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I! Will be presenting on neurodiversity-affirming AAC, gestalt language processing, and a a decent chunk of stuff about part-time AAC use/AAC use by speaking autistic folks on September 28, 2025.

This will be for the Northwest Augmentative Communication Society, and it is online.

I am both an Autistic part-time AAC user and an AAC researcher.

It costs $90 for professionals and $45 for anyone else. The promo code of NWACScode2025 gets you 15% off of the applicable price.

Open to anyone interested in AAC and/or communicative scripting/echolalia/gestalt language processing.

#aac #aac user #actuallyautistic #neurodiversity #autism #actually autistic #neurodivergent #disability

mochipuchi

yiou can only reblog this post on july 17th dont reblog it on any other day or you will be boiled

mochipuchi

what the fuck

0x4468c7a6a728

you can't boil me it's july 17th

ivy-michaels

This website sometimes seems to think that leftism is when you can buy cheap things, and the cheaper they are, the more leftist it is. I really don't know how to explain the world to people like that.

ivy-michaels

I made a post a few weeks back about how electronics should be big, expensive, and repairable. A lot of people responded that they agreed with big and repairable, but it should be cheap too.

Here's the problem with that, cheap and well-constructed are mutually exclusive. They simply are. As long as you have an economy where people are paid for work, even with a robust safety net or even universal income, all costs eventually boil down to labor.

Yes, there's raw materials and such, but those are then converted into usable materials using, can anyone give me the answer? That's right, labor.

Simply put, money is a physical representation of labor. This isn't a controversial stance, this is extremely basic baby's first Marxism. Like, you say you go here, but you don't seem to understand this.

The reason things like LCD panels and disposable LED lights and hard disks are so cheap is because their production has been opitmized to produce the most of a specific item in the least amount of time. An electron tube for a radio takes a skilled technician an hour or so to make and costs you $30. Transistors can be made by the thousands on a fully automated production line in the same time and cost you less than a buck each.

If you want a laptop computer that you can service, repair, and upgrade, you have to engineer it to be serviceable, repairable, and upgradeable. That means someone has to be paid to do that. You have to use more materials in order to make it large enough that you can access the servicable parts, which means you have to pay for more materials. You have to provide quality control for all the various extra connections that make servicability possible, someone has to be paid for that. You have to be willing to reject products that make it to final assembly and do not check out for quality control, which is incredibly expensive.

So no, you can't just make things "Big, Cheap, and Repairable." Being cheap and well-made are completely orthogonal to each other.

ivy-michaels

#if everyone is being compensated fairly#nearly everything 'big' in your life should cost you a lot of money (buying it from someone who made it or at the end of the supply chain)#or a lot of time (making it yourself from scratch or base materials)#and it should last a LONG time and receive maintenance and repair over its lifetime#furniture clothes technology tools curtains quilts toys instruments#etc

dirtandspace

Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)

I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)

So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.

Details below the cut:

turquoisedata

I've reblogged this like 20 times but knowing he's suing one of his victims has made me come back to do it some more because fuck him. How very fucking dare he.

Let's hit him in his fucking pocket.

thetursithan

iamhisgloriouspurpose

How long did it take them to figure out that it could actually be done? That's staggering.

kiragecko

[Video is titled, "four cellists play Ravel's Bolero." It's on Classic fM. They all play on the same cello, with the drum part is played by plucking strings. Two of them do small comedy fights in the background between their parts, trying to take the other's place beside the cello. It's a pretty tight fit, and at some points there are four bows almost touching as they all saw the strings.

Text on the screen reads,

four cellists play Ravel's Bolero ... on just one cello. Bolero has long been a test of endurance for snare drummers, but here, every part is played by a cellist. With only one instrument in sight, Wiener Cello Ensemble 5 + 1 leap to the task, involving a fair amount of acrobatics! Watch it all unfold ...

End ID.]

turtley-ausome

Hi i have question, is it okay if I use tablet AAC, as a mainly verbal person (might just be masking..) but I get bad feeling when talk, and and makes me have meltdown. I stutter a lot too, mumble, wrong grammer. Is it okay?

