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Hey, remember like 10 years ago when many of us were in our teens and twenties? Remember how there were all those news articles making fun of “millennials and their avocado toast,” that they didn’t know certain skills that had stopped being taught in school, that they were ruining the economy by killing various industries?

Remember how we rightfully said that was bullshit and we would be the generation to end it, that we would be nice to the generation after us?

I’ve seen a couple posts shitting on gen alpha kids. Don’t do that. Remember that they’ve already been through climate disasters, political unrest, and a global pandemic in their young lives. Talk to them. If they’re being rude, it’s probably because they’re struggling, not because they’re evil. Treat them as we wanted to be treated when we were their age. Children are people.

#I’m so tired of these made up reasons to hate young people #you are not allowed to hate children actually #you can be frustrated with them but you have to be compassionate towards them #being a child is fucking hard #especially now #children #generations #future generations #boomers #baby boomers #gen x #millennials #gen z #gen alpha #youth liberation #children are people

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

#free #free stuff #books #palestine #free palestine #protests #student protests #campus protests #mass protests #student rebellions #israel #palestinian genocide

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[ID: a tweet by valkyrie (@mxmimosa) that says “what starts here changes the world,” with a photo of a line of state troopers wearing protective gear such as helmets and knee pads and brandishing their batons. In front of them, at the edge of the walkway, a sign reads, “What starts here changes the world. It starts with you and what you do each day. Thank you for making it your Texas. Thank you for making it our Texas,” followed by the University of Texas at Austin’s logo.]

TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

#palestine #free palestine #divestment campaigns #protests #israel #palestinian genocide #ut austin #university of texas #college campus protests #university campus protests #campus protests #described #image description by me

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[ID: 6 gifs from Miss Congeniality, set at the Miss United States beauty pageant. Miss Rhode Island, played by Heather Burns, is being interviewed on an outdoor stage by the MC, played by William Shatner. He says, “Describe your perfect date.” She replies, “That’s a tough one. I’d have to say April 25th, because it’s not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.” She smiles obliviously as the MC processes her answer.]

Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

#miss congeniality #april 25 #25 april #special dates #today’s date #gif set #described #image description by me

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Dr. Areej Tuaima is a pharmacist and mother who is seeking to leave Gaza with her family. Please support her fundraiser however you can. Send $1 or $5 if that's all you can spare, share her fundraiser with all your social networks and on all your social medias.

I have also created an Instagram graphic, if you use IG please repost it to your page (and also repost the ID!]

[ID: A square graphic which reads:

"Help Dr. Areej and her Family Leave Gaza

Dr. Areej Tuaima is a pharmacist from Gaza. She and her family have been displaced from their home and are struggling to survive. She is hoping to evacuate Gaza with 5 members of her family - her husband, child, mother, father-in-law, and her husband's grandmother.

This is an urgent ask for funds. Please share widely and donate what you can at the link below. Every moment matters.

bit.ly/helpareej"

/end ID.]

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #free gaza #israel #palestinian genocide #described

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the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

#holy shit #palestine #free palestine #palestinian genocide #us politics #columbia university

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platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

edit: @saffronlesbian made a video description for this post!!

[vd: a screen recording of a tweet from the 20th of April 2024 with 2.5 million views, from Ruhi @/ruhi_hi. the caption reads, "This video of this little Palestinian angel celebrating his bday in a refugee camp" followed by three emoji of a smiling face with teary eyes. the video clip is 11 seconds long and shows a one-year-old baby seated on the sandy ground, smiling hugely and clapping his hands while people sing to him from offscreen and a large cake is placed in front of him. stuck into the top of the cake is a decoration that reads "happy birthday" in english. the video has the tiktok handle @/ibrahim.jamal99 visible in it. /end vd.]

#palestinian joy #palestine #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #free gaza #israel #palestinian genocide #video #described

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[ID: a quote tweet by Sarah Friedland (@motionxpictures) that says “We spent 4+ hours waiting cuffed in the bus blocking grand army traffic because none of the dozens of cops knew how to drive it! Solidarity w/ the bus drivers! ✊🏻 [white raised fist emoji].” The quoted tweet is by Jewish Voice for Peace NYC (@jvpliveNY) that says, “Bus drivers refused to transport protestors from last night's Seder in the Streets to the precinct, forcing cops to drive the busses. Power and solidarity to the union bus drivers with @twu100 who refuse to collaborate with the NYPD, which commandeers MTA busses for mass arrests.” It has a picture of someone wearing a keffiyeh, a “Jews say ceasefire now” shirt, and handcuffs from the back with a cop on their left and a bus on their right.]

