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nonspeakingkiku · 2 days
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"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.
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nonspeakingkiku · 2 days
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Sssssinnamon roll snake 🐍
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nonspeakingkiku · 2 days
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Yellow throated martin caught on camera trap in Far East of Russia.
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nonspeakingkiku · 2 days
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REMINDER!!!!
Autism acceptance month starts THIS SATURDAY!
If you/someone you know needs to buy an AAC app, almost all companies have huge sales!!!! (They also do this in October for aac awareness month)
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nonspeakingkiku · 2 days
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The idea that aac fixes everything for everyone is kinda annoying. Because most nonverbal nonspeaking semiverbal people’s speech problems root further from just verbal voice.
Not understanding have right communicate. Not understanding how work. Not understanding how to say what feel or want or think. Not understanding certain words or phrases so say one thing and mean another. Many have speech or communication disorders, it’s not just the inability to speak, aac won’t fix everything for everyone.
Even if some get aac, an option to communicate, they just can’t. Sometimes no matter how much want to, just can’t.
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nonspeakingkiku · 2 days
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It do be capping
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nonspeakingkiku · 3 days
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nonspeakingkiku · 3 days
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I'm noticing a pattern of people getting angry if stereotypical autistic traits are brought up recently.
"Actually, that is considered to be very outdated and people can present autistic without that trait."
But...I'm describing my traits. Or my experience of autism. It takes a lot of effort and spoons for me to answer asks and consider all possible angles, especially when that's not how my brain is wired.
I know this may come as a surprise to some people (genuine) but I'm actually pretty damn stereotypically autistic.
I doubt many would jive with me in real life because I'm quite asocial, I tire out quickly, lose interest in conversations, don't make eye contact ever, lack facial expressions unless I'm heavily masking, I openly stim, have deep special interests that I can and will get overexcited about etc
I also presented as autistic very strongly as a child in stereotypical ways.
I am well aware that autism presents differently for everyone. I am well aware that misunderstandings of presentation and masking means people aren't getting diagnosed. I wasn't diagnosed until my 30s because doctors used to think females couldn't have autism without ID.
Yes, autism presents in many many many different ways and diagnosticians need to be fully up to date if we're to help people.
But also...the stereotypes still exist. The autistics from TV and movies exist. The eye rolling annoying traits exist. The "ugly traits" exist. The uwu traits exist. That can't be erased either.
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nonspeakingkiku · 3 days
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Hi!!!! I have a condition called Systemic Lupus Erythematosus which can be fatal without treatment. I'm currently on a biologic which is usually within my budget but last month was $800. this medication is life saving and unavoidable for me due to the severity of my condition. I don't have the money for this and neither does my family. my c@$h@pp is $alexmorgan004 if anyone could send me literally anything to help me pay this it would be so greatly appreciated.
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[ID: a cropped image of an itemized medical bill for saphnelo with an amount due of $819.20 dated 4/16/2024]
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nonspeakingkiku · 3 days
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people need to realise that a poor little meow meow must be a character who has committed atrocities you cannot poor little meow meow a good guy that’s not how this works
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nonspeakingkiku · 3 days
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i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest
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nonspeakingkiku · 3 days
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Write Your Story
I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.
Why?
He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didn’t even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but that’s beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me – his first beta – and y'all?
He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.
Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, “There is already a Minecraft story.”
Me: Okay? So what?
Lucifer: If there’s already a story, no one will read mine.
Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, “What if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.”
He laughed.
I showed him Mornings Aren’t For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.
Then I said, “So do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in love… would anyone read it?”
He laughed and said, “No because you already did.”
So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.
I’m going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.
Write your story. It doesn’t matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didn’t write YOUR story. Only you can do that.
And I want to read your story.
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nonspeakingkiku · 4 days
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nonspeakingkiku · 4 days
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being nonbinary and a fan of non-human creatures isn’t easy. like i’m constantly struggling with the fact that i’m both like “i wish there was more enby representation in humans” and “i’m the same gender as mewtwo and that fucking rips”
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nonspeakingkiku · 4 days
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Listen.
EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 
It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 
There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.
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also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.
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Reblog To Save Life
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nonspeakingkiku · 4 days
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I am told that the headlines really undersell how rad my tattoo is. I agree.
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nonspeakingkiku · 5 days
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New bluey communication cards
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1. Silly picture of Bingo with phrase "I'm unreliably/Nonspeaking" on white background and blue border
2. Pink poodle bluey character waving hi with "my name is Cloud, I use He/They Pronouns" on white background and blue border
3. Short navy and grey puppy from bluey with blue tutu on stimming with phrase "I need space"
4. Bluey with mouth agape and hands close to mouth with phrase "I'm struggling to talk" white background blue border
5. Bingo fallen to knees and hands in air phrase says "I'm overstimulated"
6. White and brown girl puppy with teal glasses from bluey with phrase that says "Caregiver: Mizu" and blured out phone number below l. White background blue border
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