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Sheryl Lee Style

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i just know she thinks she’s inconveniencing/hurting me, but she is really giving me the best birthday gift of all by not showing up to work these past 3 days

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why am I torturing myself this way, you ask? because patrons, that’s why.

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I absolutely ADORE the Merlin bird id app and knowing which little friends are visiting me everyday

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Upstairs coworker is upset that I’m bright and happy around all other coworkers but around her i’m just….quiet.

Hmmmmmmmmm, maybe that’s because you go downstairs and “tattle” on me for things YOU taught me to do.

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Art by Kamura

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celebrating my favorite fool this april first

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the trees you grew up with have not forgotten you. their branches still whisper your name in the breeze and their roots remember the paths your feet once traced through their shade.

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Might be the year I delete all social media…..I’m tireddddd…too much comparing . I forget that I am cool and beautiful and smart and interesting all on my own sometimes. I think that humans were not made for whatever is happening with technology the past few years

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I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

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The thing that abled people who advocate for the disabled community don’t get is that there are times when disabilities/accommodations clash. Horribly.

Like I spent years having to come up with a solution to get therapy dogs into a series of residence halls. Why years? Because we had to decide who got to stay and who got to leave: the people who needed therapy dogs or the people with severe allergies to animals. Who got the alternative housing? 

Things like fidget toys might seem great for some disabled people but having them in the room could be distracting/overstimulating for others. The same goes with stimming. It can’t be helped but neither can the anxiety that another person in the room feels as they watch/hear it. Additionally, something like a weighted blanket might immediately calm one kid down and send the other one into a panic attack due to the claustrophobia it causes. (*Points to myself*)

Every Metro bus in New York City has a series of seats at the front that can be lifted up to accommodate people in wheelchairs but if I’m in one of those spots then someone with a cane/walker has to journey even further to sit down.

The flashing lights of a fire alarm are there to help deaf/hearing impaired but if they’re not properly timed, they can also cause a person to have a seizure.

The worst part about all of these is that there is rarely a concrete solution that makes everyone happy/safe. And I’m not here to offer any because I don’t know them. I’m just here to remind you all that as you’re taking your education/health classes, as you’re reading your textbooks, as you’re preparing to go be an advocate, just remember that there is rarely ever such a thing as a one-size-fits-all solution to advocacy and that something you do that can help one disabled person might actually hinder another.

Food for thought.

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people who dont like drinking water confuse me. getting a sip of water is like a drug to me. i love a drink of water

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did YOU mother drop YOU?????