Danielle Katsouros
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I’m building a trauma-informed emotional AI that actually gives a damn and writing up the receipts of a life built without instructions for my AuDHD. ❤️ Help me create it (without burning out): https://bit.ly/BettyFund
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What Barbie and TV Taught Me About My Body
Barbie’s waist was about the circumference of a quarter. That was my first body lesson. I did not even think about how my body looked until third grade, when someone made a comment about my stirrup leggings. It was not shouted. It was not cruel in a dramatic way. It was casual. Thoughtless. The kind of comment that lands because it was never meant to. In that instant, I went from being a kid to being a body. And in my head, I have felt fat ever since.
By Danielle Katsouros13 days ago in Confessions
The Toothbrush Test
For six months after we realized I was autistic, I still wasn’t sure. I argued with myself about it. I kept wondering if I was just good at reading about things and seeing myself in them. If I was pattern-matching my way into an identity. If I was so desperate for understanding that I was convincing myself instead of discovering something true.
By Danielle Katsouros25 days ago in Humans
Sixteen Years of Blood and Silence. Content Warning.
Trigger Warning: graphic descriptions of menstrual and medical experiences. I still remember the Virginia Beach trip. It was supposed to be a working vacation; a month at the beach, relaxation with friends, and building a podcast network from the ground up. Instead, I got to add days trapped inside, shuffling from the bed to the bathroom every fifteen minutes. At one point I stood in the shower for an hour, just watching as red fluid and tissue slid down my legs, only slightly slower than the water running over my body. I wondered if this was what Carrie felt like in the Stephen King novel. I wondered if I would die.
By Danielle Katsouros4 months ago in Humans
