One time my friends and I realized that you only have to be 18 to rent a U-Haul (compared to 25 to rent a regular car), so we fuckin’ rented a U-Haul pickup truck for $20 and took it up to Seattle just to hit the town for the day.
That’s an amazing loophole to exploit.
Month: September 2017
autistic people using big words and “clinical” sounding language because they feel it to be the most effective means of communication is so often perceived by allistics as pretension. autistics are then made fun of for this use of language which can be incredibly damaging and often causes autistics to retreat further into themselves as any attempts they make to communicate with allistics cause them to be punished
so in general if you don’t like the way someone speaks (especially if you know for a fact that they’re autistic) maybe don’t make fun of them and instead do your best to understand and communicate with them in a way that’s beneficial to you bothAllistics take note. I speak formally because doing it otherwise feels fake and absurd to me.
i speak very eloquently out loud, or when i’m typing a post most of the time, however, when i’m talking to friends, i speak very informally because i adapt to them.
i’m pretty bad at code switching, which is absurd considering my life and my job. so when i finally learned to be casual, i rarely manage to switch back to “proper” even for professional contexts.
i guess students like it, though, because i seem like a regular person… so there is that…
I APPROVE OF THIS LEVEL OF NERDY ANARCHISM
ok that’s pretty cool
Anarchist geometry test. No gods, no rulers.
Has anyone else noticed how, when you have a chronic condition of some kind, that there’s always the basic assumption from people around you that you’re not already doing everything you can?
It’s all about the illusion of control. People who are healthy like to believe they can always keep being healthy if they do the right things. They don’t want to think about how good people get struck with terrible circumstances for no reason.
So they keep assuming that if they got sick, they could do something to make it better.
And if you’re still sick, that must mean you’ve done something wrong or not done enough.Nail. Head. The same attitude can be seen in how a lot of people talk about poverty.
And sexual assault. All they have to do is not go there not drink that not wear that not date them and they’ll be fine, right?
The Just World theory – that as long as I do everything right, I’m safe, and everybody who isn’t safe is at fault for not doing everything right – is perhaps the most harmful and widespread mindset today
if you ever see a conservative and wonder just how in the world they have so little compassion? they are genuinely convinced that most – not all, but most – bad things that happen are the fault of the person affected, because then they don’t have to feel bad
somebody explaining this to me as a young adult was, quite literally, the start of me seeing the world in a new way and moving considerably to the left politically. by letting go of the just world mindset my conception of reality shifted considerably
Shep told his Mom the family architects made him nervous but his 12-year-old brother was probably the least accepting of the project.
One afternoon, not long after the family architects arrived, he grabbed a footstool and put his face right up to one of the Nest Cams.
“Hey, buttholes!” he said. “Why don’t you leave us alone?”
At first, nothing happened. Then there was a crackle of static, followed by a voice on the other end. “That’s a strike,” it said.
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This is. Absolutely horrifying. These people are licensed, payed child abusers. The casual comparison of their program to ABA (which tortures children for being autistic) should tell you all you need to know.
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That’s genuinely terrifying. 1984 is not a family therapy handbook.
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Help a disabled trans survivor stay in a safe environment
I have $500 I need by October 1st for rent, and I’m starting to seriously worry about coming up with it. I’m a multiply disabled trans person and an abuse/trauma survivor. I recently moved into my own apartment, and I’m hoping/planning to get a job soon. Presently I am without a source of income. Being in a toxic environment for most of the summer continued to exacerbate my mental illness symptoms, and my executive dysfunction issues were worsened upon graduating and thus losing a large part of the structure and external motivation college gave me. My mental health and overall well-being has been improving, but things could go back to being even worse than before if I can’t pay rent and keep the place where I finally feel safe and at home.
If you want to help me out, you can donate either via PayPal (firebirdswolfchild@gmail.com) or Square Cash:
cash.me/$Nix10. Mutuals & irl friends, if you have insight into quick & safe/not-scammy ways I could earn cash, feel free to message me.
I also encourage folk to reblog my friend @gwynndolin‘s post calling for support.
Event Sept. 19, 2017 – Organizers Forum: Immigration and Disability
Date, Time, and Call-in information:
September 19, 2017
10:00 PM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern)Call-in number: 1-515-739-1285, passcode 521847#
If you don’t have free long distance and prefer to listen through your computer, go to: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/organizersforum#/
Summary:
The Trump administration has increased immigration raids, threatened millions with deportation, scared immigrants away from getting health care, food stamps, and other services, and just this week ended DACA (which provides relief for undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children). Some DREAMers (young people on DACA) have disabilities and were brought to the US by their families for medical care. Many home care workers are immigrants, currently at risk of deportation. Furthermore, as one group is attacked, we are all threatened. Let’s talk about the relationship between immigration and disability and what the disability community can do to protect disabled immigrants and act in solidarity with ALL immigrants.
