#Tay don’t look

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

you all way too comfortable telling nonverbal people that we speak too much we need speak less or shut up. moment you not agree with us you revert back to your ableism you side with our oppressors.

you never our ally you never activist if you allyship conditional on how agreeable acceptable palatable we are you never ally never listen in first place.

you all not that different from those autism parents you all claim to hate.

#nonverbal #discourse #loaf screm #tay don’t look

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

Hey so uh

If you want a small peek into the American healthcare system

I currently make about $18 an hour before tax. That’s much higher than the minimum wage in my state, which is $9.65.

I have ADHD, for which I am medicated. I take 20mg of Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine). I still use my parents’ health insurance, because it’s MUCH better than anything I could get. Under their insurance, my monthly prescription is $30. Less than 2 hours of work for me, or just over 3 hours for someone at minimum wage.

Without my parents’ insurance, that same ADHD medication at that same dosage would be $454. Over 25 hours of work for me, or 47 hours of work for someone at minimum wage in my state.

Federal minimum wage is $7.25. Without insurance, that person would have to work almost 63 hours for one month’s worth of Vyvanse. That’s almost two weeks of full time work (assuming 32 hours a week is full time) going just to one medication, every month, before tax.

Thankfully, I can manage okay if I don’t take my meds. I don’t get significant withdrawal symptoms, maybe because I’m taking such a low dose and I frequently forget to take my meds anyway. If I don’t take them, I struggle more to focus or take care of myself, but I won’t have a medical emergency or worsen existing health issues. This is not the case for everybody! Think of how many different health conditions require continual maintenance and medication, such as insulin injections for diabetics or blood pressure medication for those at risk of stroke. Even for just my medication, not everyone gets so lucky. Some people experience significant withdrawals when they miss a day, like my cousin, who gets migraines if she forgets her meds. Some people would have serious consequences if they forgot to take their meds; I know of people with ADHD who can’t cook unmedicated because they’d burn the house down. If you can’t maintain enough focus to cook or grocery shop, how can you eat?

Point being, medical costs are so hecking high, and I am terrified of turning 26.

#Tay don’t look

[butterflyinthewell]

I’m about to get super autistic about Godzilla here…infodump incoming!

Godzilla’s roar is 174 decibels, or about as loud as a jet engine.

In real life, if you were as close to Godzilla as the person in the picture is when he roars, the sound waves from it would literally kill you.

His roar also wouldn’t sound like it does, it would be almost below what human ears can detect. The closest Godzilla roar to what he would actually sound like is the 1984 roar. Very deep in pitch.

You wouldn’t perceive Godzilla’s roar as a sound, just a powerful vibration blotting out all other sounds. Ever been around a subwoofer that shook you to your core? Same thing.

Except, it’ll probably hurt, cause nausea, create visual disturbances and make you dizzy because the vibrations are so intense. But that’s not all!

After a few seconds, your eardrums burst under the pressure of the sound waves, your lungs burst next, the glass on the bus breaks all over you, and by then you are no longer breathing or alive.

So I chuckle a bit when I see people so close to Godzilla when he roars and not getting hurt.

Isn’t science grand?! (And aren’t you glad Godzilla is fictional?!)

#godzilla #actuallyautistic #infodump #body horror #death mention #tay don’t look

[lillypadcrochet]

I don’t know which behaviorist needs to hear this but:

MENTALLY HEALTHY CHILDREN DO NOT HARM THEMSELVES FOR ATTENTION!!!!!!

They are screaming and crying and begging for more support!!!! And you’re talking about fucking extinction bursts????? They don’t need a behavior plan that gives them prizes for having a safe body, they need connection and support from you!!! They need you!!! Even if they are doing it “for attention” that should show you that they are not well; that they need help, not planned ignoring.

#cw self harm #cw behaviorism #I’m mad about this actually #tay don’t look

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

#zero critical thinking skills in this fandom I’m afraid #too many of yall are celebrity worshippers who want tay to interact with her public persona as much as possible #just so that you can consume as much pop culture news as possible #please find other things to be interested in #you don’t have to know every detail of her relationship #y’all hate introverts too and it’s so obvious #your praise her when she valued her privacy and now you look back on that and say she was in jail? #taylor swift #taylorswift #ts #the tortured poets department #ttpd #joe alwyn #swifties #yall need to learn to not place value on superficial Hollywood celebrity gossip

[lewissorbet]

Tai Lung Redraws !

