Consider donating to Give the Gift of Stimming to help get stim toys to neurodivergent people in need.
The Give the Gift of Stimming campaign has received a tremendous response. I am amazed at the outpouring of love and support.
About 100 people in need signed up to receive stim toys, and while this campaign has received some very generous donations, I wasn’t sure we’d be able to afford stim toys for everyone.
So it was that I reached out to Cynthia Kim of @stimtastic to see if there was any kind of bulk discount available due to the volume of the order.
When I received Cynthia’s response, I cried.
This amazing human being who has already done so much for the autistic community offered to match my order, in essence, doubling the amount of stim toys I was able to procure.
Thanks to Cynthia’s generous donation, I now have in my possession stim toys for everyone who signed up to receive one. You can check out the video at the end of the post to see the unboxing.
However, despite the generous donations this campaign has received, I don’t yet have enough money to be able to ship everything to the recipients.
Many of the recipients are from unsafe homes where they are unable to buy their own stim toys or even have these gifts mailed to their own homes. Others simply cannot afford their own stim toys due to high rates of unemployment and underemployment in our community.
If you want to donate and are able to, please follow this link. It will take you to a pool where money is being collected to purchase stim toys for those who need them.
Let’s help make the holidays a bit brighter in our community!
For your viewing pleasure: Some v C O L D B O I s I took pictures of last year. Please do not delete my caption, this is my work that took me hours to edit and I would appreciate my work not getting stolen.
punk isn’t just skinny. punk isn’t just perfect mohawks or aesthetically pleasing jackets. punk isn’t only listening to dead kennedys or black flag. punk is being an individual, having no respect for our fascist authority, sticking up for the little guy even if you are the little guy. punk isn’t just a look or a music scene.
i literally made this because nazis and the alt right can’t be punk
Stop bringing politics into music genres lmao
stop bringing politics…….. into punk????
Here’s Green Day, one of the most popular and well known punk bands.
Wait, but there’s MORE!
Wait, in case you weren’t convinced that the punk scene is political and is all about standing up against fascism and bullshit and racism that America is facing:
shut up. Punk is not just a fucking music genre.
Ok I’m reblogging this again bc when I went to see green day, before they properly started playing they made us make a pledge, at the gig there is to be ‘No racism, no sexism, no homophobia, no donald trump’
Punk has been political long before Green Day existed. The political history of the Punk scene(s) cannot be divorced from the music scene(s) that arose out of them. It is not just about music. It is not just about fashion. The stylistic choices made have meaning and are situated in a social/political context.
That being said, it’s really important to acknowledge that Neo-Nazis didn’t infiltrate the Punk subculture for no reason. Absolutely, make it clear that Neo-Nazis are not welcome in The Punk Scene. However, part of doing that means confronting how they got there.
Punk music isn’t all about one political stance, though it’s commonly anti-authoritarian. Anyone can utilize the genre to promote their own ideologies, even if a popular intention of the genre is to be anti-authoritarian. Green Day is just one of many bands who use Punk music to spread their ideology.
It’s not just punk. Music has been used as a form of rebellion against oppression for a hell of a long time. Fuck, centuries even. The people who don’t get this have most likely never been oppressed in their life.
A few protest/”political” songs, and some about specific tragedies, from recent history, that aren’t just punk:
Zombie, The Cranberries
I Know A Place, MUNA
99 Luftballons, Nena
Beds Are Burning, Midnight Oil
Khe Sahn, Cold Chisel
I Was Only Nineteen, Redgum
The Greatest, Sia
Fuck Tha Police , N.W.A
Eve of Destruction, Barry McGuire
We Are The World, USA for Africa
Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud), James Brown
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell (or more recently, Counting Crows)
Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen
Know Your Rights, The Clash
Holiday in Cambodia, Dead Kennedys
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott Heron
We’ve been doing this shit forever, it’s not new. War, racism, fascism, homophobia… if it’s harmed people, it’s been put into music. It’s an incredibly powerful medium that has changed the world before, and to say that politics, hatred, and tragedy shouldn’t be featured is, honestly, simply ignorant.
I cannot deal with the sheer level of numbskull-ery in a statement like “Don’t bring politics into music” as if this is some Silly Tumblr Fad and not something that’s been a thing for over a hundred years
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Any form of art, music, entertainment – it’s going to be affected by the politics of that era. There are so many political songs, paintings, poems, etc. People work it into stories – TV shows incorporate politics, it’s worked into books (including most of the literary classics we know of today) and fashion. Art expression in personal, and politics affect people personally. “Stop bringing politics into my comics/tv shows/music/whatever!” means “I haven’t been paying attention and I resent having to give a shit.”
Tbh the most relevent thing about green day here is that they are mainstream
As in MAINSTREAM punk was putting songs on top 40 stations back in the day comparing bush to hitler. This is the band you got told you weren’t REALLY punk for being into because they were too pop for people. That is how political punk music is.
Also, starting into “Well, why don’t you just do X? If you won’t even do X that I think you should do, you have absolutely no right to say anything” is an excellent way of getting blocked. Absolutely no patience for that anymore.
That holds true whether or not the “won’t” is really a “can’t”, to be clear.
Also, starting into “Well, why don’t you just do X? If you won’t even do X that I think you should do, you have absolutely no right to say anything” is an excellent way of getting blocked. Absolutely no patience for that anymore.
u ever wonder how a usually physically healthy person would react if u transferred ur pain onto them temporarily…like how would they react?? bc it does feel bad to me but im so used to just pushing through it and coping with it that im not even sure how bad my symptoms are anymore? how do u rate pain when u’ve basically experienced it nonstop for five years??? uugh im just constantly doubting myself atm thinking im pathetic and that anyone else would think the pain is nothing and im being pathetic
i want the superpower to make doctors feel what i feel for an hour or until they say uncle, whichever comes first
Needing to remind myself again that I’m probably not managing too badly, all things considered.
Especially when “all things” starts from a baseline of gimping around on a badly healing celiac-related pelvic fracture for too many years now. And yes, that really really hurts for just about anybody. Phrases like “severe decrease in functional ability and quality of life” keep coming up, too. How about that? 😩
And that’s before factoring in anything else that might be going on, just that type of injury. There’s also no way I’m just imagining it’s an ongoing problem, as well trained as the jerkbrain may be to keep circling back around to that idea. You can clearly feel the fracture line, and it would take some truly special mental powers to somehow make it keep swelling up.
As you might be able to gather there, I was feeling like my coping ability was running on fumes in 2013. But, here I am, plugging along with that “severe decrease in functional ability and quality of life”. With other stuff continuing to pile up. With that just one thing it’s easy to point to as a legitimate problem anyone would struggle with. What else are you going to do? You get on with things the best you can.
But, of course it wouldn’t be easy for anyone. And I would (rightly) feel like a mean-spirited jackass if I heaped even a fraction of the criticism on anyone else.
Looking at it rationally, it’s kind of surprising it did take as much piling up as it did to send me into meltdowns. Talk about overwhelming stimuli you can’t get away from, when it’s your own body doing terrible shit. No amount of fucked-up stoicism is going to change that, and it’s also just plain mean to lay that on any person.
But yeah, it can also be hard to tell when you are doing your best when that hasn’t tended to get much credit. And when you’ve been pushed most of your life to toughen up in ways that you just can’t, because disability. Major complications for too many people.
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