I've heard it both ways

I've heard it both ways (the right way and then yours) a jumble of things i like

[malewifenat]

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

[kaijuno]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

MOTHER FUCKER

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we’re having a Snow Day, which is fine.

except it’s NOT bc the huge shift in atmospheric pressure has rendered my autistic brain completely useless for the foreseeable future. all services have been shut down. the roads are closed and so are my neural pathways

[hoonkus-deactivated20230701]

when you said atmospheric pressure shut down your brain it took me a second to realize you meant the atmosphere as in how tense school is compared to how calm home is, and not that autistic people have some kind of internal barometer that is attached to their brain.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

nope, I’m literally talking about barometric pressure!

for those who aren’t aware, autistic/adhd brains are sensitive to barometric pressure shifts. changes in atmospheric pressure (like those caused by rain) effect our blood oxygen levels in a way that messes with our brains. sudden changes in weather can exacerbate our symptoms, making us irritable, lethargic, anxious, twitchy, overwhelmed etc, while our brains work overtime to adjust to the change. it’s just one of the ways that environmental factors other people take for granted (weather, noise, overhead music, lights, etc) can affect our lives in ways people don’t expect.

so yeah, we basically do carry around internal barometers, attached to very loud alarms!

[thebibliosphere]

… I knew the weather pressure gave me migraines and made my joints ache, but are you actually telling me it’s also the reason for why I can’t power through my migraines like I can at other times? What the fuck.

[thebibliosphere]

Okay, I managed to find something that wasn’t a link to someone’s blog, and is  on the CHADD website. Migraines and ADHD can often be comorbid for a lot of us, which I kinda guessed might be a thing. And given the overlap between Autism and ADHD, I’d say it’s a safe bet to speculate that migraines are also more common in Autistic folk as well.

Migraines, unlike headaches, are a neurological disorder that affects multiple aspects of the body. Including our blood pressure and our ability to regulate emotion. They can also cause sensitivity to sound, light and movement. So things that you were handling just fine a while ago, become completely overwhelming. Mood swings and depression can sometimes be a warning sign that a migraine attack is coming (prodrome), and they can also happen after a migraine attack (postdrome) as the body comes down from whatever chemical rollercoaster of misery it’s just been on. And weather change is absolutely a trigger.

This is purely speculation on my part, but it might be possible that the weather changes are triggering silent migraines (migraine without headache). Which means some folks might actually have migraines and not be aware of it, but it might also mean they could benefit from migraine treatment to prevent their bodies going on aforementioned misery rollercoaster every time the weather changes. They might also not have migraines. But the trigger switch might be the same for certain things, and the meds used for treating migraines might be helpful in terms of regulation, in the same way how certain blood pressure meds have been shown to help ADHD better than some anti-depressants. 

Hmm. I wonder. I might bring this up with my specialist and see if she has any info on it.

[thatdisasterauthor]

…well fuck. Knowing this sure would’ve made high school A LOT FUCKING EASIER.

[loumovies]

Loving Vincent (2017) dir. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman

[desuke-dragon-queen-blog]

Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world

- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’

- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction

- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour

- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’

- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc

- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from

- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant

- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white

- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’

- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired

This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American. 

[rememberthehuntress]

This doesn’t just apply to “darker skin” Europeans either (which I’m sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.

[kieren-fucking-walker]

Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you aren’t from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isn’t that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people can’t experience racism because that’s such a US-centric idea.

[bazbucky]

And if you’re from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UK’s resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?

(That’s Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)

(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)

(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)

(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)

They are white! Just because they are white, it doesn’t mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesn’t mean that they can’t be constantly told that they don’t work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they don’t deserve basic human rights.

So just before you force your ignorance onto people who don’t hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.

[stealthydice]

Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what I’ve been trying to say for far too long into words!

[jenniferrpovey]

…I didn’t know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.

But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.

For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about “Mexicans” (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).

It’s worth understanding that

1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.

2. They don’t take the same form everywhere.

[syrenpan]

I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.

I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.

Being white is not that cut and dry over here.

[jenniferrpovey]

And being “socially” white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered “white”.

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

READ THIS POST IF YOURE AMERICAN

[therunninglifechoseme]

I’m American and this is the FIRST time I’ve ever heard any of this. I always think I’m up to date on world issues but wow I am not. Thank you to everyone for sharing! 

[varpusvaras]

About discrimination between nations in Europe, speaking Finnish and Sami languages in schools in Sweden was forbidden from students because Finns and Sami people were considered to be the lower race. Of course Europe has racism against black people, but yes, thinking about Europeans being “white” as whole is weird because a white Finn and a white Greek person couldn’t be more apart with their cultures.

[starshinelightning]

Yes, all of this, and let’s not forget people like the Finnish speaking Finns have historically and from some cultural standpoints a lot more common with native Americans and the Asians and Blacks in America than white Americans, despite our recent “rise” in the social rank of race.

