Day: November 24, 2018

metapianycist:

I’ve exhaustively written and boosted posts about:

  • ways an on-record clinical diagnosis of autism can be used to materially harm autistic people
  • how an autism diagnosis can prevent you from accessing trans health care
  • how an autism diagnosis can be used to deny you the ability to immigrate to many countries, like new zealand and australia
  • the extreme difficulty and expense of obtaining an accurate autism evaluation for an adult
  • how clinical misdiagnosis does vastly more harm than incorrect self diagnosis
  • how my autism self diagnosis process began when multiple autistic people told me in person that i was probably autistic
  • how i wouldn’t have pursued clinical diagnosis if it weren’t necessary for government disability benefits
  • how multiple major autistic organizations affirm self diagnosed autistic people
  • how it’s scientifically validated that autistic people are experts on autism.

if you comprehend all of that but still disapprove of autistic self diagnosis, i don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people

jlegaspi178:

luxxrays:

luxxrays:

My Service Dog got attacked. (Lend a hand?)

This is Gia. She is the sweetest, most loving service dog. She was basically retired, but still does her job occasionally. She got mauled by another dog about a week ago, and the image on the right is her now. 
For More Images/Proof: Go Here *GRAPHIC*

Now, I’m not asking for anyone to cover her vet fees, or to help us put the other dog down. What we REALLY need, is some Pajamas for Gia. I have created a wishlist of Jammies for her. Now, you’re probably asking why she needs Jammies. She is a double coated dog, a chow chow. Without her coat, she can’t keep herself warm or regulate her temperature. And we live in Ohio, where it gets very cold. Our power has already gone out once this winter, Gia won’t be okay if she gets too cold. She can’t go outside, she can’t sleep, she can’t heal. These pajamas also help to keep the bandage on her neck stable, and keeps her from rubbing it off. She is bleeding, oozing over herself constantly, so we need a lot of pajamas to keep rotating them. They won’t just get used once, they’ll be used all winter and through the spring even! Until she is healed, they will be used and very appreciated. 

If you can’t help us by buying her some pajamas, can you please reblog this? 
We got hit with $3000 of vet bills that we do not have the money for. And she is due for another surgery to remove the rest of the dead skin next week. 

Here are My Commissions if you can’t buy her one, but want to help!
And Here is My Ko-Fi If you’d rather that. 

And HERE IS HER WISHLIST. 

Thank you SO much for sharing and helping out! 

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Please don’t let this post die down! Someone was SO wonderful and already bought her a sweater so she can go outside when it snows. If that person wants to message me, I’ll send them pictures of her in it (if they want!) !!!

Please keep sharing ♡ Gia really needs clothes so she doesn’t get cold. Her face is swelling and she is going to the vet on Monday to get it checked out.

Poor doggy 😦

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

i was never seen again.

this was the best time ever bc my host had just changed the tire and I was like “oh hell yeah an old tractor tire! you know what that means!” and everyone was like “no….” the French boys and the Norwegians were like “we dont actually” and I was like my god….I’m the only hillbilly here….it’s Up To Me

and I like to think of that as the only significant cultural impact I made.

everyone’s so worried about my tree trajectory but that’s the best part about rolling downhill in tractor tires: so much of the shock is absorbed by the tire so you can pretty much do anything. in theory. i’m not a doctor I actually don’t know you could probably still die. one of the guys I roped into this went over a huge boulder and went airborn for a hot second though so that was fun