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If anyone could help me, an unemployed schizophrenic disabled person with EDS and lupus, among other issues, pay for medical bills and get out of debt, it would be greatly appreciated.
Help if you can, any amount is helpful.
I’m officially in the negative, so if anyone can help that would be so appreciated
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Steven Garcia with his daughter Cheyenne during the Oglala College powwow on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota (date unknown).
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Hello everyone! I’m Nhe Grace Lucahin and I’m a caregiver from dubai. I’m asking for some donations or help me spread this post for my father who is suffering from COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). We need some support for our medical expenses since due to the pandemic I am really having a hard time and my other family members as well, any amount of donation will always be counted, and a reblog is a good help too!
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I’m starting to really think that electric cars are a complete scam. Aside from the issues inherent in needing tons and tons of lithium ion batteries -which range from environmental costs of mining and manufacture and rare earth politics all the way to the potentially causing the price of prescription meds to skyrocket- there’s also a bunch of unaddressed safety issues that have sort of being hand-waved away by Elon Musk reply guys and other electric car boosters. Here’s my favorite boomer mechanic to explain why you probably don’t want to buy an electric car, at least until fire departments figure out how to rescue people from them without getting electrocuted.
Also the idea that it’s an efficient use of resources to replace every single one of the billion (literally) cars on the world’s roads, rather than transition to a society that doesn’t need that many individual automobiles. It’s just insanity. Regardless of whether they’re burning gasoline, it takes a fuckton of energy, minerals, chemicals, and yes even petroleum to produce cars and all the parts and infrastructure that they require. Merely manufacturing a gasoline-powered car produces about as much carbon emissions as driving it for about 20,000 miles. Those emissions are still incurred for electric cars too.
I'm just amazed that they managed to find someone who knew none of this
Hey if u like the ocean look at this its rly cool I think
Meaningful echolalia
Some people communicate mostly in memorized phrases or allusions to stories and events.
It’s actually pretty normal to communicate in phrases and allusions. I think most people communicate that way at least some of the time. For instance, a lot of people make Shakespeare references in situations that have little or nothing to do with literature. A lot of prose and interpersonal communication happens that way.
This is interpreted very differently for some people than others. People without disabilities who mostly communicate in literal language are taken much more seriously when they make allusions and quotes.
When a nondisabled person says “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”, it’s assumed that they’re communicating and that what they say is meaningful. They are usually understood. This is the case even if there are no ladies present and they’re obviously not talking about a lady.
Similarly, when a nondisabled person says something like “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”, this is understood as meaning something even if they obviously do not have a kingdom and are known to hate horses.
When someone with a disability communicates in exactly the same way, their communication is often written off as meaningless. It’s often seen as sensory seeking, or stimming, or a persversation, and having no communicative content whatsoever. This kind of communication is often ignored, and also often seen as a problem behavior to be extinguished by a behavior plan.
This is in part because there’s a widespread belief that autistic people are all hyper-literal and only understand literal language. That’s true of *some* autistic people. But there are also autistic people who have the opposite problem. There are people who find it nearly impossible to use literal language to communicate, but who can readily make references and use literary phrases. (This is true for other kinds of cognitive disabilities as well; it’s not unique to autism.)
People who can only communicate in references deserve to have their communication taken seriously. So do people who find references much easier than literal languages. Everyone else is allowed to use references to communicate; people with disabilities have the right to do so as well.
Here’s an example of a situation in which communication is often misinterpreted. Imagine a girl named Sarah:
Sarah doesn’t say very many words reliably. She can usually say a few things like mom, food, want, home, and SpongeBob.
Sarah watches SpongeBob a lot
She wants you and other people in her life to watch it with her
She says a lot of phrases from SpongeBob
(Eg: “I’m ready!”, “One eternity later”, “SpongeBob, you and I both know you’re just using me as a distraction so you don’t have to write your essay”, “Why is it whenever I’m having fun it’s wrong?”, “I’m ugly and I’m proud!”)