AAC is for anyone /evryone who needs or want to use it! Totaly okay in my opinon. Love AAC. Sory not longer anser im not good at explaining this stuff!

yesthattoo

I bring a link dump because this is very much my area:

It’s been quite some time since I posted my letter to the woman who accosted me on my way to the para transit van. But I wanted to update pe

It's not the main "story", but Mel Baggs closed the post with:

Communication pages like this are not just for people who absolutely can’t ever speak. They are for anyone, anywhere, who for whatever reason would be unable to say things like this in situations where they need to be able to say it. I’ve run into too many people lately who desperately need something like this, but are afraid to use it because they don’t fit the popular image of someone who needs a communication device. Some of them have even been told that it’s horrible or disrespectful of them to even consider using a communication device. But my position on it is that having the most effective communication method possible can result in better emotional and physical health, in some situations it can even save lives. So given all that? If something like this can make your life better, for any reason at all. Whether you can’t ever speak, can only sometimes speak, can only speak about certain topics, can speak but it isn’t what you mean, can speak but typing or using picture icons works better or uses fewer mental resources. Or anything else like that. Do whatever works best for you, and screw anyone who tells you different. Anyone who feels the need to act as the supreme gatekeeper of all things assistive technology… not only do they have too much time on their hands, but they are letting ideology get in the way of real people leading better lives. And that is just plain wrong, and fundamentally unfair to people who could benefit from a communication aid.

I don't want to assume your neurotype, anonymous, but I also don't think these paper's ideas of "if it helps, use it" only applies to autistic people -- that's just the group I was focusing on at the time:

AAC for speaking autistic adults: overview and reccomendations

Everyone deserves AAC

Professionals are certainly not in universal agreement about this, but some are catching on: it is technically possible to get insurance funding for an AAC device for a part-time AAC user! Some of us (not me, and probably not most) have had formal AAC assessments with SLPs.

If it helps you and you can get it, use it.

wiisagi-maiingan

Direct lineage enrollment, where you need an enrolled parent to enroll in your tribe, is so complicated because it makes so much sense on paper but is absolutely fucked in practice, especially in tribes with other enrollment restrictions like age. One missed generation, one person ledt unenrolled for safety, one forgetful parent who didn't know or remember to enroll their children, one child stolen from their family and never enrolled, and the entire family is permanently cut off from their tribe and community.

Sure, you don't have to be enrolled to be Native but that's much easier to say than to live with, between fakeclaiming online and so many cultural and community things only being available to enrolled members.

I think a lot of non-Native people see discussions of enrollment restrictions in tribes as coming from pretendians who are mad that their chosen tribe doesn't want them when those discussions are actually coming from Native people who are left on the fringes of their tribe because they don't have a card. Open enrollment is also often seen as just a way for people to get around enrollment requirements, especially blood quantum, but those periods are decided on by tribes who are fully aware of how their current restrictions are hurting families and the community.

wiisagi-maiingan

Tribal enrollment in general is so fucked because no one else is expected to be legally registered as their ethnicity to be respected BUT ALSO Native tribes are sovereign nations so enrollment is closer to citizenship than personal identity BUT ALSO enrollment was used to destroy tribes by the federal government because less people in a tribe means more tribal land that's up for grabs BUT ALSO enrollment requirements now are set by individual tribes and not the federal government BUT ALSO a lot of those requirements are based around financial or bigoted reasons like patrilineal enrollment designed to keep women from marrying outside of the tribe BUT ALSO people laying claim to Native identity to act as authorities on our communities and cultures and to benefit in a multitude of ways (usually by taking social, political, and academic positions) is a serious issue that negatively impacts Native people BUT ALSO enrollment restrictions do very real and tangible harm to our communities too and many requirements (like direct lineage) actively punish people for forced assimilation BUT ALSO—

Shit is hard.

abandonthefort

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Zaimid didn't go to the Copper Isles to find love. He found it anyway.

