Mina

I'm going to need to find something stronger than tea for this.

[terramina]

I took this picture 10 minutes into my 25 minute wait for the bus. The bus was super late and then the driver turned and got lost and wouldn't listen to anyone telling her where to go. I ended up on Colfax while riding the 20. Anyway. 15 minutes before I took this picture, the snow wasn't even sticking to the grass and now we have 2 inches. #storytime #firstsnowfall #snow #igotsocold

[lady--koto]

[just--space]

Thunderstorms as seen from the ISS

js

[handsomedogs]

Ava, Max and Noah enjoying the snow.

[nicoleluvspink82-blog]

[mothmansbignaturals]

starstimming:

nicoleluvspink82:

DIY Kenetic Sand 😮

For anon!

[himmari-deactivated20180207]

Who can say no to that face? ¯\_( ´ ▽ ` )_/¯

[mymodernmet]

[did-you-know]

mymodernmet:

The Fennec Fox is the Most Adorable Animal in the World

[weloveshortvideos]

[wickedkhaleesi-blog]

the fact that cats literally have no concept of spacial reasoning is what makes this so freaking hilarious to me

[just--space]

Aurora Borealis over Lake Huron

js

[onceland]

[handsomedogs]

We had the park to ourselves, so Gwen got to be top dog.

[nyanpress]

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[mooniicorn]

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

[iamthethunder]

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

[rosslynpaladin]

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science)  indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

[vicecommanderhijikata]

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

[just--space]

Five Planets and the Moon over Australia, the planets all appear confined to a single band

js

[terramina]

It looks darker than it is outside, fell and scraped myself up. Blood is running down my leg and this bus is late. #sunrise #helloworld

[terramina]

Tetris skill level? Book packing. I'm on my second box of books. I'll probably need at least one more to empty my shelves. Side note: empty book shelves hurt my soul. #books #packing #tetris #ihatemoving #fullboxes #emptyshelves

[terramina]

Does this make me basic? My first #pumpkinspice steamer of the season. #tobeapartner #barista #basic