“you think you’re the one who gets to kill me?” fghjvkfkkd
Trying to match this energy
it is 3 in the goddamn morning and i rolled out of bed to this holy fuck
I did actually buy a bag of some frozen raw food mix as a bit of a treat for Max one time, because I spotted it on sale and it looked like a combo Mr. Picky should really like.
So, then I promptly plonked the nuggets onto a baking sheet in the oven for a while before giving it to him 😅 He seemed to enjoy those chicken and veggie meatballs quite a bit.
I think the raw feeding movement contains more zealots than science and I greatly prefer home-cooked over raw for various reasons, which have been discussed in numerous blog posts here. I tend not to change things if there’s not a problem but would not say I’m a fan of it as such, and the majority of its miracle cure claims (except 2 really, and only sometimes) are exaggerated.
Nearly every autistic person on the face of the Earth has been groomed for abuse from an early age.
We don’t attract abuse by being idiosyncratic or sincere. To say that is to blame our personalities. To say that that is to make yet another attempt at getting us to suppress ourselves, ruining our emotional and physical health.
We don’t stumble into abuse because we’re naive or poor judges of character. To say that is to infantilize us. To say that is to make yet another attempt at robbing us of our independence and agency, impoverishing our life experiences.
We find ourselves in toxic, abusive friendships and relationships because we are groomed for that shit by the authority figures in our lives who teach us how to behave and blend in while ignoring the nuances of interpersonal interaction – particularly the nuances of the sorts of interaction that happen when acquaintances become friends, when friends become close friends, or when our relationships with those friends become romantic and/or sexual. They simply don’t see those stages of relating as something we want, or, if we do want them, however desperately, they are dismissed as something that’s simply not in the hand we were dealt. We are taught only how to get by in shallow interactions, and left to trial and error should we wish to pursue anything beyond that.
Unfortunately, a lot of that “error” entails emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse.
Not just that.
A lot of the authority figures who try and teach autistic people how to ‘behave’ are mostly teaching us to behave ourselves. Not how to behave so that you can be successful in the world, not how to behave so that other people will like you, how to behave yourself so that you’ll be easy for the authority figures in your life will control.
I remember learning this process for disagreeing with authority figures, for example. You were only allowed to try to convince them that they were wrong once, calmly and politely, and then you were supposed to calmly acquiesce to whatever the authority figure said without question. Even if the thing that was wrong was ‘I’m on the verge of a meltdown and about to go nonverbal, I need to get out of here now’ or ‘the chronic illness I haven’t been diagnosed with yet is making my whole body hurt again and you said it was nothing the first time’.
There was no information about how to deal with an abusive authority figure or an authority figure who was wrong but wasn’t willing to admit it. There was no information on, say, organizing a group of people who feel the same way to go and talk to the authority figure. Or on what the best way is to ask again after some time has gone by without badgering them. The thing and the whole of the thing was “you get one shot, and if that doesn’t work, that’s the end, henceforth and forever”.
If that’s your only script for dealing with conflict with authority figures, then how are you going to survive in the workforce (where your boss can be clearly wrong about things sometimes, and yet will still need to know this)? If you learn to translate this process to other interpersonal relationships, how will you be able to keep yourself out of an abusive friendship or an abusive relationship?
You won’t. But it makes you quiet and docile and easy to warehouse, so they teach kids this stuff.
I did not know that in 7 states in America, you can carry out an abortion the day before you give birth (allows abortion at any time). That’s so fucking disgusting. And other states allow abortion up to 28 weeks. That’s not a ball of cells no more, that’s a damn baby. It’s good that abortion is legal but not the fucking late into the pregnancy 😷😷 nasty
You do know the reason abortion is carried out that late in a pregnancy is because of fetal abnormalities, right? There’s no woman that stays pregnant for 8 months and then decides “Meh, I’m just gonna have an abortion instead.”
