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one thing i never get tired of in songs is when they include some sounds from the recording booth like a laugh at the end, a ‘was that good?’ or like, the sounds of the guitar being put down, a chair creaking. it’s nice how music can be used as an escape but also something that ties you right back down to earth. it will affect you so deeply & then ur like wow… you just played that. it’s grounding & magical & just one of my fave things ever!

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Saying that cannabis isn’t a drug further stigmatizes drug use. Cannabis is a drug, and that’s okay. When you say it’s just a plant or it’s just medicine, while both those statements are true, it is harmful in many ways. People who use drugs are not bad. Drugs are not bad. Stop stigmatizing drug use and start encouraging safe drug use.

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Being trans and neurodivergent with some very gendered diagnosises puts me in a weird spot.

BPD is seen as the "White manic pixie dream girl" diagnosis. "Daddy issues" type of stuff. It's surrounded by aesthetics of yandere girls, pink, the goddess Eris, and things typically read as feminine. It's mostly AFABs who are diagnosed.

ASPD is seen as the Patrick Bateman. The masculine rage and disconnected feelings. It's tied to things that feel more masculine. It's more commonly diagnosed in AMABs.

I can't help but wonder if what condition I tell people about having first defines how they view my gender. Am I the victim feminine, or the perpetrator masculine?

I read a post recently on malgendering, a concept of correctly gendering someone in a malicious way to further stigmatize them. I can see this happening with my fellow transmascs and trans men with NPD, ASPD, CD (Conduct Disorder), and others. "Of course you're a man, you have xyz disorder I view as inherently abusive/dangerous/harmful" is something I can see being weaponized against us.

I see you. I support you. Ideally, people wouldn't use a disorder to tie it inherently to gender, but if they are going to, let's kick in the teeth of ableists together.

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Actually lol I think disabled people who’ve been abused/neglected by doctors/nurses should be allowed to be as pissed as they want about it and people who berate them for not understanding how hard being a doctor/nurse is or some such should literally shut the hell up. There is nothing immoral about being angry, especially about shit like this and if you think disabled people don’t understand how hard capitalist systems can wear you down, well, you’re not just mistaken but ignorant as fuck. 

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very important when people say “mobility aid, health device etc not ruin outfit, still look good look fashionable.” Understand what trying to combat.

But also know it okay if mobility aid not look stylish. If cuffs and monitors and ostomy bags stand out and plain medical colours. If hair not look nice because more comfortable that way, not pain or headaches. If braces show over or under clothes.

Important important know you disabled/chronically ill and beautiful stunning handsome. But also don’t have to be. Don’t have to overperform for anyone else’s comfort. Your health comfort safety more important that appearance. Love y’all.

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hey now that it’s disability pride month can you please remember to include people with Down syndrome and other chromosomal defects into your activism. they’re so often left behind. I literally never see anyone spreading Down syndrome awareness that isn’t close family of someone with Down syndrome. They exist and they’re living breathing humans who deserve just as much activism as every other disabled person

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As a medium/lower support needs autistic who works with young higher support needs autistic:

We all matter. We all have the same diagnosis. We all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

But we are not the same.

I can mask and might be seen as 'odd' or 'weird' in public. The students I work with are seen as 'dangerous' and 'practically little kids'.

I can go to university and work with accommodations. The students I work with likely will never live independently and a few might find jobs that support them but still pay them less than an abled worker.

I have full control of my finances. The students I work with aren't allowed to make independent financial decisions, even if capable.

If I say 'no,' I'm making a choice. The students I work with can't say 'no' without being labeled as defiant and difficult.

I can feed myself, bathe myself, and take care of myself with extreme challenges. The students I work with are unable to take care of themselves without high levels of support/one on one support.

I had an IEP in high school but was mainstreamed in classes. The students I work with take separate classes and some rarely get to interact with their abled peers.

Our experiences are fundamentally different. Higher support needs autistics will experience a specific type of ableism I never will, and can never fully understand.

Lower support needs autistics need to stop saying we understand what higher support needs autistics are going through and then present autism as only being disabling because of society/lack of acceptance because that is dangerous. We need to stop saying every autistic person is capable of everything if given the right support because that leaves out huge parts of our community who will never be able to do certain things, regardless of support.

We are worthy of existence regardless of our abilities.

Autism is a spectrum. It is not the same for every autistic person. Autism acceptance and advocacy has to come with accepting, acknowledging, and listening to our higher support needs peers.

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Me when my able-bodied friends walk too fast

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[ID: a Tweet from Ben Cohen (@UniqueDude2) reading:

{At the art museum with my newborn son}

baby: dada?

Me: it's impressionist you stupid baby

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i know the 'is mcdonalds a date' questions making its rounds but i feel kind of insane bc thats never even been a metric for me. a date is just when someone says its a date. i went on a date w someone to smoke in a building w a caved in cieling in the rain, shoplifted from a gas station paranoid as hell to get them a soft pretzel and then we chased a rat around. where is your sense of adventure people

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starting a compilation of my favorite "no thank you" buttons from when they want you to subscribe so bad

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you tell ONE GUY you're a demon and it's all ohhh you must hate humanity and you're a terrible person you must love murder and violence et cetera blah blah blah. boring interpretation if you ask me. what if I was a joy to be around wouldn't that be fun? aren't you tired?

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babygirl you look like an absolute angel tonight (there is a streetlight behind you and i have astigmatism)

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The problem with me is I dress Bass Pro Shops as hell when I'm not dressed to impress, so when I stroll into the antique store asking for deer, they immediately point me to the taxidermy, and I gotta say, "Listen, I love that, but I don't have $300. I need figurines, man. You got any figurines? Please, for the love of all that is good and righteous in this god-forsaken world, grant a poor orphan boy one little deer figurine," and they're always like, "Haha, shopping for the wife, eh?" and I'm like, "Sure, man, my beautiful wife. WHERE'S YOUR DEER FIGURINES?"