September 2011
Swan Snake
I thought you may like this.
Oh, wow! This is really fascinating and strange! I do really love it, somehow the idea fits so well together….
Thank you very much! ( > w < )
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Girls with Autism - A Unique Pattern of Challenges
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gladerun:
Women and girls with autism often present with a unique set of characteristics that can make diagnosing their autism difficult. Furthermore, their set of strengths can mask their deficits.
Because boys are primarily the gender mentioned in the news, it is easy to overlook the fact that girls are on the spectrum too. True, boys represent 4/5 of the autism population...
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On Being "Articulate"
theskinofourteeth:
They say I’m articulate.
(I think about all the words that stay locked in my throat, and I give a small and terrified smile and look over their shoulder and into nothing at all.)
I’m really quite lucky I have such a command of language.
(There are maybe five people in the whole wide world I can talk to face-to-face without wanting to die, without having a panic attack,...
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warnings: speciesism, advancement rhetoric
inkscars:
kavitiya:
Anonymous:
Ok, fine. You are exactly as worthwhile, as complex, and as advanced as a hamster. Or an ant. Or a fish. How’s that for anti-speciesism.
Actually, yes, no other being is less or more worthwhile than me, so, yeah, I am as worthwhile and complex as a hamster, an ant, a fish, or any other being. Not complex in the same way— because we’re different— but in the...
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[warning: death] Bucket List
genderfuckandsecrets:
Skinny dipping
Dye my hair pink
Fall in love
Ride a motorbike
Get first legal tattoo
Vegas!
Write a novel
Fingerpaint
Meet Barack Obama
Go to Rocky Horror Picture Show with a certain person
Be a stripper for at least a day
Learn to salsa dance
Visit a renaissance fair
Jump from a cliff into deep water
Go to Italy
Visit Auschwitz
Visit the Blarney Stone
Win...
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[warning: ableism, cruelty to autistic children,...
I’m writing this in your submit box because the ask box appears to have a limit now ._. Seeing as you often write about autism, and about the ways to “fix” people who have it, I remember that a couple of weeks ago someone on the news talked about US researchers finding a connection between autism and an illness of the stomach, since many autistic people are also prone to...
August 2011
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soilrockslove:
I can’t remember what I’ve forgotten: Today my cog sci professor showed us a survey we could take online…
littlemissmutant:
Today my cog sci professor showed us a survey we could take online which asks us to rank various entities in terms of how conscious they are. Who is more conscious, a man in a permanent vegetative state, or a chimpanzee? Most surveys will...
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“If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone...”
– Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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autumnlost
[Warning: sexual assault]
I don’t usually write poetry, but, I was waiting with a friend at the local college today when she was signing up for her classes, watching the trees, and this came into my mind and I liked it.
your hands burn my thighs like the red leaves on the ground in autumn i am girl i am tree roots, arms, branches reaching for the sky, pulling me down into the earth,...
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I can't wait until Fall
anotherwastedyear:
It is by far the best season. Tonight felt a lot like fall, and got me looking even more forward to it. I can’t wait for perfect weather, apple cider, apple picking, foliage, sweatshirts, and my classic list of fall records.
In fact, I think I’m going to make a fall playlist in the upcoming week or so. If there was a place on earth that had autumn year-round, I would move...
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littlefeatherheart:
I wish I’d been born in Autumn, or Spring. Though I am pleased to be born in July (a Cancerian maiden through and through, with the Moon guiding my heart), I feel more connected to those two seasons.
The cool crisp weather of September and October, bundled up in jumpers and cardigans makes me feel truly happy. I love looking at the vivid colors on the trees, recognizing...
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endofmarch:
I find myself dreaming of snow, even while my skin is still stained with green.
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[Warning: abuse of autistic people.]
But I needed to make this image, because it hurts, what is done to the people like me, in the excuse of making them “normal”.
“Normal” is not worth child abuse.
“Normal” is not worth torture.
If you can stand it, search Google and read about the Lovaas technique, but please be careful, it is very triggering.
I am...
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void-symphony asked: yes, yes, exactly. for me, the seasons, are kinda like a phoenix. Spring is a birth, Summer is a living, Fall is a slow dying, and Winter is death, the cold sleep. I'm personally a Fall person; Winter is much too cold for me. [among other reasons].
