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A few TL;DRs:

Identify first (autistic) is preferred over person first (person with autism)

Men are diagnosed sooner and faster than women, but do not make up a significant majority of autistic people

Most of us are against ABA therapy 

Most of us don’t want a cure Most of us have difficulty finding employment and thriving in school

A disproportionate amount of autistic people are LGBT+

While allistic (non-autistic) people believe we have low empathy, most of us report having heightened empathy

These responses are consistent with autistic people that are nonverbal, have severe learning disabilities, or have epilepsy 

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rich people took a rock and were like “this is worth thousands of dollars now” and everyone just believed them

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others: “so, how ~southern~ are you?”

me: “The entrance of my hometown has a shrimp boat sitting in the main street. At Christmas theres a shrimper Santa and alligators pulling him instead of reindeer.”

others: “what?!”

me:

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“Starter house”?????? We’re supposed to have more than one house???????

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my adhd ass when someone says something and expects me to be able to comprehend it the first time

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My name is Lisa.

I’m five foot nine. My hair is long and it’s dark brown. I wear leather a great deal, high boots always, and sometimes glove-soft vests and even leather skirts now and then, and I wear lace, especially when I can find the kind I like: intricate, very old-fashioned lace, snow white. I have light skin that tans easily, large breasts, and long legs. And though I don’t feel beautiful and never have, I know that I am. If I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be a trainer at The Club.

–Exit to Eden by Anne Rice (aka Rampling), 1985

Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

–My Immortal by Tara Gilesbie, 2006

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When will banksy

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August 11th. I remember when a lot of people on here jumped down my throat & tried to justify the state ceasing to provide bottled water for residents because “the lead levels are safe now!!!!”

The state also doesn’t seem to have a problem selling privatizing clean water sources near Flint, selling them to Nestle & making Flint residents pay for their own water

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[Image description: White rectangles filled with text overlaid on a photo of the Capitol Crawl that took place on March 12, 1990. The photo shows a blonde eight-year-old named Jennifer Keelan, who has cerebral palsy, walking on hands and knees as she leads a group of physically disabled people in crawling and walking up the stone steps leading to the austere white Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

The text reads, “Not person experiencing disability as in ‘a Republican president gave me the ADA’, Capital D Disabled as in people literally crawling up the steps and parking their chairs in front of buses gave me the ADA” and is credited to activist Kassiane Asasumasu. End of image description.]

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Gideon Mendel’s The Ward

Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis shows true love in a time of terrible tragedy.

These heartbreaking and incredibly moving images show the affection and love shown during the height of the Aids crisis. Photographer Gideon Mendel’s project The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. During this time antiretroviral medications were not available and patients on the ward faced the prospect of an early death.

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Twitter

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sand dollars doin their thing

they’re basically sea roombas