Day: June 22, 2018

meatthawsmoth:

“We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives.”

— Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

t3trahedron:

trufflesmushroom:

trufflesmushroom:

trufflesmushroom:

I’ve never had a reheading go this horribly before. I’d say I’m pretty good at beheading- I may have broken a neck once or twice, but never any parts I actually liked or intended on keeping, and usually a reheading is the easiest thing, right? Just a little squish and a pop and done, a complete person. But this time it just- it just won’t go back on the body?? Which is incredibly frustrating but also, like, why??

And the funniest thing is, I’m not even swapping a head!! This is a curvy dancer head going onto a curvy dancer body!! They match!! This should have been so simple!! But no, this head’s just flopping around like a limp flaccid idiot and my hands are all red and sore now but the head just isn’t attaching all the way!!

Today I did six beheadings and two other reheadings, and I wanted to get this one attached so I could take a picture, but somehow it just isn’t working!! The head is just getting squished around but isn’t stretching over the neck right!! And I’m way too lazy to go and boil the head just to make the slip easier!! And I don’t wanna keep forcing it cuz I might break something but this is!! So frustrating!!

Like, what could I possibly be doing wrong!! Fuck!!

I boiled the head and it popped right onto the neck in like two seconds.

I’m an idiot. Always do things the proper way from the get-go. Saves a lot of wasted time and struggle and ouchy hands.

BARBIES. I’M TALKING ABOUT BARBIES. I AM CUSTOMIZING TOYS RIGHT NOW I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER AND I HAVE NEVER BEHEADED AN ACTUAL REAL LIFE HUMAN BEING OR TRIED TO REATTACH A PERSON’S HEAD BY BOILING IT

For one horrible moment I thought it said ‘babies. I’m talking about babies’ there, which is actually a lot worse.

pavusiing:

kibbles-undbitches:

mariagvogel:

So I’ve seen the post he’s talking about around tumblr and twitter, but haven’t seen this on tumblr. I think it’s worth sharing.

(Also remember: do *not* pet service dogs!)

I know very little about service dogs. @pavusiing if you are in a place where this doesn’t require too much emotional labor, can you provide feedback for me on this? (Or anyone else with a service dog, Chels is just the only person I know)

I’m not trying to elicit emotional labor, I just want to know, if people are in a place to offer me perspectives. I saw the original post and it seemed to make sense to me that the dog would be trained to fetch an adult. So I want to hear from other people, because only seeing two individual perspectives doesn’t tell me much.

I’ve reblogged a couple things about this already (last night so no worries if you haven’t seen it) that are super important to read. @lumpatronics also addressed this on their own blog if anyone wants to take a peek.

I have a lot of feelings about people in the sd community being the service dog police.

I encourage anyone reading this to check out https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html which is the concise Q&A the DOJ put out on service dog laws. THIS is all the correct info. Not what this guy says.

This guy has so much misinformation about both the OP and the laws in the US regarding service dogs it’s infuriating. I can go through them one by one.

1. OP is not a teenager. She is a grown woman. And a man minimizing a woman’s she to discredit her is sexist as shit.

2. The dog started as a family dog that showed the temperament for service work and was then trained. This is a perfectly valid way to go about training a service dog. And it’s perfectly legal to do so in the United States. OP however is training their dog with the help of a trainer so his comment is irrelevant.

3. He is talking about service dogs as if his disability and his experience is the only one. There is no one way to be disabled and no one way to have a service dog.

4. Barking is not the only way that the dog can perform this task. There is no law regarding that. OP for example has bad sensory issues and cannot have a dog barking loudly next to her.

5. Going and getting help is a 100% valid task. It’s usually to someone the dog knows but it is okay and LEGAL for the dog to leave their human to go and get any other human for help. Just because this guy doesn’t like it doesn’t make it any less of a valid task.

6. This was in a grocery store. The dog was not a few blocks away. The dog went an aisle over.

7. The ADA requires that a service dog be under control. This could be voice control OR a leash. It is legal for a service dog to be off leash if the leash interferes with a person’s disability or tasks the dog is performing. So theoretically a person who does not have the dexterity to hold a leash could work their dog 100% off leash. If the dog is under voice control it is legal. In OPs case, the task of fetching someone would be hindered by a leash. The dog was under control because it was performing a trained task. Therefore this is legal.

8. Service dogs can be trained to ignore other humans but it’s COMPLETELY DEPENDANT ON THE DOG AND THE PERSONS DISABILITY. Cricket is very vigilant of her surroundings because I need her to be for my PTSD.

9. The only criteria that legally makes a service dog is that 1) the handler is disabled. 2) the dog is trained in ONE OR MORE tasks (meaning only one task is Okay) that mitigate their disability and 3) the dog is under control. That’s it. None of this other crap this guy stated is a law. It’s his personal opinions. His own experience having a service dog is not someone else’s and people are disabled differently than he is and he needs to back off basically.

Source: mariagvogel

purplesaline:

purplesaline:

Hey!

Did you know there is a strong correlation showing people who have ASD and/or ADHD being more likely to develop PTSD after trauma than neurotypical people?

The theory is that since our brains are more sensitive to stimuli that trauma impacts us more profoundly.

It’s still just a theory but anecdotal evidence seems to support it. It also supports the theory that PTSD in people with ADHD (ASD wasn’t mentioned but it’s likely the same) is exponentially more debilitating and they are more likely to be disabled by it than neurotypical people.

So If you’re struggling more than you think you should be? Or you think that what happened to you wasn’t traumatic enough to have caused your PTSD? There’s a reason you’re struggling that much and you aren’t alone, and it was traumatic enough. You aren’t weak or pathetic. Your brain works differently than other people’s, that’s all.

❤

There have been a few requests for sources so here are a few I’ve come across. A mixture of scholarly/academic papers and more casual language articles that provide similar information as those papers. Also included an interesting paper I stumbled on that shows a correlation between ADHD and Traumatic Brain Injuries.

Articles and Papers claiming risks of PTSD is higher in individuals with ADHD

Articles and Papers citing risks of PTSD is higher in ASD individuals

Articles and Papers claiming severity of symptoms are greater with comorbid ADHD and PTSD

Association between people with TBI and ADHD – Science Daily (Article)

Please let me know if any of the links contain harmful language or ideologies. I’ve read some in full but not all and even the ones I did are pretty dense so I may have missed something.