the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right

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the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right
I think one of the most profound forms of love is "I'll try that, for you. I may not like it, but I'll try it."
It's a confused middle-aged man in a pottery class, whose daughter is helping him with his clay's plasticity. It's a kid scrunching up their brow while listening to their mom's favorite music, trying to figure out why she likes it. It's a girlfriend who says "Yes, I'll go with you" and her girlfriend cheering and buying a second ticket for a con. It's a friend half dragging another friend through an aquarium, the one being dragged laughing and calling out "Wait, wait, I know we're here for the exhibit, but I haven't been here! Slow down!"
It's being willing to spend some of your time trying something new because it makes someone you love happy.
talking to army recruiters at the mall wearing a robe with my pet lizard on my shoulder: I will join your so-called army, only if you allow me to take my companion into battle. My great beast, he is my eyes and ears.
everyone stop having covid ✋
-The CDC
I just saw a video of someone finding an opossum playing dead and picking it up and showing it off to the camera for a few minutes and I Don’t Like It
maybe if an animal passes out from fear you should leave it alone
those steve irwin wannabes who chase down wild animals to manhandle them make my fucking blood boil
rule of thumb: don't make wildlife expend energy they don't need to, that energy doesn't come cheap and could've been used to acquire their next meal. now they're exhausted, stressed, and much more prone to disease and death. go to a petting zoo if you wanna touch random animals
They do absolutely everything I have been trained not to do while in college for fish and wildlife regarding ethical handling of wildlife. You're supposed to work fast and handle as minimally as possible, and to reduce stimuli as much as you can, i.e. covering eyes. We are taught not to even speak around them unless necessary. Shoving a camera in their faces while virtually yelling certainly isn't that. I see way too many guys on Tiktok and YouTube who's whole thing is chasing down and grabbing every animal they see and stressing the hell out of it for views under the guise of education.
not to be an old bastard on main I guess, but I saw a video called “if barbie girl was written in 2021″ and it was essentially just a cover, but with much more “feminist” lyrics and it made me wanna go bananas. no offense to the girl who made it, truly, because she seems like a nice person and she clearly means well, its just the implication that barbie girl is a serious song and in 1997 everyone viewed women as plastic bimbos and in 2021 we’re all woke now so we need an updated version of the song.
it also just completely misses the point of the original song. I guess its in large part due to people who are younger don’t realize that it was never a “kids song” (even though a lot of people played it for their kids??? why). and it most certainly was not made for the toy. the band aqua was actually sued by mattel and even put on the back of their album “The song ‘Barbie Girl’ is a social comment and was not created or approved by the makers of the doll.“ And it actually was a social comment, they weren’t just covering their ass believe it or not! The song was about taking the piss out of the objectification of women using barbie as a jumping off point. the entire thing is tongue in cheek. there’s literally no need for a “feminist” version of the song
Who came up with the term crotch goblin and why do y’all love saying it just say babies
Idc what you have to say or what point you make about womens rights if you use the term crotch goblin I want you to stfu
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Dealing with a new fucking eczema flare and realizing I legitimately have ptsd from dealing with this shit. Was legitimately triggered into a panic attack once I saw it spreading across my torso. Wild how some people really think this disease is just a superficial inconvenience at most when for some of us it’s a serious disease that causes extreme pain and discomfort and affects every aspect of our lives and is literally traumatizing to deal with.
Also i think people don’t realize how expensive severe eczema is to treat. I just had to pay $130 for three small tubes of ointment and that was with a GoodRx coupon and my immunosuppressive injections can cost me around $1,000 if my insurance decides to not cover the full cost lmao.
When I have my appointment next month to get back on my injections, I’ll have to deal with fighting my insurance provider tooth and nail to be able to afford them.
All this just to keep my immune system from killing my skin and disfiguring me. Skin is the largest organ in the human body and plays a huge part in your functioning and existing as a human being and yet it’s extremely common for insurance providers to decide to not cover treatments because they think it’s not necessary, because they think eczema is a superficial disease.
Fun fact: without insurance at all, the injections I take (called Dupixent) cost over $3,000. It’s difficult to get your insurance to cover a specialty medication like this so I know for a fact that there’s tons of people out there that have to pay out of pocket full price. Every time I think about this fact, it fills me with a seething rage.
Our healthcare system is completely fucked. Everyone deserves free universal healthcare. It’s a fucking human right.
Here’s my PayPal link if anyone wants to help me afford medical care.
Finally got a doctor to prescribe me the actual amount of ointment I need just for my insurance to say “hahaha we aren’t covering this. Your eczema can’t be THAT bad” so it’s gonna cost me $500 out of pocket unless I can figure something else out lmaooo.
It’s like they don’t realize eczema like this can literally KILL PEOPLE. If I don’t get it under control, I could get an infection that’ll cause sepsis and lead to my lymph nodes necrotizing. I’m tired of eczema only being seen and treated as a minor superficial issue when it’s ruining my fucking life and the life of others.
Eczema is an autoimmune disease that can be serious and our issues deserve to be seen instead of being shrouded by the ignorance of others. Eczema sufferers deserve better.
Saw my dermatologist on Tuesday and finally got my injections prescribed but it could take around a month for insurance authorization goes through because my doctor is anticipating needing to appeal. She’s gonna do whatever she can to make sure they cover them.
But in the meantime I still need help affording ointment along with the slew of other new meds she prescribed to keep my skin from killing me and to try to keep me comfortable while we wait.
