Warning: Do not try this at home unless you were born with super Slavic knee strength
Ukrainian Cossack dancing– Hopak
(Can we stop pretending slavs have one overlying culture and understand that they have distinct charecteristics. Hopak is a pretty much only Ukrainian.)
I honestly cannot tell if this is inspiring or terrifying but goddamn Ukraine, you go hard
hooooooo the comments say it’s cgi and I must admit I was dubious of the physics but I’m on mobile and I go off certain kinds of context cues really intensely so the shakycam and the natural movements of the bystanders got me and I was like “huh I wonder why I haven’t seen these before. must be in Russia or some other country where there’s fewer safety regulations I guess”
I was on board until I saw that one that shot everyone up into the fucking storm clouds
Kay, I’m busy and my hand pain is pretty bad, so this is gonna be succinct as I can make it.
Autistic people don’t have this problem with other autistic people.
Allistic people DO have the same problem when being asked to conceptualise autistic people.
Problems with autistic people conceptualising allistic people aren’t even that universal. We’re capable of learning that shit.
Iirc – again, busy, don’t have time to find the source, I’ll reblog if someone else has it – Baron-Cohen’s original study where he decided this – the one with the doll and the ball and does the doll know where the ball is or whatever – used a ridiculously small sample size. And the sample was all children and yet we apply this to adults. And I genuinely don’t know, but has it actually been replicated? Or is it just this one study?
If anyone else has a better explanation, please add it and I’ll reblog. I’m answering as best I can now because I know I’ll forget if I don’t, but it’s 10PM here and I have a deadline on Monday that I’m still working on.
There are other studies, but not many more and not a lot on autistics. I’ve yet to see a replication of Baron-Cohen’s study, or to see if any studies address that autism is a developmental delay and theory of mind might develop later for some, most, or even all autistics.
People have a habit of running wild with Baron-Cohen’s studies until they become something more than they are. The study in 1985 by Baron-Cohen, Firth, and Leslie, is fraught with issues.
The most annoying, at least for autistics autistics, comes from the diagnosis criteria in 1985, which allowed for a diagnosis of an estimated 4:10,000 autistics. Clearly, we’ve evolved the diagnostic criteria since then – and with reason.
I don’t know if there have been any replication studies with current diagnostic criteria. I haven’t seen any yet. I also haven’t seen studies on autistic adults. That doesn’t mean they aren’t out there – I’ve not done a literature review – but certainly proponents of ToM aren’t quick to dump stacks of literature and research on my desk. There are some 1,500 or so citations in Springer so someone is studying it. I couldn’t tell you exactly what though (I’ll try and remember to look it up later and see if there are any trends).
I wouldn’t be surprised if we have deficits in ToM. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have delays in developing ToM. But there are a lot of assumptions being made about autistics by most people based off study that hasn’t aged well with the times.
And if any of y’all happen to have some DOIs you can dump on me to prove me wrong, please do.
There have been replications.
Autistic people are definitely worse at the sally anne task, and pass it at later ages. However, it’s a really complicated question, and needs pretty good language skills. Autistic kids pass earlier when you use a visual version.
Also, understanding that other people are people with minds, and being able to predict minds really different from your own are different things.
Also, most autistic adults report having ToM, can pass the sally anne task, and still have social difficulties.
ToM deficit theory is really, really medical model. It doesn’t take into account that people’s minds can be really, really different, and that being surrounded by people with minds similar to yours might make a difference.
I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love
I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on
‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.
Kay, I’m busy and my hand pain is pretty bad, so this is gonna be succinct as I can make it.
Autistic people don’t have this problem with other autistic people.
Allistic people DO have the same problem when being asked to conceptualise autistic people.
Problems with autistic people conceptualising allistic people aren’t even that universal. We’re capable of learning that shit.
Iirc – again, busy, don’t have time to find the source, I’ll reblog if someone else has it – Baron-Cohen’s original study where he decided this – the one with the doll and the ball and does the doll know where the ball is or whatever – used a ridiculously small sample size. And the sample was all children and yet we apply this to adults. And I genuinely don’t know, but has it actually been replicated? Or is it just this one study?
If anyone else has a better explanation, please add it and I’ll reblog. I’m answering as best I can now because I know I’ll forget if I don’t, but it’s 10PM here and I have a deadline on Monday that I’m still working on.
