don’t dream it, be it!

[bodyetal]

as it turns out, changing things that are making you unhappy with yourself that you know you want to change makes you feel a whole lot better!

i’ve been really hating my profile image on here—it was a photo of me, and not even a bad photo, but something about having it next to my journal entries made me feel gross. i’m still not really clear on what, exactly—dysphoria, maybe? i’d been wanting to change it to something illustrated for weeks, if not months, but i just didn’t.

so i finally changed it (to my pluralkit icon—it’s the picture on this post) and, would you believe it, immediately felt a whole lot happier! now i just have to update old posts, which i’ll do in the morning.

likewise, while i really like having longer hair (the body’s hair now reaches our shoulders when straight), and while i really like having a mohawk, it turns out that we cannot have both. partly because my headmates don’t like it, and partly because a very long unstyled mohawk looks like an undercut but with a weird duck tail in the back.

so last night i trimmed it into an undercut, and whaddya know, we all feel better!

i am currently in autism burnout hell which is making me unusually change sensitive, but these little changes have both made me feel a lot less like i’m crumbling to ash. working up the emotional energy to fix stuff you know how to fix is hard, but super worth it, as it turns out!

Comments

[lb_lee]

Sneak: just so you know, if you give your new icon the same keyword as the one it replaces, all posts with that icon will switch to the new one!

[bodyetal]

crow&: i was so sure i’d done that, but for some reason it didnt work :( that’s how we’d updated the system icons before

[pilotsofanewsky]

It's such a good feeling! We finally managed to get new glasses this month after procrastinating it for a year. Haaaated adjusting to the big change in prescription, but it's a relief being able to see properly and not feeling guilty whenever we pass an optician anymore!

[synecdoches]

we like the new icon! glad you're happy with it!