#ITS DISABLED FOLK!

[nathanialhowe]

omg the glorious revolution post never fails to get me heated like just say youve never talked to a real disability rights activist in your fucking life ever LMAOOOOOOO

[adhdandcomics]

half the problem with being late is that people don’t realize how much you already torture yourself to death over it and by the time you’re done with the whole torture thing there’s that tiny part of you going “well maybe everyone else is overreacting” and here’s the thing. maybe you’re right. like y’all would not survive in the era without clocks but i’m still in my pleistocene era i’m FINEEEE. maybe IM the enlightened one actually living as humans should live. my toxic trait is that i don’t actually think being 30 minutes late is that bad. like maybe we shouldn’t be crucifying people for this. hello. hello. can anyone hear me.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

Cyberverse Perceptor

[ineffectualbookseller]

The way Azirphale is underestimated and practically infantalized by heaven is so closely tied to his femininity and I think we should talk about it more because I just want to shout about how relatable the way he's treated in his workplace is as a woman working in a traditionally male field

It's in all the little niggling comments from your boss about personal things that hold no bearing on your work

and the assumption that what you're doing must be simple if it was assigned to you

your work is trivialized

and you get these the placating smiles when you're told plans and proposals are rejected and passed over

or when your complaints are dismissed

and you get more of the same from upper management

it all feels so frustrating and draining but you're at work so all you can do is take a breathe put on that mask and move on with your day

It is all so deteimental to your emotional well being and textually, so much of this is tied to Aziraphale's softness, his gayness - his femininity

The thing about working in an environment and gives you this feeling - of being simultaneously destrought watching your belief in yourself get chipped away but also just so irate becuase you know you don't deserve it - is how it builds. It sinks under your skin and feeds into this indignant dejection until you can have a moment of release - but Azirphale doesn't get to bitch about it over drinks with friends, he doesn't get a lunch break where he can go for a walk and listen to an angry scandi death metal playlist, he doesn't even get the chance to cry about it in the bathroom for 5 minutes before confronting it again

(And I talked a little bit about it in the tags of this beautiful photoset but this all comes into play whenever Crowley dismisses his plans or calls him an idiot. These are purely emotional reactions; I really don't think Crowley means much by it - he respects Aziraphale's opinion and genuinely thinks he's brilliant - but Crowley is so quick to use this terminology when Aziraphale is making a decision Crowley thinks is wrong and he doesn't know how much this hurts Aziraphale. Just like Aziraphale doesn't understand the true impact the Fall had on Crowley, Crowley doesn't understand the ways heaven has been tearing away at Aziraphale's self worth)

Aziraphale has been facing this constant drip of denigration since before the beginning of time and has never released the pressure valve. At this point, he's a bomb waiting to go off

[iamfuckingsorry]

"Do you know where we are going next?" I asked ART.

Y'know what, I think maybe I don't need any more Murderbot books. I think maybe ending things here is fucking perfect and as much as I love Wells's writing I'm genuinely not sure it can get better for me.

Like, so much of the books are about MB learning how to be a person, about becoming okay with being a complete individual with everything it entails. The first thing it does once it's actually allowed to decide on its own is it runs away from it all (admittedly to go on a mission to confirm some things about its past, because it genuinely just wants to be *good*). It shoves all its emotions away as much as it's able to. Then shit happens, and it makes its first friends, makes decisions based on these friendships, goes through a lot of emotionally intense situations...

And we get to this point here. MB having zero doubts about going with ART says a lot about its relationship with ART, but it also says a lot about its relationship with its humans - it knows that wherever it goes, when it comes back, the humans will still be there. Its humans actively acknowledge its struggles with being a now-free SecUnit and MB is willing to entertain the discussions to an extent and share information about its deeply personal experiences. Hell, System Collapse ends with MB admitting it might be somewhat broken, but that's okay as long as it can keep doing its job, and agreeing to basically do counselling - this is the guy what would rewatch its favourite TV show again and again in order to avoid acknowledging it even had Emotions a couple books back.