Speakers:
- Katherine Perez, National Coalition of Latinxs with Disabilities
- Michelle Garcia, Access Living (Latino Community Development Organizer, Cambiando Vidas)
- More to be announced.
Event Sept. 19, 2017 – Organizers Forum: Immigration and Disability
Hi! Responding to your offer, what’s bizarre about Jeff Session’s statements?
There’s a lot of shit wrong but here are some of the reasons:
- Jeff Sessions isn’t the president, and he’s not the head of the Department of Homeland Security. The president is the one making this decision, and immigration is under DHS’s jurisdiction. This is like your boss deciding to change something in the HR department, but the head of accounting is the one who announces it. It’s not impossible but it’s weird as hell.
- Jeff Sessions straight-up lied about what DACA is, how it works, and who it helps.
- “It granted legal status” no it didn’t you vindictive woodland sprite. DACA recipients never had legal status. They were definitely still at risk of deportation. The Obama Administration wasn’t like “here’s your shiny new green card,” it was more like “we see that you don’t have legal status but we’re choosing not to prosecute.”
- “it was too broad” it was limited to people who came before the age of sixteen, before june 2007, had no felonies or more than two misdemeanors on their record, and had graduated from high school, gotten a GED, or been dishonorably discharged from the military. high school dropout? not eligible for DACA. have a criminal record? not eligible for DACA. came as a child but after june 2007? not eligible for DACA. THAT’S NOT FUCKING BROAD.
- “it allowed people with criminal records to join” fun fact, having two or more misdemeanors is enough to bar you from entering the US or getting deported once you’re here. that’s not something new Obama made up.
- “it was unconstitutional” tell that to 105 law professors, buddy
- “we were worried that a court case might find it unconstitutional” then why let it play out for another six months? you don’t slowly phase out an unconstitutional thing. why not just let the case progress and let the supreme court decide? or were you worried they might find in favor of DACA?
basically fuck this administration and every horse it has ever ridden on
“Deaf inmates are punished for missing count or mealtimes, though the announcements are made over loudspeakers they cannot hear. They are beaten by guards for misunderstanding orders, and, when they successfully lip-read one interaction and fail the next, they are beaten for ‘feigning’ their hearing loss. In addition, because prisons rarely provide certified ASL interpreters, the inmates struggle to defend themselves at disciplinary proceedings and have limited or no access to medical, mental health, or justice center professionals. They also lack access to any tailored social, educational, or rehabilitative programming. This, by design, is the nature of prisons—undesirables are hidden, with limited attempts at reintegration or socialization between the incarcerated and society (translating, on its face at least, to less manpower and money spent by the corrections system).”
Ableism, the English to Prison Pipeline, and the Plight of Deaf Inmates
Mike Hanlon, the black kid in Stephen King’s ‘It,’ has a remarkable backstory. The movie erased it.
The film doesn’t just flatten Mike’s backstory. It reduces him to the kind of token black character that King’s novel was so adept at avoiding.
In the film, Mike barely has any lines. The role of group historian has been taken from him and given to a white character instead. He still gets targeted by Henry Bowers, but gone is the racial subtext that made the experience so entwined with Derry’s history of violence. His blackness seems largely incidental. And as a result, the film never has to address the messy topic of race or how it informs the lone black character’s life.
I’m about to go read the whole article but I’d just like to warn people who haven’t read a lot of King that over his entire vast body of work, he really isn’t all that great at writing Black and other non-white characters and falls into stereotypes all the time. A lot of people have criticized how many stock mystical elderly Black people serve narrowly as spiritual guides to the white protagonists: The Stand, The Shining, The Talisman, and on and on and on. His treatment of race in The Dark Tower books is also pretty cringey.
On the other hand, at least he tries, even when he fails. He consistently tries. And in that respect, IMO he’s better than the vast majority of other white horror writers who don’t try at all.
Any Stephen King adaptation has the option to either improve on the source material, leave it the same or make it worse, and it’s disappointing that this adaptation chose to make it/It worse. But I’m sure this version of It left out the horrible weird sex part of the book that I hate so much, so I guess it’s a mixed bag.
Mike Hanlon, the black kid in Stephen King’s ‘It,’ has a remarkable backstory. The movie erased it.
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