some things that horror movie culture has taught you are scary…. are just ableist
….clarify?
okay sure. psychosis? scarier to have than to know someone who has it. DID? im more a threat to myself than people around me. wheelchairs and psych meds? are tools that help people live more functional and flexible lives and are not judgments of the persons character and for sure are not scary things. and for real, intellectually disabled people are not threats, but movies love to make them villains because they act different and understand the world differently. and people with notable physical differences? people who’s bodies look different? people with scars, growths, amputations, etc? are literally just people. and seeing themselves painted like monsters on the big screen is absolutely sickening and damaging to how society will see them.
its not only bad writing but its extremely harmful to people who actually live with conditions that are misrepresented in media. when i found out i had DID, my mom freaked out because her only point of reference was Sybil. when i was younger and first went on psych meds, i thought it meant i was set on a track to be a bad person, because in so many movies and video games you find out the bad guy has medication in his bed side table for some sort of psych disorder. the worst thing a hallucination has ever made me do was wake my mom up at 3 AM to check my bathroom to see if the bugs i saw everywhere were real and the worst thing an “episode” of any sort has made me do is hurt myself. my ptsd doesnt make me kill people, my alters dont kidnap people, my autism doesnt make me so morally unaware that ill murder for senselessly, my ocd doesnt make me hurt people etc etc etc
literally the only “horror” is the ableism. and the only way you can write good horror about disability and mental illness is if the focus is on how society and the medical field treat us rather than focusing on how we are apparently so scary, threatening, and bad.
Horror is and has historically been an incredibly ableist genre, and it is still largely unrecognized as such. This has genuine severe and real-life consequences for disabled and neurodivergent people in real life. Please keep this in mind if you are abled and/or neurotypical.
dear Americans very concerned and angry about the concentration camps your government is running:
you should be angry, you should be furious, you should do everything and anything you can to shut them down.
but here in Australia, we’ve had concentration camps for refugees for nearly 25 years. we’ve protested and petitioned and yelled, but the government was ‘clever’ and put them offshore, away from the mainland where we can’t reach them, can’t storm them. then they banned journalists from going. then they banned doctors.
the only time mainstream news tends to report on the “offshore detention centres” is when yet another group of children try to commit suicide.
yes, the Australian government has concentration camps for people fleeing warzones, and the people in those camps are tortured so bad that the children try to kill themselves.
Americans, I hope you manage to close your governments camps, by law or by force. maybe when you’re done, you can turn your attention to us? we could use some loud international outrage from a western ally, the government might care. the public has spent 20 years trying and failing.
non-Australians, please spread this information. I don’t think many people know internationally, except the island nations we pay to host our camps and keep quiet.
I was lucky in some ways to own my own house at thirty, unlucky in a lot of other ways.
The money for my small apartment had come from my Mum’s life insurance and inheritance. I had spent three months in our old family home until the memories started to eat me up and I realized I couldn’t stay there. I rented it out, and used the rest of the money to pack up and move away. My Dad was never in the picture.
It was an old creaking flat that needed too many repairs for what I had paid for it. I had taken it because it felt like it had been lived in. The furniture had come in the deal, and it was damaged but beautiful. My favorite piece was a big velvet armchair.
finding out people dont usually add numbers by first adding something to make a ten (for example 7+6= 7 plus 3 is 10 plus another 3 is 13) & that its actually an adhd thing is the WILDEST shit literally ive lived like 10 years (or however old i was when i learned to add and stuff) thinking thats how everyone does it. what the fuck
What
It’s also an autism thing, apparently.
W H A T
Oh yeah! This is also part of why autistic people/people with adhd struggle in math classes. Our brains process math and numbers in a totally different way. Many people on the spectrum struggle with the “show your work” part of math because we can’t exactly tell you why it works/how it works. We just kinda do it
I absolutely do things like this for equations I haven’t memorised.
I was explaining how I decipher 24 hour time to somebody recently, by subtracting 2 from the second number for 13-19, then basically doing the inverse for 20-21 (i.e. 20-2=18, take the second number, 8pm, or 21-2=19, take the second number it’s 9pm), and then also knowing that for the same thing with 22-24, you replace the first 2 in the subtraction total with a 1 (24-2=22, replace the first 2 is 12). And the person I was explaining it to was like “That’s so complicated OMG! Why don’t you just subtract 12????” And I was like “Um…yeah my brain can’t do that.”
WHAT.
Wait, so… when they add, for example, 7, 6, 5, and 3 they just… lump them all together????
I suddenly understand why I was always so bad at math tutoring.
When you add in dyscalculia:
I struggle with math. In order for me to solve basic math like 8+6, I know that 8+4 = 12. Add 2 more, you get 14. Same with substraction.
i also put numbers together to make tens, when doing mental addition. autistic and adhd powers engage
W H A T
I thought everyone did this???????
Omg. I just realized. My brain shuts down when I see numbers.
@minors be vicious & unforgiving in whom you cut contact with online!!! do it relentlessly!!! you shouldn’t have a 30 year old hounding you on why you unfollowed them, you aren’t obligated to “"keep up”“ with people 2x 3x your own age!!!! if u see something resembling a red flag, welcome the block button’s presence!! protect your peace!
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters… S.T..R … My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.
STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance)
They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid’s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the party . Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today.
Some don’t die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this…
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Remember the ‘3’ steps, STR . Read and Learn! Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions :
S * Ask the individual to SMILE .. T * = TALK. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (eg ‘It is sunny out today’). R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS .
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call the ambulance and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
NOTE : Another ‘sign’ of a stroke is 1. Ask the person to ‘stick’ out their tongue. 2. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke.
