Heartbreaking.
Even though the day was cancelled due to sequestration, a 5-year-old showed up to school because he was hungry.
And there are more devastating effects sequester budget cuts have had on kids and schools.
Feeling nauseated. Fucking people who don’t respect boundaries. When I say “I’m done engaging with you” and block your IP address from commenting on my Wordpress blog, that is not an invitation to come to my Facebook page for that blog and spam me with borderline harassing messages. And continue to do so when I ask you to stop.
You don’t get a pass because you’re autistic as well. Creepy men ignoring boundaries and the word “no” are abundant in all communities, including the autism one.
My blog is my home on the web. You’re not being permitted to shit on the rug and you won’t spew your vile internalized ableism on my blog. Create your own blog.
^^^^^ Seriously, sharing my neurotype doesn’t exclude you from being a total shitlord.
I’m really sorry this asshole is harassing you.
But Black people in period or fantasy settings totally makes the stories unreal.
Also holy shit I love these.
How come I don’t run across this stuff regularly?
Because of racism and the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe. Pretty much the same reason you almost never see these works of art either unless you’re already looking for them:
But it’s SOOOOOOOOOOO UNREALISTIC TO SEE BLACK PEOPLE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE!!!!
/sarcasm
Oh the last picture is the cutest.
On a more relevant note, this reminds me of when people are like ‘We can’t have POC in Lord of the Rings (or whatever) because it’s unrealistic.’
OH BUT HOBBITS AND ELVES AND MAGIC RINGS AND WIZARDS ARE FUCKING REAL, RIGHT?
There were no people of color in the Lord of the Rings because it was based off of pre-long distance sea travel British Isles and the different races were hobbits and elves and men, etc
There were actually men with darker skin tones that would have resembled folks from the Middle East
The Orcs were straight up #000000 black in many cases, though inb4 “THAT’S RACIST CAUSE THEY’RE EVIL”, Orcs were a race created by corrupt men and servants of Morgoth and their #000000 color was to symbolize darkness as in mankind’s fear of the dark and unknown
I swear to god I’m going to have to blacklist Lord of the Rings because of this bullshit
Think before you speak
Do some fucking research
Jesus
Fucking
Christ
GEE IT ONLY TOOK LIKE 6K NOTES BEFORE THIS SHITASS RACISM APOLOGIST SHOWED UP
“DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH”
ON LORD OF THE RINGS, NOT REAL LIFE
I KNOW IT’S HARD BUT IF YOU READ IN TO THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE EARTH IT’D BE WAY LESS “RACIST” IN YOUR EYES
These people are literal children. Anything slightly different from their view and they shit themselves.
“Because analyzing literature in context is just too hard and why not perpetuate the same shitty, racist tropes from now until eternity because I’m benefiting from them yay for me and yay for whiteness and boo THOSE PEOPLE, you know, people of color ha ha ha I’m a racist cunt”
(via babushka-nipples)
colegio culiao
tareas culias
profes culiaos.
pruebas culiasFísica es lo mejorcito oh :cx
Que lindo conocer la cara de la gente quee me atendera en el McDonalds antes de que trabajen alli :33
Ay si, ay si, la media es taaaan dificil, por dios, estoy tan estresado de poder dormir toda la noche tranquilamente, de tener tiempo libre para poder hacer gifs de lo estresado que estoy.
En el fritz también están aceptando gente, porsiacaso.
Si se quejan ahora me imagino, si es que llegan a entrar a la universidad se mueren xD
yo conozco gente que ha llegado muy lejos sin estudiar, pues viviendo en maipú trabajan en las condes..
=D
Ya si, ok, actitud aweoná de una cabra chica de 2º medio, pero ojo. 2º medio, cálculo rápido tendrá entre 14 a 16 años? es una cabra chica, seguramente a esa edad todos eramos tan maduros po wn, paren de martirizar a la gente y dejen vivir xD
PD: a la cabra chica del gif, si, cuando llegues a la U vas a darte cuenta lo increíblemente fácil que era el colegio y lo increíblemente entretenido que era ser un escolar.Advertencia: Ableismo/capacitismo, depresión, suicidio, autolesión, bullying y clasismo.
Ahora, esta weá si me enchucha, refiriéndome a los comentarios, NO a la niña del gif.
No sé si se dan cuenta, pero para empezar, no está haciendo eso con todos sus libros, son los de física, matemáticas, y química.
Y como una persona que sufre de una enfermedad psiquiátrica que sacude su autoestima y sentido de identidad con la más mínima frustración, con una depresión esporádica, Y con déficit atencional, la entiendo tanto. TANTO. Sobre todo si agregamos que soy mucho más de las áreas humanistas que las científico-matemáticas.