1.7k of Zaimid/Sarai with background Zaimid/Kaddar/Kalasin ft Zaimid's dubiously ethical polyamory, a rhapsody on how amazing Sarai is, and Zaimid blissfully going "that will be a problem for Future Me"

captmuldoon

“i wish we could see adaptations where sherlock holmes hates the rich and is allowed to be kind to those around him and uses his abilities to support society’s underdogs” elementary was doing this back in 2012. this was only episode 4.

mephorash

why are psychotic people expected to choose reducing symptoms over happiness every chance there is? I can't drink or do drugs or stay up late or avoid taking my pills that will make me exhausted in the morning or participate in my psychosis triggering hobbies and interests or I'm noncompliant and need forcible medication because I'm not allowed to knowingly accept I'll have symptoms and choose to manage them on my own without medication. we aren't allowed to take risks or else

dissociative-drugs

THIS IS SO REAL

SO GLAD SOMONE FORMULATED WORDS FOR THIS THOUGHT

COZ I'VE FELT THIS WAY FOR SO LONG BUT DIDN'T HAVE THE WORDS TO EXPLAIN

NOW I GOT THE WORDS TO TELL MY MENTAL HEALTH GROUP HOME STAFF "actually I like doing [x] thing even tho it makes me symptomatic and that is my right to face the consequences as a grown up"

sleepy-seal

im being so serious when i say this but we need to bring back the "my genitals are none of your business" "if gender is whats in my pants then my gender is some loose change" mentality from the late 2010's because too many people on here are openly flirting with exclusionary people who spout enbyphobic rhetoric. stop caring about what people's agabs are you assholes. they literally mean nothing. they're not a zodiac sign or indicative of people's character. you are not wholly pure or wholly evil because of your assigned sex. you're just a person.

ash-and-art

"what genitals do you have?" Is sexual harassment regardless if its from a security guard or a chronically online furry

sandersstudies

Me: Okay improv class somebody give me an occupation. :)

Class: Dentist!

Me: okay, so in this scene you are going to be a dentist. :)

Child 1: WHY DID YOU STEAL MY TEETH!

Child 2, on the floor, sobbing: I’m so sorry! I sold them on the dark web. I’m in so much debt from medical college.

tetrafelino

I'm noticing some interesting choices with regards to pronouns in Laura Pohl's translation of All Systems Red. See, in Portuguese we don't have object pronouns like "it/its" and neutral neopronouns like "elu/delu" are considered more analogous to the English "they/them", so gendering Murderbot the way that it is gendered in the original was always going to be tricky. There's also the other difficulty that adjectives are gendered in Portuguese, so whenever Murderbot describes itself or it's emotional state or anything, necessarily it was going to gender itself grammatically in some way. What this translation does at first is that the Murderbot's internal dialogue it genders itself in the masculine which I assumed to be just sort of defaulting Murderbot to be a masculine character, but in reflection of a different detail, I think it's just defaulting to this formal almost archaic notion of the masculine as neutral. Now, the detail that made me rethink this is this line that I just came upon of Dr Mensah's:

"UniSeg, preciso que você fique parada aí até eu chegar."

[SecUnit, I need you to stay still (female form) until I arrive]

The reason that Mensah is referring to Murderbot in the feminine in this case is that it's referring to it as a security unit, right, and the word Unidade, Unit, in Portuguese, is a feminine word. So I just went back now and I found one other previous instance in which characters refer to Murderbot in the third person and, Ratthi, he calls Murderbot by masculine pronouns but that's when it's being referred to as a robô, robot, which in Portuguese is a masculine word. So I guess the way that Pohl found to express Murderbot's object pronouns is by just using whatever pronouns are in agreement with the word being used to describe it. Which to be fair makes a lot of sense for treating objects in Portuguese. If you call something a cadeira, chair, you're going to refer to it with feminine pronouns, but if you call the exact same object a sofá, sofa, you will be using the masculine pronouns.

tetrafelino

okay I just realized the reason Murderbot refers to itself with masculine pronouns in its internal dialogue all the time is because it's referring to itself as a robô assasino, murderer robot, which is masculine okay this is kind of genius actually

tetrafelino

okay okay this is so cool actually literally the next page and Murderbot is talking about other SecUnits right and it says this

"Elas não eram os robôs-assassinos mais astutos, (...)"

