@RobPalmerIRL I love this one. I keep it on a playlist of songs that are helpful when I have panic attacks.

The lines are done now. I still think this looks weird. We'll see what happens as color is added. #CoSoArt

@ravesquirrel @Ch00ch00 The next OBGYN I saw told me that, thankfully! Also explained to me how my previously unrecognized PTSD could have contributed to weight with all the chemical things that happen in the body when it feels like you're always in danger. I stopped blaming myself after she told me that.

@PaganMother I have a theory that dragons are autistic. So, yeah... totally cool!

@PaganMother That's wonderful! I am an intense social masker. I'm unlearning it. But it's still hard not to just shut up the parts of myself I see being frowned at. Every day, CoSo gives me a little more "you can be yourself here".

@PaganMother Is it actually emotionally safe here to talk about plushies? I have a Moon Pal weighted plushie that is so good for my anxiety, and I love stuffed bears. But I learned not to talk about them because then I get treated like I'm not a real adult.

@atlanta_amy There are silly questions as polls at times, but even that is just an "answer if you wish, keep scrollin' if you don't" thing. There's no need here to try to get people to interact with every little thing in order to win at the algorithm game. That's what a lot of trying to prompt interaction is about in other spaces.

@PoliTees May you have safe travel. 💜

@Oma_Trisha Oh no! I would say pull one arm out and just leave it hanging on the other to at least not have it completely on...but I don't know how I'd get it unhooked!

@Ch00ch00 Every doctor I saw for over 10 years couldn't understand my weight when we tracked eating and activity, so they kept having my thyroid tested even though it always came back normal. When we found out about my PTSD and PCOS, my OBGYN told me the PCOS was because of my weight and that I must be lying about food and activity.

@OracleJones Are you on desktop or mobile? I use mobile, so pinning columns isn't a thing for me. But if you're on desktop, you can pin the firehose in place as a column so that you aren't just seeing the people you follow. You can also pin hashtags as columns.

@thathmc That's when I 1. have a panic attack and go into meltdown, 2. accept that both things are needs, 3. start spending part of the day taking care of the house and part of it on creative activities for however many days it takes.

I'll eventually learn to get rid of step 1.

@PoliTees Sending you and your parents love. 💜

Experimenting with neurographic art. I don't know how it will turn out, but it supposedly won't just be scribbles.
#CoSoArt

@celticsfanaticentomologist I do kind of wonder how much of it is just that I want to see a pattern, even if it's one I don't like, because that makes it make sense. But that still means enough things line up, and that's weird on its own.

@peeppeepcircus I'm not really surprised by what he's doing, but just by how fast and loudly. I thought he'd do it slowly and quietly so most people wouldn't even notice. I mean, that's what I'd do if I wanted to make those changes while keeping everybody believing it's all good.

@babaohreally I'd be skeptical about it even without Musk and Twitter. Jack has often seemed to me like too much of an idealist. Like, let's do things that are usually a bad idea because we have the best intentions and that means nothing can go wrong!