oof.

abby 24 she/her 💗💜💙

[lazulisong]

one of my friends had their therapist gently suggest the reason why they empathized so much with their autistic homies was because they were, in fact, autistic. when i stopped laughing enough to type i pointed out that

neurospicy people, like baby gays, unconsciously flock together

the venn diagram of "highly gifted kid" and "autistic" is damn near a circle

probably nobody had mentioned it because again, neurospicy queers flock together and wouldn't realize anything was odd about it and if they DID probably wouldn't say anything about it

their face:

so this is a PSA that if you hang with a lot of neurospicy homies perhaps you should ask yourself why you relate

[tmggifs]

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

thinking about how tiktoker caitlin reilly has deconstructed, criticized, and parodied every aspect of upperclass white womanhood in the span of like 6 months

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

i’m in awe of her

[str0kethebigtree-deactivated202]

this is what happens when theatre kids use their powers for good

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

deeply missing the rituals of elementary school

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

same routine every day.... going to the library as a class... eating lunch with your friends... having a teacher read to you from the same book every day.. packing your little backpack... now what do i do? emails?

[autisticexpression]

The appalling travesty that was BBC’s Sherlock has infested the Sherlock Holmes fandom like a malignant tumour so I want you all to know how awesome the OG literary Holmes was:

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.

Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.

Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.

Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.

In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.

Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.

Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.

Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.

Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!

Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.

At the end of the series, Holmes retires to Sussex to keep bees. Beekeepers are awesome.

[oziraphale]

Y E S !

[bauliya]

I honestly think a lot of modern media write sherlock holmes and holmes-inspired characters as basically unfeeling terrible people because they believe that autistic ppl can’t be caring and kind.

[hedgehog-moss]

If you genuinely enjoy being alone, do you ever wonder if it is an inherent part of your character or if it stems from feeling inescapably lonely in the first place until you taught yourself to enjoy the peace and happiness one can find in solitude? what if the reason you now prefer & choose solitude at every turn is because you were a very lonely child, or teenager, not by your own choice, and that’s how you learnt to thrive and grow, so you no longer know if you can do that around people? There might also be an element of personal pride, an unconscious “you can’t fire me I quit” point when your brain decided to switch your feelings about solitude from distress to relief. I often find myself defending my love of being alone, to people who worry that I can’t possibly be happy to live in an isolated house in the woods; I insist that I do! I really do specifically enjoy the isolated factor and chose to live here because of it, but then I wonder how to differentiate an ingrained love of solitude from an acquired ability to thrive off unchosen loneliness, to learn from it and be nourished by it; to what extent it might be a form of contentment built on a bedrock of resignation.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

don’t… do this

[myownworstenemyyy]

[martianaviator]

The other reproductive rights:

The right to not be sterilized against your knowledge

The right to not be sterilized against your will

The right to not be coerced into sterilizing yourself in order to gain citizenship, relief from imprisonment, change a gender marker, etc.

The right to determine how you will give birth

Placeholder for rights regarding adoption which I don’t have the ability or energy to articulate right now

The right to not be forced/coerced/tricked into selling your child? How about that one?

[witches-ofcolor]

These need so much attention since poc are typically the targets of these. I feel like women of color historically have been the biggest victims of these. And still are.

[azertyhug]

at the mall. just passed the microsoft store. there was a life size 3D cardboard steve. my soul left my body.

[endormen-deactivated20190911]

me waiting for my mother in the checkout aisle

[pierce-the-wat]

my nipples are pierced and i'm failing three classes right now. woohoo go college

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Me: rolling around in my wheelchair inside a store taking a bunch of photos

Customer: “Can I ask what you’re taking pictures of?”

Me: “I’m documenting my ADA violations case.”

Customer: “What violations?”

Me: Points out five violations I can see from where we are. Explains how to see patterns of ADA violations.

Customer: (in a hostile tone) “Well it can’t be *that* bad. I mean, *you* got in here.”

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Me: yelling at someone for illegally parking their motorcycle in the access aisle for disabled parking

Complete stranger: comes up to me, gets right in my face and starts yelling at me for being mean to the motorcyclist

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

If you see a member of a minority class fighting a violation of their civil rights and you decide to throw yourself, uninvited, into the disagreement on the side of the person violating their civil rights, you are officially one of life’s villains and I hope you fall off a cliff.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Here’s another “self-made” billionaire that nobody is talking about

Pat McGrath became a billionaire when Kylie Cosmetics was worth $800 million. Yet the media was still obsessed with “Kylie is almost a self-made billionaire!” rather than talking about this woman who already was an actual self-made billionaire.

Never forget: twice as good for half the credit.

[mysharona1987]

[boykingdom]

who on earth coined the stereotype that girls are obsessed with changing clothes i’ve been wearing the same t shirt and pajama pants for two days now and the same bra for like three

[thenarator]

OOH OOH I KNOW THIS ONE! so in the elizabethan era queen elizabeth couldn’t appear like she was having That Time of the Month in front of the male members of her court, and you bet your ass if she had to remain in the public eye while she was bleeding from the snatch then the rest of the female courtiers did too. because they didn’t have handy dandy tampons back in the day, they would basically shove a rag down there and inevitably bleed onto the inner layers of their clothes. she what did they do? changed clothes. about eight times a day to be precise, and they did that all month long, so none of the delicate male constitutions would be offended by unseen yet implied bloody lady parts. this is part of why fashion was such a huuuuuge cultural item (and the secondhand clothing industry was such a huge part of society) because they had to appear like they were just doing it out of vanity/showing off their wealth. this became pretty much the standard mode of behavior for ladies who had to be out and about during shark week, right up until some nurses realized that the specialized gauze pads they used to plug up bullet wounds would work great for other such bleeding holes.

so yeah if you were wondering why dudes think women change their clothes a lot its because they don’t understand periods.

