Forensics

Some forensic science and maybe a little sfx makeup while I’m at it. Obvious trigger warning

[forensic-science744]

Quick introduction

Hi...

This is a blog following my journey through university with special needs. I started it a semester late because I’m bad at planning.

I am currently doing a science foundation year, then next year I will start and intergrated masters in forensic and analytical investigation.

I am diagnosed with autism, SPD and Visuo spatial dyslexia, and I am being assessed for ADHD, dyspraxia and dysgraphia really soon.

I’m hoping to post fairly regularly, but with all the best intentions sporadic will probably be closer to the truth.

So yeah, questions are welcome, if there’s anything in particular you want to know about let me know.

See you at some point...

[forensic-science744]

Autism on TV: I am completely void of any emotion. I am a robot that cares about nothing and no one.

Autism in (my) real life: Stressed for three days because I can’t find my pen. I have other pens, but it has to be that pen.

[forensic-science744]

Update:

Finally, after a long four months of searching, I have found my pen! I genuinely fell calmer now I’ve found it even after 4 months.

[forensic-science744]

Update:

I eventually lost the pen in a supermarket never to be seen again. The meltdowns lasted a week.

RIP pen

[chaotic-queer-disaster]

so i wore noise cancelling headphones today. specifically, on the bus ride back from school; i was too anxious to actually take them out during the school day, lmao. and one girl asked "why do you have those?" I explained a bit about sensory issues, and then just trailed off with "anyway... I need them". and like. strictly speaking. that is not 100% true. I don't need them like I need food or water. I won't die without them. And unless I'm right near a meltdown, I can usually stay in a loud room as long as I'm *supposed* to.

But I do still need my headphones.

They let me function easier and more happily. I feel so, so much calmer and safer at home... which is when I let myself wear the headphones. I felt the same way when i went to the mall in the city and wore noise cancelling headphones there.

So, like. if you have a Thing you use that you don't technically, 100% ABSOLUTELY NEED to function... keep it anyway. use it anyway.

Wear sunglasses in rooms with too-bright lights, use your cane or walker because it just makes things easier, use your wheelchair when you could probably walk, wear noise cancelling headphones or ear defenders even when you can stand to be in the room without it, use your hearing aids even if you can get by sorta OK without them, keep fidget/stim toys or comfort items around because they make you happier, etc etc etc.

You do not need to wait until you're hurting as much as you can to use the thing that helps you.

[forensic-science744]

Someone once said to treat my sensory issues like a NT person would treat a headache.

When most people get a headache, they take pain killers. They don’t need painkillers, in that they won’t die without them, but they need them in the fact that it makes their day easier. Sure, they could drag themselves through it, like many people do, but they will probably suffer for it later.

Same thing with sensory issues, I might not need ear defenders like people need oxygen, but I still need them so I don’t suffer through the day and beyond.

[brain-buddies]

There is a new Chrome extension that detects if a video you’re streaming has a strobe in it, will freeze the video and stick this warning up there until you approve it.

WHERE THE HELL HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE????

[ensoua]

[image description: a screencap of the chrome web store, showing an extension called “seizsafe - epilepsy alert for youtube” and an example image of the extension, showing a blocked video with the text “warning: the following content may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.” there is a toggle with an option reading: “don’t warn me again during this video. click here or hit spacebar to continue watching 👆”. end image description.]

chrome webstore link:

Seizafe - Epilepsy Alert for YouTube™

Prevent Photosensitive-Epileptic seizures while watching YouTube™ videos. We'll warn you before you see any flashy videos.

[chthonic-pain]

reblog to help photosensitive folk feel safe!!

[spongebob-autisticquestions]

[ryan-sometimes]

If an autistic person overexplains something to you they probably don't think you're dumb they just think THEY would appreciate those details if they were the ones being explained to

[ryan-sometimes]

A lot of things that seem obviously implicit in speech AREN'T obvious to autistic people. So we inherently think it's necessary to specify things that might seem transparent to neurotypical people because usually WE'RE the ones who need those explanations

[mantis-lizbian]

EXACTLY!!

