~ Eutropius.
Period: late Antique
Date: A.D. Mid-5th century
Place of origin: Ephesus Road east of the Agora; Selçuk, Asia Minor, Turkey
Medium: Marble
These are the “Thorsberg hose”, found in a moor bog in Northern Germany, Thorsberg, near the bay of Angeln that’s close to the Danish border. They’re dated to the early 4th century, right when Germanic culture starts to pick up and the old Rome draws its last breaths. Pants + socks = tights = no more fuss with separate pants and socks! Brilliant!
And this fellow here is called “Bockstensmannen”, he was dumped in a Swedish mire bog some time during early 1300s. Not only did the low-oxide environment preserve his bones and dye everything red, it kept his bouncy hair and cool clothes in a tip top shape.
The remains are so good that he and his whole clothes ensemble have been documented, taken for safekeeping and reconstrued. And he had the coolest knee-high socks I’ve seen in a long while, complete with a cute bow at the front!
So the next time you think of viking fashion, think of nice socks. And tights.
so the next time you
think of viking fashion think
of nice socks and tights
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I used to get pretty embarrassed sometimes at that “have trouble registering that you need to pee until it’s almost too late” thing. Even though I figured out how to work around it and mostly avoid accidents a long time ago. Nobody else seemed to get what was going on, either.
Was relieved to find out maybe 10 years ago that it’s not an uncommon thing among autistic people, though. Similar with registering/ignoring hunger and other body signals. Some reasonable explanation for unusual and potentially embarrassing issues, at least.
Something that may come as surprising to folks whose needs and comfort levels are already catered to by the world around them, is that “coping” is exhausting.
There are a great many people who are perfectly capable of adjusting to certain situations, be it a matter of social interaction, or physical disability, medical conditions, or whatever the case may be. Through trial and error we have discovered tricks and methods that allow us to function in a society that wasn’t created with us in mind, and we’re very good at making it look like we’re getting along just fine.
But it’s tiring. Always, constantly having to be vigilant and on-guard while everyone around us takes everything in stride, and then no one understands why, at the end of the day, we shut down. Because we were able to “get by” throughout the day, suddenly our unwillingness or inability to cope is no longer valid.
It’s like carrying a 20 pound weight all fucking day long. Just because you can doesn’t mean you don’t need or deserve a break. And then when you finally put the weight down, everyone around you scolds you and chastises you, accuses you of being lazy, insists that you’re just “faking because it’s convenient.”
This is why it’s so fucking unbearable living in a home where everyone chooses to disregard your limits and your comfort levels. Family members will say, “I’m not going to cater to your needs, because the ~real world~ won’t cater to you and you need to get used to that.”
Consider: People who struggle and cope through everyday life are already painfully aware that the “real world” doesn’t give a fuck about us. This is why we develop coping strategies that allow us to function. This is why when we finally come home, when we are FINALLY through with the “real world” for the day, we just want some goddamn compassion. We just want the people we live with to place value on our needs, comfort levels, and limitations. We want the people who say they love us to demonstrate that love through doing whatever small thing they can do to ensure that when we’re in the comfort of our own homes, we can actually be comfortable instead of having to continue carrying around that weight that we’ve been forced to hold up all. day. long.
“If you can control yourself at work, you can control yourself at home”
Well, nope. I can control myself at work BECAUSE I can let go at home.
poking at it with a fork to ascertain the flexibility and chewiness
considering its similarities to other foods I’ve disliked
considering its differences from other foods I’ve liked
knowing that there is an ingredient in it that I hate
trying to chop it with a knife and feeling the gristliness and hearing that telltale horrible creaking noise of gristle and noping right out of that situation
this is how humans naturally decided whether or not to eat unfamiliar foods in the wild thousands of years ago
our senses interact with each other to protect us, so your nose alerts you to an incoming bad taste before you put it in your mouth so you don’t end up eating the bad thing and dying
this is how we survived as a species
it is perfectly rational
it makes perfect sense
so stop
tl:dr – If it doesn’t stink like food, doesn’t look like food, doesn’t sound like food – it ain’t food.
Yes, incontinence is very common in the autistic community to varying degrees but it is something that it isn’t talked about enough.
Most of the time, it doesn’t fit the usual types of incontinence most doctors know about.
If it was diagnosed in pediatrics, it might be diagnosed as “incontinence without sensory awareness”. From what little information I could gather up after discovering it, it’s basically what it sounds like. You can’t either fully sense or sense at all what is going on bladder wise and that is what is leading to the incontinence.
Yuuup.
As anon asked what you can do about it:
Figure out a pee schedule! Go before you start a new task. Always. Even if you don’t think you need it.
You might get better at figuring out what needing to pee feels like as you get older – I know I have – but the best thing to do is just to go anyway.
The worst thing that happens is that you go and didn’t need it.
Also, just be aware of where all of the bathrooms are in any spaces you frequently occupy and be aware of any laws surrounding them. Like, if your school or workspace has the legally required number of toilets per person built into the building but locks a bunch of them to save on cleaning or to discourage people from going and “wasting time”, that might be illegal and odds are your fellow students/co-workers are also annoyed and will help you confront the school/your boss.
And another tip for school (don’t know how old anon is, but this might be handy for anyone here), have an alert card signed by the headteacher that just says “this student has a medical condition and needs to be allowed to go to the toilet no matter what”. My middle school started out with discreetly telling all of my teachers, but I learned that wasn’t enough the hard way with one particularly shitty substitute teacher.
And for housing, unfortunately, making sure that you share your bathroom with as few people as possible might be a must. That expense actually prohibited me from moving away for uni, but sometimes you’ve just gotta know your limits.
And someone gave me shit for this last time it came up, saying that holding in pee giving you UTIs had been debunked, but I had UTIs non-stop while this was a problem for me, and my doctors said that it was the direct reason, so as much as it might make you need to go to the loo more often, try to drink a decent amount of water. I recently bought a Brita sports bottle that filters tap water as I drink from it and it’s pretty great for getting me room-temperature, no-taste water.
My issue is that when I’m up and moving, I notice when I have to pee, but I don’t notice when I’m still/stationary, like working at a desk.
I have the opposite problem. I really don’t notice when I am up and moving. And I teach and spend my summers at a therapeutic barn. I am rarely sitting down for any extended length of time.
I’m trying to get in the habit at the barn to go to the bathroom in between the groups and then between the last group and when the private lessons start. If I manage that, I should go at least 3 times at the barn and then twice at home.
I never knows when I has to go. Just doesn’t feel anything saying needs to. Sos guardians take me to the proper place on a schedule and I doesn’t make messes … mostly.
Fuck Joe Crowley and fuck the shitty system that he helped set up.
This is bullshit. Your time was up Joe, you need to move on you two faced asshole neoliberal slime.
He would rather risk splitting the Democratic vote and potentially allowing a Republican get that seat than just concede.
Welcome to New York politics. We hate our system so fucking much. You can literally have the same politician be on 3-4 lines and it’s perfectly legal here. It’s confusing as hell. It can look like 4 people are running but no, it’s only one person running under 4 different parties.
I swear our fucking governor made up an additional party to run on in 2014 just because the Working Families Party didn’t want to endorse him.
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