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I might do a few more of these but less regularly. Here are all of them :)
hey here’s a rad idea: stop perpetuating “positive” stereotypes of developmentally disabled people like “autistic people can’t tell a lie” or “kids with Down’s Syndrome are always so happy and smiling! they could never hurt a fly!”
we are not your one-dimensional inspiration porn, we are human beings with distinct and complex personalities
your seemingly positive stereotypes of us are actively harmful because they contribute to our dehumanization—because they deny that we are human beings with distinct and complex personalities
plus the consequences of not fitting into that one-dimensional mold can be very, very unpleasant
so just stop
What’s especially awful about some of these stereotypes are some of the reasons why these stereotypes emerged in the first place. For example, people with Down Syndrome and other types of intellectual disabilities have often been trained into compliance and basically not allowed to exhibit anger or even sadness. Some may be genuinely happy at a given moment, but others may be covering up “non-compliant” moods because they may fear what will be done to them if they show the “wrong” emotions.
Teen With Epilepsy Has A Seizure When Her Service Dog Is Distracted
This article is too important for me to just post a link that you probably won’t click through to read. THIS is why you DO NOT EVER pet service dogs. They are working and it can mean serious injury or even death if you are distracting them from doing their job.
Friends, don’t pet service dogs. Don’t ask to pet service dogs. Don’t whistle or jingle your keys or make little noises to get the dog’s attention. Don’t feed service dogs anything or wave food in front of their face. Just don’t.
And please, keep your children from doing these things too.
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hurt feelings are not the same thing as oppression white, male, abled tears
Why Dyscalculia awareness is so important
I’d like to take a second to list all the people I wish had known more about dyscalculia growing up:
My first grade teacher, who noticed when on a verbal counting test that I went from 99 to 100 to 200 and told my parents I just needed a little practice
My third grade teacher, who couldn’t understand why I would turn in a timed multiplication table test with absolutely nothing written on it, or burst into tears when asked to bring it home and have it signed by my parents
My school corporation, who placed me in advanced mathematics for two excruciating years based on aptitude tests, apparently unaware that aptitude and ability are not one and the same
My fifth grade teacher, who privately admonished me for “laziness” because I couldn’t stop making “silly mistakes”—like switching multiplication and addition, or flipping numbers like three and eight, or failing to follow every step of a math problem
My sixth grade math teacher, who publicly called me out for writing the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem on my hand, claiming I didn’t study, though I had spent five hours the night before preparing
My parents, who grounded me every time my report card came out, trying their best to discipline what they thought was laziness
My family doctor, who, once told about my math troubles, prescribed me ADD medication without any running any kind of diagnostic
My Algebra teacher senior year after I was diagnosed, who claimed that giving me extra time on my test would be “unfair to the other students”
Every teacher who ever laughed and pointed at the clock when I asked them what time it was
The boy in my band class that said I was the “stupidest smart person he’d ever met”
My former boss, who when I told I had dyscalculia told me “I probably have it too, I am always mixing things up!” (she was an accounting major and ran the accounting portion of that place of business)
But you know who would have really benefited from knowing about dyscalculia? Me. I wish I had known. I wish I could go back and tell my ten year old self that it wasn’t my fault, that I am extraordinary in the best way. I wish someone, somewhere along the way could have seen what was really going on.
That’s why dyscalculia awareness is so important.
Autism doesn’t equal intellectual disability, but intellectually disabled autistic people exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.
Autism doesn’t equal having a mental illness, but mentally ill autistic people exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.
Many autistic people are or will become capable of working, but autistic people who are unable to manage a job exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.
Many autistic people are or will become capable of living on their own, but autistic people who will never be able to live on their own exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.
Autism doesn’t equal being unable to feel affective empathy, but autistic people who are unable to feel affective empathy exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.
Many autistic people are verbal, but non-verbal autistic people exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.
I hope that those who…
Are harping on Sesame Street for being associated with A$ are also equally harping on Google for also being associated with Autism Speaks. And they are near impossible to avoid and has way more influence over what autistic representation looks like than Sesame Street does.
