People on the autism spectrum live an average of 18 fewer years than everyone else, study finds

titleknown:

autisticadvocacy:

Autistics are dying young — 12 to 30 years earlier than might otherwise be expected, many from suicide

What’s even more troubling is how the statistics go wildly up when the populations looked at are female or have other developmental disorders.

Or how even people considered ‘high functioning” showed the same overall rates. Thusly showing yet again how profoundly bullshit functioning-labels are…

salparadisewasright:

grimfangsmaw:

deerypoof:

Of all a deer’s senses, their eyesight is the worst.

IT DOESN’T HELP THAT THOSE ARE POSSUMS WHO ALSO HAVE TERRIBLE EYESIGHT. XD SO BOTH CREATURES DIDN’T REALIZE WHAT WAS WHAT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE I’M DYING.

everyone in this forest is so confused and I love them

oldfarmhouse:

zadiest:

i refuse to die until things are better and that is a threat

smilemaddy:

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”

— Bell Hooks
(via purplebuddhaquotes)

weloveshortvideos:

guy tries to stop it with his foot

sdzoo:

Just a friendly reminder that satanic leaf-tailed geckos are devilishly cute and not evil at all 😈

discardingimages:

trumpet nose

Bible, France c. 1270-1290

Bibliothèque d’Agglomération de Saint-Omer, Ms. 5, fol. 246r