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You might want to ‘ignore’ (in Settings) shower-anon so that they cannot send you messages (so, especially relevant if you often post in the jewish tags). They sent me pictures of our dead.
Please reblog to get the word out if you know you have Jewish followers.
do any other autistic ppl use the closed captioning (subtitles) on netflix/other videos? i don’t have any hearing disabilities but for some reason they really help me focus on whatever i’m watching. idk if its an autistic thing or just a Thing, what do yall do?
I do it!! Sometimes what people say is too quiet for me to understand, or there's too much going on for me to filter it. So closed captions!
Because probably #YesAllWomen have been hurt by men — and probably #YesAllDisabledPeople have been hurt by women. (Especially people who grew up disabled and had female therapists.)
That’s why the people I trust most are disabled women.
My son, who is 4, and I were walking along the street today and saw a man with his left leg amputated beneath the knee. My son spun around and looked at him, then said to me, “That man lost his leg! What happened?”
I said I didn’t know exactly, but sometimes people lost arms or legs through accidents or didn’t have them for other reasons.
My son instantly said, “Gobber (from How to Train Your Dragon) lost his arm AND his leg and now he has to use tools in their places!”
I kind of collected my jaw and said, “That’s right, and that man is just like Gobber. There’s a special word we use for those kinds of tools. It’s ‘prosthetics’.”
“Prosthetics,” said my son, with satisfaction, and on we went without any further discussion about it.
But then we got on the bus, and there was a young black woman with her hair pulled back in a big floofy afro ponytail, and my son, who has seen the trailers for the new Annie movie, said, in delight, “She has hair like Annie’s!”
Representation matters.
Reblogging because, yes it does. And because this post is a great example of why representation matters not only to the people seeing themselves represented in movies books etc. but also for everyone else.
You can discover the weirdest things digging into your family history.
For example:
As far as I can tell, these events are completely unrelated - the two men are on different branches of the family tree, and never met - but I can’t help but imagine that somewhere out there, there’s a witch with unbelievably bad aim.
From the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“The autism spectrum should be understood from a broader perspective, including in research. We call for caution about enthusiastic attempts to find the causes of autism and ways to ‘cure’ autism through sophisticated but not necessarily ethical research. Autism as a condition is a critical challenge for modern health systems, in which we need to ensure that the practice and science of medicine is never again used to cause the suffering of people.
More investment is needed in services and research into removing societal barriers and misconceptions about autism. Autistics persons should be recognized as the main experts on autism and on their own needs, and funding should be allocated to peer-support projects run by and for autistic persons.”
I discovered this because it was posted by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network facebook page.
it’s my birthday tomorrow and i’ll dress for the 1959 spring prom if i want to
A surefire way for mothers to get their sons to tuck in their shirts, 1940s style (via Kitsch-Slapped)
The illustrated boy looks pretty darn pleased with his cute new lace edging.
I can see him now meeting his friends at the soda fountain.
'Fellows, check out Mom's latest effort at mind control.' (spins)
(chorus of whistles and applause)
'Why, Jimmy, I do believe you've started a fashion!'
'Let's go to the Woolworth and get lace edging for all our shirts!’
'Doug can sew them on, he got his Handicraft merit badge last summer!'
'Never regretted it.'
'Jimmy, your mom has some internalised misogyny to figure out.'
'Don't I know it.'
Stealing this for soft butch looks.
Might have to do thsi for myself.
shoutout to the autistic girls, boys, and nonbianaries that refuse to wear pants and instead wear skirts because of the wonderful swishy feeling
shoutout to the autistics that grow their hair long because its a wonderful stim toy and also a protective curtain from the world
shoutout to the autistics with makeup and fashion as a special interest
shoutout to autistics who have their identities invalidated because of their love of traditionally feminine things
or who have their identities further pathologized and their selves taken less seriously because of their love of traditionally feminine things
April is Autism Month, and unfortunately 99% of the conversation is dominated by fear-based, Autism Speaks-inspired rhetoric…
So my husband and I (who are both on the spectrum) decided to add some subtle, and not-so-subtle, self-advocacy conversation pieces to our shop!
Search “autism” to find these items (and more coming soon), currently discounted up to 25% off
do you know of any jewish-exclusive gender identities?
There was some discussion earlier about certain non-binary gender terms discussed in the Talmud and other Jewish texts, like saris and timtum. Does anyone have the link to that post handy?
The midrash, in Bereshit Rabah, posits that Adam, the first human being, was actually an androgynos. While in the Babylonian Talmud (Yevamot 64a-64b) the radical claim is made that Abraham and Sarah were tumtumim, gender non-conforming people. According to our tradition the first human being and the first Jews were gender outlaws.
Because TDoV isn’t strictly a day for selfies… I just want to give a shoutout to all my mentally ill and developmentally disabled trans siblings. You are important and you deserve love.
Black Women of Trans Experience
it bothers me that these photos are floating around without any information about these women (and i’m personally not immediately familiar with all of them) so i did a lil research
Angelica Ross- CEO of Transtech Social Enterprises
Amiyah Scott- model
Juliana Huxtable- artist, model, activist
KUKOMO- activist and founder of KUKOMOMEDIA
Janet Mock- writer and activist
Ines-Loan Rau- model
Connie Flemming- actress and model
Leyna Ramous- model
Ashley Love- media critic and activist
isis king- model and fashion designer
hey so weather.com has opted to play a kind of jarring prank on its viewers. weather.com has listed the wednesday that is actually april 1st as may 1st. the rest of the week is labeled as may too. this kind of prank can cause all sorts of unpleasant psychological side effects for many people. please reblog this and spread the word so no damage is done.
