'It' as in My Personhood is Conditional

If I did the math correctly, a Cybertronian befriending a human is like a human befriending a being that lives for less than a third of a 24-hour day.

I am NOT okay.

Average life expectancy of a Cybertronian, according to IDW: 8 million Earth years, give or take

Average life expectancy of a human: 80-ish years

One Cybertronian lifetime is 100,000x longer than one human lifetime.

One human lifetime (80 years) divided by that same 100,000 equals 0.0008 of one year.

0.0008 of one year is 7.008 hours.

Imagine caring about beings whose entire lifetimes occupy a mere SEVEN HOURS of your day.

This puts in perspective every dismissive comment made by any Cybertronian about humans.

people with schizophrenia

schizoaffective disorder

cluster A personality disorders

bipolar type one

depression with psychotic features

PTSD with psychotic features

postpartum psychosis

delusional disorder

unlabeled experiences with psychosis

people who choose not to consider their experiences of unreality disordered

And

“Certain disabilities are so unbearable that it’s normal to wish you weren’t disabled”

(based on a presentation by a deaf trans guy i was at in 2005 where he was promoting that sign)

it seems like that sign was invented and implemented by trans people over the last 10-ish years. before that the predominant vocabulary was “sex change” and then some deaf trans people were like “yo fuck that” and came up with the current sign, which starts off with the sign for “myself,” then motion that indicates both change and coming together, and ends with the closed hand held against the sternum.

and in the process it also mimics the sign for “beautiful”

and because of spatial grammar, things closer to the front of your body in ASL are generally more vital, more emphatic, more immediate, more present.

so it’s actually a case where the word coherently indicates “beauty” and “self transformation” and contains hints of the complete thought of “my self transforming, through a coming together of disparate factors, into something more real, immediate, and vital than I was before.”

so yeah. that’s just fuckin’ awesome.

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Eligible Participants: Everyone over 18 is eligible for this study, so long as you take the survey that fits your demographic.

The first survey is aimed at neurodivergent or gender non-conforming participants.

The second survey is aimed at neurotypical and gender-conforming participants - in other words, everyone else who does not fall into the first survey demographic.

You must be 18 or over to take part in either of these surveys.

These surveys are part of a study on tropes concerning gender and neurodivergence in media. You will be asked about your headcanons regarding non-human characters who are coded as (i.e. not canonically, but implied to be) neurodivergent and/or gender non-conforming, as well as characters who are confirmed as such in canon. I am studying personal attitudes and opinions, so there are no wrong answers. For transparency's sake, I am clinically diagnosed as neurodivergent and am non-binary myself. Reblogs appreciated. Thank you so much for your time!

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