Day: August 23, 2017

takingapartcomputers:

sbroxman-autisticquestions:

To other autistic people, did/do you ever struggle to take notes during classes?

I don’t even try taking notes anymore. I’ll write down a due date or something a long those lines if need be but not much else. I can’t write and listen at the same time so if I try to write something down, even if I’m just copying from the board, I will miss what the teacher is saying. I can do slightly better if I’m typing instead of handwriting but not by much. Mostly I just focus on listening and have my hands stim with something.

Pretty much the same here. I’m also HOH besides the auditory processing problems, and it’s really hard to try to lipread and take many notes without getting totally lost. Typing might help some, but handwritten it just doesn’t work.

marcinthelotus:

quetiapine400:

candiikismet:

shishkababoo:

palmetto-64:

The world’s biggest horse, Brooklyn Supreme, standing 78 inches tall and weighing in at 3,200 pounds.

B R O O K L Y N

S U P R E M E

Wait so the horse was six and a half feet tall? So how tall are these men? Like five ft even?

you measure to the withers not the head. looks like the guy standing next to him was about 6"1 or so

Where even are his withers…. he’s so hench his neck just envelops them…

Source: palmetto-64

Tbf, that last awful GP I had was a British Asian guy who obviously grew up here. But, I have yet to get treated in the same low respect ways by another adult-immigrant from anywhere, working in the NHS. So, I feel safer taking my chances there.

Another thing that gets me with the ongoing healthcare access problems here is that I can’t even just say something like “I’d prefer to see a woman” or “I need someone who speaks Language X” (and probably comes from at least a more similar culture) to try and increase my chances of getting treated like a person.

The actual demographic I’ve had the most problems dealing with, for whatever reason(s)? White English people (with particularly bad reactions from some older women). And who’s liable to look like a racist crank, with no obvious more socially acceptable way to dress that up? Hmm.

dreamy-bisexuall:

dreamy-bisexual:

dreamy-bisexual:

bi women asking to not be written off based on relationship status =/= “forcing you to care about m/f relationships”, so jot that down

honestly this wouldn’t be an issue if people viewed bi women as fully fledged humans and not units within a relationship (usually m/f ones because people LOVE to treat us as extensions to men)

so what if she’s in a monogomous relationship with a man? she’s a whole person who has a whole world and identity outside of it. To deny her community based on relationship status is to deny her personhood outside of her relationships.

and to deny her personhood outside of her relationships is to isolate her and make her more susceptible to abuse from straight men!

typhlonectes:

Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)

What’s
that, up in the trees, leaping nimbly from branch to branch like a
squirrel?

It’s a Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), a canid that’s as
at-home in the trees as it is with all four paws on the ground. One of
only two canid species that climb trees, Gray Foxes grow long, curved
claws to scramble up into the branches.

Their diet mainly consists of
more terrestrial prey like rabbits, rodents, and other small mammals,
but their arboreal lifestyle helps them avoid larger predators of their
own, including dogs and coyotes. Gray Foxes even sleep in the trees,
denning in tree hollows as high as 30 meters off the ground.

photograph by Renee | Flickr CC

(via: Peterson’s Field Guides)

Troublingly, many of the ideas that doctors have about fat patients aren’t even grounded in medical fact. Indeed, too often it’s forgotten that the science around weight loss and health isn’t all that settled.

Does excess weight cause you to live a shorter life? Maybe, maybe not. Countless studies by BMI category have found that overweight people actually have lower rates of all-cause mortality than normal weight people.

Some researchers think that if you adjust for the increased risks caused by weight cycling (a.k.a. yo-yo dieting) and dangerous weight-loss drugs, you’d find the same mortality rates for normal, overweight, and obese people — yes, even very obese people.

And even without the adjustments, the increased risk for very obese people is only small — not the “you’ll be dead before you’re 30” nonsense often pedalled by purveyors of weight-loss surgeries.

‘It’s Because You’re Fat’ — And Other Lies My Doctors Told Me (via brutereason)
Source: theestablishment.co

fierceawakening:

isaacsapphire:

fierceawakening:

tchtchtchtchtch:

fierceawakening:

But make sure you define “backtalk” reasonably. Don’t discipline it out of someone to be loud about what they prefer or dislike, even if they are raucous and you are quiet.

I’ve never understood this “talking back” thing. (I speak Russian with my parents so this isn’t a phrase I’ve seen used in real life, I’ve only seen it in books and gotten confused… like, you’re not supposed to respond to your parents when you disagree with them?? what??)

Can someone explain this please?

As I understand it, it means responding to someone’s reasonable demand by saying something bratty or surly.

So, like

“If you want to live in this house, you have to keep your living space clean. We’re starting to have vermin problems.”

“Fuck you and your stupid rules, man!”

But authoritarian types use it to mean any defiance of an order, which I think is bad.

As someone who got in a lot of trouble for talking back as a kid, it includes things like “asking questions judged to be unnecessary”, “making rude comments or complaining”, “verbally refusing a direct or indirect order”, or even “politely correct an adult about factual matters.”

I actually thought this was some kind of conservative parenting meme at first because of the use of the word backtalk.

I’m not sure what I think would be a good, healthy parenting approach to “backtalk” because I’ve seen permissively raised children being outright verbally abusive to their parents or telling them off in ways that would count as incitement if between adults. It’s also just not the way that you want your kids to behave in general, or be in the habit of behaving in their closest relationships.

There’s definitely such a thing as being too permissive, but I have mostly seen parents punishing children for not following orders with an appearance of a “good attitude” and performance of happiness, not just demanding compliance in action, but in emotion.

“I’m not sure what I think would be a good, healthy parenting approach to “backtalk” because I’ve seen permissively raised children being outright verbally abusive to their parents or telling them off in ways that would count as incitement if between adults.”

Yes, this. This is why I’m uncomfortable with the idea that backtalk is never a thing.

Some people actually do behave badly toward authority figures, either to test them or to express “I don’t respect you.” Think of like, the stories where a young, perky, well meaning Nice White Lady goes to a poverty-stricken school and the kids humiliate her as a way of showing “we don’t trust you.”

I do think intentionally bad behavior is a thing and is a thing that some people do. (G1 Starscream, anyone?) But I think it usually happens for a reason that’s more complicated than just someone being mean.

Usually it has to do with the kid not being listened to or not being respected. “If you don’t respect me, I won’t respect you.”