🌻 Sunnie 🌻

21, aroace & agender, they/them + 💫/💫self

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

forgive the version of you that didn’t know any better

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

forgive the version of yourself that knew better but did it anyway. forgive every version of yourself. we are constantly learning from our mistakes.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,218 days left

[carebooks]

best thing about the finale wasn’t just seeing homelander and the deep kick the bucket but getting to see hughie do his impression of butcher and actually doing a pretty fucking diabolical job of it, a+

[dreamsy990]

i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to

[dreamsy990]

unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school

[dreamsy990]

things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)

how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem

what common file types are

some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)

how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private

how to understand terms of service (hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)

what a cookie actually is

internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl

basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)

common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)

as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on

vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)

how to not get a virus while pirating something

what a temporary email is and when to use one

red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)

what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls

[dreamsy990]

ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)

an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous

a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps

a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)

some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[thundercrackfic]

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

[toothpaste-footlocker]

[yet-another-autistic-blog]

Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.

[panpteryx]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image IDs: Image #1: Tumblr tags reading: 'i can solve the unpredictability of the world by making my model complex enough', yes however, beware

Image #2: Tweet from Victoria | Save the Neurotypicals (@/ SNeurotypicals) on 2022-10-10 reading: Neurodivergent screening tests will be like "do you struggle with wearing socks" and ND people will be like "nope does not describe me, for you see I have a System" and folks that is what the question is getting at

Tumblr reblog from impalardison221b-blog of tumblr tag reading: that cant be right. im not struggling im succeeding. i am winning at socks /End IDs]

[miniaturize]

the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you

[weepingfireflies]

> Be me

> Comes home from work to see a giant pile of dishes

> Asks someone else to do it, so I can feed the pets with clean dishes

> Dinner rolls around & the dishes aren't done

> Starts doing the dishes

> "You don't have to do the dishes"

> Explains that yes, I do. I can't even reach the pet dishes (frequent occurrence that I'm used to)

> Somehow I'm "throwing a fit" when I was literally just doing the goddamn dishes by myself

> Whole house is acting like I'm upset about the dishes and not that I'm being treated like a crazy bitch for literally just vibing (while ND)

[weepingfireflies]

Is the person who you KNOW does not fuck with tone purposefully being a crazy bitch, or are you reading into what they hear as normal

[imjunebitch]

[a-wild-embubble]

"But how was I supposed to know that they were autistic--"

You weren't. You weren't supposed to know. You were just supposed to treat them with respect even when they did things that you found weird or strange or unusual. You were just supposed to treat everyone with respect.

[weepingfireflies]

Making horrible decisions after midnight on a work night (emotional vulnerability)

[princessmo]

saying this as someone who has it but having ARFID is sooooo embarrassing especially when meeting new people. hi yeah i have an eating disorder no it's not one of the body image ones. yeah my brain arbitrarily decides whether food is Good or Bad or Contaminated or Other. yeah i don't eat vegetables yes it's juvenile no i can't change it. i swear to god i'm not doing it for attention even though it sounds like complete bullshit. sometimes i just Cant eat stuff. yes it frustrates me too

[lesbianrey]

it does more harm than good to prop up the myth of the ‘neurotypical’ who completes tasks cheerfully with no issues. this person is a capitalist fantasy. the more you define yourself in comparison to this myth the more you justify social structures staying the same with minor accommodations to the ‘exceptions’ and the continued pathologizing of discomfort under hostile conditions

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[inkskinned]

"you have to let parents make their own choices about vaccines!!"

if the very idea of autism frightens you so much that you would allow your child to die of a preventable disease: you do not deserve to be a parent. i understand that people can be led astray; i understand they have their excuses. i am just never going to forgive any fucking ableist who sat back and pretended like neurodivergence was a fate literally worse than death.

[jackkdaniels]

when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil

[aromanticsky]

“marriage is a legal document that protects you, you’ve gotta decouple it in your brain from romance and amatonormativity” the fact that marriage is a legal document that protects and privileges you (that, might I add, generally isn’t valid without romance+sex) is LITERALLY amatonormativity. A legal status that privileges people in monogamous long-term romantic-sexual relationships IS AMATONORMATIVITY. That is *what it was coined to talk about.*

[aromanticsky]

who gets to see you in the hospital- what about my best friend of twelve years? We’re not married and we never will be, so she doesn’t legally count as my family. I have known her since we were six years old and if something happened to me I would want her to know and be able to be there and if something happened to her I would want to know and be able to be there, but we’re not married and never will be.

YES, marriage is a legal document that protects you- now think about where that leaves those of us with no partner, with multiple partners, with important relationships that aren’t and never will be marriage, with partners we can’t marry- what about us? THAT IS AMATONORMATIVITY.

[sexysilverstrider]

the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week

[medusasstory]

Honestly this is one of the best formatted jokes of all time.

[weepingfireflies]

Pet peeve of mine is when people claim that/act like The Pitt is the first ever medical drama to be set in real time with minimal-to-no background music when I know I watched flop 2015 British TV show Critical. I was there. I saw it.

[curlymcclain]

the crazy thing about doctor who is that it really is the best show ever for 30 seconds at a time. you never know when those 30 seconds will be. sometimes they happen multiple times in a single episode and sometimes you wait years and years and years. and the best part is those 30 seconds are surrounded by the worst show ever, which is also doctor who