please be kind

okay i was joking with these tags but i looked it up & this is LITERALLY the sonic adventure 2 magazine ad

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You're right, I think that this is a fantastic, minimally invasive way of "recreating" a structure so that it doesn't damage the site! Visitors can look through a see through window with an image etched onto it that will superimpose a recreation of what experts think the building may have originally looked like.

For those with ResearchGate access, you can also read an article about the physical display and other digital reconstructions of this site.

I've experienced gendered socialization as a neurodivergent person. I've experienced gender dysphoria and euphoria--social and physical--as a neurodivergent person. And I've experienced gender affirming hormone therapy as a neurodivergent person.

I draw parallels between my experiences as a neurodivergent person and as a trans person all the time; it just seems so natural and obvious to me to do so.

My transness and neurodivergence are connected and inseparable.

My transness is neurodivergence.

I feel like this isn't a popular statement to make, and it's not something that I see discussed frequently. It think that is an inevitable part of the push against transness being defined as a mental illness.

We want to talk about transness in the terms of identity rather than of medicine. We protest when anti-trans people weaponize the research that connects transness and autism (or other forms of neurodivergence) in order to suggest that our transness is disordered.

I get this. I understand it. And I am not arguing for medicalization of transness or neurodivergence here, in fact I am against that.

What I want is for it not to be weird that I name my gender dysphoria as a neurodivergence. I want more people to see and understand the connections between transphobia and ableism, especially as it impacts transmasculine people and trans men. I definitely want people to stop mocking the language that neurodivergent trans people have created to use to talk about how we experience gender.

I want everyone to understand that you can't truly be pro-neurodiversity without being anti-transphobia. Your autistic advocacy must be pro-trans. Your trans advocacy must be anti-ableist.

a doctor with humility will recognize that they do not have all the time, answers, or expertise. if they run out of time they’ll follow up. if they don’t have the answers they’ll look to find them. if they don’t have the expertise they’ll send you to someone who does.

a doctor without humility doesn’t have any of this. if they run out of time, you’re healthy! so screw you for wasting their time but they’ll take your money anyways. if they don’t have the answers, you’re making things up. if they don’t have the expertise, well, a referral means they don’t get to make all the decisions anymore, and they just can’t have that.