[They (feminine plural) weren't the (masculine plural) most astute murder robots, (...)]

...feminine pronouns for Unidades de Segurança, SecUnits, and masculine pronouns for robôs-assassinos, murder robots...

so yeah it's it's literally exactly as I understood it we are simply using our own grammatical gender rules for objects... it's so cool

onlybylaura

hey, translator here! (: this was absolutely done on purpose. gendering Murderbot would always be a problem, so I, the copyeditors and the brazilian editors worked together to make sure that bots/constructs could be referred with both masculine/feminine pronouns, sometimes even in the same paragraph. same goes for ART in the second novella, who's also an It in english, but varies between nave (ship, femine) and transporte (transporte, masculine). it's an important detail and i'm happy it was noticed!

writing-prompt-s

“Hey, so… you know that trouble I was having with that rabbit warren? Well, it turns out they’ve developed into a bronze age society, and I just don’t have what it takes to remove them now.”

pitviperofdoom

(CW: animal death and injury)

It wasn’t the end of the world. Maybe if this place was my livelihood I’d start panicking or packing up, but it’s not. I’m a vet, I own my own home, and I’m not hurting if my vegetables get looted. The garden’s a hobby at best, and yeah, maybe it was Grandma’s pride and joy, but I warned her I killed my mom’s geraniums when she told me she was leaving me the house, so it’s not like she has room for disappointment.

If anything, the rabbits are lucky they picked my land to figure out civilization on, because I’m pretty sure my neighbor Carl would be dropping dynamite down the burrows in my shoes.

I won’t lie, I came close. Monster Truck got out while I wasn’t looking, and when he came hobbling home with a goddamn spearhead embedded in his leg, I was about ready to rain my own personal Iliad down on the little bastards. Lucky for them, treating arrow wounds on my cat gave me enough time to calm down and think. I figure it was self defense. I don’t like letting my cats outside off-harness anyway, and I would’ve been plenty upset if he’d come home with a dead bunny in his mouth.

realsocialskills

Disability-affirming growth mindset

Children are often taught to think “I can’t do that *yet*” as a form of encouraging growth mindset. That’s a really useful strategy when it’s applicable, and it also needs some nuance in order to be more disability-affirming.

Growth mindset has to be grounded in reality.

Growth means that I am always learning new things and developing new skills and getting better at things. It doesn’t mean doubling down on pursuing impossible dreams; it means doing real things.

Sometimes growth mindset means thinking “I can’t do that *yet*,” and continuing to try until I can.

Sometimes it’s more like, “This isn’t working. Maybe I need to do it another way.”

Or: “This isn’t working, and maybe it’s not going to work. What else can I do?”

Or: “I can’t do *that*, but I can do the important part a different way.”

Or: “I can do that with help.” and/or “Let’s figure out what supports would make it possible to do that.”

Or: “We can do that collaboratively, together.”

Or: “I could do that with appropriate assistive technology. Let’s figure out if some exists and/or if there’s something we could invent.”

In those instances, realizing that something isn’t going to work is part of how we find out what *can* work.

There are also cases in which growth mindset means realizing that something may not be a good use of our time and effort and resources. A skill that is broadly useful to nondisabled people might not be worth it to me, even if I’m technically capable of doing it. (For instance, handwriting is a useful skill for most people, but it’s always been so hard for me that it’s not really worth it. Losing the ability to handwrite more than a few words at a time has freed up my abilities to do other things, like focus on typing words.)

There’s something powerful about seeing your body as it really is and working with it rather than against it. Sometimes figuring out what isn’t possible or what’s not worth the cost in time and effort is how we find areas where we can grow and flourish.

