I feel like there needs to be some kind of post for MCU fans on How To Write About Africa because I feel like there’s a lot of people out there who want to write about Wakanda and T’Challa but are worried about being problematic and that makes me sad because there’s SO MUCH GREAT meta to be had about T’Challa and Wakanda but at the same time there’s a lot of legitimate concerns about perpetuating racist stereotypes and yeah.
T’Challa and Wakanda could be such a great way to introduce people to amazing sci-fi concepts that people should know
This is SO needed.
It’s so easy to be like ‘just try it!’ but the problem with this website is that people don’t think its okay for people to make mistakes. I’ve gotten messages from people who want to write about T’Challa/Wakanda but are nervous about how their work will be perceived and its so sad.
We really need to gather some people who’d be interested in writing a nice little info post!
I’ll start
also, this post should not be taken as permission to write your white faves having power in Wakada, seducing all the Wakandan charaters because your white faves are just So Irresistibly White, being given free rein in Wakanda, etc.
Month: September 2017
the moral of frankenstein is if youre going to build a monster out of dead body parts dont make him like 8 feet tall and super strong
or just love your super strong 8 feet tall son
Like, don’t abandon him because you are scared of him. Like you met him a second ago. He just wants a family
The moral of the story is that you need to be prepared for the realities of parenthood before you commit. Sometimes you get what you expected, sometimes you get an eight foot tall super strong patchwork zombie child, sometimes you get neither of those things. No take-backs.
One of the funniest things about this is that the creation is supposed to be “hideous”, but he’s described as looking like some kind of huge goth prince and… really doesn’t sound so bad.
That’s not what’s meant by “hideous” in the text. The creation is not “hideous” as in “aesthetically ugly”, it’s “hideous” as in ghastly, terrifying, shocking, unnatural, wrong, uncanny. Aesthetically the creature is described as “beautiful”, the way Victor painstakingly designed him. That’s why he’s described as sounding like a tall goth prince, and if you interpreted “hideous” to mean “ugly looking”, I can see why it would be confusing.
Moral of Frankenstein: love your giant goth son
Reblog if you are over twenty and autistic or on the spectrum.
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.
What?! Almost everyone I know on the spectrum is over 20! Most of them are over 30/pushing 40.
Furthermore, is that implying that people weren’t getting vaccinated more than 20 years ago? because…we definitely were… The whole reason Wakefield faked his “vaccinations cause autism (and bowel problems, but no-one ever talks about that these days)” study about 20 years ago was so he could sell his own version of vaccination protocols, not because vaccinations were some terrible new danger. So it’s really hard to justify “Vaccines cause autism!!!!!!” by directly linking it to some weird idea that people didn’t start getting vaccinated until 20 years ago.
Aaaaannnd, as many people are pointing out, the only reason more people are getting diagnosed as autistic is because the definition of autism has changed to encompass more things. (When I was a kid, back in the 1980s, kids we’d now absolutely call ‘autistic’–and a few years ago would have said has Asperger’s–were just considered…really really weird. Like me!)
I reblogged this before with some commentary about the weirdness of that “20 years” vaccination time frame. Besides personally being at least the 5th autistic-looking generation I know of in a family full of “eccentric” people, where one of my same-age cousins and I were the first to ever get any official labels applied.
But yeah, besides the number of just plain weirdos when I was growing up? Some of us also got diagnosed with MBD/“hyperactivity” instead. Because that was on the radar then. And it covered a lot of ground, which did not map directly to the more recent ADHD label.
(Not that also having some other official label would necessarily take you out of the “really really weird ” category, much less get you any useful accommodations pre-ADA. But, that was also a thing nobody much talks about now.)
long term effects of emotional abuse:
- a distrust in your perceptions
- a tendency to be fearful or on guard
- self-consciousness or fear of how you are coming across
- an inability to be spontaneous
- a distrust of people and in future relationships
- anger that bursts out unexpectedly
- sensitivity to anyone trying to control you
much of autistic social skills difficulty is secondary
It’s hard to learn how to have conversations when you have auditory processing problems, and a lot of the things people say sound like gibberish.
It’s hard to learn how to have conversations when you have language problems, and a lot of the words people use are confusing, or it’s hard for you to put your thoughts into words.
It’s hard to learn how communication works when people ignore the things you say, treat them as cute, praise or correct them, but don’t respond to the actual content of what you are saying.
It’s hard learn what makes people uncomfortable when you always make people uncomfortable anyway because you don’t have the motor or language skills to avoid making people uncomfortable, even if you understood all the social rules perfectly.
It’s hard to learn a lot of things from and about people when your natural body language and way of using language is different from theirs; it’s like trying to learn how people work in a country where you don’t speak the language.
It’s hard to learn the same things about interaction other people are learning when people interact with you differently.
It’s hard to learn about body language when you have visual processing difficulties, and have trouble reading other people’s body language without staring.
It’s hard to learn about a lot of things when you’re not noticing all the things other people are noticing because you’re focusing so hard on monitoring your body language, or speech, or eye contact.
It’s hard to learn how friendship works when people pity-friend you, set up fake forced friendships for you, or pretend to be your friend when they’re really bullying you.
It’s hard to learn how to be friends with other people when other people don’t want to be friends with you.
It’s hard to make friends when you’re more stringently supervised than other kids your age.
It’s hard to learn how boundaries work when people respond to your pain or discomfort by deciding there is something wrong with you.
It’s hard to learn that whether you want to interact with people is relevant when people treat it like it’s irrelevant.
It’s hard to learn how to interact with others when you are taught that the only way to do so is to do things that are physically impossible for you. Or mentally impossible, because you can’t process language fast enough. Or a terrible idea.
It’s hard to learn about caring about other people’s feelings when you are taught that if you cared about other people’s feelings you would do things that are physically impossible, or mentally impossible, or a bad idea.
It’s hard to learn how to navigate the social world as an autistic person when you don’t have a lot of, or any, autistic role models.
It’s hard to learn how to develop your own social judgement when people constantly tell you you have to accept their interpretation of a situation, because you don’t understand, because you have a social skills problem.
It’s hard to learn social skills when people say they will teach you the social rules, but some of the things they say are wildly overgeneralized, wildly oversimplified, or just flat out not true, and they enforce them on you anyways.
It’s hard to learn that interaction with others can be pleasant when people are constantly cruel to you or insist you do things that hurt you.
It’s hard to learn a lot of things about relationships when you’re afraid to get close to people because you’re constantly acting in a way that is unnatural to you and hiding things about yourself and you’re afraid of how they will react when you finally slip up.
It’s hard to learn a lot of things about relationships when you feel distant from others because you’re constantly acting in ways that are unnatural to you and hiding things about yourself.
It’s hard to make friends when people are constantly bonding over things that you don’t like, can’t do, or don’t relate to, and when a lot of your life experiences are things other people don’t understand or can’t relate to. Or when people you would like to or might otherwise like to be friends with say bad things about people like you.
It’s hard to make friends when you don’t know who thinks bad things about people like you.
Ect ect ect
Joke’s on you, Ann; I was much farther left when I was 30 than when I was 20
weird it’s like my ancestors aren’t me
And the parents of Dreamers aren’t them either. Whatever your basic stance on immigration is (although let’s be honest, our immigration laws have been historically pretty damn racist) you have to admit that people who were damn near literally carried across the border as infants and toddlers and have spent every moment they can remember thinking of themselves as Americans are not “walking across the border and demanding free stuff.” They should not be penalized by exile from the only country they’ve ever known for something their parents did. And if you think otherwise, you should imagine yourself in their place and try to find a little empathy and compassion.
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