Sometimes, the assumption is made that her repetitive phrases are preventing her from developing standard language
Or they might think that TV is preventing her from developing standard language and that her access to TV is limited
Or they might think that she’s perseverating on SpongeBob in a way that’s preventing learning
When maybe what’s going on is that SpongeBob is *teaching* her language and communicative concepts, and she’s trying to use them to communicate
If so, she should probably watch more TV, not less
And it’s really important for people in her life to listen to her
And understand the references she’s making and what they mean to her
(Watching the shows with her is probably an important part of that; showing her other shows might be too)
If you want someone to communicate, you have to listen to them, even when their communication is unusual
A lot of this post about listening to people whose speech is unusual applies in this situation too.
tl;dr Repeated phrases are often meaningful. Some people with disabilities communicate mostly in memorized phrases and references and allusions to stories and other things. Nondisabled people are taken seriously when they communicate this way. Disabled people who communicate in references should be taken just as seriously. (Even when they don’t communicate in literal language very often or at all).
Hey everyone im trying to leave my abusive household june 1st since its been made clear that im less and less welcome here every day and i keep getting threatened with violence regularly!! so Please help me a black nonbinary trans woman leave this horrible place! i dont wanna die here!!!!!! this is the third time ive had to remake this post because it keeps dying
1625/6000
So im a black trans woman trying to escape an emotionally abusive, mentally abusive an… Wren Vervaat needs your support for Help me escape t
my brother and mother and fighting fucking every day like they are gunna kill each other please help me leave yall
despite all the notes this has gotten im still at only 2102/6000 id apreciate everyone donatong/reblogging this though!!
happy black history month everyone i still havent hit the half way mark on donations and i would apreciate it if yall could donate if you can 🥺
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Happy Lunar Moo Year!
Help a black man get back on his feet. He is raising money bc his job laid him off and hasnt received the rest of the money he was suppose to receive and needs it to buy food and pay rent/bills. He currently raised $25/$3,000. Pls boost/reblog and donate if u can. Link to the gfm here.
They currently raised $85/3,000. Please keep boosting/reblogging and donating!!
$155/$3,000
$165/$3,000, pls keep boosting/reblogging and donating if u can!
still at the same amount, pls keep boosting
still at 165… pls keep boosting
dental emergency part 2
same situation, new post. my wife’s mother needs $400 for xrays for a life threatening dental problem that will get harder to fix and harder to recover from the longer we push this off. dm for details if you need. we’re not expecting the whole amount from this, but every little bit helps as we have no other way to get extra money at this time. thank you for understanding & helping <3
help accepted here.
feb 9th 2021: $54/$400
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Finally listened to all music! My favorite song was an untitled file called “ssssddsdrt66677888.ogg” that I found on a flash drive that I found in a landfill in Tunisia
In case anyone is actually into this there are 3 volumes of these:
Ok so at first I was like “oh haha funny meme” then I was actually impressed by this cellphone music thing??
I looked it up and just listening to the first volume I am blown away like transcended a new level of music creators/Saharan culture blown away guys pLEASe listen to this itissogood
[Bandcamp link here!]
Humans are REALLY INTO MAKING AND SHARING MUSIC, guys.
If you like this you might also like
Awesome Tapes from Africa
which is, well, what it says on the tin. Some stuff is free to download, some stuff is available to purchase, some stuff is both.
Just on the first page, we have:
Arthur — Vuvuzela Dance Remixes Vol. 3 — S’Bamu [South Africa]
Nahawa Doumbia — La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1 [Mali]
Asnakech Worku — Asnakech (featuring Hailu Mergia) [Ethiopia]
Khalifa Gueye — Ruba [Senegal]
The site started as just a guy digitizing music from cassette tapes that you couldn’t find anywhere outside street markets in various African cities, and now it’s an actual record label that works with African musicians… and also a guy digitizing tapes.
It’s amazing cultural anthropology as well as great music.
Art by Linnea Sterte.
