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i avoid printers at all costs but deep down i think i should've been a printer. life so easy. i sit there all squarelike and when someone has a minor task for me i goFUCK YOU

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#yo would any of my GTHA friends wanna go see chris fleming do stand-up in toronto on june 8th #bc i grabbed 2 tickets before they all sold out #and now i gotta find someone to go w me lol

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Dear professor this assignment did not nourish my fundamentally curious soul so i did not do it No penalty full 100 points please Goodbye!

#ok fr tho i once had a student abt age 11 who tried to pull this and i 100% accepted and allowed it #bc the program i taught at insisted on assigning homework for every day of the week (i couldn't not assign it or i'd be fired) #and it was the same monotonous math questions over and over again for pages #and the kid was like 'this sucks. this just completely sucks. i'm not learning i'm dying of boredom and frustration. so i'm not doing it' #and i was like. ok. big mood i agree w u dont do it #and he was like ??? but dont u have to dock my points for that ?? #and i was like. good sir i only have to dock ur points if u do not practice ur math. there r other ways to do that #so he and the rest of the class brainstormed other fun ways to practice math and invented a trivia game together #and thats what they did from then on out (w the exception of learning new concepts which once again i Had to assign or i'd be fired) #and my boss tried to nail me to the wall for it every fuckin time and i was like. ma'am. #1) these kids r as young as 4 and 5 years old. im not assigning homework every day. they shoulsnt have homework at all #2) i am encouraging the students' creativity and positive thinking as well as social skills #3) they r still doing math. none of their grades r suffering for it. in fact their marks are going Up. way up #4) its not that serious #5) i simply do not care #and finally 6) homework should be abolished and u do not want to motivate me to make my classroom even more anarchist than it is already #i will wreck ur shit lmao #anyway. i did everything in my power to not assign anything at home ever. just. let them do it all in class or str8 up said to ignore it all #turned into a competition of who could come up w the most random excuse as to why they didnt do assignments #'bluey was on tv' 'my sister wanted to play witches' 'the cat puked' 'it was a full moon' 'the numbers were haunting me' 'it had bad vibes' #i gave extra points for extra entertaining reasons #'my dog needed extra cuddles and also she hates math and has banned it from the house forever' #a+ good job extra points for u and ur wise doggo

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#cats

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Drawing rainbow trout in my diary <3

#art #fish #colours

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In the kitchen straight up "chopping it". And by "it" haha well. Let justr say. My vegetble

#ty for the reminder i need to eat breakfast #time to chop the vegetble for my bagle

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what if i just rest my eyes for a second

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Is Autism Speaks really as bad as people say it is?

Having been forced to deal with them and organizations like them, I can safely say “No.”

It is obscenely worse.

You see, any idiot can look at things like “we need a cure” and their anti-vaccination advocacy and realize how ridiculously stupid that it. 

But that’s not what they sell to children’s hospitals. Instead, they push extremely unconventional medications to “help” autistic children (usually by sedating them into a catatonic state). I mentioned earlier that Risperidol eases overstimulation, but Autism Speaks doesn’t like Risperidol because it’s not controlling enough.

Autism Speaks absolutely loves “treatments” and “counselling” based around controlling everything autistic children do. Stimming, self-coping mechanisms, even strange and oddball quirks like kids who wear gloves everywhere, all of these are taken from them and doled out as privileges. It’s all about turning anything an autistic child likes into something they can control.

They treat these children like fucking animals and really enjoy forced isolation as a punishment. The IWK has several “Secure Isolation Rooms” that they will place autistic children in their care into for hours at a time unsupervised when they start acting out. And not “having a meltdown and might accidentally hurt someone” kind of acting out, even just mouthing off or getting lippy with a nurse.

I am personally convinced that the whole “cure” motto is a sham, because studies into Autism long ago disproved the theory that it was something that needed curing. Autism Speaks behaves more like a eugenics organization. And they are slippery bastards about it too. 

I’ve had the displeasure of having to interact with them directly because they have such a stranglehold on Nova Scotia’s youth mental health that any counseling group inevitably gets calls from them. Speaking to them and hearing the tone with which they spoke about these poor kids made my fucking skin crawl.

If you’re an autistic child and they’re talking to your parents or counselor about you, they won’t even use your name. The Child, The Patient, and The Boy/Girl are all common ways to refer to these kids. On several occasions they’ve referred to some kid as “it.”

I’ve said before that Tumblr especially doesn’t quit know what Autism Speaks is, and that’s because their public persona is very carefully crafted. Their reputation is so cartoonish that doctors who don’t know better won’t believe it, and so they swoop in with a lot of pretty language and faux-politeness. The skeezy, contemptuous way they behave when they think they’re doing business is enough to make you fucking vomit.

You quickly learn why so many hospitals willingly work with them. They are very good at getting their claws into health care organizations because they have this almost sinister “Friendliness” to them, and when you combine this with the fact that a lot of child psychologists have absolutely no concern for the actual well-being of children (just making the parents happy so they continue footing the bill) you have a recipe for a truly horrifying experience.

I can’t fully articulate just how sickening they are. Take however bad you THINK they are, multiply it by a hundred, and then think about how Quentin Tarantino would inflate that to make a movie out of it.

That’s how fucking gross and vile they really are when they think nobody is watching.

~Lily

#ableism #eugenics #abuse #child abuse #medical abuse #medical malpractice #autism speaks

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#same

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the tits speak for themselves

#bess

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Untitled © Peter Solarz

#details

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my favourite food truck that i live 2 streets over from is now selling bagels from my favourite bagel shop that i had to move a whole city away from, and that is the Best development in my life lately ngl 👌

#yesss #ur telling me i can go get my fave fish tacos AND stock up on my fave bagels in one stop ??? #Fuck yes #best day ever #diary #dogs #willow #ok to rb

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after dreams

#art #ocean

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mutuals you would sit on a power line like little birds with

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#art