ethereal acosmist

1. A necessity for deaf people

2. REALLY helpful for those who are partially deaf, have APD (like me and my sister) or any other hearing problem

3. really helpful for those who can’t focus well, especially for those with ADD/ADHD (like me)

4. Is incredibly helpful for people learning a second language, or for bilingual people who can read better than they can hear 

5. Even if you aren’t into learning the language, there are countless amazing foreign movies and songs you really can’t enjoy without subtitles!

6. Can help people (like my sister) who have reading comprehension 

7. Can help when you’re having a party and you don’t want to pause every time someone wants to make a comment/joke

8. Can help when the characters in the show have a heavy accent (especially in period shows) 

9. Let’s be honest subtitles can really add to the humor of the show! (”sobs mathematically”, “screeches loudly”, “angrily fixes bowtie”)

10. Can let people watch content without headphones, or in areas of loud noises. 

11. Alternatively, If someone has sensitive hearing or is triggered by loud noises, they can turn the volume down low and still be able to enjoy the content

12. The last bit is VERY true for movies where they switch between soft speaking and LOUD BOOMING NOISES (I’m looking at you hunger games)

13. Very good for helping young kids recognize and associate words and learn to read faster!

14. Really good when you’re eating chips/crunchy candy and can’t hear the movie

15. IS A NECESSITY FOR DEAF PEOPLE!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%27afafine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81h%C5%AB

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820633,00.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/05/30/153990125/in-mexico-mixed-genders-and-muxes

http://www.nativepeoples.com/Native-Peoples/May-June-2014/Two-Spirit-The-Story-of-a-Movement-Unfolds/

http://theculturetrip.com/pacific/samoa/articles/fa-afafines-the-third-gender/

THE WESTERN IDEA OF TWO GENDERS IS EXACTLY THAT

WESTERN

But stop with this “kids on this site are claiming to have mental illnesses which they clearly don’t and were never diagnosed as and are romanticizing it”

Yes, there are a lot of people under age on this website, especially teenagers, and statistically a huge percentage of them actually do have some sort of disability. It is strange to see so many people openly talking about having mental illness but that’s because the culture of this website is a relatively “safe space” for that. If it seems like there are overwhelmingly an unrealistic number of disabled people on this website you should consider this as the equivalent of the experiments that put binary people in a group and ask which gender is the minority.

Unless women were a very small percentage of the group both men and women perceive that the group was mostly made of women. When you never see people represented, a few of them standing together tends to seem like a pretty big deal.

And the reason we call “mentally ill” people “neurological divergent” is because mental illnesses are just a way to categorize different forms of neurological structures and performances.

You know who is really neurologically fucked up? People going through puberty.

It is incredibly hard to diagnose someone under the age of 25 correctly with a mental illness because their brain is still growing and their neurology is constantly changing. So-called symptoms are never the same across the board because these classifications/diagnosis are still a very faulty system and relatively new. No doctor could accurately confirm or deny someone’s diagnosis over some of their blog posts so you certainly can’t.

This website is also overwhelmingly female; even women with a very clear cut disabilities, even physical, have an extremely hard time getting diagnosed at all. Studies are always done on men, cis women involved in studies are documented during the point in their menstrual cycle where they are the most neurologically similar to cis men. Women are conditioned from a very young age to hide things we would consider symptoms of mental illness. Feminine traits and symptoms of mental illness often overlap, mostly because most diagnosis processes are still antiquated.

You know who has an even harder time getting diagnosed? People of color.

So unless someone asks, keep your opinion about their brains to yourself.