Don’t take away support disabled students rely on at university
The UK government is attempting to take away DSA support necessary for many students to access higher education.
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Don’t take away support disabled students rely on at university
The UK government is attempting to take away DSA support necessary for many students to access higher education.

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‘The biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation’ – Charities respond to Supreme Court ruling
The uk Supreme Court has just done a major rollback on disability rights and is putting more disabled people in danger
Under this new ruling, multiple vulnerable groups will be impacted across social care and healthcare sectors. If an autistic person with high support needs, someone with a serious mental illness, or a person with a severe learning disability is locked in a care setting and sedated, but does not actively protest, they will no longer be considered "confined" by the state. They will lose their automatic right to independent reviews, a legal advocate, and protection from closed care cultures.
This ruling states if someone is sedated and does not instigate a complaint regarding their circumstances while ACTIVELY SEDATED, then they have no right to legal checks and balances to preserve their wellbeing??? Is this correct??? The UK is falling apart.
As far as I can tell from reading the statement by Mind and the BBC article, this ruling states that people who don’t have the legal capacity to understand why they’re being physically or chemically restrained/ kept in a locked care home or ward etc. are still able to give “consent” to that treatment in a way that it doesn’t count as a deprivation of liberty.
So if someone is chemically sedated, doesn’t understand that’s what’s happening, but doesn’t complain then they could be seen to be “consenting” to that treatment. That’s true even if they don’t know what the medication is, what the effects are, how long they last or that there might be other options.
Because the presence of “consent” means that a restriction wouldn’t be considered “Deprivation of Liberty” it means these people aren’t entitled to deprivation of liberty safeguards, which including having independent checks to make sure that any restrictions to their freedom is proportionate and that they’re not being abused in that setting.
One of the reasons the ruling was made is that it placed an “undue burden” on local authorities. Basically local governments were like “hey we’re massively failing our legal duties to protect incredibly vulnerable people from abuse, any chance you could let us off so we don’t have to do it?” And the UK Supreme Court agreed with them.
The other hugely chilling “reasoning” behind this ruling (other than finances) is the idea that disabled people cannot be deprived of their liberty if they can’t understand that’s what’s happening. It’s absolutely disgusting.
The UK government is also currently attacking DSA & has removed the rights for trans kids to go on hormone blockers.
They tried to "justify" removal of DSA by saying "dont worry it won't affect you, it'll just affect the next generation of uni students". They are trying to use selfishness to get us to ignore what they're doing.
They removed the rights for disabled people in care settings bc they believe nobody will fight for them bc those who can fight aren't affected.
They believe we are inherently selfish.
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Makeshift bug net should be done today, and am going to get some oils to repel bugs too so hopefully they won't bother me this summer.
I have a phobia of them ;-; it's stupid but it's rooted in sensory things so.
Hopefully the mixture i make will work on myself too but idk. Depends on what i can get ig. I cannae smell so idc if my room reeks of vinegar but I don't want to smell of vinegar when out & about.
Window has been secured. Bugs could still theoretically get in but is much less likely and I feel much better now.
🌠🐈⬛ put it up & has left it loose enough that i can close the window if I need to. I'm very grateful my room will be able to be cooler now.
Debating buying a fan & maybe a fan stand & thingies to stop the sun coming in my windows bc omg it's too hot even at night.
Also my blinds block air flow so I can't have them closed if I want air flow.
Can't imagine OUTSIDE legitimately being better than inside.
Makeshift bug net should be done today, and am going to get some oils to repel bugs too so hopefully they won't bother me this summer.
I have a phobia of them ;-; it's stupid but it's rooted in sensory things so.
Hopefully the mixture i make will work on myself too but idk. Depends on what i can get ig. I cannae smell so idc if my room reeks of vinegar but I don't want to smell of vinegar when out & about.
Window has been secured. Bugs could still theoretically get in but is much less likely and I feel much better now.
🌠🐈⬛ put it up & has left it loose enough that i can close the window if I need to. I'm very grateful my room will be able to be cooler now.
Makeshift bug net should be done today, and am going to get some oils to repel bugs too so hopefully they won't bother me this summer.
I have a phobia of them ;-; it's stupid but it's rooted in sensory things so.
Hopefully the mixture i make will work on myself too but idk. Depends on what i can get ig. I cannae smell so idc if my room reeks of vinegar but I don't want to smell of vinegar when out & about.
Put in the thing to try adhd meds.
Discussion about my thoughts & feelings below.
