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When you get a crush and dodie clark's she is just playing in your head

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Me

   I just drove my uncle and myself to the hardware store, and he said to me “Molly, I want you to know that being Catholic doesn’t change anything. If you someday get married, your wife will be welcome in this family. Don’t ever think otherwise.”

  That is really nice, but I am not gay???

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New blog post: https://proudlyautisticblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/standing-out/

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@ginweaselys idk if you've seen this but I know you love house stuff!!

We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years

I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.

The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.

Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.

So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.

“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.

Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.

Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.

Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.

So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe. 

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Very truthful

my gender is ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

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@ginweaselys

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August 5th, 2017.

Snape is still fucking garbage.

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Stim Toy Giveaway (Deadline August 18, 2017)

Hello again, everyone!

This community has been absolutely wonderful to us from day one, and your support means a lot to us. We would like to give back to the community. To do this, we have decided to give away a few stim toys from @stimtastic​ (Stimtastic.co).

Why stim toys?: Stimming is a common form of self-regulation and emotional expression in the neurodiversity community. It often serves as an essential coping tool throughout adulthood, making stim toys an equally important presence in many of our lives. Whether you hide your stims or share them openly with the world, we feel it is important to support neurodiverse people in their natural coping techniques.

Who Can Enter: This is a worldwide giveaway open to neurodiverse people with a use for stim toys, as well as parents or guardians entering on behalf of a neurodiverse person.

How to Enter: Like this post and/or reblog it by the end of day on August 31, 2017. Do both for two chances to win. It’s that easy!

Notifications: Shortly after selecting winners, they will be contacted by Sabrina or Sam on Tumblr through direct message, ask, or submission, and will have one week to reply. In order to ship the items we will need a name and address that is within Stimtastic’s ability to ship to. You can view Stimtastic’s shipping policy here.

Final Notes: Winners will be chosen at random for each item from among individuals that like or reblog this post. Multiple reblogs will not count as additional entries. Please be aware that colors of the items won may vary from the pictures provided.

Thank you again for all your support!

- Sam

BONUS: Just for fun, tell us what your favorite stim toy is! (It doesn’t increase your changes of winning, but we love it when people share!)

[Image: Item one is a handheld food grade silicone chew toy in the shape of a winged unicorn. The unicorn is white with pastel green eyes, and a mane with raised bands of yellow, pink and blue. There is a small heart shape cutout in the center of the unicorn’s chest.]  (Full Item Description)

[Image: Item two is a fidget necklace. The fidget consists of a small metal ball nested within a black ring, nested with a larger metal ring, all of which spin within each other. The fidget hangs from a black cord.] (Full Item Description)

[Image: Item three is a weighted lizard.The lizard is rainbow colored with a shiny, sparkling pattern of spots. The lizard has soft felt ridges and is sticking its tongue out.] (Full Item Description)

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When you don't take your sleeping medication because you're afraid to fall asleep

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Anyone else notice in all the movies featuring Santa; he never goes to the house next door. He just gets on his sleigh and fucks off like 20 miles west.

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My special skill: playing animal crossing new leaf for hours and hours without getting bored and successfully forgetting what time is

Shout-out to autistic people who do not have a special skill.

Also shout-out to autistic people who do have a special skill but do not know how to make it useful.

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Headcanon that Draco Malfoy has a build-a-bear called "My Father", to whom he talks to every night and tells him everything Harry has ever done

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Filled in and here's a boost! Really simple to fill in!

Calling everyone who stims!

Hi, I am an autistic student and I am conducting a survey into stimming and stim toys, as part of my ongoing Extended Project Qualification to design an original stim toy. 

It would really really help me out if you could fill this in, or at least reblog it to boost it. You don’t have to be autistic to take part, and any self-diagnosis is valid. Anyone’s responses help!

Thank you so much <3

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Me me me

do any of you regularly think “FUCKKK i started talking about myself again im so conceited” while having a normal conversation with someone 

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I second this @ginweaselys

you know which harry potter minor character i want to know more about?

madam hooch. i bet she’s had a kickass life off the quidditch pitch.

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This is perfect! I feel the need to tag @ginweaselys for the pure fact it's Harry Potter related 😂

Afterlife

((OOC: Based on this text post))

Harry: Holy shit, Tonks??? How are you here??

…So, listen….

–where you name all of your kids after your dead friends and shit

~* N y M P H a d O R A *~

FIN

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Charities/organisations to avoid:

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.