Safety props
You know that feeling when you’ve been feeling something for a while and didn’t know what it was till you figured the word for it? Like if …
My experiments with food
I started cooking recently; cooking with the rigor and fervor of an uncle who has been cooking all his life and has stories to tell about the …
Where is the manual? / A history of friendship
Trauma causes much more than tachycardia and compulsive behavior. An anxious child has a hard time making or keeping friends. Add to this palatable mix the father’s …
Where is the manual? Safety
It is as children that a lot of us learn about the membrane that separates safe from unsafe. Water-safe, a lot of water flowing at a great …
Where is the manual? Eating
When I was little, we hadn’t discovered that mummy has schizophrenia or any other compulsive traits she was let to be the mother she wanted to be. …
Where is the Manual? manual
Most of what gets talked about as a mental illness are its symptoms or its outward breakdown (the cool kids of this school are mania, crying, and …
Quarantine Diary: v / To-do
I did some things in the past 2 months that I would never have done/cannot imagine myself doing if not for life altering events like pandemics. I …
Nothing
I follow an artist who makes comics in a language I don’t know enough to even identify. But I look at her work & know that she …
Slow sickening
For all the sweet talk I do about mental health and acceptance, I am too unaccepting of how I feel sometimes. But don’t peg me for a …
Quarantine Diary: iv / Free hugs
I once fell in love with a boy for the way he hugged me. His hugs felt like melting chocolate, its smell, and everything like I feel …