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I love the solidarity I get from other disabled folks in public. My uber driver excitedly complimented my cane and told me about how he was missing a leg himself, and the genuine happiness in his voice to talk to another disabled person was really sweet and made my day.
For research purposes
I'm neurodivergent and can visualize things
I'm neurodivergent and can't visualize things
I'm neurotypical and can visualize things
I'm neurotypical and can't visualize things
Visualizing means if someone says "picture an apple" and you see an apple
"Everyone's a little bit autistic"
Some people have cancer, which is abnormal cell growth.
Everyone has freckles/moles/skin-tags/etc, which are also abnormal cell growth.
So does "everyone have a little bit of cancer"?
Or does that detract from the very real struggles of people who actually have cancer?
Hello everyone,
I found a fascinating article that talks about why neurodivergent people are attracted to other neurodivergent people. This article states:
A study concluded that autistic people don't have trouble communicating with other autistic people. However when autistic people were put with neurotypical people (people who are not neurodivergent) then problems arose in communication. Most people use social-based conversation. Things like, “how are you?” “tell me about yourself.” “How was it?” with neurodivergent people, especially autistic people, these are very open-ended questions and lead to many different types of answers. Our brains struggle to find the words as it pours over all of our complex emotions and experiences.
I will leave the article below so you all can read it all if you’d like. I hope many of you found this informative and interesting.
Characteristics of living with autism and ADHD and the nuances and benefits of building friendships when having these qualities in common
Neurodiversity
How to support people with autism
* Explain at every stage what you are about to do, what will happen next and why.
* Give the person enough time to understand the information you are sharing and wait a few seconds for a response if it is not given immediately.
* Questions should be clear and direct using language that is easy to understand and pictures where necessary - do not rely on
* the person to pick up on the meaning of your questions or body language.
* People with autism might take what you say literally so avoid words with a double meaning and humour that could be misunderstood.
* Maintain a routine - familiarity is often important to some people with autism.
* Social difficulties may include lack of eve contact and unusual body language, talking at inappropriate moments or about inappropriate topics.
* Repetitive behaviours might be a coping mechanism and therefore should be respected.
* The environment is important - some people with autism are particularly sensitive to light, movement, sounds, smell and touch. Try to keep the immediate environment as calm as possible to help alleviate any anxiety.
* Always consider the person's behaviour in terms of his or her autism, even if it becomes challenging.
* Ask the person and/or parent, carer or advocate what support they might need.
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Autism
Today’s disabled character is Beansie from The Sopranos, who a is paraplegic and uses a wheelchair
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[Image Description: Photo of Paul Herman playing Beansie. He has short brown hair and grey eyes.He is wearing a black button up with white spots and a gold necklace.He is sitting in a restaurant smiling at someone off screen.]
(Tw for a VERY brief mention of infantilization)
I want to talk about interacting with AAC users in person, specifically for speaking people.
1. Being an AAC user, I get left behind during conversations a lot because it takes me longer to add in my statement. By the time I'm done, the topic has oftentimes changed and then what I want to say isnt relevant anymore, and sometimes wont even be understood because to everyone else what I just said was out of place and random. This feels really frustrating and sometimes isolating, as well as embarrassing. Please wait for us, we want to converse too.
2. Sometimes when I am not yet done responding, people will watch me and try to guess what I'm going to say. If all I've got down so far is "I already", people might go "I already.. know!" "I already.. saw!" etc. Please stop doing that. Even if you got the idea correct, you might use the wrong words, which frustrates me. And even if you say it all correctly it's still frustrating, imagine if someone tried to guess what you were saying by interrupting you every time you started to talk. It's annoying.
3. Dont comment on what in our folders. If I open a folder to get to another word, and whilst doing that you see a different word in it that's funny or inappropriate or whatever, keep it to yourself. Its annoying. You have acsess to those words, and it isnt treated as weird, so why is it for me?