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When I was first coming to terms with my loss of smell in 2019, I was rsearching if anosmia is a disability. Most of the results I found said "no" (incorrect) and the few that said "yes" had very bad reasons to justify that ("because pheromones" is not one of the many reasons anosmia is disabling). So to try and make it easier for at least someone, here's an incomplete list of reasons anosmia is disabling:
Impaired ability to sense if food, especially meat, is rotten or past due.
Impaired ability to detect smoke or gas leaks.
Impaired ability to gauge the cleanliness of laundry.
Impaired ability to gauge the difference between strong and weak scents, like when picking a soap, detergent, or deodorant.
(and because of that often requiring the assistance of another person when picking cleaning or hygiene products)
Social impairments including difficulty detecting body odor or the smell of shared spaces like cars, rooms, and living spaces.
Impairment gauging environmental dangers such as cigarette smoke, vape smoke, car emissions, and chemicals which can still trigger allergic reactions or asthma attacks.
Impairment recognizing, locating, and disposing of dangers in the home such as living and dead pests, animal droppings, and rotting things, especially when they're not visibly obvious.
Others with anosmia are encouraged to add their experiences.
I would add, just off the top of my head-
It's not just food that's not good that has a scent, your first line of defense against bad water is gone too (cheers to that time I drank bleach water on accident...)
Under the 'unable to smell smoke' category- it can mess with your cooking, since you can't smell if something is burning (the number of grilled cheeses I have turned to charcoal-)
Impairs the ability to enjoy food- ranging from my congenital bum not being able to appreciate Indian cuisine to individuals with acquired anosmia experiencing sudden weight drops due to loss of appetite and depression tied to the large change in the flavor of their food
The sheer anxiety that comes from all of this- whether that's a consistent worry that you smell bad, paranoia surrounding the safety of food, or like me for like a decade having to get up and check every third time I got a weird sensation in my nose because what if that's smoke and the house is on fire
Medically it also takes away a warning sign- there's more than one situation (such as some infections) where one of the signs you need to get looked at is a change in scent or in your smelling ability (I don't want to know how many anosmiacs accidentally spread covid because they were unaffected by a common and distinct symptom...)
The simple fact that you're missing a sense, and one of the core ones at that- there's this tendency to brush off disabilities as 'not actually' if they're not on par with missing a leg or 100% blindness something (it's also part of why you'll see people claim disabled characters aren't 'really' disabled because of stuff like 'he's got a cool prosthetic that works like a real limb'), but low impact disabilities are still disabilities
I feel like anosmia is one of those cases where things are less disabling than they could be due to modern conveniences (expiration dates, smoke and gas detectors, etc) and so it causes people to see it as less of a thing, but like, I've still given my family food poisoning because I couldn't tell shit'd gone off. I've still almost set an oven on fire because I didn't know shit was catching in there. It's not as bad as it could be, and it's worse for some than others (thank you congenital anosmia specifically, acquired is it's own whole additional thing), but it's still an issue.
Thats a lot of interesting points I've never considered!
I forget that things are supposed to smell, so even though I know infections smell i don't actually consider it as a thing.
Tbh I thought everyone could feel smoke in their lungs! I didn't realise most can't. It must be terrifying not being able to.
I've never accidentally drank something I'm not supposed to but everything is always labelled properly and in correct places, so the risk of me actually doing it is always negligible. I imagine it would be a lot harder if things were left where they weren't supposed to be and unlabelled, though idk if thats what happened for you. I only drink out of certain containers.
I find it interesting that certain tastes rely on smell. Does coffee rely on smell too? Bc it kinda tastes like nothing to me. (Thats a bit of a lie it tasted like whatever milk was used with a bitter aftertaste).
It does scare me that I could've accidentally spread covid 😅.
When I was first coming to terms with my loss of smell in 2019, I was rsearching if anosmia is a disability. Most of the results I found said "no" (incorrect) and the few that said "yes" had very bad reasons to justify that ("because pheromones" is not one of the many reasons anosmia is disabling). So to try and make it easier for at least someone, here's an incomplete list of reasons anosmia is disabling:
Impaired ability to sense if food, especially meat, is rotten or past due.
Impaired ability to detect smoke or gas leaks.
Impaired ability to gauge the cleanliness of laundry.
Impaired ability to gauge the difference between strong and weak scents, like when picking a soap, detergent, or deodorant.
(and because of that often requiring the assistance of another person when picking cleaning or hygiene products)
Social impairments including difficulty detecting body odor or the smell of shared spaces like cars, rooms, and living spaces.
