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A lot of pets will ignore you, but only a cat will follow you from room to room and check your lines of vision to make absolutely certain that you can see them ignoring you.
theyre not ignoring you! this is actually just a cats way of saying they want to keep you company without infringing on your personal space. its the equivalent of going to a friends house while you both separately scroll through tumblr, even though youre glad to be together. alternatively the cat could be curious about what you are doing, but shy to make its presence known. either way the cat is paying very close attention to you!
this made me feel better
😺
I don’t understand why cats will have everything they do demonized no matter how innocent it is
It’s because they are hypersensitive introverts, and humans are mostly social extroverts.
Hypersensitive, introverted humans are often mistaken for antisocial, and as a species, we are myopic and anthropomorphize EVERYTHING.
Semi-social animals are not naturally intuitive to humans.
Dog packs very closely mirror a nuclear human family, made up of a mother and father and their pups, who leave to find their own mates and start their own packs as they mature beyond young adult hood.
Pigeon flocks are like a villiage comprized of one big, extended family, where children mostly stay close and new birds marry in.
Cats don’t work that way. There is no firmly set social structure for more social domestic cats to fall back on. None of the species they are thought to come from are naturally social. They mate, have kittens, and those families disperse to the four winds as soon as the young become self sufficient.
We have selected for higher tolerance to crowding and confinement, but that does not a social structure make.
A group of cats is more like random collage dorm or house mates. Whether or not they get along and how many the group can support long term depends on how well their individual personalities mesh, regardless of blood relation.
Kittens are more out going and have more energy than adult cats, but as they age, being playful and taking the risk of being friendly takes more energy than they have, so they go from being willing to play with every one to prefering the company of favorite familiar entities that have taken the time to learn about that individuals needs and preferences.
Humans, who naturally form close knit pack bonds, are generally out going, and do their very damnedest to form life long bonds of friendship see a cat’s intense curiosity and wary shyness of approach as stalkerish, and its need for quiet solitude when overstimulated (coupled with just *how* fast they become overstimulated) as fickleness, and are completely heartbroken when a friendly, out going kitten grows into a relatively shy, reserved cat.
With no effort to understand, what the average human sees is a sly, untrustwothy animal that is friendly one second, and warninglessly aggressive the next, not because there actually was no warning, but because feline body language is very subtle.
Once again, due to a cat’s sensitivity.
To a cat, humans are VERY loud, over the top dramatic, and socially dense as a fucking brick.
They have to scream EVERYTHING to get across to most of us, and that shit is exhausting.
The fact that they do make that stressful and exhausting effort proves that the ones who like us actually love us VERY much! Just not in a way that big, loud, oblivious drama queens easily pick up on.
Reblogging to the pet blog because animal behavior.
After cuddling with me for a while my cat gets up and plays on the bed in the bottom right corner and hangs out. It’s exactly the same as scrolling through your phones with a friend or reading a book on opposite ends of the couch
this speaks to Spinel in ways I can’t even begin to describe holy shit
Total number of confirmed kills: 775. Photo taken in Germany, May 4, 1945.
And this hasn’t been made into a movie or mini series?
The cool thing is, there’s still one person missing: Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
She was one of the deadliest snipers of World War II, and is regarded as one of the deadliest snipers of all time. Over the course of one year (June 1941-June 1942) she racked up a count of 309 kills, 36 of which were enemy snipers. Her prescence in the picture alone would have brought the total number of kills from 755 to 1064.
Goddamn.
Icons.
Every one of them.
So are we gonna talk about how we have a million and one movies about men who mostly seem to just die while we’re sleeping on this peice of badass beauty?
For autistic adults who no longer live with their parents, I need your help.
I am a junior in college who is terrified about my future. I have not had a “real” job yet I still struggle with living on my own in a dorm during the school year. I have some questions for those of you who have made your way into adult life. I am honestly not sure who else to discuss this besides the wider autistic community.
Some important info about me before we begin:
• I cannot drive or ride a bike. I have used buses, trains, and ride-sharing services before.
• I have a limited resume right now and my only paying job has been a position at the school newspaper. Hoping to get an internship locally within the next year.
• I have anxiety, ADHD, and a depressive disorder along with being autistic
• I am financially and socially dependant on my parents right now
• My college is only 20 min from my home so I am not far from my support system
So how did you all get to where you are? How do you live on your own at this point? Here are some questions I have about your personal experiences:
1. Do you live completely on your own or not? Do you have roommates, significant others, etc?
2. Do you live in an apartment, house, or something else? (See question 3)
3. Are you living in an institution, planned community, group home, etc.? What was the process of getting there? Would you recommend it?
4. Are you employed? Are you on disability? How do you seek out a job that pays a living wage if you have a low skill level?
5. How independent are you? What is your support system?
6. Have you moved away from your family? What is the process of moving to another state alone?
7. How to do maintain self-care and healthy amounts if social/community interaction?
8. How has your process of entering into more independant adult life happened? What steps got you to where you are now?
9. Do you have any advice for me beyond the scope of the previous questions?
With how much money my parents paid for my college education, I know they will be expecting me to get a job and eventually move out within a few years after I graduate. So I need to create a plan for my future and how I will take care of myself on my own.
You don’t need to answer all of these, just as many as you can. Feel free to message me privately or reblog/reply to this post with your answers. If you can’t answer but you might have followers who can, please reblog this post to spread it
Unfortunately I don’t live in the US and still live with my parents, but I’m boosting this in case any of my followers can help
if you say the phrase “you can’t be mad at me i have the right to free speech” three times in a mirror justin mcelroy appears and vaporizes you instantly
I think the context is important here
The tweets above were in reference to the backlash he got for these:
