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I’m Not “More” Autistic Than Anyone Else: Why Functioning Labels are Harmful
You can read this post on my new wordpress blog (specifically dedicated to my experiences as an autistic person) here at Alaina Marie’s Keys.
While growing up, Amy had a very hard time socializing and was often nonverbal and catatonic. Amy would sit in one place in the same position for hours, maybe only changing it up to rock back and forth. Amy forgot to eat until she was starving. She forgot to drink water and became dehydrated. She was terrible at regulating her own body’s needs and would forget to pee until she was basically peeing herself, and always had trouble sleeping. Amy’s now an adult. She has a hard time expressing her own needs sometimes and doesn’t know how to ask for help, like if she can’t find something in a store. It takes all of her energy to do things that require a lot of senses at once, like shopping. If she is going shopping, she has to take a list and another person she trusts with her, because it is too hard to remember to purchase everything she needs and how to navigate the store and where her car is parked all at the same time. Amy experiences meltdowns if she has too many sensory things to process at one time, and during a meltdown she will scream, cry and be unable to move from the spot until she regulates. Amy frequently experiences burnout when she’s over-exerted herself and sometimes forgets where she is, feels hazy and confused and works basically on autopilot for days or weeks at a time.
While growing up, it was clear that Sarah had a knack for patterns. She could read a story and then create a story of a similar structure even though she had difficulty learning the formal processes of English in class. Sarah could remember endless facts and would recite them ad nauseam to her family and peers. Sarah created elaborate worlds from her own perspective, complete with characters, plots and fantasy elements and she would make drawings and 3 dimensional models to go with the stories. Sarah is now an adult. She’s in the Honors program at her college and is working on an honors thesis, where she essentially creates her own class for 6 credits and works with a professor one-on-one. Sarah is taking 6 classes this semester and has 3 part-time jobs and a 2-hour-per-week internship. Sarah tutors at the advanced level in several places on her campus. Sarah regulates a lot of her sensory issues well, and has turned a lot of her Sensory Processing issues into a running joke with her friends so she no longer feels self conscious about them. She has a lot of friends at school and a lot of people use the compliment, “You don’t seem like you have autism.”
Which person do you think is high functioning autistic and which is low functioning?
Student Suspended for Speaking Native American Language
When Miranda was teaching a classmate to say “posoh” and “ketapanen” on January 19, her teacher scolded her. Native News Network reported her saying “You are not to speak like that! How do I know you’re not saying something bad? How would you like it if I spoke in Polish and you didn’t understand?”
The words Miranda was chastised for translate to “hello” and “I love you” in Menominee.
old news, but still gross
And THIS shows you why most Native American languages are either extinct or endangered.
“well why is it even important to mention aromantic and asexual people all the time not everyone gets mention-”
because our entire culture is so deeply steeped in sex and romance and there’s millions of people who want none of one or the other or both and they need to be recognized and mentioned instead of made to feel like they don’t fit and they’re broken
Frat brothers rape 300% more. One in 5 women is sexually assaulted on campus. Should we ban frats?
When I was at Tulane University, girls were warned about the “bad” fraternities: the ones that spiked the punch at parties with Everclear and maybe drugs, the kind of frats where girls got hurt. During my first week of class 18 years ago, rumours circulated about a girl on my floor who had been sexually assaulted by multiple men at a frat party. These issues were always discussed with a certain nonchalance – as if having at least one rapist around was an inevitable part of fraternity life.
Not much has changed.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee police are currently investigating a fraternityafter several women were found labeled with red and black X’s on their hands after they had to be hospitalized with memory lapses from intoxication at a fraternity party. Last year, three sexual assaults were reported at one Texas fraternity – within just one month. At Georgia Tech, a frat brother sent around an email guide called “Luring your rapebait”. Wesleyan had a frat that was nicknamed the “Rape Factory”. In 2010, fraternity brothers at Yale Universitymarched through campus yelling, “No means yes, yes means anal.”
These are not anomalies or bad apples: numerous studies have found that men who join fraternities are three times more likely to rape, that women in sororities are 74% more likely to experience rape than other college women, and that one in five women will be sexually assaulted in four years away at school. So it seems only natural to ask: With all of the current efforts, from the White House to college towns, to curb campus sexual assault – using “yes means yes” as a standard for consent, holding administrators accountable, touting bystander intervention – why haven’t we addressed perhaps the most obvious solution?