Less than 100 years ago we were considered mongoloid (and while it’s not entirely wrong, though Uralic or North-West Asian and Caucasian mix would be lot more accurate), and were oppressed by another nation (Russia) that tried to enforce cultural and linguistic genocide on us, and before that we were oppressed and practically enslaved by Sweden, not all that differently as in any other colonized nation–which we were for 800 years.

For all intents and purposes, our “whites” are the Swedish-speaking Finns, who to this day continue to be a lot more privileged than the Finnish-speaking Finns, on average.

[sirenfrost]

In Italy, Southern people are considered less than Northern people and I, as a Northern people, can assure you sometimes it’s pretty bad. Mostly thanks to an idiotic right wing party that thinks that Italy should be divided in two: over the Po and below the Po (our longest river). They even think our ancestors are Celts lmao. Also a lot of people from the South are “less white” (again it’s stupid but whatever it’s just to make you understand), because they have ancestors from Africa so they are mixed, therefore their skin isn’t white as snow.

[fabiochampioraro]

Also in Italy people from slavic countries are often victim to xenophobia, people are always ready to see romanians/albanian/russians…etc as culprits for everything, and it’s not unusual to hear someone says “this hairstyle makes you look like an albanian!” or “why are you going out dressed as a romanian” yeah they use slavic people as an insult bc people are led to think that they come here just to steal everything from us. And guess what most of them are white as snowflakes!

I’d like to point out that also italian people have faced discrimination from other european countries. We were, and sadly often still are, always seen as part of the mafia and therefore dangerous, or inferior and poor (y’all can find signs saying pretty nasty stuff online, and i’m leaving this here even tho it’s in Italian), i’ve heard a lady telling his son to stay away from me and my family because we were speaking italian and so we could do “bad things” to him and there were times when in shops we were made feel not welcome because we are italian…..and guess what my family is white.

So please when you are outside the us don’t try to apply your “racial standards” bc they are not valid in europe.

[vanimeldes]

Bless this post forever and ever

[heywriters]

The Scottish, Irish, and Welsh are “white” peoples yet have a long history of oppression by white England. Even to this day you’ll hear celebs from those places (which are in the UK or even on the same island as England) discuss the same things as a POC actor in America, like “there are very few roles for us on TV” or “I only got the job because I changed my name and accent” and “I’ve had to play a servant or a stereotype for most of my career.”

This discrimination may seem less bizarre to Americans when you understand that the white minorities of the UK are descendants of peoples who lived there long before the Romans marched in and set English history as we know it in motion. It’s not about skin color, it’s about conquest, as usual.

[captainlordauditor]

yall really gonna use Mila Kunis as an example of a Ukrainian who faces discrimination and leave out the fact that she’s Jewish?

[elidyce]

When Heroes first came out in Australia, I was watching it with my then-partner, my sister, and a couple of friends. My then-partner, who is American, mentioned that the show had faced criticism because nearly all the main characters were white.

“What are you talking about?” say my sister and I. ‘There are two Italian guys RIGHT THERE.” 

“OMG you cannot say Italian people are not white,” he says.

“Yes we fucking can,” says the Italian friend watching the show with us, deeply offended. 

And then we had to pause it and a lot of complex explanations ensued. (Including the fact that Greek and Italian people generally aren’t considered White in Australia and in fact many a Nonna will smack you if you suggest otherwise.)

Basically, ‘white’ is a category upon which no two cultures/countries can agree on the definition, they all think they have the only possible definition, and it usually boils down to Preferred Flavours of Bigotry.

I mean, I’m of sufficiently Irish descent not to have been considered White in New York at certain periods, and I’m so pink and white I couldn’t get stopped at an airport if I tried, so basically it’s all bullshit and ‘white’ is like ‘normal’… everyone thinks they know what it is, but it doesn’t actually exist except as a tool for dividing people up into The Good Ones and The Rubbish Ones.

[arsenicjade]

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America

The fashion identities in the context of a wider conversation about American nationhood, to whom it belongs and what belonging means. Race a

A really good book on the historical whitening of European ethnicities in America ^^^^^

[kingsandsaints]

When it comes to ethnicity in the Netherlands, we used to have two catergories: ‘autochtoon’ and ‘allochtoon’. ‘Autochtoon’ means ‘from your own country’, or that both your parents were born in the Netherlands. ‘Allochtoon’ is anyone who has at least one parent born outside of the Netherlands. Even if you were born here, grew up here, you’re an allochtoon. Your children won’t be, as long as you marry a ‘native’ Dutch person.

The kicker is that our royal family has been allochtoon for generations. Our reigning queen is from Argentina, so our princesses are all allochtoon.

Except the government now changed the terminology, because ‘allochtoon had negative connotations’ (go figure). It’s now ‘people with a migration background’, but the term still functions the same. The government is still profiling these people more heavily for tax and social benefits fraud, especially the ‘people with a non-western migration background’, which is a whole different can of worms.