[forensic-science744]

Autism on TV: I am completely void of any emotion. I am a robot that cares about nothing and no one.

Autism in (my) real life: Stressed for three days because I can’t find my pen. I have other pens, but it has to be that pen.

[forensic-science744]

Update:

Finally, after a long four months of searching, I have found my pen! I genuinely fell calmer now I’ve found it even after 4 months.

[crpl-pnk]

you ever realize how able bodied people just are not expected to do things that cause them excruciating physical pain? like they’re just. not

if i shouldn’t use my cane because i can sometimes technically walk without it, it would just hurt like a motherfucker then abled people should no longer be allowed to use potholders to take things out of the oven because i mean

well they could technically pick up a hot pan with their bare hands. it would just hurt like a motherfucker

[crpl-pnk]

*sees an abled person using potholders*

i just think it’s really sad that you’re giving up on yourself like that

[crpl-pnk]

if you use potholders how will you ever build up the calluses necessary to pick up scalding hot metal without burning yourself so severely? it’s like you’re not even trying to get better

[darklingdawns]

I mean, my mother uses potholders, but she’s in her 70s. You’re just… too YOUNG to be resorting to potholders at your age.

[kipplekipple]

If you start using potholders, your inability to hold hot metal will only get worse.

[azuremist]

What’s happening to autistic people right now?

(Trigger warning for abuse, electroshock therapy, torture, and ableism.)

The US court has overturned the ban on shock devices being used against disabled students, predominantly autistic students in the US.

The shock device being legalized is called the graduated electronic decelerator (or GED). This is a torture device that is used to ‘correct’ autistic behaviors / symptoms. Autistic people are shocked for stimming, and for having meltdowns, ect. This device was made popular by a behavioral center (the Judge Rosenberg Center, specifically) that is infamous for its abuse and torture of autistic / disabled patients.

(Image ID: someone is holding their arm out and resting it on a table, with their sleeve rolled up. Attached to their arm are wires, which connect to a small cube device.)

This is what the device looks like. It sends electric shocks into the victim’s skin; the victim often being restrained and held against their will. This is torture. GEDs have been reported to cause intense psychological trauma, PTSD, and physical injuries.

In March of 2020, the FDA ruled for GEDs to be banned. (Although, of course, they were still illegally used at a number of places.) This ruling has recently been appealed, and today, the US court of appeals has re-regulated the law to stop the use of GED. Sounds great, right? It would be!

... If not for a huge loophole in the wording, which basically allows this torture to continue. This device is going to have continued use on autistic students in order to “correct their behavior.”

“So.... What can I do??”

Great question! You can:

Listen to and boost autistic voices to spread awareness

As-of now (July 7th), autistic activists are trying to get #StopTheShock trending on Twitter, so Tweet out the hashtag if you have Twitter

If you’re in the US, email / call your legislators

Sign this petition if you’re in the US

Follow this case and look out for updates

If Autism Speaks (known ableist hategroup) says anything about this, DO NOT BOOST IT

That’s all! Thank you. Reblogs are very appreciated!!

[forensic-science744]

Just to add, the shocks aren’t minor, it’s not like normal electroshock therapy where you’re sedated. The shocks given to the autistic and disabled students are 90 milliamps, 100 milliamps is lethal. It is more painful than a taser, stun gun and cattle prod. It’s legal to shock disabled people worse than cattle.

[zaiinab]

just a reminder that when england win domestic abuse rates go up by 26% and by 38% if they lose. im thinking of all the women no matter what happens tonight. here’s a few helplines for anybody who needs them!

[forensic-science744]

Autism on TV: I am completely void of any emotion. I am a robot that cares about nothing and no one.

Autism in (my) real life: Stressed for three days because I can’t find my pen. I have other pens, but it has to be that pen.

