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From vaccines to cures, from gender and sexuality to the empathy discussion, here’s what the autism community said.

A few TL;DRs:

Identify first (autistic) is preferred over person first (person with autism)

Men are diagnosed sooner and faster than women, but do not make up a significant majority of autistic people

Most of us are against ABA therapy

Most of us don’t want a cure Most of us have difficulty finding employment and thriving in school

A disproportionate amount of autistic people are LGBT+

While allistic (non-autistic) people believe we have low empathy, most of us report having heightened empathy

These responses are consistent with autistic people that are nonverbal, have severe learning disabilities, or have epilepsy

unclefather

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annullo13

And their total willingness to just outright ignore them thus allowing them to flourish.

gothcostco

rich people took a rock and were like “this is worth thousands of dollars now” and everyone just believed them

gothcostco

hell0-there-lady

others: “so, how ~southern~ are you?”

me: “The entrance of my hometown has a shrimp boat sitting in the main street. At Christmas theres a shrimper Santa and alligators pulling him instead of reindeer.”

others: “what?!”

me:

kaijuno

“Starter house”?????? We’re supposed to have more than one house???????

gear65

bae-in-maine

We stan an Queen.

kipplekipple

Just casually going to reblog this from myself, because it’s about fucking time everyone accepted that “trans” is not an insult.

humanimalgam

my adhd ass when someone says something and expects me to be able to comprehend it the first time

humanimalgam

“not adhd but-”

minerva-is-a-robot

i like this meme so much better than “make ur own post”

humansoflatecapitalism

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My name is Lisa.

I’m five foot nine. My hair is long and it’s dark brown. I wear leather a great deal, high boots always, and sometimes glove-soft vests and even leather skirts now and then, and I wear lace, especially when I can find the kind I like: intricate, very old-fashioned lace, snow white. I have light skin that tans easily, large breasts, and long legs. And though I don’t feel beautiful and never have, I know that I am. If I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be a trainer at The Club.

–Exit to Eden by Anne Rice (aka Rampling), 1985

Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

–My Immortal by Tara Gilesbie, 2006

vraik

#g o d#that can’t be a real Anne rice quote

*”Rampling” was Rice’s pseudonym while she was writing erotica, mainly for this and the Sleeping Beauty quartet

lumensuperbis

i mean ….

lestat is on the my immortal train too lol

the960writers

Anne Rice hates fanfiction! My Immortal is a satire of fanfiction about the fiction from an author who hates fanfiction. This makes everything even better.

pizzafishandchips

@imperfectkreis

whatsamobtoamadqueenfiona

This is just more evidence that you could teach a full semester course on My Immortal.

nerdfighterwhatevernumbers

Add this to the ‘My Immortal was a troll all along’ evidence pile

kyraneko

I am absurdly, pettily happy that it’s Anne Rice getting slammed with the My Immortal comparisons.

(Is it me or does “My Immortal” sound very like the sort of title an Anne Rice book would have?)

ladynorbert

Have we considered the possibility that Anne Rice actually wrote My Immortal?

gothiccharmschool

:: squints ::

Y’know, the theory of Anne Rice having written My Immortal is nowhere NEAR as cracky as her last book was …

robotsandfrippary

I didn’t know what the hell “My Immortal” was referring to for a long time and I just ASSUMED it was an Anne Rice novel by all the quotes I saw.

littlesystems

Anne Rice being the secret author of My Immortal is actually… not a bad theory? I mean, we know she HATES fanfiction, but also seeks it out (at least well enough to sue them) so she has some knowledge of fandom and probably of some of the styles/themes of the time. I could totally see her writing My Immortal in the dead of night, trying to wrap up every single thing she hates about fanfiction in one terribly-written package.

And she would never own up to it. EVER.

makeitearlgrey

Alright guys spread the news: we’ve figured out who actually wrote my immortal. It was Anne rice.

asymbina

Honestly, this makes just as much sense as any other theory that’s been proposed over the years

catlessevercold

@gischtglas

puddingparamour

This Just In: I just added onto the Wikipedia article for My Immortal

stripedsilverfeline

Considering that Anne Rice is a very bad writer–and she is, she really, really is–I find it hard to believe she has sufficient skill or wit to pen a satire of a fanfic.

drarryking

Oh my god. I can’t say I thought she was a bad writer but holy shit I’m glad someone noticed this

ilovepeppers-deactivated2019122

When will banksy

briarin

When will anonymous

luzialowe

always reblog, this is fucking activism folks

digitaldiscipline

if you don’t have access to poorly-secured and un-backed-up debt records, you can help do this via legitimate means by donating to rollingjubilee.org - they buy debt (the way debt collectors do, for steeply discounted prices - like $20 to buy $500 in outstanding debt owed by someone) and just… forgive it, so it doesn’t need to be paid by the person on whom it’s a burden.

violaslayvis

August 11th. I remember when a lot of people on here jumped down my throat & tried to justify the state ceasing to provide bottled water for residents because “the lead levels are safe now!!!!”

The state also doesn’t seem to have a problem selling privatizing clean water sources near Flint, selling them to Nestle & making Flint residents pay for their own water

thetrollsarealright-deactivated

At this point it is not an ecological disaster, or a failure of infrastucture. IT IS A DELIBERATE TRIAL RUN IN PRIVATIZING ALL WATER.

neurowonderful

[Image description: White rectangles filled with text overlaid on a photo of the Capitol Crawl that took place on March 12, 1990. The photo shows a blonde eight-year-old named Jennifer Keelan, who has cerebral palsy, walking on hands and knees as she leads a group of physically disabled people in crawling and walking up the stone steps leading to the austere white Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

The text reads, “Not person experiencing disability as in ‘a Republican president gave me the ADA’, Capital D Disabled as in people literally crawling up the steps and parking their chairs in front of buses gave me the ADA” and is credited to activist Kassiane Asasumasu. End of image description.]

notyourdaddy

Gideon Mendel’s The Ward

Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis shows true love in a time of terrible tragedy.

These heartbreaking and incredibly moving images show the affection and love shown during the height of the Aids crisis. Photographer Gideon Mendel’s project The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. During this time antiretroviral medications were not available and patients on the ward faced the prospect of an early death.