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

#palestine #free palestine #palestinian genocide #israel #jewish antizionism #seder in the streets #passover #described #image description by me

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[ID: a screenshot of Wikipedia that says, “The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre) was the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard, on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft.” The phrase, “The shootings took place on May 4, 1970,” is highlighted.]

columbia administration is threatening to call in the national guard tonight

#palestine #free palestine #israel #palestinian genocide #Kent state massacre #columbia university #described #image description by me

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I've reached 35 responses! They're very interesting, but the sample size is still small, and I don't think it's at all representative of the Tumblr autism community. If I can't reach at least 100 responses, I don't think I'll be able to analyze Tumblr community views on support needs in depth. I'll still post descriptive statistics for the overall sample, but I won't have the statistical power to do anything else.

I'd really appreciate if everyone could help by taking the survey and reblogging this post to their followers!

As a reminder, the survey is meant to understand how people use support needs labels. For example, what makes someone low support needs and not moderate support needs? The survey also helps show what the community is like in general in terms of demographics and experiences!

A summary of the current survey results are under the Read More. Again, especially if a community that you're in is under-represented, please help by spreading the survey link! I'd especially love to hear from more people AMAB, racial/ethnic minorities, people who are not yet diagnosed or were diagnosed as adults, and higher support needs individuals!

Age: Most participants are young; 60% are under age 25%, and 20% are under 18.

Gender: Over half of the sample is AFAB nonbinary, almost 1/3 is trans men, and almost all of the remainder (14%) is cis women. Only 2 people who are AMAB have taken the survey.

Race/Ethnicity: Non-Hispanic White people are very over-represented, making up 82% of the sample.

Diagnosis: 57% are professionally diagnosed, 20% are informally or soft-diagnosed, and 14% are seeking a diagnosis. Only 9% are neither diagnosed nor seeking a diagnosis.

The most common diagnoses are ASD with no level (33%), level 1 ASD (25%), and "mild autism" (13%).

16% were diagnosed before age 8, 24% between ages 9 and 15, 32% between ages 16 and 18, 12% between ages 19 and 25, and 16% over age 25.

Autism Support Needs: The most common self-identified support needs label is "low-moderate" (43%), followed by low (23%) and moderate (14%). Most would benefit from but do not need weekly support (31%), only need accommodations and mental health support (17%), or rarely need any support (6%).

Autism Symptoms: On a severity scale of 0 (not applicable) to 3 (severe), the average is 1.7 overall, 1.8 socially, and 1.7 for restricted-repetitive behaviors. The most severe symptom is sensory issues (2.1), and the least severe are nonverbal communication and stimming (both 1.5).

83% are fully verbal, and 97% have no intellectual disability.

38% can mask well enough to seem "off" but not necessarily autistic. 21% can't mask well or for long.

Most experience shutdowns (94%), difficulties with interoception (80%), meltdowns (71%), alexithymia (71%), echolalia (69%), and autistic mutism (66%). Very few experience psychosis (14%) or catatonia (11%).

Self-Diagnosis: 20% think it's always fine to self-diagnose autism, 29% think it's almost always fine, 31% think it's only okay if an assessment is inaccessible, 71% think it needs to be done carefully, and 11% think it's okay to suspect but not self-diagnose.

15% think it's always fine to self-diagnose autism DSM-5 levels (including if the person has been told they don't have autism), 15% think it's fine as long as autism hasn't been ruled out, 21% think it's almost always fine, 18% think it's only okay if an assessment is inaccessible, 36% think it needs to be done carefully, and 36% think it's okay to suspect but not self-diagnose.

26% think it's always fine to self-diagnose autism support needs labels (including if the person has been told they don't have autism), 29% think it's fine as long as autism hasn't been ruled out, 37% think it's almost always fine, 29% think it's only okay if an assessment is inaccessible, 43% think it needs to be done carefully, and 6% think it's okay to suspect but not self-diagnose.

Disability: 71% feel disabled by autism, 17% feel disabled by another condition but not autism, and 11% are unsure.

Comorbidities: The most common mental health comorbidities are anxiety (68%), ADHD (62%), and depression (56%).

The least common mental health disorders are schizophrenia spectrum disorders (0%), bipolar disorders (3%), tic disorders (6%), substance use disorders (6%), personality disorder (9%), and OCD (9%).

The most common physical health comorbidities are gastrointestinal issues (29%), connective tissue disorders (29%), autoimmune disorders (24%), neurological disorders or injuries (24%), and hearing/vision loss (24%). All others are below 20%.

Overall Support Needs: When considering comorbidities, the most common self-identified support needs label is moderate (37%), followed by low-moderate (31%) and low (17%).

