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Sometimes, I forget I am Black. There are some days that I am not reminded of my skin color, that I can go out and enjoy coffee or go to the library and not be bothered. Of course, I am reminded when thinking of important things such as where to buy a house, which state I’d like to visit or even through which city I can drive. These hindrances are the reminders that I am Black.
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The sadness will last forever.
Vincent van Gogh (via suicidal-elegance)
I’ve beenWaitingFor my dreams To turn into to somethingI could believe in.
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When you know that you’re sad, it’s hard to ignore it. Especially when you’re pretending to be happy around people because everything inside of you hurts. It hurts because you know that you’re sad, and you know that no one will ever truly realize that.
- notes (cutting-our-way-til-suicide)
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The following is Leelah Alcorn’s suicide note that Tumblr had to take down:If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and obviously failed to delete this post from my queue.Please don’t be sad, it’s for the better. The life I would’ve lived isn’t worth living in… because I’m transgender. I could go into detail explaining why I feel that way, but this note is probably going to be lengthy enough as it is. To put it simply, I feel like a girl trapped in a boy’s body, and I’ve felt that way ever since I was 4. I never knew there was a word for that feeling, nor was it possible for a boy to become a girl, so I never told anyone and I just continued to do traditionally ‘boyish’ things to try to fit in.When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness. After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was. I immediately told my mom, and she reacted extremely negatively, telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn’t make mistakes, that I am wrong. If you are reading this, parents, please don’t tell this to your kids. Even if you are Christian or are against transgender people don’t ever say that to someone, especially your kid. That won’t do anything but make them hate them self. That’s exactly what it did to me.My mom started taking me to a therapist, but would only take me to christian therapists, (who were all very biased) so I never actually got the therapy I needed to cure me of my depression. I only got more Christians telling me that I was selfish and wrong and that I should look to God for help.When I was 16 I realized that my parents would never come around, and that I would have to wait until I was 18 to start any sort of transitioning treatment, which absolutely broke my heart. The longer you wait, the harder it is to transition. I felt hopeless, that I was just going to look like a man in drag for the rest of my life. On my 16th birthday, when I didn’t receive consent from my parents to start transitioning, I cried myself to sleep.I formed a sort of a ‘f*** you’ attitude towards my parents and came out as gay at school, thinking that maybe if I eased into coming out as trans it would be less of a shock. Although the reaction from my friends was positive, my parents were pissed. They felt like I was attacking their image, and that I was an embarrassment to them. They wanted me to be their perfect little straight christian boy, and that’s obviously not what I wanted.So they took me out of public school, took away my laptop and phone, and forbid me of getting on any sort of social media, completely isolating me from my friends. This was probably the part of my life when I was the most depressed, and I’m surprised I didn’t kill myself. I was completely alone for 5 months. No friends, no support, no love. Just my parent’s disappointment and the cruelty of loneliness.At the end of the school year, my parents finally came around and gave me my phone and let me back on social media. I was excited, I finally had my friends back. They were extremely excited to see me and talk to me, but only at first. Eventually they realized they didn’t actually give a s**t about me, and I felt even lonelier than I did before. The only friends I thought I had only liked me because they saw me five times a week.After a summer of having almost no friends plus the weight of having to think about college, save money for moving out, keep my grades up, go to church each week and feel like s**t because everyone there is against everything I live for, I have decided I’ve had enough. I’m never going to transition successfully, even when I move out. I’m never going to be happy with the way I look or sound. I’m never going to have enough friends to satisfy me. I’m never going to have enough love to satisfy me. I’m never going to find a man who loves me. I’m never going to be happy. Either I live the rest of my life as a lonely man who wishes he were a woman or I live my life as a lonelier woman who hates herself. There’s no winning. There’s no way out. I’m sad enough already, I don’t need my life to get any worse. People say ‘it gets better’ but that isn’t true in my case. It gets worse. Each day I get worse.That’s the gist of it, that’s why I feel like killing myself. Sorry if that’s not a good enough reason for you, it’s good enough for me. As for my will, I want 100% of the things that I legally own to be sold and the money (plus my money in the bank) to be given to trans civil rights movements and support groups, I don’t give a s**t which one. The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren’t treated the way I was, they’re treated like humans, with valid feelings and human rights. Gender needs to be taught about in schools, the earlier the better. My death needs to mean something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want someone to look at that number and say ‘that’s f***ed up’ and fix it. Fix society. Please.Goodbye,(Leelah) Josh Alcorn
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Hello, AndrewGarfieldDaily.
As an autistic person, I feel the need to help inform the public, especially on this important Autistic Pride Day.