A prominent cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
And it could be your own.
First reblog post that actually saves a life.
This is a life-saving post.
the more you know
yeah don’t think that this can’t happen to you or someone you know if they’re young. my cousin’s wife is 33 and she had a stroke last year
I’ve had a stroke. It happens to people, and the more you know about this kind of stuff, the better.Because it could be important to know.
LIVE SAVING. WOOOAHH. REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG
Had a family member almost die of one, so signal boosting because you never know when you could save a life.
Because I feel bad if I don’t reblog…
My mother died after being paralyzed by a stroke. Please read this^
I remember a while ago here in UK there were stroke-identifying adverts. Their catchphrase was FAST:
F- Face: is their face fallen on one side?
A- Arms: can they raise both their arms up and hold them there?
S- Speech: is their speech slurred? Can they speak a full sentence?
T- Time: if all the signs show a stroke, call 999.
We managed to save my nana with this information when she had her first stroke.
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Very good very important addition
Essentially, this is the civil society version of a work-to-rule strike.
Don’t do more than is expressly asked of you, and do what you are asked with such an intense attention to protocol that not asking you at all becomes more effective than even bothering.
In this case:
“Have you seen an illegal immigrant?”
“Could you describe an illegal immigrant, officer?”
*officer describes a person who is in the country without appropriate paperwork, or who has crossed the border illegally*
“No, sir, I haven’t seen any illegal immigrant.”
And this is correct. You have NOT seen an illegal immigrant, because you have no way of knowing if Jose Fulano is here legally or not. And since you can’t see his paperwork (or lack thereof), and did not personally see him cross the border illegally, you are only answering precisely the question asked.
I’m not American, and I have like, three followers, but this is important.
So, I’m a lawyer, who deals with immigration though does not specialize in it. But here’s the thing(s):
1) Even someone who’s working could be here on a migrant (or other sort of) visa (hey, there are a few thousand per year, and *someone*’s got to get them, right?) or could be waiting for their case to resolve in immigration court, after having come to America to join a born or naturalized American family member.
2) Even people who are working improperly could have come into the country legally – and just overstayed their visa or be violating the conditions of their visa, and you have no idea what the niggly little regulations that govern that might be.
3) If a law enforcement officer asks you about a neighbor/friend/etc., take this moment to remind them that, unlike them, you cannot ask a random person off the street for their ID and be entitled to a response.
4) Even if someone has told you that they are undocumented, you still don’t know, do you? Humans lie all the time. How could you know for sure? You can’t, because they can’t prove that they have a lack of papers. Just because you haven’t seen papers doesn’t mean they don’t exist!
5) Don’t ever talk to cops in general. Why are you talking to a cop? Stop that, as soon as it is safe and feasible.
beauty standards are all bad but one that sticks out to me is the idea that women should be free of body hair, because literally no-one has naturally no body hair like what are we trying to emulate here?
oh, except children
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - No. Fashion trends historically are nearly all about showing off how much time and money you have. Shaving off hair takes time and that means you have less time to work which means you must have the money available not to work (or so goes the theory). Only people who are ‘poor’ ‘dirty’ and therefore ‘busy’ but also ‘lazy’ because those get thrown around too - are the ones who cant. (I dont agree with this attitude but this is what its about.)
Being overweight used to be fashionable because it meant you could afford excess and never have to exercise - now being thin is fashionable because a healthy diet is expensive and exercising around long work days is difficult. Less and less jobs are physically taxing and more often we have to make a physical effort to keep weight down or lose it.
Among white people, being pale used to be fashionable because it meant you were wealthy enough not to be in the sun, now a tan is because it means you have enough money to go to other countries or tanning rooms or whatever. Long nails hinder work, shaving beards take time, long hair requires more care.
Fashion and wealth go hand in hand, and its rarely trying to emulate anything other than “look how much money I have.” Nobody thought a bustle was a real butt - but they did think you needed an extra couple of meters of that expensive fabric to cover it. Then stuff because unfashionable because it becomes “common” and “Dated” and as it becomes cheap because everyone can afford it, it goes out of fashion.
Thank god for this explanation because I actually got really freaked out by this post initially
I can’t look up a source right now, but didn’t women having no body hair started as a trend because it was World War II, most men were fighting and razor companies had no one to sell their product to, so they started catering to women?
ding dong you’re not wrong.
men were off dying in the war and they needed to sell their shit to SOMEONE and we (females) were the only ones left.
“you can’t identify your sexuality or romantic orientation as being not attracted to anyone. That doesn’t make you LGBT.”
“okay, then are you straight?”
“what? No, I’m gay. I’m a guy attracted to guys. I don’t feel attracted to girls.”
“So you’re identifying yourself as who you are attracted to, but also by who you aren’t attracted to. Correct?”
“well… Yeah, but-”
“Then why can’t asexuals and aromantics define themselves wholly by who they are not attracted to?”
“well… Because sometimes they date the opposite gender. So they’re like passing.”
“Bisexuals may date the same or the opposite gender. Does this make them straight, if they date the opposite gender? Does appearing to be straight mean you are straight?”
“well no…”
“then why does it make asexuals and aromantics straight?”
“..well they’re just a new trend, they just want to be in the community because it’s cool now.”
“what about this newspaper from 1970 that talks about including asexuals with other LGBT people? Also, there are many historical figures who are thought to have been asexual or aromantic, such as Nikola Tesla and Queen Elizabeth, to name a couple.”
“..oh. Huh.”
“is it possible that asexuals and aromantics are LGBT, then?”
