If someone messes up your pronouns or wrongly assumes something about you (like your sexual orientation, race, etc.), it’s okay to bring it up to them. Your identity and feelings matter, you don’t have to make yourself small in order to make others comfortable.

If you need a minute to sit and think and generally relax, here’s some background noise.

Rain

Studio Ghibli vibes

Some ukulele

Sometimes self-care isn’t bath bombs and face masks. When you have a lot of life going on it’s really easy to forget to take care of your body. So take a deep breath, drink some water, remember to eat, and maybe sit outside for a minute.

Being multilingual can be weird sometimes. Especially if you aren’t fully fluent. Maybe you can speak a language but you can’t read or write in that language. Or maybe you can understand but you can’t respond. Either way, that doesn’t make your identity any less valid.