I love this. Its in all the toilets at the local birth centre and basically if your in a domestic violence relationship and cant speak out about it you take one of the stickers and place it on the urine pot and the midwife will speak to you after about it and get you the help needed to flee the violence. So upsetting how many stickers have already gone tho 😦
If it makes you feel better, those might not have been taken by actual folks who needed it – we were taught at the clinic I worked at to never leave a full sheet of anything, because the sorts of folks who need these stickers might also be the kind of folks who, psychologically, have a hard time taking a first step or ‘breaking’ something brand new – like being the first person to take a sticker off a sheet or tear a phone number off a flyer. They called it ‘easing the path’ and all us admin staff were careful to never fill up brochure things all the way, to take the first tag off a flyer we hung up, leave the toys for the kids in uneven piles and leave a couple of books leaning or sideways or lying flat on the shelf.
Reblog for the second set of comments. Folks in abusive relationships have a constant mental commentary about how you aren’t worth it, you’re a bother, you’re inconvenient, you cause trouble, it’s all your fault. That “easing the way” is solid psychology. Feeling like you’re not alone, you’re not the only one who has this problem, can let you shift from feeling helpless and hopeless to being willing to reach out for help.
Honestly this whole ‘writer confirms they write said characters as gay’ but now the ‘network exec says they are not’.
It’s kinda like me yelling that I’m gay at a party, and my abashed parents yelling over me ‘No, no ha ha, she’s straight!’. I’m pulled away screaming that I’m gay, no one listens because my parents must know better than me. Off screen I am swallowed by the Skittles rainbow and end up in a land not much unlike Oz.
When you see a really good post but there’s some form of guilt tripping to reblog it added on at the end
(ID: A screenshot of Marge from the Simpsons looking dismally at the camera with one arm raised. A caption underneath her reads “It’s true, but I’m not reblogging it.” End ID)
someone : Unfollow me if you don’t reblog this
The rebel in me: not rebloging and not unfollowing
Holy shit, I just spent the BEST $20 of my entire life.
I was having a bit of a bad day and was in a low mood so wanted to light a scented candle or something and read but I couldn’t find our lighter at home. I live right near a CVS so I decided to walk over and get one, and as I was walking there I thought “I should go over to the Halloween section and get myself something to help me cheer up a bit”, just thinking maybe a tiny $5 stuffed cat or something, anything that would make me feel even a bit better. So I went to the Halloween section and I almost just grabbed a box of glowsticks and left but then I noticed this guy
And I thought “huh, he’s kinda cute, I wonder what he plays” so I decided to check and
I started playing it in the store and I nearly cried laughing and it put me in such a good mood so I bought it and the cashier wanted to check to make sure he worked so she started playing it and she danced along and this little guy made my entire evening.
I was sad and this little skeleton played me Despacito and cheered me up. I love him.
when you’re a kid and you’re feeling weird and detached and you fall asleep in the late afternoon with school clothes still on and you wake up and its dark and dinner is almost done and time feels like a thick jelly
thick jelly……I can’t believe someone put words to that feeling…….thank you
DO NOT DISMISS SOMETHING A CHILD IS PROUD OF. LOOK AT IT. POINT SOMETHING OUT AND TELL THEM YOU LOVE IT. IF A CHILD DRAWS YOU A RAINBOW, TELL THEM YOU LOVE HOW IT HAS RED. THEY WILL THINK “WOW. IT DOES HAVE RED. THEY LOVE HOW I PUT RED IN IT. I PUT RED IN IT. AND THEY NOTICED.” MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD KNOWS YOU ARE PROUD OF THEM.