Trying to get used to drawing his design more ! My favorite loser, so so loser, these are very rushed lol

#looks away don’t ask me about the Po and F5 gijinkas. I forgot. I’m working on them #kung fu panda #kfp tai lung #tai lung #kfp #kfp gijinka #kfp fanart #gijinka #KFP humanization #humanization #screenshot redraw

[sracha]

strqrock qrow for the qrow enjoyers

#HAIR DOWN QROW ZONE quarantine tape set up all around this image #qrow branwen #team strq #rwby #strqrock au #blahhh BLAHHHH BLAH whatever look at him #a little whimsical fact for you…he has one of Maria’s necklaces because she adopts the twins in this au. #and is the only reason they are kind of well adjusted. raven is still cringe though #no tai yet I���m never happy with the outfits I give him :( just imagine he is somewhere cheering while summer and raven make out #i will have a mental breakdown if I don’t put sourceless rim lighting on everything. okay bye. #backlog

[merlinemrys]

sorry but, out of everyone, merlin having the only remaining parent is honestly a flex on his part. ESPECIALLY a mother and especially HUNITH

#rip arthur gwen elyan morgana they’re suffering fr #shows #bbc merlin #merlin #hunith #text #tais toi lys #merlin: im taking a week off to visit mum. #arthur and gwen already packing: you mean OUR mum. #merlin: don’t you have a kingdom to run? #arwen (gives each other a look before nodding) and says together: leon can handle it. #merlin: she’s MY mother. i need a break from you lot. #arthur: HEY. #gwen: 😢🥺🙁 #merlin sighing: okay… only for gwen i’ll allow this visit 🙄 #gwen: ☺️ #arthur: this is incredibly rude *mer*lin. #merlin: you’re right. (turns to gwen) invite elyan as well. #arthur: MERLIN! #*

[taylorrepdetective]

Since you like to say you’re always right, tell us what is next. You say you don’t make predictions, but you actually do, even if you don’t call them that.

Ok so I’m absolutely not always right. There have been some really big things I’ve been wrong about and a lot of small things too. And what I learned from that is to keep an open mind, and when I’m wrong about something, to figure out why I got it wrong and shift my world view in some ways to try to understand and guess better the next time. But it’s not even really about being able to guess. It’s about understanding when things happen. It is fun to be right on a guess though, when that happens.

The biggest thing I’ve learned, and luckily I learned it pretty early on in my time in this space, is that trying to figure out the timing something big will happen is absolutely a fools errand. And another thing to avoid is trying to come up with the exact, specific way Taylor (or others in her cinematic universe) will do something to get a point across. Like I can predict she will try to get a point across (set up a timeline, create a narrative, shore up a brand point) but I cannot predict exactly how or when she’ll do it. I also can predict she’ll set something up but then she never does. That’s because I think of lots of options. Some happen, some don’t. So this is the kind of thing I’m often wrong about. But I see them and always try to present them as options, not predictions. And if one of the options I think of happens, I have already spent time thinking about it, so it already makes sense to me.

I don’t know what’s next. She could drop TS11 at midnight. She could break up with Travis tomorrow, or announce her engagement next week. But I do not think any of those things is likely.

So here’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to me making a specific, timed prediction, because to me it seems quite clear:

What I do think is likely is that her jet will go to KC, ✅she’ll go to the game on Sunday✅, and her jet will then leave KC sometime between next Tuesday✅ and next Thursday. Why? Because it’s a home game, and she likes to go to home games and get the exposure and publicity that comes with that. She is working really hard at becoming an icon in KC, seem like her relationship is very serious for those who want to believe it’s serious, and she wants to shore up that relationship by spending time with him, his family, and his friends (also KC icons - the Mahomes mostly.)✅ All of this is so important to the story she’s creating. However, she won’t stay long ✅because that’s been her pattern. She also seems to be establishing that she also has her own busy, fabulous life✅ (she’s bejeweled and he lets her be✅) and when he’s busy with his football week (generally Tuesday-Sunday) he doesn’t have much time for her and she has her own life.✅This gives her the opposite option of the relationship being very serious. In other words it gives her an easy out for it to end. And Wednesday is her birthday. So she’ll either stay till Tuesday ✅and we’ll see or hear about birthday celebrations Sunday night/Monday, ✅then she’ll head out for further birthday celebrations with her other friends and family✅, or her jet will stay through her birthday, solidifying the seriousness of the relationship. But she will leave KC.✅ And then she’ll probably go to the game on Dec 17 in Boston✅. Why? Because it is a short hop from NYC, she has a huge fanbase there✅ and can expand it and shore it up, the patriots are bad so a win is likely✅, but they are a very popular team, so viewership (publicity) will be high✅. After that? Well she’s likely to spend more time in NYC✅/Nashville. Then she will probably go to the Christmas Day game in KC✅. This is a huge opportunity to “take the relationship to the next level” by spending the holidays together ✅, something the public absolutely loves to see and will further fuel the “engaged by the end of the year, after the Super Bowl at the latest” fire. Hopefully we’ll get something reputation-related for new years❌, so the extra publicity will help with that. Additionally all of this corresponds with the Eras film being released to streaming, another huge money making opportunity for her, and her attendance is an ad for the film.

