Your 23 year-old autistic cousin does not have “the mind of a 7 year-old.”
Stop calling autistic men “buddy.” Stop calling autistic women “sweetie.”
Don’t act like it’s a crime to swear in front of an autistic adult.
Don’t assume that because someone is nonverbal, they can’t understand what is going on. ESPECIALLY don’t assume that they can’t communicate at all.
Stop infantilizing autistic people.
This is important. I once went to a group meet up for autistic adults with a friend. It was a game night for adults only at a local college. Since it was a game night I brought a bunch of games with me, most notably Cards Against Humanity.
The game we all decided to play was cards against humanity and we all had a lot of fun. The one issue was the person “overseeing” the meeting, didn’t like how adult the game was and didn’t like how we were all making “inappropriate” jokes. Right before I left I asked everyone what they thought of Cards Against Humanity, and everyone of the autistic people in the room all said it was a lot of fun and they really wanted to play it again. I never went back to that meeting at first due to issues attending, but my friend went to the game night the next month and was told that “Cards against humanity is now banned for being to crass”.
After hearing that I decided not to go back to any of those meetings since there is nothing wrong with a group of adults having fun and playing CAH. To be told we could not play that game because it wasn’t PG was BS. It was a group of adults. I had had to show i was an adult to attend. It felt like the message was that because it was a group of autistic people we couldn’t play a game that was a lot of fun.
I have a fucking file in my developmental disability agency saying I have a crass sense of humor. It repeats this several times. Not that this is news to me, but what is this doing written at least three times in a file that is supposed to be there in case of medical emergency? It also says that you can tell I’m pissed because I type harder on my keyboard. Then it gives instructions as to how to manipulate me into not being pissed. Manipulating me is actually the fastest way to piss me off… but these people are fucking terrified of normal human emotion of any kind displayed without hiding it, so…
Police said that Daniels was caught up in an investigation into human trafficking and prostitution the night she was arrested, but the emails released draw questions as to if Keckley and others targeted Daniels.
“The emails definitely show that the police lied about it being a prostitution and human trafficking mission,” the whistleblower said.
What they actually did:
A whistleblower from the City of Columbus contacted the Advocate with numerous emails between several high-ranking Columbus police detectives and VICE officers.
Inside the emails are news clippings discussing Daniels’ planned appearance in Columbus, pictures of Daniels with President Donald Trump, videos of her dancing, and even a map to the club where she would be performing, all sent days before she would pull into town on her tour bus.
The bulk of the emails that the whistleblower provided are from the email account of Detective Shana Keckley. Keckley was one of the lead-arresting officers the night that the “sting” operation went down.
“It is clear that Keckley and her fellow officers were there because of Stormy and only because of Stormy,” the whistleblower told the Advocate in an interview.
PLEASE, carry your dogs on the escalator, if it’s too big, then take the elevator or stairs! Dogs don’t know when to step off, so they can get caught and hurt!
One plastic bottle at a time, adventurer Dhruv Boruah pedals up and down England’s rivers and canals not only to collect waste but to also raise awareness about the planet’s growing plastic problem.
The 35-year-old former management consultant, who now heads The Thames Project, picks up plastics and other debris from waterways every three weeks, CNN reported.
He’s armed with nothing more than a litter picker and a bamboo bicycle that he rigged with two floaters, waste baskets, and a propeller and rudder.
As he cycles atop the water, he can “become like Jesus for a little bit,” he joked.
He admits that he cannot clean up entire rivers alone. So with the help of his eye-catching bicycle, Boruah enlists other helpers on canoes, boats and stand-up paddle boarders.
“It’s a great conversation starter, and then I can tell them about my work, the plastic, and how it all starts here in the canals,” Boruah told CNN while biking London’s Regent’s Canal.
During one particular clean-up, Boruah said he and his team of litter pickers collected more than 600 pounds of plastic in the city of Birmingham.
also, sometimes: everybody is talking about this, but not on the specific tumblrs you follow
or: everyone is talking about this, but guilt trips get more notes.
The main reason I don’t reblog a ‘why is nobody talking about this’ post, is because it appears on my dash between two other posts talking about ‘this’, but neither of the others are calling me a callous shithead for not reblogging their post, or spreading dramatised misinformation.
We’ve just finished the business of generating new covers for the Ebooks Direct versions of these (the Amazon versions will have different ones) and updating their interior texts,
as part of the process of updating their interior look-and-feel with the cutting-edge ebook production software Vellum.The Door into Fire was the last of them to go up in the store, just this afternoon.
So as usual we’re having a one-day sale to celebrate: all our Middle Kingdoms works are 20% off for the next 24 hours. (All the ones that cost anything, anyway. Sirronde’s World: Parting Gifts remains free until the SW sequence is complete, which won’t be before the end of the year.) The sale’s located here:
All these ebooks, as usual, are DRM-free and can be moved from device to device at your pleasure. Lose them? We’ll replace them for free. I have no desire to be mistaken for Jeff Bezos. If you bought them from EBD once, that’s enough for me. …Not sure how to get them into your app or e-reading device? Check our sideloading guide for basic info, or email us via the store’s contact page for more details. We’ll be glad to help.
Also, I have to admit: this promotion is partly is in preparation for something Middle Kingdoms-based, something frankly quite unusual – indeed groundbreaking – that’s going to happen early next week. But mysteriously I will say no more… for the moment. Except to suggest that if you’re familiar with this universe, you might want to be, well, caught up with the main sequence of MK works. So if you know anybody else who shares you interest in the major personalities of the Kingdoms, do feel free to spread the word.
Anyway, if you’d like to acquire any of the above-mentioned works at a discount, just nip over to the sale page. Links to all the MK books on offer will load there, underneath a copy of this brief blurb.
Your 23 year-old autistic cousin does not have “the mind of a 7 year-old.”
Stop calling autistic men “buddy.” Stop calling autistic women “sweetie.”
Don’t act like it’s a crime to swear in front of an autistic adult.
Don’t assume that because someone is nonverbal, they can’t understand what is going on. ESPECIALLY don’t assume that they can’t communicate at all.
Stop infantilizing autistic people.
This is important. I once went to a group meet up for autistic adults with a friend. It was a game night for adults only at a local college. Since it was a game night I brought a bunch of games with me, most notably Cards Against Humanity.
The game we all decided to play was cards against humanity and we all had a lot of fun. The one issue was the person “overseeing” the meeting, didn’t like how adult the game was and didn’t like how we were all making “inappropriate” jokes. Right before I left I asked everyone what they thought of Cards Against Humanity, and everyone of the autistic people in the room all said it was a lot of fun and they really wanted to play it again. I never went back to that meeting at first due to issues attending, but my friend went to the game night the next month and was told that “Cards against humanity is now banned for being to crass”.
After hearing that I decided not to go back to any of those meetings since there is nothing wrong with a group of adults having fun and playing CAH. To be told we could not play that game because it wasn’t PG was BS. It was a group of adults. I had had to show i was an adult to attend. It felt like the message was that because it was a group of autistic people we couldn’t play a game that was a lot of fun.
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