OH MY GOSH, THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.
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If I could offer a young person advice about anything it would be do NOT make life decisions based on your boyfriend or girlfriend. Girls especially. Do NOT stay close to home for him, do not skip opportunities to travel or study abroad, do not pick a safe college to be with him. Expand your horizons. Broaden your own life. He is not the world.
I want everyone who disagrees with this post to come back to me in a couple years and tell me how that shit worked out.
“Tumblr can’t prepare you for the REAL WORLD” logic implies that spending time in society and online are mutually exclusive, that SJWs on tumblr haven’t ever been exposed to the harsh truths of the real world, have never even spent time offline and in fact may not even occupy physical space. By this logic we were all born here, spawned from one of the many glitches in tumblr’s code; “what is air” being a genuine question about the world beyond
“High-functioning” is not reassuring me; it is reassuring you
I heard the word “high-functioning” six times when I got the results of my Autism assessment. I hear it again every time my parents tell someone I am Autistic. The sentiment is there every time someone tries to tell me me I really have Asperger’s and not Autism.
They think they are complimenting me. That they are reassuring me that I am still somewhat human- somewhat worthy of respect. They don’t understand that every time they use this word to describe me, my anxiety only increases.
The thing about “high-functioning” is it becomes an expectation. More than an expectation: a requirement.
When you’re respected for being considered high-functioning, it implies the “low-functioning” people don’t deserve the same respect.
And you’re left knowing that people don’t truly respect you- but the image you put on to survive. And you know that if you let yourself slip in their eyes into the “low-functioning” category, the respect they have for you slips away too.
Will you still be respected if you have meltdown or go non-verbal in public?
Will you keep your friends if you flap or rock around them?
Will the world still respect you when you’re no longer just a shy,slightly awkward, quirky “high-functioning” aspie?
Will the world still accept you when you are no longer their Sheldon Cooper?
And if not, then what?
okay can we just one last thing
spreading the idea that one is only triggered when having a full blown, system-shut-down panic attack is damaging and delegitimizing to people who have physiologically and emotionally different reactions to triggers.
like slow burning, long lasting unease and fear.
that’s a trigger reaction too.
please stop.
What they say: “Haha, I got you by making you offended at the racist/homophobic/misogynistic/transphobic attitudes I’m just PRETENDING to have lol u sad loser I win”
What that actually means: “I am actually even worse than what I pretended to be because I actually fully grasp the shittiness of what I’m saying and doing but I’m so devoid of even the most minimal respect or consideration for others that I do it anyway just to fuck with people who are already suffering enough, and I actually somehow find that funny or entertaining. I have no fucking idea what satire actually is or what it’s for.”
cis feminists know when they’re being objectified when men reduce their personage to their genitals but don’t recognize the harm they do to trans women and to themselves when they reduce their womanhood to genitals …?
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT, AND AS A CIS WOMAN IT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON TO LEARN
Please understand.
Can we take a moment to admire the amazing people who participated in the Warsaw ghetto uprising? These Jews died fighting for the life of the Jewish people and would not submit to their oppressors. They knew that they were vastly outnumbered and had little chance of survival but they didn’t submit. They fought the Nazi’s off for as long as they possibly could.
We all should try to be as courageous and defiant as these heroes. Do not stand by while inequality is going on. Fight against intolerance.
homeless youth don’t need marriages, they need a place to sleep
I don’t understand what this means and she spelled marriages wrong
She’s talking about the fact that queer teens/queer people in general have more important issues than just marriage equality. Studies have shown that as much as 40% of homeless youth are queer. Homelessness is a big problem in the LGBT community and should be as important an issue as marriage equality. Being able to get married is unimportant when you’re starving on the streets.
also, news flash, misspelling doesn’t discount the importance of what someone is saying!!!
SIGNAL BOOST
nothing will ruin your 20s more than thinking you should have your life together already.
I need to write this on every wall of my room. (via fakeville)
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