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Please stop using disabilities you don't have as comparisons.

I saw a video trying to explain that autistic people don't make eye contact because it can be painful for them (good, this is true) and telling them to "just do it anyway" is ridiculous, saying "you wouldn't tell a wheelchair user to "just walk, its better for you" so don't tell autistic people to just make eye contact".

But people do. They do all the time. It's well documented that doctors will withhold their ok for patients to get a wheelchair (which is needed unless you're paying out of pocket, because insurance and most public disability services like the NDIS need proof from a doctor). I've known people who can hardly walk and are having to fight because the doctor still insists it better for them to walk, even if it's painful and sevearly limiting their quality of life.

Then in the comments, someone pointed out that people do say that to wheelchair users (good, this is true) but then continued on by saying "unless you just don't have legs" which is just as bad as the origonal.

I had to fight to get my first wheelchair as a double leg amputee, and every wheelchair since then I've had to justify not wanting the "better option" (prosthetics) to the government so they'll approve me for the funding. Doctors and even strangers too, all want to know why I'm not walking, why I'm not using prosthetics all the time. When I go on trips with my family I'm told to "just walk" so they don't have to pack my wheelchair. at my own graduation from university I was chastised by the organisers for not bringing my prosthetics (because wearing them was exceptionally painful back then and i hadnt worn them in nearly 3 months. I had asked before if this would be ok. they knew) because the venue was accessible but not the part of the venue the graduates were in. On the topic of university they also put my class in the only non-wheelchair accessible room and held meetings i was expected to take part in, in the non-accessible lunch room. When I complained, I was told to just use my legs for a few minutes so I could get into my classes. Being an amputee with no legs didn't shield me from these experiences either, it often made it worse.

I have all 3 of the disabilities mentioned (autistic, wheelchair user, amputee). If you don't have the disability you're using for a comparison, don't use it. Please

#ableism #I honestly never imagined anyone would tell a double amputee to just use their legs #also I am apparently very lucky #I have never had anyone say to me that I don't really need glasses or contacts and I just need a better diet or oils or whatever #but apparently that really is a thing #so I would not have thought twice about saying that no one would tell a severely nearsighted person that they don't really need glasses #because no one told ME that so I assumed people actually understood that glasses were necessary

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I saw a post about tumblr user ages...

Reblogs are welcomed for that sweet, sweet increased data pool (aka getting more than 20 responses 😅)

#poll #ages

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Requested by anon

#Final Fantasy IV #Poll

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#I feel like Biscuit is a perfectly acceptable name

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Hey FFIV fans, do you ever think about:

• Kain Highwind actually talks a fair bit at the start of the game, was ready to interrupt the meeting with the king, readily gives Cecil unasked for emotional support, and despite holding in his love for Rosa for at least some time, once shit hits the fan he almost immediately blurts it out in Mist

whereas

• Cecil sometimes even late in the game has a real hard time collecting his thoughts and saying them out loud. He freezes up in personal interactions with Golbez and just sorta . . . follows Fusoya's lead on the moon. Our first glimpse of him is brooding on the Red Wings airship and he doesn't say anything to his upset men until they are actively questioning their orders, a big deal in a military to even reach that point. He always moves on quickly to the next goal in conversations (as much just limited dialogue constraints on the SNES but you know). People in Baron were afraid of him as a Dark Knight and Cid and Rosa have to seek him out to get him to talk

and

• the Baron monarchy seems to be elective. Kain has his own inheritance from his biodad. That's the sharp difference between Kain and Cecil's beginning as young men - Cecil has only what the King is able and willing to give him. And the dragoons are a long and storied order, but using dark knights is new for Baron and makes everybody uncertain. Kain ends up angsting over his connection to his dad at the end of the game but he seems emotionally centered with it in the opening, enough that Cecil comments he envies him and Kain doesn't say that's weird of him to feel. And Rosa's mom apparently liked Kain for Rosa instead of Cecil

so . . . it may be that . . . Kain and Cecil before the game starts are the inversion of their popular archetypes that creep into a lot of fan portrayals of them, my own included! Fun! Cecil was the awkward brooding loner and Kain the open, communicative golden child at court. Then everything goes to hell in a handbasket and we see them switch over the course of the game

#final fantasy iv #meta

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Phineas and Ferb: Across The Second Dimension (2011)

#phineas and ferb #so this is the context

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

#There's no option for my emotions #It's ok and I've heard it before but had completely forgotten about it until my husband told me what it was

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#yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #would Kiryu also wear a fursuit? #And what animal is his fursona? #What is strong and sometimes cool and sometimes goofy and sometimes kind? #I know Tiger is the obvious choice #(Not saying Dragon because they specified “furry”)

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People feel like they have to... Justify their ships now? When the hell did that start? Ask me why I ship something and it's like, the characters were in a room together one time. The fuck more do you expect from me?

#fandom #agree #more poly ship manifestos plz #in particular

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According to a recent report published by the Aargauer Zeitung (h/t Golem.de), around three million smart toothbrushes have been infected by hackers and enslaved into botnets.

The most cyberpunk thing on your dash today.

#IoT is not the best thing ever #technology

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happy neil banging out the tunes day!

#neil banging out the tunes #go neil go

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ronda slater, what I need is: a contemplation of bisexuality, from bi any other name: bisexual people speak out, edited by Lorraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu, 1991

#bisexuality #poetry

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...fuck

"Stop putting comments in tags!" - anonymous user on the "putting comments in tags" webbed site

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"Stop putting comments in tags!" - anonymous user on the "putting comments in tags" webbed site

#this is tumblr

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A simple form of a DNC outfit for Baroouse - the bustier is nice enough but I don't see why he needs the chest piece, really. I'll probably go back and make a fancier one later.

(Yeah the hands and glaives need help, they're not the glaives he would use but I don't have them to refer to right now.)

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#OC: Baroouse Ironeye #Final Fantasy XIV #Fanart #Roegadyn

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#but neither of these two things are good reactions #we know this right? #becoming too hard is bad but kneeling and weeping in the streets will just destroy you and you won't be able to help the world anyway #right?

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no options for "they wouldn't fight" or "they would kiss", they are fighting and that is FINAL

#my avatar is real #it wins by default