So he's planning to leave office 🤌

Exclusive | Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, according to people familiar with the remarks.

Trump has repeatedly told top administration officials he plans to pardon them before leaving office. In one recent meeting, Trump said “I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval.”

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

"Telling them ... to wait until they're in a more stable life situation..." Does it seem wrong to many Americans that kids should wait until they are graduated from high school before starting families? Most places in the world wouldn't see this as a "fertility rate drop." We'd see this as ...

Fox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"

Proof that people should listen to what other people say, that developing double empathy is important to empathizing with people so you don't double down on what you think is possible/true and dismiss/invalidate someone else as "lazy", "anxious", "always inconveniently in a flare-up".

So it has all been a doozy & I'm coping in new ways, most of them including what works for POTS.

What I have been advocating for all this time was not making assumptions about people, unpacking one's internalized ableism & dismantling the societal ableism.

I feel like proof of that.

I have hypermobility, POTS-like symptoms. Weird allergy flare-ups.

I'm finally getting answers for experiences I've had for a huge chunk of my life, that every single relative in my life has criticized me for.

Gaslit me for.

Made a moral failure rather than acknowledging the medical aspect.

It's been a long time since I posted manually.

I recently found out a lot of what I experience is not what most people experience.

Up until recently, I spent my life trying to cope better because everyone else seemed to cope well with what I found debilitating.

Why aren’t autistics allowed to be upset, too?

Autistic people, especially those assigned female at birth (AFAB), may feel like they're not allowed to be upset. In a way, this is by design. Treatment protocols for autism, like applied behavioral analysis, have a long history of preventing certain…

Creative Fabrica is a scam Creative Fabrica lures you in with a "30-day free trial" that is actually only 10 free download credits. That is the first red flag. It's easy to miss or think, "Well, it's only 10 credits. I'll cancel afterward." This is the most logical step, no? Free trials should be free trials, not subscription traps. Signing up for the free trial…

Creative Fabrica is a scam

Creative Fabrica lures you in with a "30-day free trial" that is actually only 10 free download credits. That is the first red flag. It's easy to miss or think, "Well, it's only 10 credits. I'll cancel afterward." This is the most logical step, no? Free trials should be…

What it's actually like having a baby face as an #autistic adult

Violence is… inherited?

I don't believe violence is totally inherited; I think it's something we learn.

How to make money with a lifestyle blog in 2026

My blog was accepted into Journey by Mediavine last year. 2025 was the first year I actually consistently made money from this thing. That shift changed how I think about blogging entirely. Making money from a blog isn't like blogging as a hobby --…

How to create topic loops for your lifestyle blog

As a lifestyle blogger, topical relevance is the difference between a random, thrown-together blog trying to be taken seriously a blog with established topics run like they all connect to each other Does this mean no one will land on your blog and…

Active anorexics cannot care about the dangers of their eating disorder Relatives tried to scare me out of my eating disorder. I'm serious. I'd wake up to messages with links and traumatizing images of starvation risks. My family knew I wasn't eating enough and that I needed more. But when I went to the emergency room because I couldn't hold down fluids and solids -- because I'd tried curing my eating disorder on my own…

Active anorexics cannot care about the dangers of their eating disorder

Relatives tried to scare me out of my eating disorder. I'm serious. I'd wake up to messages with links and traumatizing images of starvation risks. My family knew I wasn't eating enough and that I needed more. But when I went…

How lifestyle blogging might change in 2026

As an autistic person, pattern recognition is how I comprehend life and the world around me. Last year, I quietly predicted how blogging in 2025 would go and some came true! This round, I've decided to share my thoughts about blogging in 2026. Best case,…

Lively Lately #81: Anorexia relapse I have been through a LOT the past few months. While I aim to only need the hospital once a year as a maximum, I've been to the ER 3x in the last six months. One hospital likely labeled me a frequent flyer. Feeling a lot of things about it all. Inpatient hospital stay I went to the ER for lower back pain and incontinence.

My heart stopped beating for 10s & my anorexia relapse

“Why am I like this?!” (how to answer this question) I hated who I was. I also didn't know how to escape being that way. So I read every self-improvement article I could get my hands on. I watched Dr. Phil and Oprah. Bought and read classic books that bored me so I could be "well-read" (but all I got was a reading slump). Then I stopped cold-turkey after a therapist asked how I'm "sitting with what consuming".

“Why am I like this?!” (how to answer this question)

I hated who I was. I also didn't know how to escape being that way. So I read every self-improvement article I could get my hands on. I watched Dr. Phil and Oprah. Bought and read classic books that bored me so I could be "well-read" (but all I…

Tips to step outside your comfort zone

Tips to step outside your comfort zone

The Sims 4: Making generational gameplay more fun

I started playing The Sims 4 late 2024. I switched to Long lifespans by the second generation. Playing Long lifespans = I play one generation for MONTHS unless I age them up early! I'm still playing with the same bloodline, but since merged all my…

My cousin: My abuser, Collin County’s favorite diversity advocate

I love my cousin. When she moved across the country, I was so relieved. Last year, I met people outside my family dynamic I now call my friends. It was such an interesting experience, being raised to fear people and all. I used to…

What NOT to say to someone with a chronic illness

I hate chronic illness and pain flare-ups. I hate unsolicited feedback even more. Everyone has an opinion on what will fix my chronic illnesses and pain, what I "should" do, etc. Living with chronic illnesses, this is my life. My health is my…

Remember when Bing deindexed blogs by autistic people and spread misinformation? In 2022, Bing deindexed sites authored by autistic people and replaced autism-related results for terms the autistic community often uses with misinformation and ABA sites. On August 4, 2022, I went searching on Bing out of curiosity. My site often displayed in the results, and I wanted to see how it might display for a post I wrote. That's when I discovered my site was no longer displaying on Bing.

Story time! In 2022, Bing deindexed blogs by autistic people and spread misinformation

How to write a helpful blog post that connects with your audience

I love writing blog posts! It shows in my writing, I'm sure, that I genuinely love blogging. A lot of care goes into running Lemon & Lively. Like, my blog isn't a site slapped with content to have as many posts as possible. There is…

Lively Lately #80: not the Jane you know

I'm so tired of everything. A lot has happened. I'm reminded lately how my life could have been if I'd stayed in Greenville instead of letting my family coerce me into moving to Kaufman. There, I had a cushy asset protection job, $10k in savings and a…

Tips to writing autistic characters

Autistic characters are nothing new. I can identify at least one autistic character in nearly every show or movie I watch. It's not like it's hard. Deliberately writing autistic characters, though? I can see that being hard. Especially when bad autistic…

Reframing autistic traits to be neurodivergent-friendly and neutral

Autistic traits are described so negatively by default. That's because the historic perception of autism continues to control the narrative despite us having autistic people sharing their perspectives. Once I imagined what life…

Misconceptions about autistic adults that need to go

Autistic adults exist. Not only kids. Not only "quirky" side characters in someone else's story. Real adults -- living, working, loving, failing, thriving. And yet...misconceptions follow us everywhere. People assume we'll "grow out of it". That…