#autism #actually autistic #autism acceptence month #poll

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Israeli soldiers are conducting a series of invasive operations across the West Bank, abducting numerous Palestinians, killing and injuring civillians, and engaging in destructive raids on homes and Palestinian property.

This is what happened today (April 18) in the West Bank:

At dawn - Israeli soldiers launched a widespread operation in various parts of the occupied West Bank, breaking into homes, damaging Palestinian properties, and detaining at least 26 Palestinians, including two young women.

At day - The aggression continued as soldiers proceeded to assault Adli Rayyes and his son, Hashem, resulting in various injuries to both of them. Palestinian medics had to transport them to Jericho governmental hospital for treatment.

Afternoon - The Israeli Occupation Forces moved to the central West Bank where they entered the town Deir Ballout (west of Salfit city). There, they confiscated a telecommunications car that was being used for repair and maintenance work.

Evening - Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp (north of Jericho). They stormed and ransacked homes within the camp and abducted a young man named Nayef Abu Dahouk, taking him to an unknown destination. At the same time an Israeli military jeep rammed into a young Palestinian woman in Jenin (northern West Bank). She was taken to the Jenin governmental hospital, and is currently suffering from fractures and severe bruising.

The Palestinian Detainees Committee reports that over 40 Palestinians were abducted by Israeli soldiers TODAY alone, from various parts of the West Bank, with a concentration of these abductions occurring in Nablus, followed by operations in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho, Hebron, and Jerusalem.

Two homes belonging to Mohammad and Ahmad Zeidat, who have been kidnapped since January, in the town Bani Naim (near Hebron) were also demolished.

Over 8,310 Palestinians have been abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces since October 7, 2023.

(Source: IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center)

#palestine #free palestine #west bank #israel #palestinian genocide

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Hi guys!

Crip camp is back on netflix! (It’s also free on youtube)!

If you’ve ever asked me a question about disability and/or anything regarding the experience, please go watch it ☝️☝️

It’s an amazing watch, the people involved were extremely passionate. It’s about disability activism in the US and history. It’s also great for learning about the disabled experience.

I could not recommend it enough. Especially to able-bodied people.

#crip camp #netflix #movies #disabled #disability #disability justice

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I wish people would temper their hatred for bugs with an understanding that they’re an important part of our ecosystem and you should try to avoid killing them :/

#why do people hate bugs so damn much #I understand getting mosquito bites or ants in your cupboard isn’t fun #but just. put them outside instead of killing them when possible. please #it’s actually not funny to murder hundreds of thousands of bugs in painful ways #bugs #insects #ecology #environmentalism #my post #original post

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it is both interpersonally valuable and politically necessary to decouple transfeminine beauty from thinness, and to investigate the roots of these sentiments and what larger phenomena animate them.

#I love you fat trans women #being thin shouldn’t matter whatsoever for anyone #everyone should be ‘allowed’ to be fat #fat liberation #body positivity #transmisogyny #misogyny #sexism

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hey remember when you were feeling anxious, frustrated, panicked, whatever that emotion was, and then

you set a timer for 30 minutes and stretched and worked out aerobically? and while the core struggle isn't gone, it didn't feel so scary anymore?

this is your reminder that it helped. you should probably do it again, and give yourself a sticker about it

#I haven’t tried this but I’ll try to remember it for next time #fucking relax #reminders #self care #self maintenance #calm me down #anxiety #mental health #mental illness

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[ID: a screenshot showing a tumblr ad for a black binder labeled “XUJI Transgender FTM Trans Breathable Half Chest Binder Compression Bra” priced at $14.99 on Amazon.]

Hey, PSA for younger/newer transmascs:

Tumblr has been showing targeted ads for "FTM binders" off Amazon. They look like this:

Do not buy these.

A binder is a piece of medical equipment. If you use one incorrectly, or use a poorly made one, you can really fuck up your ribs. This article from the Cleveland Clinic talks about how to bind safely.

A $14 binder is guaranteed not to be safe. There's a reason reputable companies charge more- sometimes a lot more. They have to carefully design binders so they don't crush your ribs or make you sick.

You know how everyone says Don't Bind With Duct Tape? Don't bind with Amazon binders.

#psa #public service announcement #ftm #transmasc #transmasculine #trans man #trans boy #trans guy #transgender #trans #trans info #chest binding #safe binding #Amazon #tumblr ads #described

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[ID: a gif of a simply designed black paw with grey pads reaching onto the screen, seeming to press towards you slightly, and retracting off the screen again.]

reblog to EVIL BOOP the person you reblogged from >:3

#tumblr boop #booping #gif #described #boop #evil boop