4. Don't infantilize us. We aren't perpetually children. We are our age. Treat us as if we are a speaking person of our age.
one of my many problems with people getting their neurodivergency information from social media is that so many "sources" will say "XYZ is an autistic trait!" or "things you didn't know were BPD things!" or "5 things ADHDers don't realize is because of their ADHD!" but then they don't delve into the Why
like, I just saw a video that said disliking touch is an autistic trait. true! but it did not say why (sensory hypersensitivity) which means someone who has that trait due to, say, trauma and is allistic might see the video and think "huh? that's an autistic thing?". obviously they're not going to self dx off one post hopefully, but like. so many traits are presented that way so someone could genuinely think they have a disorder that they don't, and will only have more trouble getting the actual help they need (esp bc depending on WHY you have a trait, you may need to deal with it differently. like, I have touch aversion both due to autism and some mild trauma, and I have to deal with it in two different ways).
[touch aversion and autism was just an example, this can apply to lots of things, this post is not Actually about touch aversion specifically]
[ID: Illustration of a pin-up girl in a white dress with teal buttons and white heels riding on a red mobility scooter. She is also wearing a white bandana with teal polka dots, black thigh-high pantyhose held up with light pink garters, and bright red lipstick. She is white with short brown hair and brown eyes. Her eyes are wide and her lips are pursed. /end ID]
[ID: Illustration of a pin-up girl in a wheelchair. She is wearing a straw hat, bright yellow tank top and jean shorts with a brown belt. She is white with dark brown eyes and hair that has been tied into twin tail braids with red ribbons. She is picking apples from a tree, but the basket on her lap has overturned and is spilling apples. She is distracted, looking at a yellow bird perched atop the antenna of a radio that is on the back of her wheelchair. /end ID]
[ID: An illustration of a woman sitting on a stool at an ice cream parlor. She is wearing a white blouse which hangs off of the shoulders and exposes the tops of her breasts. She is also wearing a black skirt, yellow belt, and yellow heels. Her right hand is holding a wooden cane while her left hand is spilling vanilla ice cream from her cone onto her breasts. She has a surprised expression. /end ID]
[ID: An illustration of a pin-up girl with a prosthetic left leg having a picnic. She is white with dark brown eyes and short, dark brown hair with a yellow ribbon on top. She has the same expression as the other pin-up girls with wide eyes and pursed, bright red lips. She is wearing a white blouse and yellow skirt with black belt, as well as thigh-high black pantyhose held up with white garters. She is holding a bottle with red liquid in it and has a straw sticking out of the top. Next to her is a picnic basket. In front of her are salt and pepper shakers and a hotdog on a blue plate. She rests on her knees on a blue and white, gingham-patterned picnic blanket. There are stains from where she has spilled the red drink on the blanket. She is holding her skirt up to reveal her thighs. /end ID]
Artists of the original pin ups are Gil Elvgren (Mobility scooter and cane), Harry Ekman (Prosthetic leg), and an unknown artist who I spent quite some time trying to find (Wheelchair). If you happen to know this last artist, let me know! Edits are by me.
i tried the flower thing and OMFG IT ACTUALLY MADE ME WANT TO CLEAN A LITTLE like usually i would get nothing done but yesterday i had to clean my room and look!!
ik its not even close to done but!! my room is a depression hellscape and i did something!! also i have to clean the living room today and im doing this again, just try it! esp if you have adhd! :)
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Dragan Bibin, Dead of Night (from the series The Human Condition), 2015
the personification of death being portrayed as deeply kind in fiction is something that reduces me to tears every single time
Garden of Death by Hugo Simberg is one of my favorite pieces of art for that very reason.
Life is a garden and Death is the caring gardener
@iguanodont’s fertility goddess Praateshie! This was an AWESOME trade, went wild with colored pencils and received an amazing piece in return
This turned out absolutely gorgeous! She is having a spring frolick :D
Thank you so much for this!
A miniature tableau made to submit to a miniature exhibition :)
(The ritual books does contain instructions on demon summoning)
Here are some older pieces (2016) that I consider important to the canon of my current work! We can see some proto-/early Listening Ladies, but Johnny Knives had not yet come to fruition. I think that, in-universe, these pieces all depict a life much more recently post-apocalypse than where we're at now. The girls have banded together and formed society. All are done in acrylic marker and color pencil.
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the little motorcycle girls are based on this incredible pic of my mom (left) and auntie as girls
