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moshroom

he had to jump in the ballpit to cool off after getting all airplane ears over a treat puzzle that proved a little too advanced

moshroom

he's done this a few times now. the ball pit actively soothes him when he gets mad over puzzles. i could learn something from this

moshroom

iamthemaestro

found this at an antique shop the other day and was immediately like oh this belongs on tumblr. sniles sneetly. fwowns fwangry.

alphacrone

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

nighttime-starrrz

Also, isn’t it ableist in itself to imply that disabled people are inherently incapable of reading and understanding big words? I don’t think that infantilizing disabled people and treating them as inherently dumber and/or less capable than non-disabled people is the most progressive thing to do when it comes to advocating against ableism.

nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix

Also it’s literally a part of some people’s autism that their brain doesn’t filter out words beyond their level (as they’re growing up but maybe even after?) which is why you get autistic 5 year olds talking like a classic professor so there is at least one disability making you *more* likely to use “big words” (with social and neurological fallout).

chronic-cane

I think all these things can exist in tandem to what the tiktok discourse is probably not about, which is that plain language and easy reading is still needed and is a way to be accessible.

It's ableist to assume all disabled people can't understand big words, but it's also ableist to ignore the needs of those with intellectual disabilities.

A dictionary being available is great for when you have the time and energy to read something multiple times over. You know, something to do for improving your reading level. If you're communicating essential ideas and important information though, it should be necessary for everyone to be able to understand it their first time reading through.

Anti intellectualism is a problem but doubling down to not make an effort into accessibility is going to exacerbate it if anything.

I feel like if you think that a dictionary is all you need to be able to fully comprehend a text above your reading level, you have not been in a situation where your reading level is far below what you're reading. I need anyone who thinks this way to read one chapter of any of Judith Butlers earlier works, any paper with a large use of specific anatomical terms, hell to look at most laws. You will realize how overwhelming it is to actually understand, how you feel like you can't fully understand even if you technically know what all the words mean. A dictionary is good if you don't know one or two words, not most of them.

@spicebowl put these tags that go with this well

What I'm going to say will sound nit picky but it's actually important: the lower reading level would be considered an impairment while the challenges that come from not accommodating it (being taken advantage of) would be the social part, disability. And it makes sense for those who didn't receive a good education (which includes many kids in special ed programs & those in poverty) to both have their reading level pushed and to still use language they can understand to communicate in the meantime.

This doesn't negate the fact that autistic people can use unique vocabulary that has social consequences, an accommodation for one person can be detrimental for another. I'm allistic but my ADHD both makes reading comp and English a lot harder, while also making my train of thought a lot harder to understand. I remember reading Georg Simmels work in a grad level class and going "why is he considered intelligent writing this way when I've been told all my life to stop because it's too confusing?!" It's incredibly frustrating when you're constantly misunderstood and need to rework how you write and communicate. All of these things can exist at the same time.

I already said it's ableist to ignore those with intellectual disabilities, but it should be made clear that it is so much more insulting to say that an accommodation is ableist because it's associated with a lack of what you find important. The accommodation is insulting because your disability is an insult.

Lastly, AI can be a way to accommodate this, but from what I've seen, that technology would be behind a paywall. It's actually useful and would have to be tailored to someones unique needs. A lot of the free AI we get is bloated garbage that serves no purpose. If someone actually needs it then they can be charged for it, and the people who would need it aren't likely to have that money. This isn't an endorsement for your phone to give you a vague summary of a text message, frankly that kind of shit can make things more confusing.

alivingtypo

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

today-till-tomorrow

op how does it feel to be the most correct person on earth

fizpup

Get real.

yinza

I can now share my full piece of the OT4 for the @aerti-zakkurazine!

[Image Description: Digital artwork of Zack, Cloud, Aeris, and Tifa in the Sector 5 church. They wear their OG outfits, without gloves or Zack's pauldrons, and stand in a ring facing each other holding hands. Their eyes are closed and they smile softly. The view is between Zack and Tifa so that Zack and Cloud are on the left and Aeris and Tifa on the right. Warm light glows through the windows behind them. /end ID]