Empecemos con lo científico-matemático. ¿A cuántos de nosotros nos presionan para seguir carreras como medicina, ingeniería, o por el estilo? Ya saben, carreras que sí “valen la pena”, en vez de las otras weás hippientas e inútiles, y ni mencionar que las únicas que son bien pagadas de las humanidades son derecho y psicología, e ingeniería comercial si es que la consideramos una carrera humanista, hasta donde puedo recordar por el momento. Ni hablar de las carreras artísticas.
Luego, piensen en los que simplemente no podemos entender matématicas o ciencias. Porque en mi caso no importaba qué profe tenía, ni cuánto estudiara, ni cuánto tratara; no. podía. entender. ni una. weá. Llegué a casi hacerme pelones tratando de estudiar esas weás, llorar, y literalmente golpear mi cabeza contra la pared de la rabia, la frustración y la sensación de que nunca iba a ser nadie y que iba a terminar viviendo bajo un puente. Ahora, añadan a esa frustración el hecho de que tenemos tres ramos científicos, y de historia uno, entonces son muchas más horas a la semana las que gente como yo se rompe la cabeza o ya se cansó de pescar por sentirse tonta e inútil.
Luego, veamos como eso repercute en mis problemas psiquiátricos. ¿Resultados? Autolesión, disociación, pensamientos suicidas, etc, etc. Súper lindo.
Añadamos también el bullying que sufren muchos alumnos. Mi hermano, por ejemplo, no solo llora frustrado porque no entiende, sino porque lo tienen convencido sus compañeritos de que es estúpido, y porque sabe que el que le vaya mal es OTRA razón más para que lo torturen. Y por eso ya no se anima a hacer preguntas en clases. Y no ignoremos el hecho de que que te estén pegando o abusando emocionalmente no ayuda precisamente a que uno se concentre o que esté con la disposición anímica para poder motivarse o entender. Cuando asocias el colegio con abuso lo único que quieres es llegar a tu casa y no saber más de ese lugar.
Y aplauso especial al conchesumadre que hizo el comentario de que ella va a terminar atendiéndolo en McDonalds, bravo, bravo, bravo. Gente como tú son las que ayudan a que las otras materias sean vistas como weás en dos patas, haciendo que miles de niños sientan que las habilidades que tienen son una mierda, o que ni siquiera intenten desarrollarlas porque no sirven. Y no hagamos como que ese comentario fue más clasista que la mierda.
Esta no es una niña diciéndo que no quiere estudiar (El que no le gusten esas materias no necesariamente quiere decir que no se esfuerce en ellas, muchas gracias). Esta es una niña que está expresando su frustración respecto a ellas.
Coman caca todos.
^^^^^^ en serio
TW: suicide, outing
A couple of days ago, a woman game developer attempted suicide on a live video stream following internet harassment related to an Indiegogo campaign for her game. While she lay in the hospital, Destructoid writer Allistair Pinsof, in the interest of clarifying her Indiegogo “scam,” outed her as a transgender woman on his Twitter account.
[…]
Destructoid announced today that they’re docking Pinsof’s pay and putting him on a temporary leave of absence. But not firing him. I couldn’t help but remember when, less than a year ago, Destructoid writer Ryan Perez was fired for comparing you to a “booth babe.”
[…]
Pinsof put this woman’s life in danger in a real way - as she (according to his tweets) lay in a hospital bed following a suicide attempt. He still has a job. The man who called you a booth babe lost his.you know what to do, tumblr
reblog, signal boost
I doubt she’ll actually help but boosting anyway
is this the fucking shit that will happen every time queer people try to fucking do ANYTHING????
the same shit
the same fucking shit
“this is a scam, let’s try to *~out it~*”
slkfjakldsfjlds
fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck
i hope every person involved in this bullshit fucking burns in hell
(via duelswords)
I’m thinking about it because this post I made of S. Ross Browne’s art was reblogged with a comment like, “why don’t I see this stuff all the time”?
Because there are people who would say that a legend about a bunch of British hicks who supposedly found a shipwrecked monkey and thought it was a Frenchman proves that Medieval Europeans didn’t know what people of color looked like.
That is still one of the most racist and logic-free things I have ever fucking heard in my life.
It’s also an extremely pervasive piece of white supremacist fuckery and basically the reason fantasy fiction and art is so overwhelmingly white.
And pretty much the keystone of the fuckery that goes on in fantasy fandoms.
And this is without even pointing out that fantasy fiction is FICTION and CREATED ON PURPOSE BY HUMANS WHO LIVE IN THIS WORLD.
1. The commercial urged consumers who were already on antidepressants to ask their doctor about Abilify. Basically: “Is your antidepressant not working fast or well enough? Ask your doctor about ABILIFY!!!!!”
