion helps a lot, especially if the muscles are tightening up. Soft comforting words are helpful and always ask if they need anything. If they do ask for something to make too many sudden movements and try to move smoothly but quickly to get it. If there is someone else there get them to go get it and stay with the person. If they are too confused to know what they want water is always a good idea, or if you know their comfort item get that. Something easy to eat can help with the aftermath, like a piece of chocolate or a sandwich that’s easy to bite through. Help them clean themselves up if they’re ok with that, and try to keep them away from anything stressful for a while, it’s really easy to have another attack.
A side note if it’s really severe then screaming uncontrollably might happened. I do it in small bursts but I’m sure there are some people who just don’t stop. Also they might throw up, especially if they start hyperventilated.
And now you have a novel about what panic attacks are like! I wrote way more than I meant to but it’s 2 am and I don’t care. If you have any follow up questions I’m happy to help.
clarify if you wish to ♥ **gives tea**
Yay tea! Well we had a conversation last night via Skype to catch up and he was going to teach me some Japanese, which resulted in him, my roommate, and some what my boyfriend all gaining up on me with sexual jokes and harassment about me not wearing a shirt (I was in my bra) and the like and then my roommate freaked out over it being messing and started yelling and I literally cannot handle people yelling at me it’s an instant panic attack. That one wasn’t so bad, I was able to calm myself somewhat before it got too far so I was ok, but with me even little panic attacks takes days-weeks for me to recover fully.
So fast forward to today where he says he doesn’t want to Skype because he’s feeling like as asshole today so I called him out on being an asshole last night, being as the biggest thing being as when I tried to explain non-binary gender he literally could not get past the idea that sex and gender are different things plus the harassment and everything else (oh and not to mention him telling me I shouldn’t have just my bra on because I should take into account my boyfriends feelings {which he also doesn’t care and knows it’s my body I can do what I want with it})
And so he goes and flip shits on me telling me agender doesn’t exist, I’m not some special flower I’m a confused teenager yadada identity crisis “I’m a horrible cishet white male who claims to be a feminist and an ally to get laid and because I know a lesbian.”
I responded with just fuck you and he goes off again about me trying or be edgy or some shit.
And so of course my body hasn’t fully recovered from the panic attack I already had to my body just goes into complete shut down from being yelled at and invalidated by some I used to really trust and really love (he was my first love actually) and I had to spend two hours just to regain control of moving my body let alone stop crying and snotting everywhere.
I’m just kinda numb right now, I might screen shot what he sent me at some point, oh hey and have I mentioned how many times he’s threatened me with rape? (including corrective rape for my asexuality) because you know, it’s all in good fun and just a joke. I have decided I am never talking to him again and if I do ever have the misfortune of seeing him again I’m probably going to punch him in the face. I’ve defriended him on Facebook and I’m only keeping his number in my phone so I know now to text back if he tries to contact me.
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