A fox's art blog

I work on art, programming, music, and other things.  Welcome! I also have a side blog where I reblog stuff over here.

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I think I made a post about this a while ago, but there was this scifi story I read as a kid about an autistic girl who transferred her consciousness into a robot body which had a volume slider for the auditory sensors whenever reality got too loud.  Ever since then, it has been my life's dream to have that robot body.  I believe in that post I mentioned that I've been searching for that story for some time now.

Anyways, I Found IT!

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I suddenly remembered that the other day I saw a website censor WTF. Like, they didn't censor the phrase "What the Fuck", they censored "WTF". We are at a point where we can't even fucking implicitly swear without someone censoring it.

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She stare into your soul

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Imagine being one of the parents for the kids in the Magic School Bus class. Getting those field trip permission slips home every single night.

Like what, another one? Doesn’t she teach? This just says Inside a Dog

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Ms Frizzle sending you one (1) permission slip at the beginning of the year to cover all the field trips and you’re like huh that’s a little unusual but I guess it’s efficient at least and then you open it and it’s written like This

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I will not rewrite the wall code in ZapCat again. Rewriting the wall code in ZapCat is the mind-killer. Rewriting the wall code is the little death that brings total obliteration.

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Tried to fix some issues with floor collision. Now Alicia instantly dies anytime she lands on the ground. Fuck my life.

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Final chapter of Sqrt(Homestuck) is out! Very excited to finally finish this, but sad to see it ended. More notes at the end of the fic.

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Just saw a website censoring the name Dick. I think the internet is fucked you guys.

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was gonna put this in that previous post, but it was already getting kinda long and tangenty, but there's a similar issue I have where people act like negative test results are a good thing. I'm very tired of going to doctor's asking for help with chronic pain, having them test me, and going "good news, we didn't find anything wrong with you." Great. My joints still hurt. You might as well be saying, "good news, we have no idea what the hell is going on with your body and we will never know what the cure is so you can just be in pain for the rest of your life... good news!"

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when a child with chronic or terminal illness or a disability/their sibling is well informed about the condition strangers love to say "no child should have to know that 😢" yeah well i think the world would be significantly better if more children knew about that actually. teach your healthy kids about illness teach your abled kids about disability Please !

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and people will say this about the stupidest shit of all time. a diabetic child is like "this is my glucose monitor! these are my ketone test strips!" and people are aghast "no baby should have to know about this!!!!" okay so youd rather his mom just poked and tested him and injected insulin and collected his urine without explanation? you genuinely would prefer this child live in fear and ignorance about the daily routines of his life? because like no amount of pouty faces and prayers and condescending instagram comments are going to remove the illness from the child's life so our options are being informed about our bodies or being confused/frightened by them.

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This is something I've noticed. People have this weird tendency to conflate experiencing something with knowing about something. Like, "Children shouldn't experience extreme pain" sure, "therefore a child with extreme pain syndrome should be shielded from the knowledge that they have it." Okay, but getting a diagnosis is not the same thing as getting the disease. The child already has the syndrome/disease/whatever, they are already experiencing the extreme pain. Not diagnosing someone doesn't make the problem go away. It's the same thing with parents who refuse to bring their kid in for an Autism diagnosis, because they don't want their kid to be burdened with autism. As if the child isn't already being burdened with the knowledge that they are completely othered by most of their peers, plus all the hypersensitivity issues.

And it's because, again, people have this issue with what 'is' vs what 'should be'. Children shouldn't experience extreme pain. Agreed. There are still kids who have extreme pain syndrome. No amount of fretting about what 'should be' true is going to change what 'is' true. So, yeah people who say that children should be shielded from disabilities basically sounds like this to me: