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Here is your daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!!
Thank you for your help!!
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"Based on data gleaned from the nearly 10 million military dependents it insures, the U.S. Department of Defense has repeatedly called the evidence supporting ABA “weak,” noting there is no research to determine whether the small number of participants who show improvement — 15% — do so because of treatment or simply because a child has matured. After a year of the therapy, the department reported to Congress in 2019, 76% of 16,000 participating autistic children saw no change, and 9% worsened."
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i love r/seattle subreddit . this is fucking crazy please read this please please please
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Sk8er cat
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I just have to say that one of the most annoying parts of being a wheelchair user is how random strangers will automatically start pushing you without your consent. Who taught people this was okay? Apparently the fact that it is wrong to do this is not common knowledge, so I will lay it out:
If you see a wheelchair user, please do not automatically assume they need your help.
If you’re genuinely concerned they need your help, please ask them first.
If they tell you they’re okay on their own, please respect that.
If they do need help being pushed, please do not assume you know where they need to go.
If a wheelchair user is in the way of where you need to go, it is still not okay to push them without their consent. Make them aware that they are blocking your path, and they will move out of the way on their own.
It can be genuinely frightening to have someone you don’t even know come up behind you and start moving you around. It can also cause injury to the wheelchair user, if their hands get caught up between their wheels and the pushrims because they weren’t expecting their chair to suddenly move.
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to ask before pushing someone’s wheelchair. Treat their wheelchair like an extension of their body; you wouldn’t simply pick up an able-bodied person and place them where you want them to be, would you?
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its just saying fucking anything
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someone just called the science museum to complain that this eclipse wasn’t as good as the one in 1979.
he wasn’t even a visitor, he was just mad about the eclipse not being visible without special glasses and wanted to complain to me about the eclipse “not being dark enough” for ten solid minutes
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IRL I'm like a reverse of the sunny protagonist trope:
-People first approach me expecting great things and over functioning and taking care of them, they think I'm attractive and funny or smart or whatever they like best, and I am ready to give them a chance to not suck, I am actively engaged with their interests, open and affectionate, I can reach the high shelf for them.
-People slowly come to realize I have a lot more limitations than they thought and I can't always be there to over-perform for everyone around me and slowly seeing me be confident and unbothered by petty things irks them, like how dare I be disabled, or whatever demographic they look down on, autistic or whatever and dare to act like I am "better than them", the more I just do my own thing and mind my business the worse this gets... And they start to get a taste of the fact that I was being literal and straightforward about everything when I said things like "I am asexual and may not want sex for months at a time" or "I might disappear into my own project or health problems for months at a time"
-This slowly degrades as their resentment builds into active scorn, vocal disgust, and eventually into actually doing things that can get me killed, on purpose, abuse and betrayal, sexual assault, I learn to trust less and become more uncomfortable with attempts at affection. I stop expecting anyone to show up for me and stop inviting people along or asking if I can join in. Everyone starts to avoid me. I start being triggered by physical contact. I stop doing anything to take care of anyone who's actively harming me.
-It reaches a point where I feel actively in danger being around these people, and for very good repeatedly proven reasons. I am having to make threats to defend my most basic boundaries for my own safety. I get increasingly neurotic and visibly stressed.
-I break away from the group universally disliked despite that all I did was insist on my boundaries. I am now crankyTM and willing to bite.
Sunny Protag: I guess everyone in my friend group has tried to kill me once, but it isn't what it sounds like! haha!
Me: Everyone I have ever cared for has betrayed me or done something they knew might kill me, with varying levels of intent, and it's exactly what it sounds like >:(
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Picture this but like blown out entirely by being too bright...
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since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"
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Known as the Jarkov Mammoth, this specimen was found in Siberia. The 23 tonne block of mud and ice was lifted to an ice cave where the mammoth inside was recovered and studied.
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It's perfectly fine to be uncomfortable with femininity if you had it forced upon you as a trans person btw. Some of us will never be comfortable wearing makeup, having long hair, wearing skirts or being called "girl" and it's not only perfectly ok, it adds to the beautiful rainbow of diversity that is queerness.
It's not toxic masculinity if it's gendered trauma from having been a trans person in a cissexist society all your life — and besides, the whole point of transitioning is figuring out who you are and what brings you joy! You don't need to repent for your personal discomfort with femininity. You don't need to force yourself into another box that doesn't feel right. I spent 27 long years trying to do just that & guess what, it didn't work!
There are plenty of flamboyant gay men out there who wear earrings and heels but hate women. Feminism isn't what's in your closet or in your face and misogyny isn't a type of gender expression either. Don't let people make you feel that way. Here's your free license to do whatever you want forever.
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Chinese painter Yu Xiaodong
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dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET? 
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How to Finish
I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.
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