Here is my PayPal link again since it’s been kinda buried by my additions to this post. Any little bit helps and I thank you all for your reblogs and support ✨🌺🧚🏾
Along with eczema, I also deal with chronic pain due to skeletal issues and nerve damage I have. To manage my pain, I use an herb called kratom and it’s been a complete life saver. The only thing is that it’s not exactly cheap and due to the weather getting colder, my pain has been increasing and I’ve needed to use more of it more often to stay comfortable. This is another thing I need help affording, so every bit helps.
Thank you all again for your support. Y’all have been helping me survive and I’ll be forever grateful for all the kind people who have helped me, whether it’s been through donations, reblogs, or kind words. 💖💫
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My mom was a fourth grade teacher, which meant that she did multi-subject education. And she used to do what she called the NFL Project. The NFL Project was when students were randomly assigned NFL teams.
They had to write a letter to the NFL team they were assigned to, they had to do a research project to find out where the teams practiced, they had to write a letter to the mayor of the city the teams practiced in, they had to keep track of their team's statistics, they had to do research about the state history of the team they'd been assigned to, and they had to do a presentation.
It was a big project. She provided all the materials, she made sure there were copies of the newspaper sports section in her classroom so the kids could stay on top of stats. The students got this project in their first week at school and it wrapped up right around winter break, so it wasn't like it was an all-day "today we are doing statistics" thing or "today we do research, today we write a letter, today we make a presentation" one-week project, it was five to ten minutes a day in various subjects that got organized into a presentation at the end of the semester. The kids could work together, they could work independently, they could ask my mom or the librarian or their parents or their older siblings for help. They just had to end the semester with a report on the team's history, the stats for the season organized into a chart, copies of the letters they'd sent (and copies of any of the responses they'd gotten), a two-page social studies report on the state where the team played, and a presentation to the class about their favorite thing they had learned while doing the NFL project.
The kids fucking loved it. And for years I spent my winter break going to the classroom and organizing the bulletin board with a huge map of the US and materials from each student's report, showing the work that the students had done that semester. It was a way of getting kids engaged with classwork, because who cares about statistics at 10, probably nobody, but if you get a set of pencils from the Jets NOW you want to learn about the team. The Jaguars sent one kid a jersey one year. The city in Minnesota where the Vikings practice sent postcards for every student. Part of this was happening when Schwarzenegger was governor in California so one kid got the Terminator's autograph for part of his project.
I think maybe the thing that I admire the most about it in retrospect was the way that it taught actual project management to young students. I don't actually know of that many schools that have projects more than a month long for 10-year-olds, and I think it's a great concept. I didn't get something like that until I was a senior in college, and it would have been a great skill to learn younger.
Anyway, in 2006 my mom had to stop doing the NFL project because the district wanted to focus on raising their test scores. She was specifically told that if she kept doing the NFL project she would not be rehired at her school.
She even wrote up what standards each part of the project worked toward - the kids had to make graphs because "organizing information into a bar graph" was a specific standard for students that age. "Writing multiple paragraphs on the same subject" was a standard, which is why the letters to the cities and states were multi-paragraph. The project WAS standards based.
But the administrators wanted to make sure that the students had more practice with reading the kinds of questions that would be on the tests because most of the student body spoke Spanish at home.
My mom taught at that school for another ten years; the school's test scores never showed any marked improvement with test-based lesson plans.
My mom's project wasn't the only thing like that that got cancelled. There was another teacher who had a craft-based thing that was similar, and a 7th-grade teacher who did a kind of history/social studies Magic Schoolbus LARP thing who was told not to do that anymore. Eventually my mom was told to stop having her students write journals for ten minutes a day because it wasn't being taught from the textbook and wasn't being taught to the test.
People joke (haha, it's funny, it's a joke, right?) about American education being used to prepare students to be good employees instead of to be critical thinkers or independent people, but legitimately it seems like NCLB directly incentivized "students sit quietly in a box filling out bubble sheets and have no unsupervised or creative work time."
idk what to tell y’all but the average 12 year old absolutely can read a 300 page book in one day if they want to and not be mentally ill like. the average 25 year old can do the same too. some of y’all would just rather come up with any excuse to pathologise normal behaviour and do anything but own up to your own illiteracy and inability to read anything that doesn’t load on ao3
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apparently people are annoyed because the thor in the new god of war looks like a strongman instead of a bodybuilder lmao
and they made his hair red (which is historically accurate to the myth)? Wig
What an absolute lad.
The funny/sad thing is that apparently way back in the day when Thor, Loki and Odin appeared in Sandman, Neil Gaiman said that there were irate Marvel fans that were mad that Thor was depicted as a kinda loutish guy with red hair rather than the image of Avenger!Thor (blond, winged helmet, formal Shakespearean dialogue) they were used to.
Lost amidst all the sentimental 9/11 tributes, Abu Zubaydah remains, after almost twenty years of unimaginable torture, imprisoned without charge in Guantanamo Bay. Despite having had no involvement in the attacks, the US is committed to keeping Abu Zubaydah trapped there until he simply dies - so important is it that he not be released and risk exposing the full, nightmarish extent of the rendition and torture programmes operated against him and hundreds of others. American comfort and apathy has been purchased with their blood.
doctors will actively discourage their patients from doing independent research about their own health, mock patients who google medical information, withhold treatment from those who do advocate for themselves, shut down any dissent by invoking their credentials, willfully ignore the experiences of patients or reports from patient advocates, act like any medical information that's not paywalled is bunk, and then turn around and claim that the general public being "scientifically illiterate" is what grounds the legitimacy and necessity of medical 'expertise' lmao