Just when you thought #JapaneseFolklore couldn't get any weirder, I present you with ringo no kai. This #yokai is the spirit of apple trees whose fruit has been left too long without being picked. They appear in the evening near apple orchards, taking human form. Bizarrely, they ask residents to feed them poo which, if provided, is eaten with relish. The real low point follows, when ringo no kai presents its own excrement and demands that it be eaten by the residents in... #MythologyMonday
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...return. In some versions of the tale, the poo is eaten and tastes surprisingly delicious. The 'victim' then discovers that it's actually made of the unpicked apples from the tree. The moral of the story, don't delay picking your apples.
🎨1. Matthew Meyer
2. 'Apple' - Kasamatsu Shiro, 1979 #folklore@folklore
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My part time advocate quit. Only had some help for 3 months then she went on 2 months leave and now tells me she isn’t coming back because I’m too much. So that’s nice. 😩 I’m so tired.
Hey neurotypicals, you know how it is when you're hung over? When normal lights are too bright, and normal noises are so loud it hurts, and the last thing you want to do is be in a crowded place where random people try to talk to you?
For some of us, life is like that most of the time.
Thanks. It was inspired by an episode of Young Sheldon, where Connie gets bailed up by an angry young woman at her laundromat while struggling with a hangover.
I know Young Sheldon isn't always popular with other autistic people, due to the way Sheldon is written as the stereotypical, socially-clueless supergenius (as is Dr Sturgis). I get this.
But consider the way autistics tend to cluster. What if we look at the whole Cooper family as autistic? Or at least Sheldon's parents, both of whom seem autistic to me. What if we look at other characters as autistic, including Paige and Dr Linkletter?