Reading this, I know that MB will be okay. It has hopes and goals and genuinely believes in itself and it has an amazing support system that its willing to lean on for the first time in its life. I'm convinced it'll go on to do great things with ART. And that's really the only thing I need to know.

[maidenztearz]

Aurora is a bunny vastaya and the first officially canonically autistic character in League of Legends 🩷

[doctorweebmd]

ok my OTHER reflection:

on the one hand its really frustrating to see the posts about docs and healthcare in general on here be so narrow-minded. bad experiences with certain providers have lead to a huge spread of misinformation and mistrust with the whole system. which can and HAS lead to people avoiding 'evil' doctors for perfectly treatable illnesses and dying from them (the vaccine bullshit, anyone?)

but on the other hand. it is TERRIFYING how some of these docs practice medicine. at times i think 'are you just burned out and don't give a shit or are you straight up just stupid?' and i work in critical care. where quite literally every case is life or death. even in the academic sector where there is supposedly a standard of excellence, some doctors i would not let touch my loved ones with a ten foot pole.

and that sucks. i know this is the no nuance piss on the poor webbed site but 'the medical system and people that work for it are fallible and aspects of it are morally questionable at best/unethical at worst' AND 'the field of medicine exists to help people first and foremost and mistrusting/avoiding it can be detrimental in the long run' can and DO co-exist

[panncakes]

I just think it bears repeating how well sea is doing at convincingly playing a blind man whilst still managing to portray a genuine range of emotions with his face and eyes

[not-aurii]

is this the year I finally turn their story into a webcomic?? MAYBE IT IS

the story in question is a found-family tale about a fae, an undead and the child they accidentally kidnapped adopted

[stunt-lads]

I think sometimes people relate to the monster or loving the monster because it's a self projection

I think it's telling too that a lot of the people who prefer to make their favorites monsters or are attracted to them tend to be queer in some way as well

It's hard to love yourself when your love is seen as wrong and monstrous

But if that vampire can be desirable or that werewolf can be loved, then yeah, so can I

[stupidbeecandle]

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[ignitelimelight]

Just submitted a voice acting audition from the comfort of my bed and y'know that could be a good outlet for my acting as my body continues to fail me

[blakerights]

me: graduates and is finally ready to enter the work force and start my life

me 2 months later: disabled™️

[b-oredzoi]

Books I [re]Read in 2024: The Call by Peadar O’Guilin

You wake up alone in a horrible land. A horn sounds. The Call has begun.

[observancesys]

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[adhbabey]

At this point, unless you're aiming for specific accommodations, a self diagnosis is just as good as a professional diagnosis. I've been in several disability communities for years and being professionally diagnosed vs being self diagnosed has not changed the experience, like at all.

The only shit I get is from people who constantly invalidate others on a basis that you need to follow the rules in order to be seen as one of their own. And like, people who think being diagnosed as a child actually means anything in terms of the oppression you will face. I tried interacting with a group of diagnosed autistic people a while back and they discredited me for not having the exact same experience as them. And it's honestly fucking sad that you need to discredit another and go as far as to call it offensive when they seek support in a space they thought was meant to all people of that disorder. But it goes to show that it's not supportive unless people pay the membership fee of professional help, and that's an incredibly expensive fee to pay for a community that isn't inclusive. Therefore, it wasn't worth it in the first place.

In general, you will have virtually the same amount of ableism thrown your way as every other invisibly disabled person on the planet, with the added bonus of other random disabled people being ableist to you at the low, low cost of zero dollars.

So. I'd say self diagnosis is just as good, you just don't get the benefit of accommodations and you may incur some distain from ableist people in the community. Which is sarcastically fun, as I mean to say, it's fucking annoying, but yeah you'd probably experience the fakeclaiming regardless of whether or not you actually got diagnosed.