Impairment gauging environmental dangers such as cigarette smoke, vape smoke, car emissions, and chemicals which can still trigger allergic reactions or asthma attacks.
Impairment recognizing, locating, and disposing of dangers in the home such as living and dead pests, animal droppings, and rotting things, especially when they're not visibly obvious.
Others with anosmia are encouraged to add their experiences.
I was born without a sense of smell, it's something I got from my mother's side, though she wasn't affected by it. I have very slowly over the past few years gained some smell. (An when I say no sense of smell, i mean my dad stuck albas oil up my nose when I was a toddler & I had 0 reaction iykyk).
- I can't distinguish "good smells" and "bad smells". Everything smells bad to me (if I can smell it). This means sometimes things i normally like to eat can be uneatable bc i can smell it that day for whatever reason. Though soaps/cleaning things have their own category of smell i still don't like it.
- I go off expiry dates, colour changes and texture changes for if produce has gone off. It is rare that I ask someone else for help with this, but I also generally don't deal with food anymore and if i do it's dry or frozen (unrelated to the lack of smell though)
- I go off texture for how dirty laundry is. They feel different; dirty laundry feels "softer".
- my lungs are sensitive to smoke (thx asthma) and in the past I've been able to "smell" through them. Not to the degree someone could through their nose but I can. They particularly don't like aerosols.
- I am now sometimes able to smell soap or cleaners, especially strong ones if they are near/under my nose. I never used to and i didn't care.
- I don't care what I smell like. I choose masculine soaps bc i like the idea of smelling like a man. It means nothing to me other than ik men generally smell different to women, and i don't generally want to use the "women scents" for gender reasons. Also the men soaps are greens & blues and I prefer those colours more. If "women soaps" are what are available i just use them. Not like i get dysphoria from it bc i forget 5 minutes later.
- impressively, I do not appear to have ever had a bad body odour. I have asked my dad and he said he's never had to tell me I stink. Same with my gf. Idk how but it might be a hormone thing.
- I generally identify vape/smoker smoke via my eyes & lungs.
- I 100% agree with the last one. While I can smell a few more things (strong scents) I doubt I'd be able to pick up that something was wrong unless the smell was RANCID. Though I can smell poop now so thats nice.
- I can, somehow, know what a smell is even though I'm pretty sure I've never smelt it before. I knew what bakery esq stuff smelt like despite never having actively been able to smell it before. I mistook cake smell for bread smell I think once. I have never been able to smell either since.
I've never considered it a disability bc it generally didn't & doesn't affect me. I've actually had a bit more difficulty since gaining a bit of smell. I find it interesting that it's a disability, and how I ended up dealing with a lot of what is disabling about it, and the difference between someone who lost smell & me who is slowly mildly gaining it.
Saying I have anosmia feels weird. I don't know if I really want to claim that label, smell is such a non-thing for me i forget it's a legit sense people have. Though I do wish I could smell my gf sometimes bc she can smell me & she loves how I smell, and I think she'd smell good too (if all smells weren't bad). And i want to have her smell with me in her hoodies when we don't live close. I've heard it's comforting.
Thank you for adding! I really appreciate your additions + perspective, and I also think our differences in experience are very interesting.
I also understand where you're coming from on having conflicting feelings about the term/it's status as a disability. For me I feel it's kind of similar to like, astigmatisms, in that it's easy to forget what it impacts until it's suddenly very relevant. It is also definitely the most convenient sensory loss out of the six-ish senses.
Also interesting to hear about sensing smoke with your lungs. I can sometimes get the sensation of it being "heavy" in my sinuses, it's just not super reliable and/or I notice it too late and I'm already having respiratory symptoms.
Reading it back i do find it interesting how my other disabilities interact with it!
Apparently the lungs have some smell receptors, and I'm asthmatic as well so it looks like those two work together for the smoke? I can "smell" it with my lungs plus my asthma gets irritated so I notice it more. Same with various aerosols. I can also taste them. I'm also autistic with generally heightened senses, so i imagine that'd interact too. But as far as i can remember I've been good at "smelling" smoke.
I also find it interesting how the body smells is such a big thing people bring up. I've never cared (though I did think it would be cool to smell like roses briefly) but I'm also not massively socially driven (and people don't smell of anything anyway). "I want to smell nice" was something that happened in media, not my life. That and "this smell brings me back to a childhood memory". Apparently that's a big thing.
