Astraia Esprit

Autistic person with Ehlers Danlos Self portraits www.patreon.com/astraia

[astraia-esprit]

Stormy having a snac

[sleeepinglover]

[cwote]

So what if you’re alone right now. Embrace it. Go get coffee alone. Shop alone. Drive alone. Watch movies alone. Get to know yourself. Nothing bad can come from riding whatever wave to self improvement you’re blessed with in the moment.

[princiest]

[youngaspie-blog]

10 ways to Alleviate An Autistic Meltdown.

Cuddle under a weighted blanket or mounds of blankets for deep soothing pressure . Pressure always seem to work for me during a meltdown.

Get to a safe place such as home whenever possible. The public is not a safe place so even going into a bath room while out can help.

Drink tea or water and this will help you to take deep breathes in order to drink it which helps to calm down the nervous system

Listen to your favorite song or music and rock.

Watch a favorite movie and rock. Maybe even play with a stim toy or two.

Play with favorite stim toys such as tangles ,spinner rings, coloring books, and softies .

Cuddle with something soft.

Use a therapy brush and brush yourself in order to get some deep pressure to you nervous system. A great option to a weighted blanket while out.

Go for a walk or swing on a swing if available. The motion can be super soothing.

Chew on a chewable necklace or play with fidget jewelry 

[marauders4evr]

Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

(Watch how many people don’t get this.)

[marauders4evr]

#raises hand #i dont understand #please explain? 

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

And yes, this system literally kills people.

[locuas642]

Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.

[rootbeergoddess]

That’s so utterly depressing.

[sushinfood]

disgusting

[beeskeepony]

I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.

[raenboow]

oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b

[luvtonique]

My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

[euryale-dreams-deactivated20201]

It’s not just money, though. Things you own can count against your resource limit as well provided that they’re not exempt and provided that they’re worth money.

Also, the rules about what is and is not exempt from being counted against your resource limit are incredibly vague and deliberately open to interpretation. Even things that are normally exempted like clothing or furniture could be deemed non-exempt if a capricious bureaucrat decides that it’s actually worth too much money and thus counts as an ‘investment.’

As someone who receives SSI this causes me a huge amount of stress.

[twodotsknowwhy]

This is so unbelievably fucked up

[prudencepaccard]

don’t couples have to divorce sometimes because their combined income disqualifies them from assistance?

[ranma-official]

Conservatives: be more frugal and save money instead of asking to get paid more

Also conservatives: if you save money you’re a sneaky thief and a fraud

[visual-poetry]

[animals-riding-animals]

turtle riding fish

[youaremyeverlovin]

yeehaw

[infpisme]

[90377]

Untitled by Digital_trance

[harmony-is-happiness]

[growling-suggestion]

There’s an ache in my chest telling me to go home but I don’t know where that is

[vindictive-suggestion]

Here, where the sunflowers stand tall and make the horizon brighter.

Here, where the ocean meets the sand and the tides roll shells back and forth.

Here, where you belong in my arms.

[mothering-suggestions]

Home is where we are in each other’s arms.

[cwote]

You’re better off being alone than being with someone who makes you feel alone.

[carbonated-milk-deactivated2016]

hey if ur ever feelin shitty use this

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

Holy shit I’m trying not to cry.

[infestationofmymind]

i really needed this one tonight

[sidestepup2thestreets]

omfg

[yaboispencer-deactivated2020092]

Do it!!!

[daddy-snuggle-me]

Please do it

[lilxlovelyxprincess]

!!!!

[snoopygirl1234]

Never not reblog

[theybby-deactivated20231001]

!!! Use this!!! It’s amazing!

[hiiilife20]

This is a word

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Listen.

[cwote]

:))

[autisticarchive-deactivated2019]

1) It’s okay to stim in public. 2) Normalize stimming. 3) Stimming is a natural part of autistic people’s body language. 4) Let your autistic child stim freely.