Does anyone else remember the story about that poor lesbian who came out to her mother and her mother cried and said “it’s all that damn Keira Knightley’s fault, I knew I shouldn’t have let you watch pride and prejudice as a child” because I’m really feeling that now
your intelligence means fucking nothing if youre devoid of empathy
Your intelligence means fucking nothing if you’re devoid of compassion. Of kindness. Of caring.
There are any number of reasons a person’s brain can be wired not to feel empathy, and any number of people with such brains who are still kind and good people. Humans are amazingly adaptable, and nothing more so than our minds – just because the most typical way of doing a thing is blocked, doesn’t mean the person can’t find another way.
Your message is sound. Let’s just scrape off the ableism.
The roles in his filmography read like a list of everything little boys grow up wanting to become: He has been in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, he’s been a doctor, a policeman, a fireman, a cowboy, a pilot, an astronaut, a baseball coach, a character in a Western, and an action-adventure hero. Had he ever considered his career in that light?
“No, I never have!” he laughs in delight after listening to the list. “Oh my God, that’s so wonderful what you just did! Thank you for that scrutiny! I guess I should be kind of proud of that little checklist. Every little boy’s dream come true—every one of those!” (x)
i think sometimes trauma survivors fall into this place where it’s very hard to believe that anything that happened to you was that bad. and the only proof you have that it was that bad is that you’re suffering. and so healing can be really scary and difficult because it means giving up the only tangible evidence you have that you were traumatized in the first place
screaming into the void since '89 