[star-spangled-jackass]

It always comes down to men not being able to handle periods

[pbrim]

Contributing my favorite bit about how women used to handle periods –

My grandmother was born in deep woods Texas in the late 1890′s.  They were dirt poor subsistence farmers and didn’t have a lot of clothes to spare when everything was hand sewn.  One of the major social events of the time, in the summer, was an “All Day Meeting and Dinner on the Grounds” on a Sunday.  They would meet on the church grounds – a grassy wooded area by the church for whole day of preaching, praying, singing hymns, and socializing, including a picnic lunch. (It was much cooler outside than in the closed up church.)  It was also a prime occasion for courting, near the family and in full view, but a little away, talking quietly.

Young single women of the time were expected to wear long white gowns for socializing. Menstrual protection consisted of a hand sewn bundle of rags, and the only restroom facility was a multi-hole outhouse, the only running water a nearby stream.  You see the problem.

Two of her sisters were wild and reckless with their health and would dredge up ice cold water from the very bottom of the well to pour over themselves right before dressing to leave.  This shocked their bodies into temporarily stop or slow down the flow, but it only helped so much.  Apparently a maneuver that young women learned early was how to gracefully sink down onto the grass, spreading their long white skirts around them so that they are bleeding directly onto the grass, and not onto their dress.

So if you see photos or paintings of a family sitting on a quilt picnicking, and next to them is a young woman sitting on the grass with her skirts spread gracefully around her – she’s on her period.

[aboonoor-deactivated20180121]

If you’re a Non-Muslim and you see a Muslim praying in public, could you please not pass in front of them?

Go behind them, but not in front. 👍

[marquesadesantos-deactivated201]

Oh, signal boost! I didn’t know this.

[omnistruck]

Okay, but also: if you see a Muslim praying in public and they have something in front of them, like a purse or a bag or something like that, you can pass in front of them, but pass in front of that object.

it’s called a sutrah, and it’s meant to act as a physical barrier between the person praying and someone who might happen to pass in front.

[ramentic]

Also, if you did this and didn’t know, please don’t beat yourself up over it. Now you know! Muslims aren’t supposed to pass in front of Muslims praying, either, because prayer is communication with God and you don’t want to break that connection.

[zeaux-indigeaux-deactivated2018]

Spread culture, respect customs, be good people. Simple as that.

[ghdos-blog]

Didn’t know this.

[aymygod]

Reblogging again

[frienddotsparkle]

THE AMOUNTS OF REBLOGS THIS HAS JUST MAKES ME SO HAPPY

[hayloft-a-creakin-deactivated20]

S I G N A L B O O S T

[princessmoonblogs]

Reblog forever ! 

[lazarusemma]

Similarly, if a Jew is saying the Shemonah Esrei prayer (whispered, moving only the mouth, standing facing east with legs together) don’t go in front unless there’s a barrier.

[jujanon-deactivated20260709]

[chipsprites]

me: look, a crab eating a strawberry

my roommate: but he’s eating such small pieces..

me: …he’s a crab

[mooncustafer]

it’s an opportunity rarely afforded to crabs

[ohevoyev]

seeing one direction from like 2010-2015 now is such a mindfuck. bc holy shit they were kids for so much of it and i was a kid too. we were so young, we’ll never be that young again but we spent so many of our teenage years together. you are not immune to 1d nostalgia..

[greyhyms-deactivated20220506]

i love prince eric.  from the little mermaid.  he’s hilarious.  because he seems like one of the most mild-mannered and unassuming princes in the disney canon, but he is also one of the few to actively kill the bad guy.   most disney villains die by consequence of the final battle but are not directly killed by the hero/heroine.  most of them fall to their deaths or cause their own demise, and sometimes the hero is indirectly responsible because they’ll launch them into that direction or something, but they still don’t bring knife to heart directly.  

but then a couple do.  and prince eric is my fave out of those few because up until the final act, he is the most chill motherfucker u ever seen.  like he is quick to spring to action during the storm scene n stuff, but otherwise?  he’s really quiet n sensitive and runs along the beach playing the flute for his big shaggy dog n he smiles like a lil nerd and gets all cute around ariel and he’s so sweet n everything.

AND THEN IN THE FINAL BATTLE THAT MOTHERFUCKER STRAIGHT UP DRIVES A SHIP THROUGH URSULA LIKE WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!  NO WONDER NO ONE IS TRYIN TO LAY SIEGE TO HIS KINGDOM!!  ALL THE NEIGHBOURS ARE LIKE “HOLY SHIT DON’T GO THERE! PRINCE ERIC IS A BEAST!  HE’LL STRAIGHT UP DRIVE A BOAT THROUGH YOUR BITCH!”

i love him