After the new year, there will be some huge games with high viewership. They will be playing for playoff seeding. Then they almost assuredly will be in the playoffs✅. She will go to those games✅, which have even higher viewership, and will give her more free marketing for reputation and eras movie and anything else we don’t know about. After that, it will depend on how deep they go into the playoffs. They are no longer favored to be in the Super Bowl, but it is still a strong possibility✅. We all now know she can fly across the world after a concert to attend an event (she flew to the US during her time in SA, planned to a second time but couldn’t because of the events in Rio, and flew to London for 24 hrs for bey). The precedent has been set for her to fly from Tokyo to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl. ✅There is no bigger stage than the Super Bowl (outside of the World Cup final, if you’re thinking internationally.) The free marketing potential there is something that would be very hard for her to pass up. And if Travis isn’t playing, Jason’s team might be, and they can go together to support him. Imagine the potential of travlor in a suite together with mama and papa kelce cheering on a retiring Jason❌✅ . And even if neither of them are in the game, they could still all go together and stand in a suite as a big happy family in front of an audience of 115 million Americans. Why wouldn’t she do this?✅

Will all that happen for sure? Of course not. But you can see the logic, right? Will there be other things that happen that I haven’t thought of? Most likely.✅ I don’t actually have a crystal ball. What kinds of things could derail this? Well there’s always the possibility of the black swan, but a more likely scenario is they lose again against a team they should beat✅ and/or Travis has another bad game✅. There is a real danger of people turning on her as a distraction ✅and I think they have their fingers on the pulse of this very closely. As long as KC keeps winning, and there’s a good chance they will win the rest of their games, all will be smooth❌✅.

Also I am not even thinking beyond February. I have one interesting thought about it, but it’s just too speculative to even mention here. But as we move through the next two months, I’ll get clues to be able to guess at what will happen after she goes back on tour after the Super Bowl✅. And if I’m wrong about all of this, which I may very well be because she is notoriously unpredictable sometimes, I will simply take it as a learning opportunity to understand her better.✅

#I’m editing the tags as time goes on to note what I got right and how and adding checks and can writhing the post #People mag confirmed they celebrated her bday Monday in KC and he’s busy and she’s busy and she will have a party w/o him in nyc #and were sure to mentioned he is focused on football #and he’s gotten some criticism for dropping passes and that flop #he had a bad game vs patriots and hasn’t had a good game in weeks #she’s still doing fine other than the Mahomes continuing ick #Travis essentially confirmed she went to Gillette. decide of her strong fanbase. bad team means cheap tix for swifties to take over #don’t know for sure but looks like she wants everyone to think she’s in KC for the week #a big football analyst tweeted she’s a distraction after the Christmas loss #they didn’t win the rest of their games and they struggled at the end of the season there and Travis struggled but #he miraculously hit his act together in time to help lead his team to the Super Bowl cementing his place as the elite TE and saved the day #and happiness is everywhere because the goal (SB and adorable power couple of the year) was met #next Grammys and Super Bowl for her and him going to shows in Australia I’m guessing #got the kelce family plus Taylor importance right but didn’t mention the possibility of Jason not in SB but in suite with tay. #obvious but sonce I didn mt mention it I gave myself a partial green check #one thing I didn’t know was about TTPD instead of a new re-recording #we already got our People article that he is looking forward to joining her on tour in Europe

[reputayswift]

Dating sounds sooo scary if you think about it being single forever is great actually

#genuinely #don’t have to deal w meeting a new family don’t have to worry about someone wanting the tv on when I’m trying to sleep #my friends in relationships (all of them) face 20 dilemmas a day #the more I see what it looks like irl the less appealing it becomes to me Ik that sounds cynical but I don’t mean they’re bad relationships #they just require SO much stress and change two of my least favorite things #tays takes

[malinaa]

9 BOOKS I PLAN TO READ IN 2024

tagged: @andrewblur tyyyyyyy tagging: @rosesau | @evcndiaz | @jeanmoreaux | @ryekat | @joebennet | @oretsev | & anyone else who wishes to do this 🫶

#if i don’t read these look away #tag games #2024 #photo #tais toi lys

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

autism levels, few “often get wrong” points need highlight again

[transcript: autism levels, few “often get wrong” points need highlight again]

^ masterpost by birdofmay for more basic stuff no able explain rn, like “what are levels” “how determine levels”

autism levels about how much support you need for autism specific symptoms—specifically, two autism criteria, social communication & restrictive repetitive.

not how much you feel like you struggle

levels compare you to all autistics. not allistic neurotypical nondisabled people.

level 1 mean “need support.” level 1 can struggle. unsupported burnt out level 1 can struggle a lot. unfortunately level 1 can be miserable in life.