With the finding it interesting that it's a disability, it's kinda like my glasses, or milk allergy. I've had them my entire life and known about them my entire life and generally speaking they don't impact me in ways I find important, so idc.
However! If not being able to smell does impact someone in ways they care about i 100% agree with them calling it a disability. It's just a fluke that due to other circumstances I don't actually interact with things smell is generally important for.
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Hey guys doped you know that English houses don't care how hot it is, they'll keep trapping heat.
Hey guys did you know that in 30 degrees Celsius weather the houses can be like 40 degrees.
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Idk who needs to hear this but having wet hair when it's really hot is very good for temperature regulation.

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Yknow for a body that isn't physically disabled it's sure acting physically disabled.
When I was first coming to terms with my loss of smell in 2019, I was rsearching if anosmia is a disability. Most of the results I found said "no" (incorrect) and the few that said "yes" had very bad reasons to justify that ("because pheromones" is not one of the many reasons anosmia is disabling). So to try and make it easier for at least someone, here's an incomplete list of reasons anosmia is disabling:
Impaired ability to sense if food, especially meat, is rotten or past due.
Impaired ability to detect smoke or gas leaks.
Impaired ability to gauge the cleanliness of laundry.
Impaired ability to gauge the difference between strong and weak scents, like when picking a soap, detergent, or deodorant.
(and because of that often requiring the assistance of another person when picking cleaning or hygiene products)
Social impairments including difficulty detecting body odor or the smell of shared spaces like cars, rooms, and living spaces.
Impairment gauging environmental dangers such as cigarette smoke, vape smoke, car emissions, and chemicals which can still trigger allergic reactions or asthma attacks.
Impairment recognizing, locating, and disposing of dangers in the home such as living and dead pests, animal droppings, and rotting things, especially when they're not visibly obvious.
Others with anosmia are encouraged to add their experiences.
I was born without a sense of smell, it's something I got from my mother's side, though she wasn't affected by it. I have very slowly over the past few years gained some smell. (An when I say no sense of smell, i mean my dad stuck albas oil up my nose when I was a toddler & I had 0 reaction iykyk).
- I can't distinguish "good smells" and "bad smells". Everything smells bad to me (if I can smell it). This means sometimes things i normally like to eat can be uneatable bc i can smell it that day for whatever reason. Though soaps/cleaning things have their own category of smell i still don't like it.
- I go off expiry dates, colour changes and texture changes for if produce has gone off. It is rare that I ask someone else for help with this, but I also generally don't deal with food anymore and if i do it's dry or frozen (unrelated to the lack of smell though)
- I go off texture for how dirty laundry is. They feel different; dirty laundry feels "softer".
- my lungs are sensitive to smoke (thx asthma) and in the past I've been able to "smell" through them. Not to the degree someone could through their nose but I can. They particularly don't like aerosols.
- I am now sometimes able to smell soap or cleaners, especially strong ones if they are near/under my nose. I never used to and i didn't care.
- I don't care what I smell like. I choose masculine soaps bc i like the idea of smelling like a man. It means nothing to me other than ik men generally smell different to women, and i don't generally want to use the "women scents" for gender reasons. Also the men soaps are greens & blues and I prefer those colours more. If "women soaps" are what are available i just use them. Not like i get dysphoria from it bc i forget 5 minutes later.
- impressively, I do not appear to have ever had a bad body odour. I have asked my dad and he said he's never had to tell me I stink. Same with my gf. Idk how but it might be a hormone thing.
- I generally identify vape/smoker smoke via my eyes & lungs.
- I 100% agree with the last one. While I can smell a few more things (strong scents) I doubt I'd be able to pick up that something was wrong unless the smell was RANCID. Though I can smell poop now so thats nice.
- I can, somehow, know what a smell is even though I'm pretty sure I've never smelt it before. I knew what bakery esq stuff smelt like despite never having actively been able to smell it before. I mistook cake smell for bread smell I think once. I have never been able to smell either since.
I've never considered it a disability bc it generally didn't & doesn't affect me. I've actually had a bit more difficulty since gaining a bit of smell. I find it interesting that it's a disability, and how I ended up dealing with a lot of what is disabling about it, and the difference between someone who lost smell & me who is slowly mildly gaining it.
Saying I have anosmia feels weird. I don't know if I really want to claim that label, smell is such a non-thing for me i forget it's a legit sense people have. Though I do wish I could smell my gf sometimes bc she can smell me & she loves how I smell, and I think she'd smell good too (if all smells weren't bad). And i want to have her smell with me in her hoodies when we don't live close. I've heard it's comforting.