Hello everyone I just wanted to thank everyone whos been linking my posts. The support since I've moved to tumblr has been so heartwarming. I had actually begun to consider giving up on making my little animations because I was getting no engagement on any other sites. My new song just released on Spotify It would mean the world if anyone gave it a listen! https://open.spotify.com/album/7jlVL6av7XImPIc6tbD4lW

“wtf is wrong with you”

you mean like today or like in general?

it's such a great time to be making art of any kind

let him be fucked up sega hes earned the right

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‼️🇵🇸 An activist, who destroyed multiple engine parts of the jets Israel uses, has been released!

🔸 Source: pal_action

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Someone asked me why I give my creatures top scars and it's to remind people of the trans existence. Should my work ever become widely popular, I want it known a trans man created the art. If my art is still loved when I'm gone, I want those scars to remind people of my identity and existence. To give these creatures my scars is a reminder of trans existence baked into the work itself. It cannot be removed. My creatures are protectors, warriors, and carry with them a greater existence than a simple two-part binary. With their scars, I call out to all the trans people who live in this generation with me. I pay homage to all those who paved the road before us. I plant a message to those who will come after us that we were here.

So, yes, I give my creatures top scars. Not as an aesthetic or fad, but as a permanent mark of who I am. And, as a signal to all my peers that we are not alone and we will always exist.

My beasts see you. I see you.

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

#these tests always do shit like this#and its just like why would you phrase it like this when its specifically a symptom to misinterpret this (via @tbhliteraltrash )

ok hold on actually i rb’d this before with just tags but im going to come back in on this again

any medical diagnostic you will ever undergo does not mean “always 100% Every Time Ever you have this problem”. And it sucks because they will phrase it in a way that SOUNDS like 100% Every Time including on the testing for being a person who has trouble with how specific phrasing is supposed to be.

literally the example I always use is I spent way longer without glasses then I should have because the eyesight chart diagnostic is “identify the letter”, so I went ‘ok the point of this is to do good identifying letters’. Then i realized

they want to know if I can see. Not if I can identify that a blurry shape is an A because of its unique outline.

So i started qualifying my answers with “blurry”. Blurry A, Blurry Y, Blurry Z. Now I have glasses.

they do not make this clear. I do not know why. But you can more or less apply this to any medical diagnostic, and if it’s a written diagnostic if your answer is ‘sometimes’ and the only answers are ‘yes or no’ you put Yes.

Do I have trouble getting out of bed? Sometimes, yes. So the answer is Yes.

Regrettably tests are made for and by non-autistic people and aimed at non-autistic caregivers and medical experts, which isnt how it should be, and makes it one more complicated thing to navigate. World a hell.

This is also why the number one thing anyone who has been through the process of being evaluated for mobility aids or applying for SSI or trying to get a doctor to listen to you will HAMMER into your head is “forget your best days, they don’t exist, answer every question as you would on your WORST day” because yeah sure, sometimes I can cook a meal without having to spend a few days resting and recovering, but if I tell that to the doctor or put it on the paperwork they will be less likely to take me seriously because I’ve unintentionally downplayed my symptoms. So when they ask I say no, I can’t make a meal without spending days recovering.

Always, ALWAYS, answer based on your worst days, and if they ask you if you take everything literally or have sensory overload, don’t say sometimes or “maybe if I [xyz]”, say yes. That’s all they need to know. Yes or no.

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