[wormworker]

Literally every time a NON-Autistic person talks about an Autistic person or about autism, they say something that sickens & horrifies me.

Y'all don't know a goddamn thing & it scares the shit out of me. You treat us like babies & talk about us in such a fucking patronizing way & talk as if autism is some kind of horrible disease or a disorder.

You don't listen to us. You take away our autonomy & dehumanize us with every ignorant thing that you say & do that involves us.

Please fucking listen for once.

YOU'RE KILLING US.

[forensic-science744]

Especially when they think they know what they’re talking about. It’s so much harder to teach someone about something they’ve decided they understand, than it is to teach someone who admits they know nothing.

[tlirsgender]

The stages of hunger while nd are

Hm I'm hungry

Forgets about it

Everything Is Bad. I'm gonna attack someone. Shut up. Die

Hm I'm hungry

[Eats something] oh shit I'm cured

Multiple times every day

[tlirsgender]

"How do you forget you're hungry" I'm just that powerful. My mind will omit anything including things I'm currently experiencing

[forensic-science744]

This, but also:

Hm I’m hungry but nothing I have to eat is right so I I’m going to have a battle of wills with myself which will inevitably end with someone shouting at me to eat something because I’ve been trying to decide for hours now.

[radiolightning]

In case anyone is having a bad night:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

[meanwolfs-remade-deactivated201]

i will reblog this everytime it shows up because any of my followers could have a bad night right now

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

All these links, besides the first, are broken. So here’s some more.

Here’s an emergency compliment

Here you can play 2048

Here’s a playlist of Bob ross

Here’s a website to watch movie’s and shows for free

Here’s a website to watch documentaries for free

Here you can to nothing for two minutes

Here you can break something. It’s good for anger

Here’s a button to press to make everything okay

Here’s a site to cut something up (TRIGGER WARNING)

Here’s a site that makes you a website depending on a song you choose

Here’s a gay comic. It’s adorable

Here you can spend Bill Gate’s money

Here you can draw your own island

Here you can learn about patterns website’s use

Here you can get your life stats

Here you can listen to the Tucker Zone (Headphones needed)

Here you can see how fast you’re moving

Here you can see the progress of time

Here you can see the future of the universe 

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

Want some more? 

Here’s the butterfly project

Here’s a snickerdoodle mug cake

Here’s a link to some free audiobooks

Here’s something to read when you feel like a burden

Here’s a secret

Here’s my playlist of some sea shanties 

Here’s another secret

Here’s a link to some cool websites 

Here’s a blog that gives you recipes for when you’re low on spoons

Here’s some Brony Headcanon’s

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

Some more? I’ve got plenty

Here’s 100,000 stars

Here you can control the weather (TW FLASHING IMAGES)

Here you can weave silk

Here you can make a castle of your own

Here you can make a kaleidoscope drawing

Here you can explore recursion

Here you can play a jelly block game

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

I’m back with some more! 

Here you can draw with pasta

Here you can draw logo’s from memory

Here you can play this is sand, here you draw cool sand designs

Here you can play The Organ Trail

Here’s a customizable white noise website

Here you can simulate gravity

Here you can create your own guardian of the galaxy

Here you can make your own galaxy

Here’s a website you can get some support at.

[perveypotato]

"Stop using your disability as an excuse!"

And you should, the short of it.

The long of it?

People, neurotypical and neurodivergent alike, calling out (other) disabled people for using their disability as an excuse in different scenarios.

- These are some examples I've had happen to me, people I know personally, or reliable (or as reliable as you can get online) internet persons. -

"Stop using your disability as an excuse!" When you turn down plans that will be sensory overloading.

"Stop using your disability as an excuse!" When you need something explained to you multiple times or in different ways because of auditory or comprehension issues.

"Stop using your disability as an excuse!" When you have trouble finding or holding down a solid, well paying job.

"Stop using your disability as an excuse!" When you struggle to do things that neurotypical or other people with your disability don't struggle to do.