***EDIT*** Here is the actual commercial I saw on the waiting room TV.
2. Abilify is a dangerous and serious antipsychotic mostly used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and psychotic depression. They also like to use it “to control irritability and violent behavior in Autistic children who are at least 6 years old.” As an Autistic adult, I find this fucking disturbing.
3. The side effects of Abilify include: heart failure, sudden death, pneumonia, hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), dehydration and heat exhaustion, significant weight gain (50 or more pounds), and tardive dyskinesia (uncontrollable muscle movements) that can become PERMANENT. That’s not all of them, those are just the worst ones.
4. The reason they’re trying to promote Abilfy so hard and SPECIFICALLY for conditions that PROBABLY DO NOT WARRANT IT, is because their patent is ABOUT TO EXPIRE and despite the fact that they have been able to keep extending it since it was first patented in 2002, Otsuka holdings/Bristol Meyers Squibb co. stands to lose 13% of their total revenue, a.k.a. 2.76 BILLION DOLLARS if generic Abilify becomes available. So they are promoting the shit out of it as a “antidepressant enhancer”.
5. My ex (who I was with for 11 years) was schizophrenic, and Abilify was one of the medications they tried. The tardive dyskinesia and weight gain started right away and the medication was changed. A lot of the time, psychiatrists will NOT tell you about side effects. I have been put on medications that caused disassociation, vertigo so bad I ended up in the ER and on meds to control the vertigo, ones that made my teeth fall out, erratic behavior and lack of impulse control, and an endless host of other problems. I wasn’t warned about most of them. A lot of them were for conditions I didn’t even HAVE.
I’m not saying that Abilify is bad.
Is it better than Haldol and/or Thorazine? Almost certainly. Should it be an option for people who need those options? OF COURSE. YES. DEFINITELY.
DO YOU KNOW WOULD WOULD BE HELPFUL TO THOSE PEOPLE? HAVE A GENERIC ALTERNATIVE TO A DRUG THAT COSTS ABOUT 700 DOLLARS FOR A MONTH’S SUPPLY.
700 FUCKING DOLLARS
700
FUCKING
DOLLARS
A
MONTH.
And the people who most need Abilify are the least likely to BE ABLE TO PAY FOR IT.
America.
They put my dad on this for a while even though he has a tentative diagnosis of early-onset dementia and they specifically mention that if you have dementia and take Abilify it greatly increases your risk of stroke and my dad is already high-risk for stroke anyway because his father and grandfather and so on all DIED OF STROKES and he smokes over a pack of cigarettes a day. And they STILL put him on fucking Abilify and he raised those concerns to them as well as that it immediately made him feel even worse and they told him to give it time and see if it worked out. When he went into the psych ward they took him off it and told him he should never have been on it in the first place.
^that’s exactly the kind of shit I’m talking about!!!! They specifically SAY that taking it with any kind of dementia is a bad idea because SUDDEN DEATH can be a “side effect”:
Abilify is not for use in psychotic conditions that are related to dementia. Abilify may cause heart failure, sudden death, or pneumonia in older adults with dementia-related conditions.
They act like it’s some kind of no-big-deal kind of drug, when it can quite easily KILL YOU.
This is the best thing I’ve seen this week.
I love how many notes this has gotten.
Rose, you are magnificent.
<3
Frankly, I’m baffled. I want to yell “where are you all coming from???”
Because my anti-A$ post has jumped about 500 notes as well in the past 72 hours or so.
“ease the burden of people and families living with autism”
Bringing this back again.
This is incredible. Thank you for posting this. This damn near made me cry
As someone with an autism spectrum disorder, this disgusts me so much I just want to throw up.
This needs to stop.
My little brother has autism and holy god damn. Burden? Disease? Wow.
How the fuck is autism a burden Well I know how many can view it that way but I like myself (asperger syndrome) just the way I am. I am able to work well in school and achieve greatly, I was always a fast learner and though I may no get all those “social cues” I can get sarcasm (most of the time) and sarcasm helps with sociableness though honestly I hate the whole idea of popularity, I am happy, I may be weird and random and not really popular but who gives a fuck about popularity? I say being popular isn’t all it sounds like, and I like my autistic self much more than all of those people at my school who seem to never really be able to show their real selves to others. Autism may be hard on some families but instead of trying to cure it people should cope with it and make adjustments for the person in question, because “curing” a person takes away who they are, a part of them, their true self, and leaves them without a part of themselves that could really make a difference. My family is coping just fine with me around, they use sarcasm heavily to help me adjust to how others are and they point out what I do that is a bit abnormal, so I adjust but I keep who I am. My grandma tried to give me pills to “cure” my aspergers but after about a week I got rid of them because thy made me feel weird, fake, not who I really am, as if I was losing who I was, so I told my parents and they nodded and understood. Asperger Syndrome runs in my families genetics and has for quite a long time, so I am not really an oddball out, half of my family has dyslexia as well, we know how to deal with disabilities in this household, and others should be taught that instead of given magic pills to make the “problem” disappear.