Please, please DO NOT SUPPORT AUTISM SPEAKS.
Autism Speaks hates autistic people. Autistic people have been treated horribly by this corporation. They have done many, many really shady things that should be brought to public attention, yet they are often seen as the “face” of autism because they are so large. This is a LIE. Autistic people DO NOT want to be represented by Autism Speaks. We do not support Autism Speaks. We do not want Autism Speaks to continually pretend to “help” us while raking in massive corporate profits, that we, disabled people, will never see.
So What’s SO Bad About Autism Speaks?
Autism Speaks does not have a single autistic member on their board.
Autism Speaks only spends 3% of their budget on “family services”.
Much of Autism Speaks’ money goes toward research, and much of that research centers on finding a way to eliminate autism, and thus, autistics (which will likely be done through a prenatal test, in the same way that the Down’s Syndrome test is conducted).
Autism Speaks produces advertisements, small films, etc. about what a burden autistic people are to society.
Autism Speaks was responsible for “Autism Every Day”, which featured a member of their board talking about contemplating murder-suicide of her daughter in front of her daughter. This has now be removed from Autism Speaks’ Youtube channel.
Autism Speaks is responsible for the atrocity known as “I am Autism”, a short film produced by the Academy Award Winning Alfonso Cuaron, who also directed the 3rd Harry Potter movie (yes, really) and features an ominous voice saying things like “I am autism…I know where you live…I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer, and diabetes combined…I will make sure your marriage fails.”
This woman’s job offer was rescinded after she asked Autism Speaks for accommodations in caring for her autistic son. They refused, and she made necessary accommodations for childcare, but they withdrew her offer anyways.
Autism Speaks shared the news of Google removing hate speech regarding autistics from Google’s autofill feature, completely erasing any mention of autistic people’s flashblogs having anything to do with the change. It was only after a member of the autism community (and not a parent, but an autistic person themselves) spoke with a reporter about the flashblog and a statement was released to the media that Google decided to make this change.
Autism Speaks highlighted AAC use, while erasing those those who actually use AAC devices to communicate. The focus was on the caretakers, not on the autistic people themselves. (The attached link has a link to a rebuttal by a nonspeaking autistic person, Amy Sequenzia).
Autism Speaks has violated copyright and has profited off an autistic advocate’s writing for three years.
Is that not enough? Here, have way more of Autism Speaks dirty laundry that they don’t want you to know about.
1 Autism Speaks to Washington press release
2 Misuse of donations
3 Supporting anti-vaxers
4 I am Autism video
5 Autism Science Foundation started by ex-AS exec
6 Promoting myths
7 John Elder Robison
8 = 2011 interview with Steve Silberman
9 Thoughtless fund-raising
10 Peter Bell
11 Rants
12 Difficult to categorize
13 Counter-productive awareness
14 Bad statistics
15 ΄Stopping Child Abuse “Too Political” for Autism Speaks‘
16 Liz Feld, new president
17 AutismCares — fraudulent fundraising around Hurricane Katrina
18 WrongPlanet takeover by AutismSpeaks
19 Autism Speaks discussion of Neurodiversity
20 Reports from protests at Autism Speaks Walks
21 Lack of representation by autistic people
22 Multiple issues
23 Social media crisis post
24 Non-negative reporting on Autism Speaks
25 Can’t load
26 Videos
27 Responses to the “I Want to Say” video
28 Simone Greggs — AS refuses to hire an Autism parent when she asked for accommodations
29 Opposing hate and fear based language but not directly calling out Autism Speaks
30 Links to additional posts
31 Unsorted
Do not donate to Autism Speaks. Do not support them. Educate yourself on why they are so horrible. I like Emma Stone and I like Andrew Garfield, but they are obviously unaware of the horrors that go on behind closed curtains when it comes to Autism Speaks.
Please spread the word and listen to autistic people, not Autism Speaks!
PLEASE SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE
Fuck this corporation
This one is for the girls…
As I break down crying and hope all my followers remember this.
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This made me cry.
I will carry this with me wherever I go. I’m good enough. I really am. This helped me, and I’m listening to it everyday. Thank you.
I don’t give a flying fuck what kind of blog you are, reblog this, please, everybody needs this..
this made me cry and……smile
and this is a man saying this…I love this.
I can’t stop crying
I am enough :)
If you are a girl and you follow me listen to this. You are enough.
I’m crying because I have put so much expectations of being thin and If I ever do get skinny, I’m scared I’m still gonna hate myself and I’m tired of feeling like I have a disgusting body.
This is just WOW
Beautiful message 💟💘
