#Repost @adaptedjames (@get_repost)・・・Opportunity (Oppy), the Mars Rover designed to last three mont
#Repost @adaptedjames (@get_repost)・・・Opportunity (Oppy), the Mars Rover designed to last three months but lasted 15 years just sent its last ever message which translated to human was ‘My battery is low, and it’s getting dark’, just before a giant dust storm covered the surface of Mars.Is that ever a metaphor for long term early starting mental illness.For one, so many people in the mental illness community I know who had poor mental health growing up (myself included), never expected ourselves to survive into adulthood. But here we are in our respective 15 years later still alive.And when the depression hits, everything does go dark. You lose all hope, happiness, and perspective. Your brain doesn’t see right, and everything is bleak. This illustration is a big mood (young person speak for it being really relateable ;))Let’s just hope all of our respective dust storms pass, and the light charges us all up again. .ID: an illustration by @blindwire_art. It is a black and white line drawing of the Mars rover Opportunity on Mars with black stars above them. The text reads ‘My battery is low, and it’s getting dark’... Visit the Adapted James shop at Etsy.com/shop/adaptedjames, and the official site at Adaptedjames.com .. #autism #autistic #adapttheworldnotthehuman #actuallyautistic #dyspraxia #sensory #weightedblankets #business #autisticadult #sensoryprocessingdisorder #spd #autisticbusiness #redinstead #doilookautisticyet #autismacceptance #smallbusiness #neurodivergent #disabledisnotabadword #flappyhandsarehappyhands #nothingforuswithoutus #acceptancenotawareness #mentalhealth #depression #illness #chronicillness #oppertunity #marsrover #roverhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bt63qqIggqfPHTUFeDyg11bnA6ajdFf9z18H6U0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r9rff55n97q7 -- source link
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