‘Non-western migration background’ is not as straight forward as you’d think. Indonesia, for example, is considered western, because it used to be a Dutch colony. But Curacao is not considered a western country, even though it’s still part of the Dutch kingdom. The government’s categories of western and non-western have more to do with how close you are to the equator than whether you are West or East on the map.

Gerwin van Schie has written a lot on this topic if you are interested to learn more.

[may-shepard]

Reblogging this because I see a lot of conflict between people from the US and people from elsewhere trying to communicate about core issues like race and ethnicity. Trying to explain that racism and ethnocentrism in other places doesn’t cut along the exact same lines as American racism always feels like it falls on deaf ears. Trying to explain that the activist practices of America won’t wash / don’t work / aren’t culturally appropriate for other places has likewise resulted in some shit shows in some of my social circles.

“Whiteness” is always going to be an exclusionary practice because it wouldn’t benefit the elites who depend on it if it included everyone. It’s a flexible, sliding scale.

[serialtroller]

@headraline proprio quello di cui parlavamo l'altro giorno

[headraline]

sì capito con l’ignoranza che dilaga fa piacere vedere un discorso sensato.

Reblogging this to confirm the bit about Italy and add: the person responsible for Italians to be assimilated to the concept of “white” people was Benito Mussolini during WW2: he insisted in his speeches that Italians were “a Mediterranean branch of the aryan race” - which is obviously bullshit because that is not a thing, but Mussolini was trying very hard to court Hitler’s favour and he couldn’t do that with a bunch of tan, hairy and curly-haired Countrymen without a proper justification.

Up until before then, Mediterraneans were just that: Mediterraneans. Not White, Brown, Black, Pink, Green or any other colour. It had always been Geography over colour for Europe in general and the Mediterranean area in particular.

They teach this in History class in Italian high-schools. But already there’s no mention of it in English-speaking Wikipedia, and only a tiny blurb in the Italian-speaking one (for non Italian speakers, the first two lines mention what I was talking about)

I’d need to dig up my old History textbook, assuming I didn’t sell it for pocket money like the broke Neapolitan I am, to find the full chapter on the definition of “Caucasian”, how that’s a much younger word that any racist asshole who uses it would have you believe, and how it basically ruined ethnic identity in all of Europe.

And what that means for Italian is this:

we’re not “white” enough to be protected from racism as soon as we get identified as “Italian immigrants” (can confirm on my own skin)

but we’re also not “poc” enough that racism against us gets “sensible” people up in arms to defend us.

(rant on Italian stereotypes after the break, read at own discretion)

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[whitepeopletwitter]

[reheals]

how is it that i am distracted by everything yet paying attention to nothing

[stark-tony]

au where jet doesn’t find out that zuko and iroh are fire nation and when he runs into the gaang he goes ‘oh by the way this is my new friend lee. we met on the ferry ride over here!’ and the gaang and zuko just like awkwardly stare at each other for a really long time

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

I love it

[linanlu]

[thescarlettempress]

*in everyone’s minds*

Zuko: Maybe if I just keep up my persona, they’ll believe I’m someone else… Okay, that’s stupid, but what choice do I have?

Aang: …Maybe if we just pretend we’ve never met before he’ll stay nice and we can all keep the peace.

Katara: If he lifts one hand against us, I will freeze them both.

Sokka: Please be a coincidence. Please be a coincidence. Please be a coincidence. Please be a coinci-

Toph: Why is he so scared? Is he shy? Why is Katara so upset? Why is Aang freaking out? Why is Sokka so irritated? And now Jet’s freaking out.

Jet: Do- do they not like him? Do they not like him because he’s my friend? Do they still hate me? Do they hate him because of me? Lee looks like he’s about to pass out? Is he okay?

[theoneandonlyturtleduck]

This needs to be a fic

[duckie-baby]

ACTUALLY SCREAMING

[insert-awesome-loki-url-here]

Toph to Iroh: oh hey, you’re that really old guy who gave me tea once

Everyone else: ????

[ughmerlin]

everyone in Camelot being in love with Gwen

bonus:

[lady-arryn]

I lay it down as a general rule that if a woman doubts whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. EMMA (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

[artist-monet]

Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers, 1874, Claude Monet

[livwinks]

Two darlings dear to my heart 💓

[hayden-christensen]

AMYBETH MCNULTY as ANNE SHIRLEY-CUTHBERT in ANNE WITH AN E SEASON 3 (2019)

Costume Design by Alex Reda

[thejackalhasarrived]

PSYCH | Romeo and Juliet and Juliet, 5.01

[glowstickhaloboy]

i made a uquiz where i designate you “____ to lovers” pls validate me by reblogging & tagging with what u get

[whitepeopletwitter]

[allsonargent]

favorite group dynamics ≡ Galavant