Day 200. This post is for the burnt out activists. There is hope. Donโt let them convince you otherwise. โIt starts with Gaza.โ from Lets Talk Palestine, 23/Apr/2024:
Despite ongoing Israeli occupation attacks and threats to invade Rafah City, which is home to over 1.7 million Palestinians, many living in displacement camps and refugee centers,
Resilient Palestinians arrange a mass wedding at a school in Rafah City, in the southern Gaza Strip.
my dad is so funny because if you actually asked him point blank if he's an ally i dont think he'd know how to respond but like a year ago he was talking about when he used to sell houses in the 90s and he was like "yeah we had a gay couple come in and i had to tell one of my coworkers to stop being rude to them. then they invited me to their housewarming party, i dont know why. after that i had a bunch of gay couples come in and specifically ask for me, isnt that weird?" and he legitimately had never connected the dots
I was sitting in my house getting ready for a party later and I heard screaming outside, so naturally I took a little peek. On one side of my street I see a dad holding a camera while mom is screaming in what I can only describe as an excited sports fan voice,
โYOU GOT THIS ZACK!! COME ON BUDDY YOU GOT THIS!!! KEEP GOING!!โ
And I look to my right and thereโs a little boy shakily riding his bike for the first time, with his little sister jogging beside him, also cheering and screaming. I was almost instantly brought to tears because I got to witness something so tender.
No matter what is going on in the world never forget that someone, somewhere, is teaching their child to ride a bike. To tie their shoelaces. A person is bringing their elderly neighbour something for dinner. Someone stopped their day to help some ducks cross the road. Someone is trying a new recipe and they love it. Humans will keep doing human things no matter what, and itโs wonderful.
if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.
Autism acceptance includes accepting all autistic manners of communication.
That means supporting autistic people who talk in a "very childish" way. (I do this a lot irl)
Autistic people who do "TV talking" (this means talking like a character from your favorite media,basically talking in quotes and copying their speech patterns,as far as I know)
Autistic people who use echolia.
Autistic people who are very awkward/quirky when they communicate.
Autistic people who are overly technical,or have very sophisticated and articulate speech.
Autistic people who mumble.
Autistic people who talk really fast.
Autistic people who can't control their tone of voice/inflection.
Autistic people who talk in a monotone voice.
Autistic people who use different kind of sounds,or body language to communicate.
Autistic people who talk slowly and draw out their syllables.
Autistic people who use a lot of sentance fillers.
Autistic people who use Aac devices,communication cards,etc etc.
Edit: acceptance of nonverbal autistics is also necessary. Nonverbal people deserve love,respect,acceptance,accommodation and support.
There are images of decomposed bodies wearing what appear to be scrubs... with their hands tied. Meaning they were executed while bound. I will not be sharing them because I'm tired of showing our martyrs' bodies to people.