I know the struggles and stress of school and depression. I barely graduated(math) 2 years ago. I’m so proud of how far you have come. I’m sorry to hear about your grade. Can you talk to a school counselor to see if there’s any other resources? I wish you the best of luck. hugs.
*hugs back* There not much else that can be done right now. After I had time to breathe about it for a minute, I started tackling my schools scholarship portal and I’m going to try for some things there.
Just have to remember its not the end of the world and I’ll get through it.
A common fat-phobic belief is that fat people are fat because they overeat. A recent submission to @facebooksexism perfectly illustrates this stereotype and the harmful classist attitudes it perpetuates:
Like most fat-phobic beliefs, this stereotype is completely wrong.
It is well accepted in public health science that food insecurity – which is the lack of consistent, dependable access to enough food for active, healthy living – predicts higher body weight.
Limited resources and lack of access to nutritious, affordable foods. Heavily processed, low-nutrition foods are usually cheaper, but are more calorie dense and less satisfying to eat.
Cycles of food deprivation and overeating. Low income people often run out of money for necessities like food before their next paycheck arrives, resulting in extended periods of hunger and starvation followed by periods of compensatory eating when the paycheck arrives. Such eating patterns cause weight gain over time.
High levels of stress, anxiety, & depression, all of which cause physiological changes resulting in weight gain over time.
Limited access to health care. Many chronic health conditions, like polycystic ovarian syndrome, thyroid dysfunction, and type II diabetes, cause weight gain when left untreated.
All of this means that systematic oppression causes people to be fat for reasons that are outside of their personal control, and that poor fat people are not lying when they report that they cannot afford to put food on the table. Stop spreading the harmful, oppressive, and fat-phobic belief that you can
judge a person’s nutrition or eating habits by the size of their body.
– Mod D
I was skinny when I had food security. Then when I was poor, my food security went away and I gained about 50 lbs in five years.
Since I started living alone and had no food security, living week to week, sometimes going months without pay, I have put on almost 20lbs in weight. I’m a small person and I used to be rather thin but healthy, now I’m carrying a lot of bad weight. When I do get paid, I fill the fridge and the food lasts me maybe a week to two weeks, but after that I could have up to 4 weeks of limited food. So yeah, over-eating when I have the money does happen.
bucky giggling and smiling so widely when he tells steve that he used to wear newspapers in his shoes
bucky having tears in his eyes while watching the winter soldier murder tony’s parents
bucky begging and crying out for zemo to stop when his winter soldier codes are being said
bucky buying plums in his spare time and keeping a picture of steve in one of his memory notebooks (which had chocolate bars on top of it)
bucky firmly telling zemo that his name is not james, it’s bucky
bucky saying that he remembers all of the people he’s killed while being the winter soldier
bucky protecting steve from tony and getting his arm shot off in the process and even when he’s down and in pain from losing his arm he can’t let tony get to steve
bucky thinking that he’s not worth all of this to steve
bucky deciding that instead of living his life in a constant state of fear and paranoia he’ll go back into cryo for the safety and protection of others and himself until t’challa can find a cure
Interestingly, brain scientists recently studied normal people and authors (we are abnormal, lbr) when writing. Normal people queue a visual image and then try to write it, so the two parts of the brain light up sequentially. Authors queue up both the visual image and the words, so you are finding the language to describe the image even as you imagine it. Which is exactly what I do. I don’t watch a movie in my head first; I describe the movie as I’m watching it.
Yes! I mean, I’m sure there’s a variety of processes, but “describe the movie as I’m watching it” sounds a lot like what it feels like to me.
If I can’t get the movie to play, it’s very hard for me to write something. When I’m creating original characters, I know once I start hearing their voices saying dialogue that I can start writing instead of just making notes.
And sometimes the movie keeps playing after I thought it came to a nice end. (Oh…you guys are having more sex…okay, I’ll just keep writing it down. ;-))
I think is part of why I find screenwriting to be something easy to switch to. It’s already more or less how I think anyway, just write down less description.
