growing strong, growing strange

One type of screamer is the .swf screamer. It’s just a webpage with a demon picture flashing in different colors at a certain speed, but it can cause seizures because it has a loud screeching noise. 

The way to see if a link is a screamer is to do this:

Hover over the link and look in the lower right-hand corner of your browser. 

If, at the end of your url it says .swf, DO NOT CLICK THAT SHIT. 

It will make you shit yourself, no lie! 

Why are you never mad at the people who commit false rape allegations for making it so much harder for real victims to be believed?

I am a self-diagnosed auttistic. I am not professionally diagnosed because:

1. I am a woman.

2. I am visually impaired.

3. The therapist I spoke to was only familiar with male autistics and attributed my symptoms to personality type and my impairment. I was too nervous to explain further.

4. There is no one in my state qualified to diagnose adults.

5. I am in grad school and have neither the time, money, or means to travel out of states for a diagnosis.

6. There is almost no research into the presentation of autism in visually impaired persons. There is one study which describes autistic symptoms as they manifest in non-verbal visually impaired individuals and relies on stereotypes, describing the person as withdrawn using others as tools, lacking empathy, no interest in others, etc. All other works focus on a need for more research.

So, anti-self-dx’ers, please tell me how I should see a doctor and what a horrible, deserving of hate person I am, given the current literal impossibility of my obtaining of a diagnosis, and the likelihood that I may never obtain one, as, even if I could find a doctor, in my state, capable of diagnosing a female adult—given the differences in symptom presentation between men and women—my visual impairment would keep me from being diagnosed. [The first part is sarcasm, which I’ve learned to use.]

However, as feels-by-the-foot already said, diagnosing yourself won’t actually do anything. You can say you believe you’re autistic, but the only thing that can do is create either a bias or understanding in the people around you. 

I definitely encourage people to research, to study, to educate themselves, but to hold that thought that you might be wrong in mind. Leave room for that possibility, because if you aren’t autistic, if it’s something else, it would be less of a letdown. I’ve seen people who were dead set on a specific problem, and they had multiple psychiatrists tell them they had something else but they wouldn’t accept it. 

Give me the names of three prominent feminists that you consider feminists.

Three.

I’m not asking for much.

Like yes, hand in your feminism membership card because this blogger says you don’t fit their ambiguous and specially tailored definition.

Talk about speaking truth to power…

I want to applaud Ashley Williams, the #BlackLivesMatter protester who confronted Hillary Clinton and demanded an apology for Clinton’s use of “superpredators with no conscience and no empathy, who need to be brought to heel” when she used dog whistles to refer to Black youths as little more than animals, as she advocated for Bill Clinton’s notorious 3-Strikes crime bill (which disproportionately targeted and imprisoned Black people).

Clinton replied, “You know what? No one has ever asked me about this before. You’re the first one to ask me about it.” 

Besides noting the obvious problem with Ms. Clinton apparently needing to be publicly prompted before it ever even occurred to her to apologize for saying something so casually racist, if there are people who have spoken to her about this, then I hope they feel sufficiently empowered to step forward and make Mrs. Clinton have to explain her obfuscation.

I find it very hard to believe that no one at all has ever spoken to her and never asked about this before.

And once again, all respect to Ms. Ashley Williams. Disruptive action protests take a lot more than planning and coordination - it also requires guts. I’m a soon to be 32 year old Black man who is an inch shy of 6 feet tall, tipping the scales at 185 pounds, and I seriously doubt that I would have had even half the courage needed to do what Ms. Williams so bravely did.

From Bree Newsome to Sandra Bland and beyond, my people are stepping up and speaking out, and I am so proud.

Homelessness is a huge problem for our society. There are so many people living on the streets it is hard not to notice. Everything can happen in life, the devil can take the wheel and your life can become a nightmare in a moment. These people have already experienced something like that and you know, life doesn’t get better and it doesn’t seem like it would for them. But they are here and they are human beings, who were someones sons, daughters, fathers, mothers,  grandmothers and grandfathers… It not just that they don’t get any help from the government , it`s ordinary people shaming them and treating them like nothing, it`s the police , who just don’t care… We need a change.