Excuse Me Sir

I live here

[frigbob]

Person who wants to do stuff trapped in a body that needs to lie down

[aberrantemotion]

Can't express how stress free being open minded is.

Some lesbians use he/him? Oh cool.

Some people have people inside their head and sometimes it's fictional chars? Sick your brains like a pirate ship they're all working to run.

Some people like being treated like a pet dog? Bark bark bro.

Being fat isn't unhealthy but a perfectly normal type of body to have? Kinda beautiful how different we can all be.

Something doesn't make any fucking sense? Cool an opportunity to learn. And even if I can't figure it out it's cool we still have mysteries today.

[owenthetokencishet]

It's just... idk man. People are weird. Being a person is weird. Society is weird. The universe is weird. Rather than having to "normalize" everything, just accept that some people are weird. So are you. Nothing is normal. the rules are all made up. I once saw a Klingon pushing a baby stroller down the street in toronto. The world is a weird place, man. Just roll with it.

[monidoll]

"nobody is judging you" wrong, my mother is seemingly always judging every single stranger she sees

[the-toybox-sys]

reading the symptoms of autism as a now grown adult after being bullied for no explainable reason all your life

[desultory-suggestions]

I know people love to think of ADHD as just “haha fun disorder” and being distracted and ditzy. But neurotypical people will never know the legitamate stress and pain of losing track of items in seemingly a second, all day, every day. 

I set down my phone? It’s gone. I spend twenty minutes looking for it while on the border of tears because I just want my phone. It’s on a shelf three feet away, I can’t see it. I can’t trust myself to keep track of anything. I see a text? It’s gone the second I look away. I ghost someone for days and every time I remember I feel terrible.

It’s incredibly stressful! I know it’s easy to reduce something to simple terms, but please remember that it isn’t that simple. ADHD effects a persons life every waking moment. Lets not dimish the impacts. 

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

[invisiblebard]

[nicolas-px]

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[thedeaddandy]

Let’s Go … xrunion?

[bbcamerica]

It’s about time…

The Doctor Who Global Premiere, Sunday, October 7th, on @bbcamerica. New episodes premiere Sundays.

[doctorwho]

More details can be found here. 

[beepbeepbeepbeep-deactivated202]

w h y

[zimmzallabimm]

[zimmzallabimm]

[raccooncomic]

44. Pour Me Another

[cosmic-downbeat]

Being Neurodivergent

Being Neurodivergent is being predisposed to mood disorders/mental illnesses and no one ever talking about it

Being Neurodivergent is having your special interests/hyperfixations repressed by your family for your “own protection” despite those things being your only form of comfort or satisfaction

Being Neurodivergent is having teachers refuse to give you your accommodations because you’re “high functioning” or “you’re not really disabled”

Being Neurodivergent is having your siblings call you weird/a freak/disabled (with an offensive tone - being disabled in itself is not a bad thing)/annoying/ useless/completely helpless

Being Neurodivergent is doing what people tell you, but still doing it wrong because they weren’t specific enough

Being Neurodivergent is breaking down sobbing in the middle of shopping because everything was too much and you couldn’t process anything correctly/plan what you were going to do next

Being Neurodivergent is having everyone know something is wrong/different with you from the time you were an infant but never getting a proper diagnosis out of fear that you’ll be held out of honors/ap classes

Being Neurodivergent is having to hide checklists of “brush teeth” and “put books in backpack” when your friends come over because you simply cannot think through those steps on your own

Being Neurodivergent is being more susceptible to people using/abusing/manipulating you but not having anyone ever talk about it

Being Neurodivergent is losing friends because once they move on from a an interest that is your special interest/hyperfixation and they get sick of never being able to discuss anything else

Being Neurodivergent is constantly having people think you’re lying/are guilty of something because you can’t make eye contact

Being Neurodivergent is having to suppress yourself, hide key parts of yourself away, and remodeling every little bit of yourself for the neurotypical world you live in, and then being told it’s your fault when that facade fails, and it freaking sucks

[onceiwashere]

i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers

[onceiwashere]

i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i

[just-shower-thoughts]

If college students got their money back for each class they got an A in, colleges would have a much higher average GPA.