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Schizospec culture is being confused on why ppl find the "lets make this person believe something that isnt true / real" prank funny

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people are always (wrongly) saying "oooh schizophrenics are so scary!", and so rarely stopping to think how scary schizophrenia is for those of us who live with it.

i constantly feel threatened. i see things that aren't there. i hallucinate that people are holding weapons. i think most people are plotting to kill me. i feel like i am being watched constantly. i think most of my friends hate me. i hear voices that tell me they're going to harm me. i have very severe sensory processing issues which are also scary because the world is made even more overwhelming by that, and that's just a few of the daily things i deal with.

schizophrenia is tiring. it's exhausting. and it's made even harder to deal with by people assuming i'm a dangerous person when i would never hurt anyone. the only thing that is scary is dealing with this condition with the added ableism from society.

please be empathetic. if you meet a schizophrenic don't ever assume something about them. maybe stop and think about how hard it can be having this condition and be kind.

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There is no substantial difference between "mental" health and "physical" health. And you cannot affect one without affecting the other.

Additionally, emotions themselves are physical. All of the biochemical processes of the central nervous system are literally physical phenomena

The idea that "mental" health is somehow less substantive than "physical" health is an observably pseudoscientific belief.

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So any americans reading this, please call your reps. You do not need to call for each individual bill, just give them a list of bills you want them to say no to, which should be:

KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)

IODA (Interstate Obscenity Definition Act)

SCREEN act

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I hate how often some (typically abled) people will go “well, if you can’t [get a specific support], then what?” when it comes to disabilities. As if it’s a “gotcha” moment. And then act like you’re exaggerating when you answer that question honestly.

Disabled people often die from a lack of support. A lot of disability aids are not a luxury, but a basic need in order to live.

“Well what happens if—” people die. People hurt themselves. People hurt others. Disabled people don’t magically become abled if our needs aren’t met.

If a bedbound quadriplegic is caught in a housefire, and there’s nobody there to save them, they��ll probably die. They won’t magically become able-bodied out of sheer will.

If a nonspeaking/nonverbal autistic is denied access to alternative methods of communication, they’ll suffer in silence. They won’t spontaneously become capable of speech.

Disabled people are disabled all the time. Our disabilities don’t go away just because they’re inconvenient, or if we’re in danger.

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This YT Comment could be useful (also everyone there is Clippy. Change your profile there to clippy or one of those fucked up vancelings, somebody might've actually got an online movement working for once)

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there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)

interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and

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It’s scary on the internet right now. All the censorship bills that congress and other countries are trying to/have passed. But I have an idea to combat them.

Minors Against Online “Safety”. I feel like messages against censorship “for the children” will be more effective coming from the children it’s claiming to protect.

Here’s the plan: Find your state’s senators and house representatives. Call them, email them, tell them every little way these bills are detrimental, to BOTH children and adults. Most importantly, do it CONSTANTLY. At least once every few days, IF NOT MORE. AND, tell your friends and classmates to do it too. Regardless of political orientation, I can’t imagine any teen taking kindly to the idea of their internet access being limited or completely revoked.

The bills we’re targeting are: KOSA (requires age verification to access many websites), KOSMA (bans people under 13 from using social media) , the SCREEN act (blocks content seen as harmful to minors for ALL audiences), Block BEARD (supposedly protects against foreign piracy), and the Take It Down act(blocks content seen as sexually obscene to ALL audiences), which has already passed but is ridiculously unconstitutional, so maybe we can get the Supreme Court on that.

Some good points that you may want to bring up (if you can think of any others, put them in comments, please!)

- The SCREEN act could limit a teen’s access to Sex Ed, especially for the lgbtq+ community, who don’t always get taught how to stay safe in schools.

- While this might cut down on kids access to negative content, it could also very easily cut down on access to positive content as well. (e.g. , a child becomes suicidal. While they might no longer have access to material encouraging them to commit, they will likely also lose access to material discouraging them as well)

- A lot of the big companies that would have to enforce these policies are subject to data breaches. What would happen if a predator got access to a list of users containing their ages?

- Block BEARD could lead to many non-profit sites being banned in the U.S. (such as AO3, a fanfiction website that has content tagging and filtering systems put in place, that would likely make it difficult for a child to encounter obscene content, if supervised properly by their guardians.)

- The president has specifically stated that he intends to to use the Take It Down Act to censor those who disagree with him. Not only is this a pretty direct violation of the First Amendment, the government has also put policies like this in place before, to undesirable effects (Alien and Sedition Act).

- Neurodivergent kids. Socializing in person can be quite hard for many ND children, but sites like Discord can be an outlet to help them find connection. KOSMA will ban kids under 13 from social media, which is not only somewhat useless in itself, seeing that most big social media sites either require this already or are specifically for children, but also doesn’t account for the possibility of a child using their parent’s account.

- China. China is infamous in the western world for the unbelievable amount of censorship it puts on its citizens online activity, but not even China requires this kind of age verification.

- A child’s parents should be the one in charge of what they deem too inappropriate for their child, not the government. What if abrahamic religion was considered obscene? How would Christian and Jewish and Muslim parents educate their children on their beliefs?

The most important part of making this effective is to NEVER LET UP. Harass your representatives constantly if you have to. Do it until not only do they vote against these bills, but they become vocal opponents of them, and tell everyone you know to do the same. Share this on every social media you have. Do the same with YouTube’s age verification, or Visa and Mastercard’s sudden control over game stores. And if you live in Canada or Australia or the UK? Do the same. We can stop this kind of oppression, but only if we fight tooth and nail against it. Please reblog to signal boost.

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Literally just blacklisting family channels from getting advertising money would immediately make the internet much safer for children. It would be so easy to do.

Of course, that would mean that youtube would make less money. Family channels are very popular, and they pair with a lot of lucrative products, which means they basically print money for both the parents running the channel and the company hosting it. Youtube doesn't have a problem with child exploitation so long as they can profiteer off of it.

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To put it bluntly, the only way to end homelessness is to house people or kill them.

That's it. Those are your options. Homelessness doesn't go away based on "crime crackdowns." You will imprison the unhoused, and when they are free, they will be unhoused again. Or they will die in prison.

When you burn encampments or force people out without their stuff, they remain unhoused or freeze to death.

After working with the unhoused, it's become abundantly clear that those who don't want to support them instead want them dead.

There is blood on the hands of every government and organization that controls the homeless population with force instead of compassion.

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YOUTUBE'S AI AGE VERIFICATION POLICY VIOLATES COPPA

In order for this policy to work it would need to collect information on a user they suspect of being a minor in order to verify if that user is a minor or not.

Therefore it is violating COPPA, the thing they violated in the past.

More proof that they don't care about kids.

What failures.

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