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[zebulontheplanet]

Just your reminder that mental age isn’t real and hurts people with ID and developmental disabilities. Please stop saying it’s real.

#autism #zebrambles #medium support needs #actually autism #high support needs #borderline intellectual disability #intellectual disability #support needs #tw mental age #mental age #tw ableism #actually autistic #idd #developmental disabilities

[aacalienz]

if you’re autistic (even if you’re white, able to mask and fully speaking) you’re much closer to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities than you ever will be to neurotypical society. Include people with I/DD in your activism. Don’t separate yourself from us. I’d go as far as to say all autistic people have a developmental disability. You don’t have to identify that way, but really think hard about why you’re choosing not to. Autism is a Developmental Disability and and by separating yourself from intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) you are throwing autistics with higher support needs and autitistics with intellectual disabilities under the bus. (Signed developmentally disabled autistics without ID who are considered developmentally disabled by the state)

#actually autistic #autism #low support needs #medium support needs #ableism #developmentalal disability #i/dd #developmentally disabled #developmental disabilities #IDD #intellectual disability

[bonelessenthusiast]

i wish people knew what a developmental disability was, and I wish people didn’t think intellectual disability made you undeserving of respect.

i am developmentally disabled. i am not intellectually disabled. while I am semi independent, i still need some external assistance for my developmental disabilities. i keep investigating programs for housing, job assistance, etc. for “people with developmental disabilities” and not qualifying because I don’t have an intellectual disability.

yes there should be programs specifically for intellectually disabled people. but do your research on what a developmental disability is before offering us services.

and STOP saying “oh but you’re not INTELLECTUALLY disabled” “but you’re not one of THOSE disabled people.” Intellectually disabled people deserve respect.

#disability #IDD #intellectual disability #developmental disabilities #disability rights

[hiiragi7]

I can't relate to the way people talk about autism online nowadays, and it feels incredibly isolating.

For example, I am glad that people nowadays can be open and celebrate their special interests, but I never had that and feel disconnected due to it. My special interests meant I was socially isolated growing up and trained through ABA not to speak about them unless asked, and to limit myself even then.

Same with stimming, growing up I always had very large stims and it was punished out of me, and now I have a skin picking disorder and don't know how to reconnect with stimming at all. I'm glad for people who can stim without worrying, but at the same time I don't share the experience and feel a bit odd about it.

The way people talk about autism in general nowadays also just doesn't line up with how I have experienced it, which is okay, I just don't relate to the community because of it. Autism for me meant developmental delays, needing help with basic self-care a lot longer than my peers, various speech disorders, facing discrimination from a very young age for being visibly autistic, growing up in SPED and ABA, not having my IEP followed and having no power to do anything about it, my parents fearing I'd regress in my skills and talking about sending me to a special needs home, learning disability and being unable to keep up with my peers in school, processing issues and being constantly overwhelmed by stimuli, needing to have noise cancelling headphones to manage being in public, having to switch schools because they couldn't support an autistic child, elopement, specialized schedules, autism therapies, and... a lot of shit that just doesn't get talked about in the online autism community, basically.

Which, I feel a lot of that is because most people in the online community are diagnosed late and "level 1"/"high-functioning"/"low supports needs"/whichever term you prefer, which is fine, but I also wish I knew of spaces for autistics which don't have that experience - I'm sure they exist, but I don't know of any and don't know where to look.

There's no point to this post, really, I'm just like... rambling, and maybe even hopeful that someone who reads this can point me in the right direction with where to find experiences like mine, and community. Others like me I can talk to. More space for people with medium and high supports needs. Stuff like that.

#autism #actually autistic #medium support needs #developmentally disabled #i/dd #idd #developmental disability

[pixierainbows]

Hello. If someone were to create a series about an autistic adult with high support needs and an intellectual disability, what would you want to see in it? As in, are there any specific situations, internal conflicts, beliefs, etc., that you’d like to see?

Regardless of whether or not you decide to answer this ask, I hope you know you’re an awesome, talented person and that you have an equally awesome day.

Want to see People with assistive technology and AAC devices. People what need caregivers . People making bad choices . and . not understanding all the consequences .

Want to see People have friends and Community accepting of disabled People . but . not all being only caregivers . being real friends , not taking place of working job of caregiver . hope that makes sense .

#asks and answers #intellectually disabled #developmentally disabled #IDD #actually disabled

[hypomanicdaydream]

Our love and dreams transcend time and space.

There's something called the quantum universe hypothesis, that says that for each decision and event that takes place, a new universe is created for the infinite number of other possibilities.

Stephen Hawking's final theory was that our universe was just one, created by a singular big bang within an infinite number of big bangs that happened simultaneously, creating infinite universes.

And by those theories, somewhere out there in the cosmos, your daydreams and desires have actually played out. In a different universe, on a different earth, but one that's very much like this one, you've lived that life you're dreaming of.

