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[autismaccount]

Autism and Support Needs Labels

I have a much more in-depth survey about this here, but I'm also curious if results will differ if this goes beyond the usual circle of followers for this blog. Please reblog this for a larger sample size!

Polls for medium/moderate support needs (MSN) autism and high support needs (HSN) autism will be added in reblogs; there can only be one poll per post.

For the purpose of this poll, consider specifically what you would think if someone told you their support needs related to autism. For example, someone might have low support needs from autism but have a severe physical disability.

Please only vote if you have or suspect that you have autism!

Which of the following definitions do you think is the best or most accurate description of low support needs (LSN) autism?

Able to perform all activities of daily living independently

Able to live alone without any support

Needs no support, only accommodations, or support once or twice a week

High masking autism

Level 1 autism

I don't know

I don't think the label "low support needs autism" is helpful

I don't have autism / See Results

Voting ended onMar 11

[autismaccount]

Which of the following definitions do you think is the best or most accurate description of medium/moderate support needs (MSN) autism?

Able to perform some but not all activities of daily living independently

Not able to live alone without support

Needs daily support from a caregiver or professional

Unmasked autism

Level 2 autism

I don't know

I don't think the label "medium/moderate support needs autism" is helpful

I don't have autism / See Results

Voting ended onMar 11

[autismaccount]

Which of the following definitions do you think is the best or most accurate description of high support needs (HSN) autism?

Cannot perform any activities of daily living independently

Needs to live with a caregiver or in a group home

Needs almost constant support or supervision

Very obvious, completely unmasked autism

Level 3 or severe autism

Profound autism

I don't know

I don't think the label "high support needs autism" is helpful

I don't have autism / See Results

Voting ended onMar 11

[thwrangis]

has anyone ever actually seen a shareholder or are we just supposed to believe they actually exist

[mollyjames]

I did once when I was working in a coffee shop. He was on a business call loudly talking about some tech speculation. When I asked him how it went a few days later, he panicked and asked how I knew such sensitive information. From this I gather they are of weak constitution, and startle easily

[pleuvoire]

extremely annoying strain of latent ableism that takes the form of persistent "it's bad when people do things that are easy and don't do things that are hard" rhetoric made only more annoying by the fact that if you point this out people will immediately rush to tell you that obviously op was only talking about people who can do the hard thing and simply choose to do the obviously inferior soul-rotting easy thing instead, so you see it totally isn't ableist

[lowpolyanimals]

Water Snake from Team Fortress 2

[magicalpuyopopn]

this isn’t low poly

[once-upon-a-witching-hour]

Isn't this the highest poly model in the entire game?

[magicalpuyopopn]

yes it is by miles

[identitty-dickruption]

when you look at a psychiatric diagnosis and you see that it has a 3:1 diagnostic rate of women to men, it's more likely to be diagnosed in trans people than cisgender people, and it's most prevalent in hispanic people out of any ethnic group. you really do have to consider who benefits from a label that amounts to "Biologically and Pathologically Hysterical". yknow.

[markovchaingang]

"what do you mean 'what is the actual material harm that comes from this that causes it to be bad', you should just know it's bad automatically. it's called having a moral compass" -person whose moral framework consists solely of their knee-jerk emotional impulses

[shencomix]

[tincanaudio]

The new Audible Harry Potter series is bad in uncomplicated, straightforward ways.

It is bad because it supports a woman who is actively funding groups that are seeking to deprive trans people of their rights in the UK and especially Scotland, where I live, where people inside the government are quietly remarking that they are struggling to fight against the groups she funds, as she has more money than God. Any money made from this new audio adaptation goes directly to funding these groups and these cases.

It is also bad because commissioning such an expansive series with such a well-known cast (Riz Ahmed?! Come on man) has eaten up the majority of Audible's commissioning budget. In the UK, the only people commissioning audio drama are the BBC (separate conversation) and Audible, and this new Harry Potter series has hoovered up resources that could have otherwise gone to new stories, new voices and money to creators that aren't actively trying to erase trans people.

I am angry at anyone who signed up to star in this, I am angry at the production companies that took on this commission, I am angry that this series continues to have a stranglehold on the UK media landscape despite all that its creator has done.

