this is particularly true for folks who never actually got diagnosed because well... if you have enough supports and money as an insulator you might not even *notice*. with enough money, you're not autistic, you're just quirked-up and eccentric
"i'm bad at learning new things i'll just made someone else do it". it's fantastic
*right up until that privilege goes away*.
i've seen this the most with people moving countries, cause "enough money for a maid and chauffeur" in Latin America is middle class in Canada
this is something i've been thinking about for a while but what class privilege does to disabled kids, especially neurodivergent kids, makes me so mad
because it's like. it's great! you never have to do the things you're bad at or work around things like "i don't want to wear used clothes" or
I wanna go back to this bc some people were saying it's silly to comment on this because it was between the fed reserve and banks-- you saw last summer how paypros and banks had a propensity to blame each other when confronted about their censorship? Cutting off every blame route is important
I have confirmation the SAVE Act died because Senate Republicans knew it would disenfranchise their own voters at much higher rates than Democrats. I wasn’t going crazy.
🏳️🌈 This queer indie comic anthology has less than a week left to reach its funding goal. Go check it out, and support it if you can! 🏳️⚧️
Prosthetics, Glasses, and Other Disability Aids in SFF will feature moderator @rhaven.bsky.social + panelists @smreiher.bsky.social, @stephengrahamking.com, @jdridges.bsky.social, @diannalgunn.bsky.social & @fiversdream.bsky.social discussing how to create unique disability aids in your world 4/?
it's a great show and even the actual, like, plot of the episode doesn't suffer too badly from the costuming and framing designs but oh my good god Flanagan being American is.....blatant
Americans can't conceive of the fact that Bly Manor could EASILY be from the 13 or 1400s
holding his face between my hands, sweetly crooning: plague doctors are 1600s and everything that they're wearing here is Regency/Georgian <3 if you want this to be earlier than 1840s they should be wearing powdered wigs at LEAST <3 this timeline makes no sense <3
Watched and enjoyed Bly Manor but Flanagans grasp of British history for the flashback episode seems....problematic
I just took my last HRT
I need to refill it tomorrow
Please send tips
AI "writers" could never understand the pure joy of sitting down to write and having the most entertaining bullshit just rise unbidden from the depths of your brain like a really weird mermaid
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Why aren't students protesting?
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
No funds have come in days. We only survive with community support. Struggling with my health and depression. Please boost or send any amount?
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we need to bring feminism 101 back, the people who tried to tell us it’s cringe were wrong and were probably rapists
(I also love ferrets! I was too small at the time to realize how unfairly they were being treated)
Oh dear. Yeah not the series for you, alas.
(Stefan is significantly younger than him, but also Stefan pretty much has to badger him into it which. Sighs. Again. Bingo card.)
Oh lord, love-hate relationship with those books
I read all three and it's like a bingo card of Dated Gay Rep Tropes *especially* as written by a woman who clearly has a type (i'd say no shade but......lil bit of shade)
She gets points for Vanyel firmly not being a pederast and not being slutty
Meanwhile there's my favourite, The Bellmaker, that actually does the exact opposite in a really nice way
OH FUCK SHIT
i published my first chapbook and it is available for purchase!
its titled Cancer, Car Crashes, and Crying (so grief and loss are huge content warnings!)
you can get it one of two places:
-an e-file at my kofi
-a physical copy at the link in my carrrd
I'll be posting links in this 🧵
Everytime I hear someone be unnecessarily mean about Indie Animation, Imma remember the phrase "shut up and live off the rain and dirt".
Really excited to be joining this virtual spec poetry open mic session!
Come read some of your poems or listen to me read some of mine ☕️ 📖
I shop at Target as little as I can; they suck. But now they're using sh***y AI at the self-checkouts to falsely accuse people of theft (and having them arrested, natch) so I want to shop at Target even less now. Avoid self-checkout lanes everywhere I guess!
ANNOUNCEMENT: new cover for the upcoming second printing of my book @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Boycott Target because their AI might randomly and falsely accuse you of theft and then have you arrested and upend your life.
They're already experiencing a "high volume of inquiries" LMAO