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gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

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not being able to tell the difference between a serious health issue and normal chronic illness symptoms is honestly scary as fuck

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On this date in MSPA

03/10/08 - Problem Sleuth begins.

03/10/09 - Problem Sleuth "ends“.

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so i was just diagnosed with fibromyalgia and mps, and?

i'm honestly relieved to have a diagnosis and a treatment plan. it takes a big weight off my shoulder. i have something to challenge my thoughts of "you're faking" "you're over-exagerrating" "you don't really need that cane"

i don't have to worry about "doing this for attention". i am disabled.

i'm sad and frustrated it took 3 or 4 years to be diagnosed, and that as a trans person my binder was often blamed (i feel better physically and mentally with it on, actually) and i'm sincerely grateful i received the diagnoses and a plan to give me the help i need.

-jay

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so i saw this while playing cards against humanity and scrambled to draw it

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Me, who has a folding cane: *opens my backpack, dramatically whips out my cane which all clamourously clicks together as soon as it’s free from the confines of my bag*

Everybody in a 15 foot radius: …why are you like this?

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me: you know those disaster posts on tungl dot gov?

cal, likely sipping green tea and rolling their eyes: you mean All The Posts?

you ever see a post that is such an absolute disaster?

whats that monkey reaction meme cuz thats me rn lol

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you ever see a post that is such an absolute disaster?

whats that monkey reaction meme cuz thats me rn lol

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Disabled people who have gained weight due to their illness, their medications, their medical diet, you are beautiful, you are valid and there is nothing wrong with you.

Disabled people who have lost weight due to their illness, their medications or their medical diet, you are beautiful, you are valid, and there is nothing wrong with you.

You are beautiful, no matter your weight. Dont let anyone tell you different.

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Updated version of my old Nuzlocke alternatives guide.

I hear people say they’re doing nuzlockes/wonderlockes all the time. Never anything else, though. and I always catch myself thinking, “I can’t be the only person who dislikes nuzlockes, can I?”

Edit: reuploaded because I forgot a slide. whoopsie poopsie!

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Gentle reminder that just because someone’s mental illness/chronic illness/disability isn’t as bad as someone else you know of (likely on social media) it doesn’t mean that person is faking, begging for attention, or otherwise trying to plot against you somehow. Everyone affected by any ailment experiences things differently.

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Support disabled people as they become more public with their disabilities.

You dont understand how hard it is for us to be open, how dangerous it can make social interaction or how quickly it can ruin our careers and put our lives at risk.

Support disabled people who are finally being open about their illness. Support disabled people who no longer hide their symptoms. Who take their meds in public, who use their mobility aids, who are talking about their illness in public.

We need to be there, we need to support them, we need to accept them and fight for them.

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Addicts Matter Too

I don’t hear it all the time, but it does show up here and there. It might be a snide remark about addicts, calling them all criminals, or frustration with being associated with addicts and their ableism shows.

Addiction is a disease. A person dying from addiction is as tragic as any of us dying from our diseases or lack of sufficient health care. I lost my uncle to alcoholism and my aunt to heroin. Addiction to drugs and alcohol runs through my family on both sides. My dad has already had a stroke but won’t put down the drink, and my mom has been sober for like 15 years. I’m addicted to nicotine and would probably have an alcohol problem if my own health issues didn’t stop me from drinking a lot. I know what addiction is like and I know what it’s like to suffer as in a family with addiction.

Let me make one thing clear, there’s nothing wrong with cutting ties with an addict who is stealing from you and generally fucking up your life. Their disease does not give them the right to do that, but it also doesn’t mean that criminalization and prison is going to help an addict. We’ve tried it, it doesn’t work. We’ve tried restriction, it doesn’t work. And the fact that individuals may need to protect themselves, doesn’t mean we as a society don’t have a responsibility to help them. That’s what a society is supposed to do.

We need to see addicts as people and addiction as a disease. We need research with humane science based ways to truly help addicts, and stop these fake rehab centers that bank on you relapsing to make more money. We need to create resources for families dealing with addiction. All these things are woefully insufficient or nonexistent right now in our treatment of addiction. These are things that need to change at a community and legislative level.

It’s not the fault of addicts that the CDC made those guidelines. It’s the hatred of addicts and unwillingness to do more than security theatre to solve the problem. These guidelines aren’t saving lives, both on the side of addicts and chronic pain patients. The fact that ableism against addicts punished the chronic pain community too is not a license to bash addicts.

If we can get past the idea of just restriction as a means of stopping addiction, both sides would win. Science based approaches to addiction rather than emotional based criminalization will save lives. Non-restriction of opioids for anyone with a pain condition or seeking a pain diagnosis will save lives. I don’t pretend to know exactly what will help more addicts stay clean and sober, it’s a complicated issue, but I know we can’t continue to refuse to acknowledge what does not work.

Please don’t throw one disabled group under the bus, don’t give into the same ableism that caused this “crisis” in the first place.

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Are you a DID faker???

This post is for all the people that recently found alters, recently got diagnosed, are trying to get diagnosed- are you faking DID? 

There’s no reason to fake DID. It’s not fun, and you likely wouldn’t create a new issue like this for yourself. 

It’s normal to regain trauma memories later in life. 

It’s normal to not know you have DID in childhood/find alters later.

It’s normal to have partial amnesia, to think there’s no way your trauma was “enough,” to doubt alters, to think you’re just overreacting or being dramatic. 

Here’s the thing- fakers don’t doubt themselves. 

DID is made to keep you functional. The entire purpose of DID is to section off the parts that are affected by trauma, so the host can live as fully as possible. Because of this, you might not even be aware of it until adulthood- DID helps keep you functional in abusive environments. 

Your experiences are normal. Doubting yourself is normal, and in no way invalidates your experiences or diagnosis. 

Doubting yourself, diagnosis or no, prevents you from coping with symptoms you have. You have alters. You can’t control them. You might lose time, not be able to remember your childhood, forget little things day to day- that’s all valid. You might not have switched fronters in months- also valid. Sometimes alters don’t front for years. 

Exercise healthy skepticism when self diagnosing, but don’t ignore symptoms you experience. Cope the best you can with what you’ve got. 

You’re not alone in doubting yourself and your experiences are not as abnormal as you think. 

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no Offense but autistic people invented the word “stim” and the backbone of the entire “stim community” so if you hate/dislike/think autistic people are “weird” or use autistic as an insult you’re banned from enjoying anything stim related