It’s time to talk about banning fraternities.
maybe I’m just ignorant, but fraternities have always just seemed like a breeding ground for subhuman scumlords to me
Frat brothers rape 300% more. One in 5 women is sexually assaulted on campus. Should we ban frats?
“but you’re way too ______ to be nonbinary" first rule of nonbinary club is we don’t dictate what’s nonbinary. second rule of nonbinary club is WE DO NOT. DICTATE. WHAT. IS. NONBINARY.
to be perfectly honest the people most impacted by concern-trolling about Fakers aren’t even the people who are actually faking, who know exactly what they’re doing and are unlikely to be dissuaded from it by a couple of “romanticizing mental illness is bad” posts. the people most impacted are people who are ACTUALLY mentally ill but who have it drilled into their heads that they are not allowed to be sick, that their suffering is fake and wrong and hurts people with Real Problems. literally all you accomplish by yelling about Fakers is making it even harder for mentally ill people to seek help because they’re so afraid that everything they’re experiencing is made up
“Creepshot” Photos Are Now Legal in Texas
A Texas state law prohibiting people from taking photographs “with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person” if the person being photographed does not consent is unconstitutional, according to the state’s highest criminal court. Under this decision, so-called “creepshot” photos, where men often take photos of unconsenting women that they encounter on the street, are legal in Texas.sooo this is disgusting
dont ignore this
this is important and a huge step backwards
While jews have historically and currently been overrepresented in media both as characters and actors the portrayal of Jews is always that of the fully assimilated Ashkenazi (Jews with European ancestry). We are shown as being secular and unrecognizable to goys. maybe we get a Jewish food or Yiddish word occasionally but besides for that we may as well be goyim. We also are often portrayed as stereotypes such as the insecure comedy relief, the bumbling sidekick or the genius.
The issue is that this shows a sliver of the Jewish population and completely erases Jewish culture. Jews are not a homogeneous group. We come from all over the world, practice Judaism differently, there’s not one single Jewish culture or way to be a jew.
Indigenous Canadians stand up to Ellen DeGeneres using #sealfies, fight for their right hunt seals
“We do not hunt seals, or any animal for that matter, for fashion,” Killaq Enuaraq-Strauss, 17, says. “We hunt to survive. If Canada were to ban the seal hunt, so many families would suffer, would face harsher forms of malnutrition, and wouldn’t be able to afford proper clothing for the Arctic environment we live in. Even more so, another part of our culture would have been killed.”
Nothing makes me quite as angry as wealthy people in major cities trying to make completely uninformed, harmful, disrespectful interjections into northern Canadian culture and infrastructure.
destroy these people. if you’re celebrating vicious hunts like this with this sort of thing you’re not just hunting for survival and your culture deserves to be destroyed.
Well somebody didn’t click the link. Government seal hunting (including the pup killing I’m sure you’re thinking of by your use of vicious hunts) is not Inuit doing, or Inuit endorsed. These people DO hunt to survive, they hunt adult animals for food and clothing. The kind of clothing you need when you live that far up north, nothing compares to animal furs in that respect and it would actually be downright wasteful to kill a seal to eat then not use it’s fur too. The numbers they take are also sustainable, the numbers government take, less so. Then after the act, there is nothing wrong with taking pride in the clothing you make out of it. You still had to make it after all.
They’re not celebrating any vicious hunts, they’re trying to defend their right to survive the best way they can in a harsh environment, when people who know nothing about what they do and why are trying to stop them.
“Your culture deserves to be destroyed” get a load of this dumbass racist piece of shit. Gee I wonder why the Inuit don’t take your fucking hippy animal rights bullshit seriously.
Wow… Seriously people who have NO CLUE what it’s like need to shut their traps. These people have been doing it for generations and have a huge respect for the ecology of their environment. It’s not at all like what shitty dishonest organizations such as PETA depict it as. They are all for sustainability, if they weren’t they wouldn’t survive. Plus faux furs damage our environment! This is much more sustainable and eco-friendly. Also as mentioned before the fur DOES NOT COMPARE to anything man made.
people who are privileged enough to live in cities that have resources for snow removal and have houses equipped with heaters do not understand how many people there are that need to live off the land to survive and how difficult it is. it’s not very black and white, they can’t go to grocery stores or Macy’s to get a coat (seal skin is also extremely warm and better than any synthetic coat)
^^^^ Knowledge.
I also support the seal hunt in general because that’s more fishermen substituting what is by all rights a meager income. It also helps keep fish populations more stable, and this is something to keep in mind since fish populations are collapsing. A rampant seal population would only make this even worse.
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