I’m gonna be gone for a long time. In fact I might never come back. Don’t worry, I’m fine. It’s just that Tumblr/Twitter/etc are proving really bad for my health and I’ve honestly made more enemies than friends here.
For those of you who stuck by me, thank you. I won’t be anywhere online for a while, but I’ll probably be on Skype again in a month or two. Thank you again. It was fun, Tumblr.
- Irrele
I'm gonna be gone for a long time. In fact I might never come back. Don't worry, I'm fine. It's just that Tumblr/Twitter/etc are proving really bad for my health and I've honestly made more enemies than friends here. For those of you who stuck by me, thank you. I won't be anywhere online for a while, but I'll probably be on Skype again in a month or two. Thank you again. It was fun, Tumblr. - Irrele
All my attempts to reach out to Beki or Cyd just lead to me getting shut down further even when I’m good
Kill me
I didn’t think my opinion of them could get worse.
But you know the famous “Autism Every Day” video they had made, in which one of their board members was pictured saying, in front of her autistic daughter, that she had thought about putting that daughter in the car and driving both of them off a bridge to their deaths, and all that had stopped her was that she had a nonautistic daughter to worry about too?
Well, apparently the woman who made that film asked the families featured in it to prepare by not cleaning their houses or doing their hair, and by temporarily cancelling any therapies their kids were going through. And then she showed up with no warning to film. (https://www.academia.edu/6421135/Broderick_A._and_Neeman_A._2008_._Autism_as_metaphor_Narrative_and_counternarrative) I can imagine that depending on what “treatments” they were using, that might potentially have been a relief to the autistic kids — except that of course the unexplained changes in their schedule wouldn’t have been — not to mention that it was deliberately done to manipulate them into having meltdowns for the cameras. Plus, the increasing clutter around them would have been a sensory nightmare.
It’s such a beautiful nutshell example of what Autism Speaks does. What helps autistic kids? A safe sensory environment; knowing what’s going to happen and what it will be like; being respected and understood. So what does Autism Speaks consistently do? Ignores their needs; focuses on treatments and tactics that make things much harder for autistic kids; and then points to the meltdowns and shutdowns they cause and says, “Look how hard it is for parents of autistic kids!!!!!”
What makes it the most perfect example of how they act, of course, is the fact that to an allistic person this sounds utterly innocuous. “Don’t clean up before the cameras come! We want to show you just as things are! I don’t know when we’ll be coming, so just… don’t schedule therapy during this week or do any particular cleaning or anything! See you soon!” Just like everything they do sounds totally innocent and normal to the allistic parents. Because they put enormous amounts of money and energy into telling allistic parents that what A$ does is utterly innocent and normal.
And they get away with it because instead of using their power and their reach to educate people about what things are like for autistic people, they silence and ignore autistic voices and focus utterly on amplifying the experiences and voices of allistic family members.
to anyone that has problems with unreality or dissociation like me, here are some reminders for you:
-today is april fools day -it is wednesday, april 1, 2015 -any posts about you being asleep or in a coma are not real, you are awake and alive -any changes your favorite websites have made are temporary, and they will be returning to normal once this day has passed -you are not hallucinating or dreaming -people are lying quite a bit today, you might want to blacklist #misinformation if the people you follow are tagging it -again, today is april fools day and people are playing jokes. you are not imagining things and you are not wrong or stupid for not being in on a joke -spend some time away from tumblr/the internet if you have to, and ask your friends to help ground you if you need it
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Hey um can people please send me quotes from my kin? They can be funny or sad or meaningful anything really I’m just feeling super shitty
Main would be preferable but any work
Thanks
I want to touch base on something that’s not Elementary, or 221B Con related for a moment.
Tomorrow starts the month of April, known to the autistic community as, “the month where non-autistic people pretend to care about us by spreading AWARENESS, but in actuality do not ACCEPT us, and use us as cookie points for being a “Good Person” ™.
More commonly named, “Autism Awareness Month”.
“Awareness” in this context, is either used as a scare tactic (”1 in 88 or 1 in 50 people are autistic, based on something that we-believe-is-anything-other-than-genetics”)…
Or is used to passively spread the knowledge that we exist, and that’s it.
The autistic community retaliates against Autism “Awareness” Month, and instead celebrates Autism Acceptance Month, because we deserve nothing less than acceptance.
I encourage you to read the following, if you yourself are not familiar with Autism Acceptance Month:
To my autistic readers, and my fellow autistic Holmesians/Sherlockians - Be safe.
This month is hard on all of us (my workplace, where I don’t disclose my autism status, sells chocolate that donates to Autism Speaks), but please know that we have each other in this fight.
Rabbit casting!
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You guessed it. Another Rick Roll
Rabbit casting!
the calculator doesnt work at all. it gives you the wrong answers and i wouldnt rely on it at all. while its for a gag i know some people might dissociate if they don’t realize the calculator doesnt work.
We’re no strangers to love
Scarlett Johansson has been confirmed for the part of Mulan. Beating out other actresses such as Ming-Na Wen, Jamie Chung and Gong Li, Johansson is set to begin filming in 2017. (x)
