#cr4shkitten

[official-german-translationen]

Ich kann die Serie Sinn 8 empfehlen. Meine Lieblingsfilme sind Büroraum, Regenmann und die Harald Töpfer Filme in denen Ernst Schwarz meine Lieblingsfigur ist.

fühlen8 ist immer gut

[withasmoothroundstone]

I need some help with my mother. I'm autistic and turning 18 next week. On one hand she uses my age to shame me for my behavior ("act like the adult your are!") and on the other hand she uses my condition to completely ignore my bodily autonomy and arranges therapy forms I'm not too fond of (like CBT for autistic people) without asking me. When I called her out on trying to "assimilate" me she made fun of my "quirky" language and avoided the topic.

I wish I knew how to help.  Does anyone else?

[theroguefeminist]

In your description (/76063610322) you say that you consider nationalists Nazis. While I believe that nationalism is a hurtful concept it seems to be playing down a government that murdered 6-7 mio. people. Sorry if I'm too sensitive about that but I think that people using that term too liberally might do more harm than good by giving actual Nazis the feeling of being "not worse than nationalists".

This ask is regarding this post: http://theroguefeminist.tumblr.com/post/76063610322/i-consider-you-a-nazi-if-you

I’ve never once met a nationalist blogger on tumblr who didn’t have beliefs identical to the Neo-nazis, but simply refused the Nazi label so they could avoid the stigma of that label. Once. All of the people I’ve seen insist they are nationalists and not Nazis have the exact same beliefs as the Neo-nazis on here.

This ask strikes me as concern trolling. When people with the same beliefs as Nazis, who attempt to hide the fact with excuses and false labels, are accurately called Nazis, I’ve never seen those who openly identify that way take that as a comfort. Instead, I see countless people with virulently antisemitic, racist, fascist beliefs and hard-ons for Hitler and Nazi regalia hide behind euphemisms for their harmful ideas.

That whole Nazi description exists for me to protect myself. That’s why I lay it all out that way because I don’t want anyone who is likely to be a Nazi near me. Are a small percentage of those people I describe on that list not Nazis? Probably. But 99.9% of them are still friends of Nazis and subscribe to beliefs dangerous to me as a Jewish person, and a larger percentage of them are Nazis than not, so I’d rather be safe than sorry.

[withasmoothroundstone]

Your hat looks a lot like a form of a Tyrolean hat, especially the Southern Tyrolean kind if that's of any help.

It doesn't to me, but maybe it's the angle in the picture.  I'll have to take a few good photographs of the hat.

[withasmoothroundstone]

Is it okay for someone who doesn't really need a piece of accessibility equipment to use it if it makes them feel better? I am autistic (formally diagnosed high-functioning but only because I'm considered an "achiever") and very well able to speak but I am carrying a netbook with speech synthesis software with me anywhere I go because being able to type out and re-read what I am about to say helps me not forgetting what I was talking about mid-sentence because I get distracted by something.

Different people will have different answers to this question.  But from my perspective, emphatically, yes.  It's okay to use any piece of technology for any reason, in my book, because there shouldn't be anything special about, say, a wheelchair, compared to a bicycle, that makes a wheelchair a restricted item and a bicycle not.

But even if I were to think assistive tech should be confined to disabled people, your use is a perfectly good use of it and you shouldn't feel bad about it.  If it makes communication easier in any way, then in a way you do probably need it.  Just because you're not 100% nonverbal 100% of the time doesn't mean you don't need aug comm software.  In fact the term "aug comm" is short for "augmentative and alternative communication," and the "augmentative" part means that it's used in addition to speech, not just in replacement of totally absent speech (which is what the "alternative" part would be).

In my book, like... it's even a totally valid use of aug comm if you just feel more like yourself when you're communicating that way, in a way that's pretty vague and undefined.  That's a very common thing for autistic people, even autistic people with very good verbal skills -- to feel like they are more expressive through typing, or more personally and emotionally expressive.

Anyway, this is a long-winded way of saying yes, use it however and whenever and whyever you want to.  And if anyone gives you flak, they're the problem, not you, period.  I get extremely angry at people, including some disabled people, who try to turn assistive technology into some sort of exclusive club only for those who "need it enough" (which is always defined by their assumptions, not by what the person actually needs).  And I have extra rage towards people who do that with communication technology, because communication technology is one thing that almost every autistic person I've ever met could use at one time or another (pretty much the only exceptions being people who are literally not capable of using the technology, but are capable of speech), but most are afraid to because of the reactions they'd get.  Or haven't even though it's possible because they think of AAC as only for people who can't speak at all, or who have more severe speech problems than they see themselves as having.

[theroguefeminist]

About the TL;DR Wikipedia thing: It's a (pretty tasteless) joke from the German-speaking wold. It goes like "Hitler is commonly known for two things: One is WWII/the Holocaust. [pause] The other is his funny moustache."

yah someone let me know that. its really annoying. esp when you consider he ripped the mustache off of charlie chaplin

[ryjelsum-dead]

Did you know there's a German bus company called "Beese & Son Bus tours"? Now you know. bustouristik-beese(.)de

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