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Me trying to explain to someone that doesn’t have Visual Snow about the static that covers everything I see.

Here’s a gif to demonstrate.

Imagine that, overlayed over your entire field of vision. Even when your eyes are closed. (especially when your eyes are closed.)

*looks up from computer* now wait just one minute

This is a real thing that exists, not intrusive thought. This is the reason I have glasses. I was a little kid, thought it was normal, tried to point them out to my mom, and she freaked out and brought me to an eye doctor. Where we found out I have shit eyesight. And also apparently where she learned what visual snow was.

But. She deicded. Not. To tell me.

(Like she’s also decided not to tell me or my twin that we’re autistic)

So it literally took me more than a decade to find a word for this.

Which is why I made this post.

She mentioned casually last year to her boyfriend that she learned I had visual snow when I was little and I’m jyst sitting there, having already painstakingly figured all of this out on my own like, “and you didn’t think that was worth explaining to me even when I brought it to your atfention?????”

So ueah.

It’s a thing. If you see staticy moving dots everywhere even with your eyes closed, you’ve got Visual Snow.

I HAVE THIS!!~~ I tried asking my teacher in grade 2 what they were, and she just told me to drink water. Never went away. Wasn’t even studied until like 2013 or something. Sorta fun, mostly irritating!

i have this too! no one explained it to me i just found out from a fuckinf sixpenceee post like a fool.

i just thought EVERYONE had static and floaters in their vision. and that afterimages were that bad for everyone.

like even if im not looking into a bright light or my eyes pass over something slightly bright i get afterimages that can be blinding. when i close my eyes i always have after images of anything reflecting even a little light. i didnt realize that was part of visual snow until last year 

here’s some more symptoms for anyone curious if they have this:

(illustration by Emily Roberts)

Wait…NOT EVERYONE HAS THIS??

Tfw not even your serial killer dad has the serial killer genes but you do

#i hate when i have a concussion and they inflate my bill by decoding my entire genome

Also have you noticed the traditional skills that men are supposed to have are mostly all things that only come up for specific situations, like changing a tire when the tire goes out, fixing the house when it needs to be fixed, fixing the car when it won’t work, and the traditional skills expected of women are things that have to be done everyday and always, like doing the dishes, cooking, and taking care of children.

Men’s work is a solution to a problem and when it’s done it’s done. Women’s work is a never-ending tide of tasks that must be accomplished every day.

And the practical result of this is that when a woman doesn’t know how to change a tire or un-clog a pipe, she’s belittled for this apparently gaping chasm in her knowledge, despite the fact that you can go years on end without encountering some of these supposedly-essential skills - while (traditionally) nothing is ever said of men who can’t cook or don’t know how to clean their own clothes, despite having been fully immersed in both since their first day on this earth.

All this time, I thought it was Theo haunting my dreams. Theo, at the old rehab center. But it was you, Steven.

@TIEDR on twitter

THIS PISSES ME OFF SO BAD. LIKE IF SHE WAS A MAN OR NOT BLACK THERE WOULD BE NO ISSUE. Let’s be honest, all of the best athletes (Olympic/World Champions etc) have some kind of biological/genetic advantage, whether it’s longer limbs or larger lungs or producing more EPO or even producing more testosterone - they’re want make people win, so you’re argument that to make her reduce her testosterone to make it a fairer field is absolute bullshit because to make it fair you basically have to take the average joe off the street to compete…

Exactly!

maybe instead of getting mad at me when you come down the stairs to see a bowl of freshly churned butter on the island counter you should get mad at yourself for leaving a bowl of fresh cream out when you’re aware of my passions

its not even remotely communist to say this and they’re absolutely right; their salary, on top of all of their legal and positional privileges, is a vehicle for corruption

Do people on tumblr have any common sense? This would only lead to politicians not being fully invested in politics (due to taking on side jobs to support themselves), or being more open to accepting money from lobbyists.

Reducing the rates of bribery is exactly the reason we pay politicians a lot of money? And surely it doesn’t work. but neither would OPs solution.

honestly the most realistic part in doctor who was the tv episode where david tennant says he doesnt have a tv licence and some woman’s like “Really?! They execute you for that!”

me: has literally JUST moved house

the bbc, waltzing from the shadows snapping it’s corperate fingers: give ‘us money or we’ll break yer’ kneecaps, gov'na :)

Yeah, i guess if you live outside the uk you might not know about this

@hotfuss you need a tv liscene to watch live tv (meaning anything that’s being shown at a scheduled time on the telly) you also need it to watch literally any bbc programming, even if you do it online on your laptop or phone. It’s the reason there are no adverts on the BBC.

It costs £154.50 that you have to pay every year. If you don’t have one they send you letters constantly telling you they’ll send somebody to your house to make sure you’re not watching tv. So despite the fact I’ve already told them i don’t watch tv (i work 40 hours a week and just watch youtube) they’ve started sending me the letters again so I have to call them up.

Oh and apparently they can track what devices you have in your home and tell when you watch their content without a liscence.

It’s very dystopian over something so fucking stupid, on the bright-side I did find this fake ad while trying to find the buildboard picture

that’s really what it’s like living here

That’s honestly dystopian sounding

the “no one will love you until you love yourself” and “you have to be fine on your own before you can have a good relationship” maxims are just not true. for one thing, no one loves themselves or is fine on their own all the time – these are not stable characteristics, they’re attitudes that are constantly in flux. we are dynamic and capable of growth on our own, and we are dynamic and capable of growth from within a relationship. 

we learn to love (ourselves included) by being loved. we should first get that from our parents, but often we don’t and we only get it later from chosen family and partners. sometimes it isn’t until adulthood that we complete the developmental phases which were stymied by a lack of what we felt as love in childhood. this is a beautiful thing, an opportunity for huge growth, and it’s not wrong to look for it.

sure, if you’re compulsively seeking partnership then you may not choose well and won’t get all you want out of it. but we’re all partly-formed, fluctuating selves groping for connection. it’s best not to do that blindly, but it doesn’t have to - in fact cannot - wait until we’ve arrived at some highly self-assured, self-sufficient state 

Pretty fucked up that you, personally, reading this post don’t give equal attention to every tragedy that happens on the planet every day. I heard that you, personally sometimes only hear about things that news sources in your specific cultural sphere pick up on. That’s pretty fucked up of you, personally.

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.

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:

We managed to save my nana with this information when she had her first stroke. 

SAVE A LIFE.

omfg….

her mind

customer: hey i’d like to return this item

me: