Day: September 8, 2017

Reblog if you are over twenty and autistic or on the spectrum.

quixylvre:

mcnamak:

sbroxman-autisticquestions:

butterflyinthewell:

a-dash-of-salt:

I just saw a gross post claiming that autism is exclusively due to vaccines and that’s why “you’ll never meet a person over twenty that has autism”.

And, hey, just for fun feel free to reblog if you happen to know someone over twenty diagnosed with autism. Which means all my followers are officially allowed to reblog. 

I’m 37 and autistic, and the person who said that shit may be someone who got deleted by Tumblr because they were spreading hate speech disguised as religious antivaxxer nonsense.

23 and autistic!

33 and autistic

32 and autistic

42, and at least 5th generation I know of in the family.

(Also having to wonder again if these people think that vaccination programs started ca. 1995. Yeah, I realize they then tend to switch over to “more and earlier” as the distinction, but it makes no freaking sense either way. They wouldn’t let my age group attend public schools without our parents producing proof we were up to date on them, for good reason.)

Feist has apparently forgiven me enough for grabbing her up to put flea treatment, that she is willing to jump up on the bed and mug me for attention again. Almost a week later.

Wasn’t about to set off the flash at her too right now 😿

clatterbane:

I wish I could find one thing I read a while back, with someone talking about the actual history around the Civil War in the North Georgia mountains compared to the number of assholes currently flying the stars and bars under the carefully pushed impression that it really is their “heritage”.

Depressingly similar pattern in my part of Virginia, yeah. The bit that only didn’t get split off to make WV because it already had enough rail infrastructure that Virginia wanted to hold onto.

@illuminatiswag – Yeah, I’m in the UK now, and I thought I was going to have a stroke the first time I saw something like this:

(Westminster, London, UK, 4th July, 2015. Confederate flag at the protest against the ‘Jewification’ of London Credit: Fantastic Rabbit/Alamy Live News)

Turns out that it’s popular among certain circles across Europe, too.

Why do Italian soccer fans and other foreigners fly the Confederate flag?

Outside the soccer stadium, European extremist political groups have been known to fly the Confederate flag, too. European skinheads and neo-Nazis have sometimes adopted the Confederate flag, especially in Germany, where the swastika and other symbols of Nazi Germany are officially banned by law. Many Europeans see the flag as a de facto sign of far-right political leanings: A Confederate flag that was spotted in a photograph of a French police station last year caused a minor scandal.

Bizarrely, American Civil War reenactions have become popular in Germany, with significant numbers of Germans preferring to fight on the Confederate side. “I think some of the Confederate reenactors in Germany are acting out Nazi fantasies of racial superiority,” Wolfgang Hochbruck, a professor of American Studies at the University of Freiburg, once told American journalist Tony Horwitz. “They are obsessed with your war because they cannot celebrate their own vanquished racists.”

It’s disconcerting enough elsewhere in the US. Where it’s a lot harder to claim ignorance of some of these connotations, even with some of the rest of the weird resurgence that apparently started in the ‘40s. It’s a mess.