stubborn-string-bones:

i am listening to the leak in the living room window drip and like, there is this totally ridiculous idea that if you are having trouble with quotidian problem solving and demonstrating basic living skills all you really need is to be put into an overwhelming situation and you will grow to fit its requirements, you will buck up and you will magically Know What To Do and Do It when you cease to be coddled and like! people tell you this explicitly! and there is literally no alternative presented! this is your only strategy for getting things done! so how are you supposed to even imagine that you will, in fact, forget about the leak and ignore it and stare at it for long periods of time without being able to come up with a solution? there is this belief that you do not do dishes because you are very spoiled and chose not to, that doesn’t allow for the idea that in order to avoid dishes piling up you will carefully use the same cup and spoon and bowl for weeks at a time

and even after watching yourself fail again and again, even when you recognize that this system is flawed and you are, in fact, disabled, you will still sit in your train wreck of a room and figure that you will successfully pack up all of your belongings once the pressure is high enough, that the only reason you are not yet packed is because you are unmotivated