These women are not nasty, they are not evil, they are women who were so excited to welcome their little one into this world. They are women who had a nursery set up and baby clothes bought. They are women who excitedly waited for their due date, took belly photos and updated the world on how their pregnancy was coming along. They are the women who woke up one day and felt that their baby wasn’t moving anymore. They are the women that felt in their gut that something was terribly wrong, just to have their worst fears confirmed.
They are the women who went to a regular checkup to find out that their baby is severely deformed and won’t live outside the womb, or will but only for a few days and suffer terribly the whole time. They are the women who have to make a decision to not let their baby suffer.
Women having abortions that late are not women who just decided to get an abortion 8 months into pregnancy. While that is there right to do so, know that isn’t what happens. Know that that isn’t the reality.
This is really upsetting to read but it is the truth, more people need to know this.
Something like 90% of abortions are first trimester, which is so early that the medical terminology vacillates between “zygote” and “fetus”, and whatever the name, the thing’s the size of a pencil eraser and has 0% ability to survive outside of the womb.
The remainder are performed in the 2nd trimester, generally as a result of fetal abnormality or a severe congenital defect.
The vanishingly rare 3rd trimester abortions are generally for one of two reasons:
1) the life of the mother is in serious danger 2) the fetus is either dead or dying
So no. Women aren’t just bouncing on coat-hangers at 37 weeks for a giggle, they’re undertaking a serious medical procedure for a heartbreaking reason.
I’ve known someone in the position of carrying a dead fetus in her body. The kid had a name and a crib and handmade blankets and a mountain of toys. There were baby showers and a little plastic bath thing and those toys that are supposed to make baby smart. There was even a special backpack for taking the kid hiking.
If the first doctor she saw had listened to her, all that stuff might even have gotten used. But instead, the kid died that night. Her mother carried a corpse in her uterus for 3 days, running a horrible fever and coming close to organ failure.
So go fuck yourself if you think she should have died with the kid. Pro life, my big round ass.
These fucks know nothing. They don’t understand that late abortions are 100% unwanted and break the mother’s heart.
They’re so self-righteous and self-absorbed they are incapable of putting themselves in the woman’s shoes.
It’s part of the propaganda war against abortion. The “selfish slut who can’t be bothered to be pregnant and doesn’t care about the baby she’s killing” is easy to demonize and people have no problem denying her an abortion. The fact that she doesn’t exist is incidental.
A woman I know recently had to carry a baby to term, because my Mediterranean, highly Catholic bullshit country has illegal abortion still. Her baby was developing without any brain tissue, and she found this out during her second trimester. She had to carry an essentially brain dead child for five more months, growing larger and larger like nothing was wrong, smiling and fielding questions from those not in the know about gender, due date, all the congratulations that must have hurt so much. She gave birth, and the baby died minutes later. They didn’t even babtise it on time, so now it’s buried in unconsecrated soil, too. Because she obviously didn’t suffer enough.
Now she’s on suicide watch. I hope that makes you feel REAL.good. that no abortion took place.
To those trying to use my post to say Terry Pratchett would have been for the racist right wing rhetoric that resulted in Brexit…what’s it like being Lord Rust?
“You can’t put words in an author’s mouth”
Okay but, and I’m going to go out on a limb here, *steeples fingers in front of face and takes a deep breath* when you spend the entirety of 41+ books telling people to fight back against the evils in society, which he perceived and portrayed to be racism, sexism, classicism, ageism, greed, neglect, war and the every day small minded acts of bigotry that make society sick as a whole, I’m going to go ahead and say Terry wouldn’t be to happy with people chanting “Make Britain White Again” while firebombing the local kebab shop.Just a hunch.
One of his books was literally called Jingo and featured a kebab shop being firebombed. And the protagonists were outraged by this and did everything they could to help the owner. The words were already in Pterry’s mouth back in 1997.
“It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made
mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to
cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have
to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the
kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were
capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary
people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly
depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was
anyone’s fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I’m
one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of
Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one
of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”
Jingo– Terry Pratchett (1997)
Discworld was a deeply progressive book universe, where diversity was always a strength, where kindness was the great problem solver. How coukd anyone read any of his books and think he was ever conservative in any way?
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