Wilds / Ink

21 y/o, they/he. Currently interested in Outlast Trials, The Magnus Archives, and Disco Elysium. Always interested in writing, art, and academic research. Please ask questions I love having reasons to ramble

[xerserise]

Buckle in, folks. We're getting aware!

ABA, or Applied Behavior Analysis, is promoted as a necessary intervention for autistic children. However, it's important that you understand that ABA is abusive. Yes, even the "new" ABA.

Before we begin, make sure you understand what autism is.

What is Autism? (a non-pathologized explanation of autism by an autistic autism researcher)

And now, on to the explanations of how and why ABA is abusive...

I Abused Children, And So Do You: A Response To An ABA Apologist

The Great Behavior Fallacy: Why The New York Times Is Wrong To Think That ABA Can Treat Autism.

Is ABA Really "Dog Training for Children"? A Professional Dog Trainer Weighs In.

An Open Letter to the NYT: Acknowledge the Controversy Surrounding ABA

Evidence of increased PTSD symptoms in autistics exposed to ABA

Personal stories from those formerly enrolled in ABA

Ask an Autistic #5 - What is ABA (video)

My Thoughts on ABA by Amy Sequenzia

What’s the Big Deal With ABA Therapy?

ABA and Gay Conversion Therapy Compared

If you still need more information/evidence, here's a giant list of links:

The Great Big ABA Opposition Resource List. (see the bottom of the page for alternatives to ABA*)

And, if you're still here after reading all that, you can have a treat:

Understanding Neurotypicals. (a pathologized view of neurotypicality)

*"Alternatives" may not be the right word. We don't need alternatives to an abusive and ineffective so-called therapy that can't be reformed. We need supports (not treatments) that are tailored to our individual needs, just like everybody else. Maybe "things you can do that have a decent chance of helping an autistic person in your care to have a better life, which absolutely does not include any form of ABA".

[oleanderfey]

Stock, Karen L. and Kolb, David (2021) "The Experiencing Scale: An Experiential Learning Gauge of Engagement in Learning," Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education: Vol. 4 : No. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/elthe/vol4/iss1/6

This table felt like a poem to me.

[badassdemonsword]

Heated rivalry shouldve been about 2 ugly old guys that play mahjong then maybe id consider watching it

[krownest]

i don't remember them playing mahjong but they do other old man things like going to the wet market together and drinking soup and taking walks. anyway go watch suk suk / twilight's kiss

[krownest]

"ok but where's the old chinese lesbians" go watch all shall be well. it's by the same director and the old chinese lesbians are also at the market

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[str-ngeloop]

the rule of tumblr is that all your most insightful commentary must be buried under a mandatory "This is What You stupid fucking people Don't Fucking Get" just make it as hostile and offputting as possible. really aim to make people unsafe, cause we all know that's when people are most likely to listen

[sweet-shut-eye]

Humiliation and Contempt

[fuzzywyrmz]

🪻 to the heavens 🪻

FINALLY. FINISHED WITH THIS !!!! have some closeups and work in progress pictures :]c Started on this piece in late March and I had a ton of fun with it! i dont do a ton of super detailed work very often since it takes so much focus, but god is it a good time

Closeups!

sketch, lines, + rough colors

then i tried to do her tights pattern by hand, decided "yeah no" and just went with making premade patterns myself for the legs and the rest of the arms. save myself some suffering LOL

[transguyarchive]

the Trans Guy Archive's complete guide to Transmasculine HRT

After a couple months of research and personal testimony, we are very pleased to finally publish this extremely extensive guide on testosterone hormone replacement therapy!

The process of getting and taking testosterone is often daunting. The outside hateful rhetoric from bigots doesn't help either. This guide is aimed for anyone interested in hormone replacement therapy, from newcomers to those already on their HRT journey.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

The all-in-one guide to testosterone hormone replacement therapy for trans guys!

Huge thanks to everyone online and in-person who helped contribute to the guide!

[lochnessmonster-deactivated2013]

doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR

GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS

THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO

HOPEFULLY

[castiel--for--king]

We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.

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World Heritage Post

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[scatterbrainedbutterfly]

Update! Here is the links to the study and the writing done by the university!

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact

To attenuate microplastics pollution, we first must quantify the number and types of microplastics found in the natural environment and iden

[hjartasalt]

Mods are asleep post forbidden tits

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[anothermarkiplierfan]

Perfectly balanced as all things should be…

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[fruitloopghosty]

[offbrandbeethoven-blog]

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[immortalcheesewedge]

balance

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[bo0zey]

 i tried to be funny and it backfired miserably

[bo0zey]

it’s 2014 it’s time we moved on as a nation and stop reblogging this

[bo0zey]

every person who reblogs this in 2015 is gonna get their ass kicked by yours truly

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[anarchistmemedistro]

hey as long as discourse on whether joining the military is bad or not (it is) is doing the rounds again, i’d like to remind everyone that people who were in the military but are not any longer are not ontologically incapable of being leftists or good people. many of the military’s harshest critics are vets. they’ve seen what the military can do. they’ve personally been chewed up and spat. so have their friends. they know first hand the horrors the military has inflicted on the world.

obviously many vets never stop drinking the kool-aid. but many others do. and we shouldn’t reject them as comrades. chelsea manning was in the army before becoming a whistleblower. edward snowden was in the nsa. etc. yes call out people for joining, keep pointing out it’s wrong to kill people for money. even if you’re poor. even if you’re ignorant. but don’t condemn someone solely for their past if they’ve done the hard work of learning and growing. i think it’s pretty easy to walk and chew gum on this one. but it’s easy for some of us to forget that we have to.

[avpdvoidspace]

Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.

[savouryduck]

when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.

One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".

The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."

I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person's scary special crisis is another person's last year.

[alivehouse]

what do you mean you havent used mindfulness techniques to accept the state of the torture labyrinth as is yet. its like youre not even trying

[littleannoyingbluebird]

One of the reasons people headcanon Grace as aromantic is the unfortunately realistic scene where they go "you don't have a family or a loved one" as if that's enough of a justification to send him on a suicide mission. As if not having a family makes Grace inherently less valuable and means he should be more willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.

Grace wasn't sad and lonely, he was happy, he had a good life, he very much did not want to die. They have to do a looney tunes chase sequence and drug him because Grace was *very* unwilling to be the sacrificial lamb. Humanity's savior was dragged kicking and screaming into the role and called selfish for daring to be a coward, as if most of us wouldn't be.

And then he befriends Rocky, who never demands a sacrifice from him, who willingly prolongs his journey home so Grace can go back to his. Rocky has a mate back home and his species depends on his return, and still risks his life to save his squishy human friend. And Grace returns the favor.

And thus the power of friendship saves two planets.