THIS IS AMAZING. I hope they sent an apology letter.
Hahahahahahahaahaha
Yeah nope.
Here, have some more info on what assholes they are:
Honestly, your comments made reading that letter hilarious. Without them, I probably would’ve just gotten more and more upset and frustrated with these people. Like mentioned above, Autistic people are not a burden.
Sure, if you’re someone who has never dealt with someone who has a…for lack of a better word ‘disability’ (Which it isn’t because they are not disabled, and there for it is sad that we label them as such.) it can be a little hard. But when you are spending every moment of your life with that child, you learn how to deal with it, and take care of them properly so that they grow up and lead a happy, healthy life.
Autism is not a disease. It is something that happens naturally, because it is genetic. Ie; someone in the family was carrying it. Be it the mother or father. No one is to blame, and the blame shouldn’t be placed on anyone. So many people think that people with Autism are dumb, but they’re not. My friend proved that to me with her little cousin, who is now 6 or 7 years old, and is multi-lingual. She speaks English (albeit, a little broken, but we understand her just fine, and she’s seeing a speech therapist to help), ASL and French. I’m 20 years old and I don’t speak that many languages! Yeah, I know English, its my mother tongue. I know ASL because I’m partially deaf, and it helps me to communicate sometimes. (Especially in class with friends LOL). I live in Canada, where our two languages are English and French, and I can’t even speak French. What’s that saying about her?
She’s a fucking Genius that’s what! The only reason people label them as ‘stupid’ or ‘dumb’ is because of a) how they look, b) how they act and c) their grades. I know so many autistic people who are smarter than fuck, but their grades don’t reflect that because they can’t figure out how to word what is going through their head, or they can’t get it onto paper, or tests stress them out. I know one girl who has memory like a sponge. She just soaks everything up, but do you think the teachers treated her how she deserved to be treated? No. Instead she was sent into class to colour in a colouring book, and do simple math, and whatever else the school wanted her to do so that she could graduate. She understood the math I was doing, even though she wasn’t doing it! The teachers wouldn’t let her draw and paint the way she wanted because “its too hard for her.” Really?
I think people who are ignorant to these wonderful, brilliant, talented people need to fuck off and stop reproducing, and instead treat these people how they deserve to be treated, so that they can become whatever they damned well wish to be, and actually get to live the happy life that they dream of!
They aren’t my comments. The person who runs Rethinking Autism on Facebook is the person who corrected the letter.
I am Autistic. I am also disabled and neither is a dirty word. Yes, there are some autistic folks who feel like their autism isn’t a disability. And it is also an identity and I’m not ashamed of that. But it is disabling (for me).
Although I don’t agree that it’s a ‘disease’, I think it can be a burden. I know a few families who can’t even bring their autistic sons and daughters to a play, because they don’t realize that they need to be quiet and listen. It can be a burden.
Oh no! It’s such a burden! Parents don’t teach their kids how to behave in public (and yes, autistic kids need to be taught just like NT kids, and assuming that they can’t learn is the opposite of presuming competence) and they complain that they can’t *gasp* do things that they used to be able to do before kids? Come the fuck on. Parenting is hard work, regardless. If you think parenting an autistic child is a burden, don’t become a parent, because there’s no chance you won’t be an abusive shit.
Yes, parenting is a burden regardless. But parenting an autistic kid can also be harder (in some cases).
Because of people like you, yeah. congratulations! YOU’RE THE FUCKING PROBLEM! YOU FUCKING DICKSTAIN.
IN B4 BULLYING THE ALLISTICS
#YOUR SHITTY “OPINIONS” LEADS TO THE ABUSE AND MURDER OF AUTISTIC PEOPLE LIKE ME
#YOU’RE MAKING MY LIFE HARDER RIGHT NOW
Fuckyeahhardfemme fallin’ off
First you reblog this link that lists some cissexist gender essentialism:
“Biology and evolutionary psychology are proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that males and females are, generally speaking, different from one another for reasons that have nothing to do with the way they were raised. “
“Throwing a ball like a girl is lame. That’s why most people, male or female, prefer to watch the NBA over the WNBA. Aggression, intensity make sports more interesting and captivating. Male virility isn’t good for just sports, it’s good for culture and civilization.”
Then you reblog Black Face Antiblack Misogyny Pavel-Petel
http://searchingforknowledge.tumblr.com/post/44320946641/commanderbishoujo-pavel-petel-black-bitch
http://ostrikov.tumblr.com/post/44305369479/nefertiti
http://femmeempathmagus.tumblr.com/post/47070776239/oop-you-need-to-apologize-right-quick-instead-of
Seriously fucking displeased right now
(via crackerhell)