There are other studies, but not many more and not a lot on autistics. I’ve yet to see a replication of Baron-Cohen’s study, or to see if any studies address that autism is a developmental delay and theory of mind might develop later for some, most, or even all autistics.
People have a habit of running wild with Baron-Cohen’s studies until they become something more than they are. The study in 1985 by Baron-Cohen, Firth, and Leslie, is fraught with issues.
The most annoying, at least for autistics autistics, comes from the diagnosis criteria in 1985, which allowed for a diagnosis of an estimated 4:10,000 autistics. Clearly, we’ve evolved the diagnostic criteria since then – and with reason.
I don’t know if there have been any replication studies with current diagnostic criteria. I haven’t seen any yet. I also haven’t seen studies on autistic adults. That doesn’t mean they aren’t out there – I’ve not done a literature review – but certainly proponents of ToM aren’t quick to dump stacks of literature and research on my desk. There are some 1,500 or so citations in Springer so someone is studying it. I couldn’t tell you exactly what though (I’ll try and remember to look it up later and see if there are any trends).
I wouldn’t be surprised if we have deficits in ToM. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have delays in developing ToM. But there are a lot of assumptions being made about autistics by most people based off study that hasn’t aged well with the times.
And if any of y’all happen to have some DOIs you can dump on me to prove me wrong, please do.
I see ToM used a lot for lack of empathy, which bothers me. ToM is narrowly defined; it’s recognizing that others have knowledge, experiences, and perceptions that differ from your own. Thus, the classic example of:
Box of bandaids. What do you think is in it? Bandaids. Nope, it’s got an eraser in it. Close the box. If your mom walked in, what would she think was in the box?
If you got “bandaids”: congrats! You have ToM.
This is not the same as “I’m empathizing/putting myself in someone else’s shoes”, which it is often conflated with. It is also not the same as being able to understand what someone is thinking. And it is not the same as picking up on cues that allow you to be able to figure out what someone is thinking.
Interestingly, ToM is associated with asking questions. In order to ask people for information you don’t know, you have to understand that other creatures can have knowledge outside of yours. This is something that seems to be uniquely human.
Tl;dr ToM is a narrow concept that has been over applied to the point at which it’s obfuscating some really cool stuff.
(I also don’t know if ToM can be delayed in autistic kids. Probably. But to say we all lack it is very very wrong, and to use it to mean empathy/picking up on emotions/understanding people is just annoying)
Read this whole post before acting please / Sorry beforehand about the long post but I need to do this.
It took me a lot of strenght to make this post. Truth is I should’ve made it way sooner but I always refuse to ask for help until I’m absolutely certain that I have no way out of a problem; and this is one of those cases. Mainly, all the times I’ve publicly asked for help in the past have ended up in people saying I’m a scammer and a thief with no prooof to back those claims up (my bitter ex, for example); that’s bullshit, I’m a person whose life never seems to improve despite my efforts, but I refuse to ask for help; until I’m certain that I’m going to die. And I’m certain I’m going to die right now.
During the past 2 months, almost 3, my mother (I have no other family or anyone to support me), has been struggling to get her job back. She got fired unfairly due to administrative issues that happened at the time; and when we moved into this place, everything was supposed to work fine, until she was told she was fired. She has been coming and going trying to get her job back during the last months while applying to new ones, and not getting paid a dime; that means that we haven’t paid rent, internet or bought food, and we have pets, that are starving; I’ve put some for adoption and still have more to put up for adoption, but its simply awful to have to get rid of my animals because I’m unable to feed them.
This are picture I took of my arm:
December marked 5 years that I’ve been unable to find a job; the past 5 years of my life have been literal hell, my mother lost her job many years ago and it took her a handful of more years to get one that doesn’t even pay enough to pay the cheapest of rents. I live in a country where things don’t work the way they should, and getting into details about that is simply pointless; in all these years we’ve tried EVERYTHING in our hands to get out of this hole but it was impossible we’ve lost all of our belongings, got evicted of every place we lived at and went through things no human being nor animal (because my pets have been with me all of this time) should ever go through, I lived with drug dealers, survived a natural disaster, lived in stranger’s houses until they ultimately kicked me out because I couldn’t find a job, and a lot of other situations.