Theoretically, that longing you have for the lover, friends, children, parents, pets, creatures, successes, adventures, what have you - that longing that you feel comes from an out of reach place that's... not so truly very far away.

Maybe that's why, when you're dreaming or imagining that world or life you want, all these little things, conversations, and details have to feel "right".

Maybe that's why you imagine your lover with blonde hair, even though you prefer brunette. Maybe that's why you suddenly noticed that daughter you're dreaming of has a dimple on her chin. Maybe that's why you could write a novel of what you want to say to your addict brother, but when you imagine that confrontation, all you say is, "Please choose me." Maybe that's why you're telling the world you want a New York pent house, but in your dreams, you find happiness in a cottage in a small mountain town. Maybe that's why you imagine your looming break up at the kitchen table, next to the window, where you watch the dust float through the sun rays... even though it should be pouring and grey.

Maybe it's because the version of you out there that lived what you're dreaming, hoping, dreading... They know those faces, those places, those people. They know that success and that failure. They know that love and that hurt...

and they loved them that way.

#madd #maladaptive daydreaming #idd #immersive daydreaming #writing #pretty thoughts #lovely thoughts #romantic #romantic writing #daydreaming #love #lovers #pretty writing #romance #quotes #writing prompt #heartbreak #deep feelings #writeblr #original writing

[boughkeeper-dainsleif]

do any intellectually disabled people have advice for someone who is suspecting they may have intellectual disability? i am not going to self diagnose it as i have been told by people with ID that it is not a self diagnosable condition, so i'm looking instead to be formally evaluated by a professional. but i have some questions for people with ID first.

what is the diagnostic process like, and what should i expect? which professional (therapist, psychiatrist, or pediatrician) should i bring it up with first? are there things i should think about in regards to myself before pursuing an evaluation? will my existing diagnosis of level 2 autism make the diagnostic process different/harder? if you have other advice or information please share. i'm confused right now and don't know what my next steps might look like.

#intellectual disability #i/dd #idd #disability #disabled

[prnanxiety]

12/31/23

It's new year's eve, I have work in the morning, not gonna be a long post. Patients on the unit kinda sad that they're stuck on the unit over a holiday; normal to see some frustration and depression in patients over holidays like this. We gotta remember to ask them to let it be their motivation to get better and stay better.

One guy admitted today, struggling with psychosis and paranoid delusions. I asked him about some of his tattoo's; he used to rap and rock, and loved linkin park. I thought he was dope as hell.

There's actually been plenty that's been going on on the unit lately; a fun IDD patient readmission who I really want to help stop smoking crack, a readmitted psychotic patient who's actual problem is alcoholism to be honest, and a poor 18 year old kid who's got a violent history as a result of his paranoia, who actually met one of the other admissions at a different hospital recently, and had his paranoia skyrocket for that. Just no time to dedicate to any of it.

Happy new year though, to all who read these.

#dear diary #diary entry #nursing #psych #psychiatry #psychosis #nurse #schizophrenia #cw: drugs #cw: addiction #IDD #autism #neurodivergent #autistic

[i-get-no-sl33p]

That moment when you're trying to read something but can't focus properly so you end up reading the same thing over and over again but you still aren't absorbing it into your brain and you're spacing out so you do that little head shake to try to clear your thoughts and shake your brain waves back into place and it actually helps but sometimes you need to do it multiple times for it to work fully and then you continue reading

#actually neurodivergent #mental health #adhd things #adhd brain #actually adhd #adhd #neurodivergent #adhd relatable #add #idd #actually neurodiverse

[teenagedirtstache]

#l'uomo vogue #oliviero toscani #gilberto doardi #riccardo de lellis #1983 #80s #sergio orefice #angelo attili #idd

[zebulontheplanet]

Here’s another reminder to PLEASE talk about ID and borderline ID.

Please have more discussions about it. Please talk about it. Please ask questions about it. Please uplift peoples voices about it.

Time and time again I’ll see so much misinformation and silliness when it comes to ID. So again; TALK. ABOUT. IT.

That’s the only way more people know.

#borderline intellectual disability #intellectual disability #intellectual #intellectually disabled #IDD #ID #borderline ID #ID/D

[aacalienz]

This Disability pride month believe people with intellectual and developmental disabilities about our transness. We aren’t “too disabled” or “confused” or anything else. We’re people and we can make decisions about our bodies and identities.

