This is not including all the children who are lifeless underneath the rubble and not including the ones that were obliterated to the point where they cannot be identified. Free Palestine
Ok, my mental health has been iffy lately, but I need to be very firm in something:
Autism is always a disability.
It is criteria D of the DSM 5 diagnosis requirements. You can learn more about the criteria here. It states that impairment must be present for a diagnosis.
I made a recent post where I was a bit wishy-washy on the term and I kept getting corrected. But I am aware autism is always a disability.
I have seen far too many low support needs autistics here and on other platforms saying you can be autistic and not be disabled.
No. That is bad information. Those people are either masking so much that they think what they are experiencing is normal and that everyone struggles (this was me before diagnosis and unmasking), they are misunderstanding what a disability entails, or they are not autistic.
I think the first 2 are probably far more prevalent than the latter.
Anyway, just a recap that:
Autism is always a disability.
Not a diff-ability. Not a quirky subtype of thinking. Not spicy.
calling every gnc cis person you see an "egg waiting to crack" even as a joke is not cool or funny at all actually it is extremely invasive and weird and you are just reinventing gender roles but making it "progressive"
Just because we aren't seeing more posts about Palestine, doesn't mean the genocide has stopped. Let's keep Praying and speaking up for Gaza, Palestine.
It’s feels so insignificant to have this struggle but I’m getting my period soon and there’s no place to buy cotton/pads or the specific painkillers I get and it’s so so cold my pre cramps are already killing me. It makes me feel so helpless. [@/ Dicktator117 on X. 12/28/23.]
“Periods Don't Stop for Conflict” I remember this headline addressing women's health in Ukraine. Not a peep out of those same agencies about Sudanese & Palestinian women struggling in war/conflict zones.
#KeepEyesOnSudan [@/ RightUpMyAlley on X.]
I created a link for a gofundme happening right now to ensure Period Care reaches folks who need it in Sudan, and I will re-post this here for folks who can share and/or support:
This link here will lead you to this post of where you can support/send funds so that period care reaches those who need it in [Palestine] and other areas as well.
there is a deep pathological sadness and loneliness you just can’t shake off that comes from having a traumatic childhood and broken family which I still haven’t come to terms with
That overwhelming feeling you have when you read about something from a culture unfamiliar to you and you feeling “drawn” to it isn’t the deities or the herbs/sacred medicine of that practice/culture reaching out to you/you feeling drawn to use.
That feeling of being called, is your white entitlement. That overwhelming feeling to do it regardless of being told no? Yea, White entitlement.
You grasping at excuses for your appropriation and you getting hostile when you get called out for using that herb from a closed practice or your very sad attempts to make contact with a deity of a closed practice/religion. And it’s overwhelming too? White fragility.
Being anti racist is an inward and outward change. You look within, you check yourself on your conscious and subconscious biases. You work on your white entitlement and fragility and all the other nasty symptoms of white supremacy.
Then your change is visible outwardly, you look at things differently and you react differently.