I got hired this year; finally, but on a temporary contract, I only worked one day and haven’t been rescheduled and I don’t know if I will. At this point I can count the meals I’ve consumed in the past months with the fingers of my hands, my animals are starving too, and on top of that our landlord and his family are being absolutely awful despite knowing WHY we haven’t paid rent. They want to remove us by force by january 20st and they also hate my animals, so I fear for their lives.
Here’s some pictures of some of them:
And my fridge (that bag has some chicken wings I got asking for leftovers at a local shop, but shops here don’t do this so I cannot ask again):
Right now my mom is fighting her case and trying to find a lawyer to support her, but we cannot meet the eviction deadline; our internet bill is overdue and so is our rent and everything else. I’m running out of soap to wash myself, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that even writing this is physically straining because I’m too weak. I’ve tried everything I can to get out of this and when things started looking up….well…turns out it was just a delusion. I need more time and I cannot aford it.
If you’ve read this up to here….thanks. I assure you I appreciate it. I wanna make absolutely clear that I have NOBODY to support me with this, no family, no friends, no government plans, no organizations, NOBODY. I’ve ran out of options so I’m taking the risk and making this post because I fear for my animal’s lives and my own; I cannot take this any longer, physically and emotionally, and this post doesn’t even cover a bit of what I’ve gone through.
How can you help?
I need to gather 600 dollars before january 20st; but anything will help.
The biggest issue that I have here is that I can’t withdraw money from PayPa in my country unless I own a VISA issued card or a bank account. VISA cards are a luxury I cannot afford, and free bank accounts don’t exist either.
I’m taking donations through Western Union OR a friend mom’s paypal.
If you want to donate via PayPal it’s mandatory that you include a memo saying “donation for Ranshii” with your donation, no matter how big or small. So my friend’s mom will know that money is meant to go towards me. (She has a VISA and a bank account, so she can withdraw the money for me).
Her address is:
anitaeem8@yahoo.com.ar
If you want to donate via Western Union please contact me privately for the information, since I have to give you sensitive info for the treansfer. I reccomend you to check beforehand how much you’d get taxed to send money to me. Country: Uruguay. State: Montevideo. City: Montevideo. That’s all you need to know to calculate tax rates.
If I never get back at you on this is because my internet went down; please don’t think I’m ignoring anyone; if I never reply consider sending the money via paypal.
No matter if you donate via Western or PayPal, send me a screenshot or photo of your proof of donation and I will draw you something.
I wish I could tell you I will have it done by a certain date but with how things are going I don’t even know if I’ll be alive tomorrow. I will do my best to fulfill my word.
Please reblog this, likes don’t do nothing, REBLOG, PLEASE; I’m terrified and I have no other options; I need to buy time so mom can work in her case and I need to get in touch with my supervisor and find out why I’m not rescheduled; I DO need help now; what’s 600 dollars for the internet? Nothing, guys help me, please.
PS- My blog contains adult material so if you plan to take a look and are upsetted by such contents block the nsfw and batkm tags.
PS 2- Please…don’t ask me if “i’ve tried this or that” believe me, I’ve tried everything already, I don’t even have the energy to go over everything that I’ve done, I appreciate your good intentions but right now this is the only way to help…
And finally, people judging my situation by what I draw, stay out of this, no matter if you don’t like my content or think it’s cringey, I’m a living being that’s struggling to survive and help out my animals, they have nobody, that should matter more than some dicks…
Thanks from the bottom of my heart everyone and sorry about the space this post takes in your dash…
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Upon some further investigation it looks like the goal from this post has been met, and the OP is asking people to stop reblogging.
My grant has run out. There’s one under-sized paycheck to come in, and then we got nothing. And a tree is very slowly falling on our house. We’re afraid that it will break a window, and then we’re screwed, as we have neither insurance nor money to pay to replace it.
So many people have already donated, and we appreciate it so, so, SO much. You have no idea. But it’s not enough to live on yet.
I’m jobhunting every single day, but there’s no rushing these things, only making sure you’re exposed to as many opportunities as possible.
So. If you can and would care to, we would REALLY appreciate any help you can give.
It’s a new month, with all new bills and needs. One of the cats is sick, and the vet bill has already been way too much.
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