Luke Orion 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🥄Dec 31, 2024

Sharing my progress on an illustration for a kids’ book I’m writing, and hoping to spread awareness to the fundraiser my partner @magicalgrrrl & I started for an RV, so us and our cats can have something to call home and a way to get around… boosting is appreciated!

The book will be a child-friendly retelling of my traumatic childhood and adulthood experiences (as an autistic person…) with the cat shown being the main protagonist. I’ve had the idea for a while, but have only just recently started tweaking it and designing the pages. My hope when it’s released is to reach and uplift others who may relate, whether child or adult, and for it to be a small source of income.

My traumatized, disabled, queer family is doing our best to stay alive and secure permanent shelter. We appreciate anyone who decides to check out my music, my partner’s music, get art from me, follow my Patreon, or donate to us. The RV fundraiser and everything else can be found on my hyperfollow:
https://hyperfollow.com/LukeOrion

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Rebecca Esther (they/she)Jun 13, 2023

Show of hands, who's having a difficult mental health day and/or excited for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie"? ✋️

#BarbieMovie #BarbieMeme #ActuallyOCD #CPTSDAwareness #OCDWarrior #MentalHealthMatters

Show threadAnouk | The Anxious CyclistMay 6, 2023

I don't feel authentic in that regard. My sister knows that. I just don't understand why she would say that.

I'm struggling with not letting my mind go back to my old belief system of being bad to the core. I know she's not, but my mind still goes: "What if she is? She is. You're a narcissist."

Narcissistic families, the gift that keeps on giving.

#CPTSD #mentalhealthmatters #CPTSDAwareness #mentalhealth #anxiety #narcissisticfamilies #dysfunctionalfamilies

Show threadAnouk | The Anxious CyclistMay 6, 2023

And because this sister has always been special to me it hurts more. I instantly start questioning myself, which is horrible after everything I did to escape and become okay. Luckily I have good people around me, including my half-sister, her partner, my wife and my best friend, and all of them passionately keep telling me my sister is just projecting. I know that deep within, but man, I don't know how to deal with this.

#CPTSD #mentalhealthmatters #CPTSDAwareness #dysfunctionalfamilies

Show threadAnouk | The Anxious CyclistMay 4, 2023

I just feel so beaten. No matter how much I try to be open and express my limits, it just doesn't matter. The same shit keeps coming up, like a vicious circle. I just want to throw the towel and hide somewhere under a blanket until life settles down again.

#CPTSD #mentalhealthmatters #CPTSDAwareness #anxiety

Show threadAnouk | The Anxious CyclistApr 25, 2023

I got to the other side of the process and life is so much better here. I want that for my sister. I want her to be happy. Sometimes damage is greater than love. The love is there from both sides, but all the damage could just be too much. I hope it won't turn out like that. 🙏🏻

Well, here's to a week of trying to not fall back into derealization too much, but man, I'll have hard time trying to feel like life is real. Sucks. 4/4

#cptsd #CPTSDAwareness #mentalhealthmatters #childhoodtrauma

Anouk | The Anxious CyclistApr 25, 2023

Had a bit of a YouTube and reading articles spree yesterday after talking to my sister the day before. As I have mentioned before, our contact is at a low atm, because I'm very triggering for her right now. She's is in the process of dealing with her trauma and it's heavy for her. Distance is best. But we talked and she mentioned a triggering thing that happened which also triggered me. So I had a day yesterday... 1/

#cptsd #mentalhealthmatters #CPTSDAwareness #childhoodtrauma

Anouk | The Anxious CyclistJan 16, 2023

3 months off the bike due to cptsd struggles and a covid infection to top it off. I have been trying to get myself back on the bike for weeks. Today I finally did it. 21 minutes of pure suffering at 105 watt. This is me crying from pain, exhaustion and happiness for finally getting back on the bike, all at the same time.

#cycling #cyclingistherapy #cptsd
#CPTSDAwareness #mentalhealthmatters #BikeTooter #Velophants #Velophant #couchpeloton