This is why I have problems with simple guilt by association. I want to see what that association does before shunning someone for being associated with a group I don’t approve of.
I’m just putting my thoughts into words. I don’t have the spoons to argue over this.
At this point, I’m inclined to believe the only reason that A$ is still listed under their partners is because A$ was involved, however little/briefly, with the project, so there might be some kind of obligation to like, still keep giving A$ credit even if they’ve cut ties since? Idk much about stuff like that so I can’t say for sure, just speculating.
There is still A$ influence all throughout the Sesame Street and Autism website, unfortunately. I am less concerned with A$’s name on the partner list (although it would be great NOT to have them there), than I am with:
a video where a parent complains about parenting an autistic child
another video where a parent talks about how exhausting parenting is
a lot of focus on neurotypical siblings and parents
almost no time for autistic kids to express themselves
no awareness that autistic children or adults might go to the Sesame Street site
“person with autism” everywhere instead of “autistic people”
“1 in 68 children” figure used without acknowledgment that autistic adults exist at all
“1 in 68 children” figure described as being more than the children who have three different diseases when autism is not a disease
“Contact us” page lets you identify as either “parent/caregiver” or “provider” – no way to identify whether you are autistic or not
NOTHING ON THE SITE IS FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN. It is 100% aimed at “communities.”
Hooray for Sesame Street for doing something. Now will Sesame Street create something where autistic children are the protagonist? Will they create something for autistic children to see themselves in and enjoy?
The neurotypicals is who this project is aimed at. It isn’t aimed at us. Now Julia being on the show is what I want to see.
I don’t have a problem with it not being aimed at us; I have a problem with the blithe assumption that we don’t have viewpoints of our own. That autistic adults don’t exist and that autistic children shouldn’t be the center of a website about autistic children.
The thing too is that a lot of autistic children DESPERATELY need to see autistic adults to be able to envision futures for ourselves. I would kill to see @neurowonderful on a Sesame Street segment tbh, or even just a clip from one of @neurowonderful’s Ask an Autistic YouTube videos.
I, for one, would explode with happiness if I ever got to be on Sesame Street. Actually, I think I’m going to go send Sesame Street an e-mail now.
Somehow, we’re supposed to buy this notion that if we use the term disabled too much, it might strip us of our personhood. But that shame that has become attached to the notion of disability, it’s not your shame. It took a while to learn that, so I hope that you’ve never forgotten.
Stella Young, "Stella Young’s letter to herself at 80 years old"
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Everyone please take the time to report Beau Miller (https://twitter.com/swerveodactyl) of Port Orchard, WA.
These are just two of the disgusting things he has posted over the past few days.
File your report under ‘threats of violence’ and direct link to this tweet.
okay i reported this guy but then i got an email stating that if I’m “not directly involved” that there’s nothing they can do because it’s not their policy or some shit
I don’t think I can
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Fucking filth
SIGNAL BOOST
Even if Twitter won’t do anything about this garbage, I want to boost the hell out of this. Get his face spread everywhere so we can all avoid him forever.
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All-night storm by Mark Riddick
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you can hear people deliberately “not see” this on their dash.
Spider-pig, Spider-pig, does whatever a Spider-pig does because he’s a piece of shit white man who gets away with murder
please don’t let your beliefs and opinions be formed fully around tumblr posts because you have to remember that a great deal of people on tumblr are extremely bias, and many posts get twisted around and aren’t fully true. take the time to look up stuff for yourself and see what...
please don’t let your beliefs and opinions be formed fully around tumblr posts because you have to remember that a great deal of people on tumblr are extremely bias, and many posts get twisted around and aren’t fully true. take the time to look up stuff for yourself and see what...
I thought you might like to know that the tag issue is not tumblr itself, but the mobile device. If you use a computer everything is there, but the app must adhere to the carriers demands for censorship. So if, say, Verizon wants the NSFW tag blocked on the app, it must be blocked or else tumblr gets in trouble. This sort of thing has popped up in the community before. This is part of why I avoid the app (but I know not everyone can do that).
thanks for the info! :)