not able finish school, not able drive, not able keep job, need help cant live independent—none of that automatic level 2 & 3. none of that automatic mean not level 1. know many people who level 1 who all that. level 2&3 people tend more common be those thing because autism symptoms cause very big struggle. but autism levels not actual about any of that.

autism levels is DSM 5 thing. country no use DSM 5 not get levels. countries use DSM 5, sometimes doctor still not assign levels, because that doctor don’t use levels, or level 1 & just leave out write.

autism level is official diagnosis thing. different from self diagnosing autism itself (which for lsn/level 1/etc have many resources about what it like, community, and like. not life risky), autism level really not same and not recommend self diagnose, to put nicely. because it about amount official support need, & limited info about level 2/3 (yes, even if look like many of us on tumblr, still very few), and because that most people never actual met entire autism spectrum met actual level 3 in person not to mention enough to be good sample size, so most have understanding of autism & autism levels that heavily lean to level 1, wrongly think any struggle w autism mean level 2 or 3. put in plainly, most you all don’t know don’t see enough about higher levels to actual label correctly (this actual include level 2/3 people—although yes personal experience, but that one experience).

many level 2 & 3 diagnose as that because we need the official support. for not die, for physical survive, and/or for basic quality of life. it not fun little label to collect to call self unfortunately

also, i say a lot of level 2/3 i abbreviate put them together because online autism community not often include both. but level 2 & 3 can be quite different quite far not “basic same thing”

autism level describe general average symptom & support needed

autism level can change over entire life, like born level 3 but adult now & level 2 or even 1(rare), or born level 1 & now adult level 2.

autism levels cannot change over hours days or short term in general. cannot “level 1 good day & level 3 bad day.” not even “last (few) month level 3 this (few) month level 1.”

autism levels not same as functioning labels. although can be use in same ableist way people use functioning labels. but fault is ableism. (remind that some people do self ID as low functioning after their diagnose and that okay)

autism level is not perfect and need improve

autism level important & needed especially for many of us who need many support or our autism symptom very big or struggle communicate.

#actually autistic #actuallyautistic #autism #loaf screm #level 1 autism #level 2 autism #level 3 autism #long post #tay dont look #tay don’t look

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

part of my job is going on Instagram to see what questions autistic families have

and

I’m getting real sick and tired of “ABA is the perfect therapy which has never had an issue ever and also I will not vaccinate my children because obviously the autism is from vaccine injury”

or

“ABA is 100% abusive and has never benefitted anyone, also if you call your child nonverbal instead of nonspeaking you’re a terrible person, and support levels are ableist BS made up by neurotypicals”.

with very little in between.

I get that autism causes black and white thinking but please golly can there be some nuance on the little camera app.

#Tay don’t look #there are some good accounts #but gosh there’s a reason I prefer tumblr #because if someone lacks that nuance I can just block them and it’s not a breach of etiquette #whereas this is a business account and I’m supposed to be doing networking or whatever #so I have to be Very Careful to follow the etiquette rules if I choose to comment or interact #except the etiquette rules Make No Hecking Sense #every day I wish my old coworker would come back T-T she was good at Instagram #there is a reason I do not tell my boss my tumblr account bc she would probably ask me to use it for business #and that’s not happening #but gosh at least there’s some MSN/HSN autistics on here I can find #and follow #and learn from #haven’t found any on Instagram

[butterflyinthewell]

Happy birthday to the coolest movie monster ever, Godzilla! 68 years of stomping cities!

#Godzilla #Godzilla day #famous birthdays #Tay don’t look

[lillypadcrochet]

I’ve officially experienced one major chronic illness milestone: today the nurse at the infusion center had to search for my vein 😐😑

the way she was wiggling that thing around under my skin for a solid couple minutes was sooooo weird!!!! She even had another nurse come try to move it into place 🫣

so go me I guess I’ve officially blown the veins in my left elbow 🤩

#lilly chit chats #chronic illness #needle mention #tay don’t look #crohns disease #crohns problems

[crow-with-a-knife]

Ohhhh may some higher being help me. May they take mercy on my tortured soul. (thinking about The Parallels)

#caws of crow #thinking many thoughts about characters who only ever wanted someone to be proud of them but it chased them to crazed fury and madness #looking so specifically at azula (atla) touya todoroki (bnha) and tai lung (kung fu panda) #don’t get my started on the parallel of all three of them having blue fire #well tai lung only has once scene involving blue fire but STILL #you can’t tell me there isn’t something so inexplicably connected in their lines #“all i ever did i did to make you proud! tell me how proud you are shifu! #“look at me!” #and azulas pained wailing #laying fetal position on the floor clutching my heart #someday i might be capable of putting this all into cohesive words