It's not using our disability as an excuse. It's you seeing, and to a certain extent being "affected" by, a small (or maybe large) portion of how we cope, function, and live with our disability.

[forensic-science744]

Almost every time I’ve been told “stop using your disability as an excuse” a more accurate translation would be “stop having a disability”.

[imagining-in-the-margins]

hello! i hope this doesn’t come off as rude or offensive but i was wondering if you have any tips for writing a neurodivergent character while i am a neurotypical person (i hope those are the right words!) without erasing autistic traits/mannerisms. i’ve been wanting to write for spencer but i’m scared i will offend someone by leaving his autistic traits out, but i’m also afraid i’ll offend someone by writing his autistic traits wrong.

i hope this made sense, have a good day <3

Hi friend! First off, this isn’t rude or offensive at all, and I’m very glad that you are concerned about it at all. I will say, however, that I don’t think you need to worry about it too much with Spencer’s character.

The thing is, Spencer is heavily coded as autistic, but a lot of his traits aren’t exaggerated on screen. I don’t think people would notice any more of a difference than the run-of-the-mill fanfiction versus those written by autistic people. I don’t think you’ll offend anyone as long as you don’t make him a walking stereotype (even if it means underplaying his autistic traits).

That being said, if you want to learn more about writing an autistic character, here are some wonderful resources for beginners (from autistic individuals):

Masterpost of Resources

How To Write an Autistic Character (Long)

So You Want to Write an Autistic Character (Short)

The two pieces of advice I’d give are:

(1) Talk to an autistic person about anything you’re worried about (like me!) and

(2) write more mild/underwhelming traits. I know you probably just want to get his character right, but it’s significantly less offensive in my view to write him as less autistic than a stereotypical depiction of autism.

I hope this helps! 

[motherfrigginpsas]

LISTEN UP AGAIN KIDS STOP REBLOGGING THIS FUCKING GARBAGE POST. IT IS 100% FUCKING BULLSHIT AND CAN AND MOST DEFINITELY WILL LITERALLY KILL. DO YOU NOT SEE WARNING LABELS THAT SAY “DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING”? THEY AREN’T FUCKING AROUND. YOU CAN FUCKING BURN THEIR ESOPHAGUS BY CAUSING VOMITING, CAUSE CHOKING, DROWNING, OR MAKE IT WORSE! AGAIN DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING DOWN ANYONE’S THROAT. THEY. CAN. DROWN. IF SOMEONE IS LOSING CONCIOUSNESS ALL THE CHIT CHAT IN THE WORLD WILL NOT PREVENT IT AT THAT POINT THEY ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER. “Buuut i don’t wanna take them to the hospital!!!” WELL SUNSHINE GLAD YOU’D RATHER HAVE A DEAD FRIEND THAN A LIVING ONE BUT YOU’RE IN LUCK CALL FUCKING POISON CONTROL. THEY ARE NOT THE COPS. THEY WILL HELP YOU. AND IF THEY SAY GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL. NO EXCUSES. 0. NONE. I have seen this shit cross my dash SO MANY TIMES so PLEASE fucking reblog this and prevent some well meaning idiot from accidentally killing someone they love!

[feytaline-loves-deactivated2018]

For the love of god PLEASE REBLOG THIS

I see this stupid fucking post one a goddamn week and someone is going to literally fucking die from it

[abbessolute]

@oneshoeshort

[oneshoeshort-deactivated2021060]

IF YOU WONT LISTEN TO OP, LISTEN TO THE RETIRED PARAMEDIC WHO HAS SEEN PEOPLE DIE FROM THIS SHIT.

[sirro85-blog]

Poison control may advise diluting the toxin somehow like with water or milk, otherwise do not give them something to drink and take the empty pill bottle/ blister pack with you to the hospital.

[becausewedefinetheworld]

btw just searched it up, US poison control number is 1 800 222 1222

[arcadialedger]

REBLOG

[isearchedtheyooniverse-deactiva]

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