a decent world

wanna-be linguist, wanna-be author, wanna-be critical theorist; white, transmasculine agender, aromantic asexual with an asexual romantic partner named Hannah, self-diagnosed autistic yeah, basically that type of tumblr

[adecentworld]

Asking professors for what is essentially an accommodation

without an official diagnosis

Yaaaay my favorite activity

[cineraria]

Sheep teaches young bull to head butt, Terceira Azores - YouTube

[adecentworld]

wow the school's new health insurance plan has kinda shit coverage of mental health services outside of the university health center

(also means that I could no longer get in-network coverage from the single local person i have ever seen use "LGBT" and "autism" in the same website. nooo :()

(looking for therapists: my favorite hobby ever)

[dutchster]

such fluffbutt

[sidneyia-deactivated20210826]

I want a shirt that says “proud member of the autism epidemic”. 

[adecentworld]

Hannah and I successfully did laundry \o/

[adecentworld]

I've actually been super concerned about academic language recently

I'm writing my senior thesis this next year, and I'm worried that I'll be shoved into writing inaccessibly/that I'm so surrounded by this stuff that I'll just imitate the sorts of things I'm personally opposed to.

Well, at least I'm interdisciplinary, which means I have to explain a lot of theory/presumptions from the onset, no matter who I'm talking to.

[yesthattoo]

Feminist Wire has a call for submissions on feminism and disability. I present at disability studies conferences, and I don’t understand their call. It’s not cognitively accessible [written in ways that people actually understand] in the least, and it claims to be inviting people outside academia. I hereby request a social media crisis.

Relevant things to do include reblogging this post, retweeting this tweet/conversations around it or this tweet/conversations, sharing this Facebook status, sharing the blogspot link elsewhere, and contacting The Feminist Wire directly, at [email protected], on Twitter, or on Facebook. This is their most recent share of the call.

Privilege is that when people write a call for submissions meant to include you, they write so you can understand it.

[adecentworld]

Do other autistic people often respond to/continue on topics that have long since passed by?

My partner says it's one of the things I do that really reminds her of another autistic person she knows. I also know official criteria often say something or another about "difficulty changing topics in conversation" -- but it feels sort of like I jump around topics too much, not too little.

It's not even that I'm keeping hold of a particular thought that I didn't get the chance to speak. I'll be talking about topic A, which then shifts to topic B or even C, and then suddenly I decide to continue on about something of topic A. More recently, I've gotten better at actually indicating that I am responding to a previous topic, but for a long time I would confuse folks by just suddenly jumping back to an old topic without warning.

I think it has to do with being slow to process my opinion/thoughts on certain things.

I'm just curious to see if other autistic folks experience this too?

[adecentworld]

omg how are there still people posting on the #asexual tag talking about how the A in LGBTQIA+ should stand for "both asexual and ~ally~"

omg stop

[adecentworld]

omg this tangle is great

[epochryphal]

Great. Seriously, great. That is ridiculously awesome news.

Not because it’s inherently better to have an almost entirely demi population than the other way round, but because it’s inherently better to know. Because it’s awesome to have words to express how we think differently from each other and it’s awesome to know roughly how many people think one way and roughly how many people think the other. Because people can lead better-informed lives. They don’t feel the pressure to act non-demisexual. They can discuss their attraction styles with their partners and dates. They can happily have sex or a romantic relationship without having to fake sexual attraction if they want to (and, in mainstream society, I’m pretty sure sexual attraction is currently assumed in both of those things). It’s not a utopia, but everyone understands themselves and each other just that tiny bit better.

[epochryphal]

Did y’all see this post on Asexual Agenda?  It’s spectacular!  Mad props to Siggy for composing this, wow!

[adecentworld]

one of the most helpful thing about self-diagnosing as autistic has been actually listening to my sensory wants/needs and seeing how other autistic folk handle them, instead of focusing on whether it’s “stupid” or “dramatic” to e.g. wear sunglasses indoors…

[jupiter-reborn]

I question myself a lot too. I once stood in front of the Velcro products in a store for… a very long time, trying to decide whether or not to buy something. I was thinking of making a schedule/organizational chart with movable labels for various tasks to help with executive dysfunction. I kept thinking that “only people who are much more disabled than I am need that kind of thing” and “I’m being ridiculous and fooling myself” and “I just want to think that I’m autistic, but I’m not.” I was severely sleep-deprived and out of it and I eventually just walked away. I didn’t buy the Velcro. I did go back and buy it another time. But I still haven’t made that chart, which I think proves that I would, in fact, benefit from it.

[adecentworld]

I'm so glad hearing all these other stories of self-questioning. :) Like, not that they happen, but that it's not just me.

[adecentworld]

one of the most helpful thing about self-diagnosing as autistic has been actually listening to my sensory wants/needs and seeing how other autistic folk handle them, instead of focusing on whether it's "stupid" or "dramatic" to e.g. wear sunglasses indoors or on cloudy days

that said, i finally got the sense to order a pair of earmuffs and a tangle, since I've been wanting both for a while now

[tuckingandotherskills]

How to make homemade breastforms

[transgenderteensurvivalguide]

Just some resources for my transfeminine/trans women followers!

[3999999-deactivated20260407]

It’s interesting because as a transguy I don’t even know what transgirls have to go through in order to pass. 

[thatmagpie-deactivated20180730]

That’s because neither do most trans women because of transmisogyny. There are no resources for us. Trans men get access to resources and support that we do not.

[3999999-deactivated20260407]

I haven’t even realized that before. Thank you for opening my eyes to this issue. It’s very sad though. I mean… I don’t even know what to say. Definitely reblogging every time something that might be useful for trans women shows up on my dash!

[thatmagpie-deactivated20180730]

cool that is a good thing to do. also i would appreciate it if you would submit them to tuckingandotherskills as well so we can get the word out!

[thescurfofworse]

HEY YEAH this is a thing - trans men get binder giveaways and feminist sex stores that cater to their needs. they get trendy top surgery fundraisers and art shows and shit. i mean THESE ARE ALL GREAT THINGS. but “resources for trans* people” needs to stop meaning “resources for trans* masculine folks”! OK THAT IS ALL CARRY ON AND THIS POST IS ALSO GREAT.

[flanneryogonner]

[vivalosblancos-blog]

flanneryogonner:

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speechesby Audre Lorde

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Critical Race Theory: An Introductionby Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America-Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism- bell hooks

Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks

outlaw culture - bell hooks

Faces at the Bottom of the Well- Derrick Bell

Sex, Power, and Consent- Anastasia Powell

I am Your Sister - Audre Lorde

Patricia Hill Collins- Black Feminist Thought

Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

Four books by Frantz Fanon

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Medical Apartheid -Harriet Washington

Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory - edited by Michael Warner

Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Ania Loomba

Discipline and Punish- Michel Foucault

The Gloria Anzaldua Reader

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

What is Cultural Studies? - John Storey 

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture - John Storey

The Disability Studies Reader 

Michel Foucault - Interviews and Other Writings 

Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality,Vol. 1,Vol. 2,Vol. 3 

Michel Foucault- The Archeology of Knowledge 

This blog also has a lot more. 

(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)

YO FOLLOWERS CHECK OUT THESE AMAZING RESOURCES.

[adecentworld]

I'm currently feeling, like, legit excited that school starts soon.

It's still two weeks away christ wtf