#actually autistic #low support needs #medium support needs #autism #ableism #developmentalal disability #i/dd #developmentally disabled #trans #transgender #tw ableism #idd #queer

[pulsar-ray]

shoutout to Everyone who cannot Read books. i cannot read books.. Have not willingly since i was 12, it was warriors. Cannot read 'adult' books because my cognition is ASS!!!.. so be it then!!!! i need not to read to be worthy . Get over it

#schizoaffective #schizophrenia #autism #level 2 autism #level 3 autism #cognitive disability #intellectual disability #idd #i/dd #tagging all groups who may be on my wagon . . #dyslexia #learning disability

[interiordesigncategorie]

#idd #interiordesigndigest #contemporary #interior #interiors #interiordesign #design #style #modern #modernhome #modernliving #moderninterior #home #homes #house #houses #architecture #rooms #residence #angles #art #architects #room #rooms #stone https://www.instagram.com/p/CoyZEGBvAXm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#idd #interiordesigndigest #contemporary #interior #interiors #interiordesign #design #style #modern #modernhome #modernliving #moderninterior #home #homes #house #houses #architecture #rooms #residence #angles #art #architects #room #stone

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Senate

Improve disabled American's financial stability with S.4102 - SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

In the words of David Goldfarb on behalf of the Arc of the United States, "…we enthusiastically endorse S. 4102, the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act, which would raise the amount of savings a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipient can keep for the first time in over thirty years. The mission of the Arc is to promote and protect the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and actively support their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

"SSI provides an extremely modest cash benefit, a maximum of $841 a month in 2022, for certain individuals with disabilities and older adults. In March 2022, nearly 7.6 million people: 4.3 million working-age individuals with disabilities; 1 million children with disabilities; and 2.3 million older adults relied on the program.

"Many individuals with IDD rely on the SSI program. In 2017, SSA estimated that approximately 19% of working-age SSI recipients possessed an intellectual disability. For many people with IDD, SSI is their only source of income without which they could become institutionalized or homeless.

"Unfortunately, the benefit’s low, outdated resource limit of $2,000 for individuals/$3,000 for couples does not allow people to save for emergencies, such as a leaky roof, car repair, or other unexpected expense. To make matters worse, the $2,000 limit does not adjust for inflation every year, and it has remained the same since 1989.

"The SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act would significantly improve the lives of SSI recipients, including people with IDD, by raising the asset limit to $10,000 per individual/$20,000 per couple. The legislation also adjusts that number for inflation every year, a critical element in 2 today’s inflationary environment. This will allow SSI beneficiaries to use their own savings to address needed emergencies when they arise.

"Thank you again for this critical legislation."

Truly his letter is phenomenal and applicable to many American citizens. I hope you too appreciate his mastery of diction, his compassion for his fellow American, and the truth in his words.

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#ivy petitions #Supplemental Security Income #SSI #SSI Reform #Disability Rights #Financial Security #social security #activate your activism #human rights #Inclusion #Community Support #Public Policy #economic justice #Inclusive Society #IDD #UBI #universal basic income #empowerment #Disability Community #Government Support #Financial Empowerment #Legislation #Asset Limits #Financial Assistance #Advocacy #Equality #Senate Bill #s.4102 #Savings Penalty Elimination Act #Federal Programs

[rizardofether]

Idk if I'll get around to finishing these sketches but I do like some of them quite a bit so I figured I'd do a sketch dump kind of thing. Here are all unposted GW2 related sketches I've done within the last 2 years in no particular order:

Pretty detailed sketches of Rhixak and Prim. I wanted to do fullbody drawings of these two but Idk if I'll get around to doing them. They look pretty nice on their own though.

A couple messy sketches of Mib & Vizzis, as well as a more detailed one of Nise. That boy sure loves violence.

Gwizz realizing how gay he is for Lucanus. Drawing charr is so hard... Having a hard time translating them to my artstyle..

Sketches of how Corrow's body would look like under his armor. Something along these lines.

Figuring out how Kos would look like. His magitech eye stuff mainly. Also how he was when he first re-entered society, wrapped in rags.

Also Rix's outfit design. Pretty mad scientist type stuff but with a sexy twist. The labcoat ends in a loincloth type thing and there are no pants in the outfit. I mean he does wear some kind of underwear under there but yeah. He has various other outfits as this is not at all lab safe in actuality, it's just his favourite to wear on free time.

A sketchpage of various characters. Couple lines for Corrow. Sketches from before I figured out how he would look like under the armor. Possibly how his hair was back when he had hair.

Couple Zott doodles and a line for them.

Another attempt at Kos' magitech eyes and head design.

Idd and Eoi, long time no draw and first time for Eoi in fact.

A sketch to figure out Nukke's hair-growth. I did one before, probably never posted that one either but here's the updated version!

Secondly we got a very rough sketch of a new character, a mordremvari named Ru. Well, he can't really remember anything before waking up free of Mordremoth.

He thinks his name starts with Ru, but can't remember anything else, so he just goes by Ru now. Still figuring out his design but I wanted to sketch out the basic idea, though I kinda ran out of energy while drawing it.

I've gotten Ru up to level 80 but I need to work to get one more piece of armor skin unlocked for him before his ingame look is complete so until then!

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #guildwars2 #asura #charr #sylvari #art #my art #rhixak #primorsura #mib #vizzis #nise #gwizz #lucanus #corrow #kos #rix #zott #idd #eoi #nukke #ru #the oldest of these is from august 2022 #newest from a couple weeks past #the last two are those newest ones the rest are random order