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i miss 48 hours ago when i was drunk and high as balls after one and half edible

Kaikki lait pitää olla sellaiset, että ne ovat yhteiseksi hyödyksi, ja sen tähden, kun laki tulee vahingolliseksi, ei se enää ole laki, vaan vääryys, ja on hylättävä.

-Olaus Petri, 1500-luku

infection2004

honestly it’s kind of upsetting how much of the autism experience is just being shamed out expressing yourself in any way that’s normal for you and learning to keep everything to yourself so you’re not shamed for being weird and then being shamed for being so quiet because it’s also weird to be quiet but if you tell this to anyone else they’ll say “why do you care so much what people think” and that’s when the ancient ape part of your brain gets ready to beat them to death

#autism

they should invent windows that close on their own at sunrise

#i wanna sleep with window open but dont want warm air inside #or let all my neighbors hear my alarm go off 32489 times within 4 hours

rdjsleftcheek

#taskmaster

apolladay

No nuance: are you pretty?

* yes

* no

No nuance: are you pretty?

yes

no

Remaining time: 1 day 13 hours

#i'd be so powerful if i were pretty boy #but sadly im fugly and struggle to go outside bc. of the ugliness.

Helsinki 1920s

#damn. en marjoista tykkää mut tollasella hinnalla houkuttaa #pakko olla jotain spesiaalii

dreambelievetoyourselfsblog

Rough, aggressive, passionate sex would really fix me

jotainjotain-muuta

Kai kaikki tietää suomen kielen parhaan palindromin?

En jaksa, pillu kakka kulli paska jne.

#muistaako kukaan sellasta palindromia missä mainitaan bisneskoira?#luin joskus 10 vuotta sitten ni en enää muista mitä muuta se lause sisälsi #muistan vaa et nauratti

purple--starrrs

By the way it's like. Really fucked how society's thoughts on epilepsy is just "get over it." Seizures can cause permanent brain damage. Seizures can kill people. Seizures hurt like hell. Allow me to reiterate that seizures can kill people. And you're just gonna casually put flashing lights, a common trigger for seizures in your advertisement, in your animation meme, in your edit, on your billboards, without even thinking about putting a simple disclaimer? That's unbelievable. Your little anime edit could deadass cost a life and you're not gonna put a warning because it's "inconvenient" or "people like that shouldn't be on the internet" (ableist) (the problem exists outside the internet also). Or you'll give insufficient ones like putting it in the captions or only giving like one second before the flashing lights appear, meaning that the trigger's already in motion before anyone who needs the warning can read it and save themselves from literal physical danger.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

Anyways this Disability Pride, and for every month that comes after, think about epileptic people and others who are triggered by flashing lights/eyestrain. Happy pride to those who experience seizures too frequently due to the unaccommodating and ableist societies we live in!

selene1311-f

All of this is worth the read, so reblogging for visibility.

Just to try and help out and spread the word, there are two chrome extensions I've found that might be able to help.

Seizafe: This extension scans youtube videos and warns you if they contain things like flashing lights that could cause a seizure.

CogniShield: This extension (supposedly, it has like no reviews) dims the screen to a safe level if flashing lights are detected; it can also be used to limit volume. It might help.

If anybody else knows of any accessibility tools, please share them.

#epilepsy

beaft

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

beaft

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

beaft