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Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

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Autism & Anger Rumination

Autistic Qualia

#oh man thats the thing i do

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Hello level 2 support need autistic here. I hate hospitals and have had to go to them often for chronic nausea. (I get food poisoning often and need fluids and meds to make the vomiting stop) What bothers me the most?

The temperature and the people who work there and the germs. I'm always too hot or too cold, but I'm afraid to use the blanket they give me because germs, I'm afraid to bring my own blanket because germs.

I think smell is a part of the germ thing because blanket smells different=contamination. I treat the clothes I wore in there like they are toxic after I get home. I logically know it's harmless but it can make me spiral.

I struggle to see empathy for me on the faces of tired hospital staff and I've had institutionalization trauma to the tune of being ignored. So my support person is constantly having to tell me I haven't been forgotten about when the IV I need is taking a minute. I read too far into tone and expression so I often assume my doctor or nurse is an asshole when they aren't doing anything wrong. When they actually are mean and withhold care in some way I WILL meltdown.

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#me when

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There is a special uniquely bad place in hell for employers that say "remote" on their job listings only to tell you that it's in person when they offer you the job.

Like it's one thing to not have remote job openings but to bait and switch people who are most likely disabled and can't work in in-person settings is just the epitome of disgusting ableism.

Or that jobs that only offer remote work to "senior positions" because you know working from home is such a goddamn privilege and disabled people who can't work in physical settings just don't exist and don't need jobs (sarcasm)

#no really the new Republican governor of my state can suck my alien dick for lifting covid restrictions

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do you ever hear people talking about something and you’re like. fuck. let me be real for a second. i’m too much of a commie to have this conversation

#“sorry Im too alien for this” #is typically what I have to say

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Inwardly and outwardly

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Victorian vampire style.

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Halloween card by Jack Davis. 1959.

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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

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Didgori Monument, Georgia

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A red sun rises

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Reminder from someone with actual literal brain damage from a brain injury to stop fucking using "brain damage" and "brain injuries" as a means of describing someone whose opinions you don't like or deem as stupid.

It's ableist and offensive as fuck, and for some reason a lot of leftist people think it's okay to use. I've seen posts replying to right wing racists calling them "brain damaged if you believe this" and "do you have a brain injury? do you not understand X?". Just now I saw a beautiful post about fat people throughout history that was absolutely ruined by opening with "How do we break it to boomers with actual brain damage and nostalgic brainrot..." before continuing to say that fat people existed throughout history.

Brain damage does not make you racist. A brain injury doesn't make you stupid, or fatphobic, or unaware of history and politics. Stop fucking using my disability as a catch all to describe people you think are shitty. Y'all use it like it's a replacement for how people used to use the R-slur, which shows you learned absolutely nothing about why the R-slur was wrong to use and decided to throw in other disabilities instead. Fuck off and stop doing it.

(And don't do it with other disabilities either, because I know y'all do.)

I know a lot of people with brain injuries. They're smart, and funny, and compassionate. They learn about the world and care about social issues and wish they could go to protests if their disability won't allow them to. Are there right wing people with brain injuries? Sure, absolutely. But they are not right wing because they have a brain injury, and using any disability as an insult is still fucking ableist.

Tldr - stop using brain damage and brain injury as an insult. It's ableist and incredibly offensive.

Love, your local brain injured/brain damaged pal

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Anti-endos say endogenic systems can't exist.

Like that's just going to magically make them disappear.

You can scream they're not real until your face changes colors.

They're still here.

And existing.