It is bad for trans people, it is bad for audio drama, it is bad for anyone working in media in the UK right now.

Do not listen to it

[locusimperium]

[swan-archive]

locusimperium:

A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic. 

Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day. 

Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour. 

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

[brawltogethernow]

So I tried this recipe.

And it is GREAT.

It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.

[davetheshady]

Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt

[mxxnlit-witch]

I made these today for the equinox with sea salt caramel chips and they are simply amazing. Let’s see how long they last with six people in the house!

[dduane]

Noting for later (as we need more butter for this, and probably won’t do a grocery shopping till the weekend).

[amyamychan]

The OP version of this has become my go-to cookie for basically all things and I have a whole cohort of friends and colleagues who would murder each other to get them. Haven’t tried any add ons yet, since the base recipe is SO GOOD.

[g1sunstreaker]

I’ve reblogged this before and I’m reblogging it again because I’m about to make it again tomorrow and I wanted to add my own tale of just how amazingly delicious it. it was SO incredibly simple to bake and with an extra dusting of brown sugar on top and served warm and soft they gift you with the taste of the nectar of the gods when paired with a small glass of milk. this image is from when I first made them a couple years ago:

GO. MAKE THESE !!!!

[mikkeneko]

Needed to make a dessert in a hurry to bring to Thanksgiving, and this recipe worked excellently. I did not have the right kind of sugar for the topping, so instead I used a packet of lemonade powder, which gave it a nice citrusy zing.

[dduane]

Forgot to mention: I made these. They were very high-end indeed: somewhere between a butter cookie and shortbread.

…Hmm. Maybe I’ll make some later after I finish wrestling with Lightworks.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Guy came up to me and yelled so loudly that it made me jump. All caps isn't enough I need wordart to describe how loud he was. This was not "I can't tell I'm being loud" this was "In another life I was the town crier" loud. Hear ye hear ye loud. He was friendly, but holy crap

[parkchanwoohoo]

[redstonedust]

oh of course i love werewolves! theye just big puppers haha. what a good boy doggo. me when my werewolf boyfriend chases his tail and goes awooooo haha. ohhhh wait youre one of the ones that destroys stuff and bites people? :/ i dunno thats like... scary.......... you say you 'cant control it' but like are you sure you're not just making excuses? this meme i found on tiktok says werewolves are just silly puppies. why cant you be a normal werewolf. whats wrong with you.

[leebrontide]

Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."

[raccoonmilf]

As someone who works in conservation I can confirm this is true. Stop it. Joking that we don’t have a future or that humans are too stupid to educate really is harmful to conservation.

[catch57]

let me guess. all the leaves are brown and the sky is gray?

[foulserpent]

also dont call the perpetrators of hate crimes ‘sociopaths’, ‘psychopaths’, ‘lacking empathy’, etc. it may not be your intention, but that language implies that hate crimes were committed as a result of mental illness rather than bigotry and systematic violence.

people who commit these acts of violence do so because of a system that enables and encourages it, and this language diverts the blame from this system and the perpetrator themself, and instead places it on easy to swallow ableist stereotypes.

[lesbewear-blog-deactivated20241]

why does “hate breeds hate” always mean “if you hate your oppressors, they will just hate you more” and not “if you hate and oppress people, they will start to hate you too”

[closet-keys]

"biological" really just means "state enforced" at this point

"what is your state enforced sex?" "there are two state enforced genders" "use state enforced pronouns to identify students" "transition is against your body's state enforced purpose"

[capnsoapy]

When some TERFs started saying "biological name" (instead of "deadname") it really said this out loud.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Hm. Interesting. Apparently cortisol production depletes magnesium stores. And I have a lot of symptomatic overlap with magnesium deficiency. And it can apparently help migraine. And ADHD. I think I'm going to try supplementing magnesium glycinate. L-threonate sounds really interesting too as that's magnesium that can cross the blood-brain barrier and apparently is super useful for memory and shit.

[goflowolfog]

[balaclava-trismegistus]

this can't keep happening

[sugarcoatednightshade]