A Sad Gay Bird @asingingpenguin - Tumblr Blog

requiem for vanished birdsong

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipi

The Trump administration wants to make a rule change that would decrease or end benefits for SSI recipients who live with their family. As many as 400,000 disabled people may have their benefits cut if this rule change occurs.

thatdiabolicalfeminist

It's worth noting as always that as things currently stand, the MAXIMUM benefit a person can receive from SSI is $994 a month.

If two people on SSI are married, the MAXIMUM they can receive is $1,491 a month, total, for both of them. (Meaning marriage to another SSI recipient reduces your maximum income possible to $745 a person each month.)

Could you live on that?

Could you live on that without living with family?

#US Politics

kateammann

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

pangur-and-grim

I think some of the loneliness of autism is that you feel like you hurt people just by Interacting Wrong, but you don’t know how to Interact Right, and the more effort you put into it, the more exhausted you are and the more artificial it comes across (with the end result of people still being upset with you). and it’s not anyone’s fault for not liking Being Interacted With Wrong, and it’s not your fault for doing it so wrong, but it is very, very lonely.

shoefaced2

and even though we say the wrong things often, it goes deeper. it's soul crushing when you spend years trying to say the Right Things only to learn that people also judge your tone, timing, posture, facial expressions or lack thereof, eye contact length, etc.

and then you try to manage these things too, if it's even possible for you, and you still come across as strange and intimidating because it's just not humanly feasible to make it look "natural" when you're juggling so many things that don't come naturally to you.

crazy-brazilian

suchcrispwhimsy

never been seen in the same room together

#Birds

imdrinkingmiso

I am doing whatever the opposite of locked in is .

natalieironside

"U should move to another country" Can't, dude. They don't let ppl like me move to other countries usually. I'm like the exact sort of person border officials typically don't let into countries. Like I'll hand them my passport and they'll take one look at my weird ass and a mean waiter in a tuxedo will come out and cut it up in front of me w/ a pair of scissors

punkrorschach

it is... unfortunate to see trans people go through their own version of "all boys are stupid/all girls have cooties" after they come out. take my hand. you dont have to act like a cis person to validate your gender.

punkrorschach