Growth mindset means that I *don't sabotage my growth* by wasting time and effort pursuing impossible things. I don’t stand on a chair or a roof and expect believing in myself to make it possible to use my arms as wings and fly. If I want to fly, I need an airplane, and that’s ok.

At the same time, I think that claiming the power of “yet” is really important for disabled people, and especially for people with developmental disabilities.

Sometimes there can be a lot of pressure to see ourselves as incapable of doing things every time disability makes it harder or means we need to do things differently or it’s not obvious whether or how we could do the thing.

Sometimes we get pressure not to try things unless there’s some certainty that we will be able to do them. (And for something as complex and poorly understood as developmental disabilities, there’s rarely much certainty. Having other people’s doubts limit what we’re allowed to try makes the world very, very small.)

Sometimes disability-affirming growth mindset means saying “I can’t do that, let’s do something else,” and sometimes it means saying, “I might be able to do that, and I’d like to try.” Sometimes it means saying, “I want to keep trying even though it’s harder for me and I’m not catching on as quickly and no one seems to know how to teach me.” or “I don’t know if this is going to work but I think it could, and at this point, I’d like to keep trying.” Or, “I know most people learn this by the time they’re four, and I know I’m much older than that, but I’d like to try to learn this too.”

Sometimes it means an adult claiming the right to learn how to read, or finding a dance studio where they’re willing to slow down enough for them to learn. Sometimes it means practicing a new skill in private while you’re figuring out if it’s something that makes sense for you. Sometimes it means asking around to other disabled people to see what their strategies have been. Sometimes it means demanding your right to accessibility and accommodations even when others don’t think you belong and don’t see you as capable of doing things in the space you want to be in.

lazeylily

holy fucking shit I hate living in kindergarten world. I can't even show my friend the post that got me banned, which is to be clear a picture of an injury about as severe as cat scratches, because discord thinks we're five

I severely underestimated the degree to which this is a banned subject. the sheer number of people who chimed in to thank me for making them feel better about their history of self-harm is an extremely direct example of the actual harm done by banning it as a subject. I didn't even mean to at first, I was just sharing a way that I show love.

the fact that it's possible to do that by accident is a tragedy, people are not getting the bare minimum. people should not feel like they have to hide their scars.

the systemic force that I've been running into is an obvious problem. I can't fix that, but even on a social level self-censorship does harm. if you treat it as this somber, terrible thing then people who actually need help can't talk to you. please get comfortable with being uncomfortable, it saves lives.

I can personally vouch that being proudly discomforting also helps. if you can, don't hide your scars. that's one way you can show love.

oatmealwarfare

the unyielding march of draconian control over what we say and consume, all masquerading as safety measures, is as depressing as it is infuriating and what's worse is seeing it affect modern culture. as a kid, i used the internet to escape my cultish fundie familie's attempt at sheltering me from the world, but now the internet is full of people who will clutch their pearls at the sign of anything that could possibly be construed as a kink or in any way suboptimal for your health.

if we let them control what we talk about then we'll be effectively handing over control of our thoughts

birdsagainsthumanity

I got an official warning and limitation on discord for 'encouraging self harm' because I shared a photo in which you could see the scars on my arm. It wasn't actually a photo ABOUT that, you could just see them??? I am utterly baffled about this. No opportunity to object or talk to a person, no evidence at all about how to fix the problem, and it's INFURIATING.

mx-macintosh

y'all need to relearn the word erratic and stop using schizophrenic/bipolar/psychotic as a replacement

mx-macintosh

y'all need to relearn the word particular and stop using ocd as a replacement

weresoul

People need to relearn the word "egocentric" and stop using narcissist/narc as a replacement.

thatpreciousthing

People need to relearn the word "impulse" and stop using "intrusive thought" as a replacement

answrs

People need to relearn the word "lying" and stop using "gaslighting" as a replacement

darlingofdots

People need to relearn the word "asshole" and stop using "toxic" and "abusive" as a replacement

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