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we are not your one-dimensional inspiration porn, we are human beings with distinct and complex personalities

your seemingly positive stereotypes of us are actively harmful because they contribute to our dehumanization—because they deny that we are human beings with distinct and complex personalities

plus the consequences of not fitting into that one-dimensional mold can be very, very unpleasant

Teen With Epilepsy Has A Seizure When Her Service Dog Is Distracted

I’d like to take a second to list all the people I wish had known more about dyscalculia growing up:

My first grade teacher, who noticed when on a verbal counting test that I went from 99 to 100 to 200 and told my parents I just needed a little practice

My third grade teacher, who couldn’t understand why I would turn in a timed multiplication table test with absolutely nothing written on it, or burst into tears when asked to bring it home and have it signed by my parents

My school corporation, who placed me in advanced mathematics for two excruciating years based on aptitude tests, apparently unaware that aptitude and ability are not one and the same

My fifth grade teacher, who privately admonished me for “laziness” because I couldn’t stop making “silly mistakes”—like switching multiplication and addition, or flipping numbers like three and eight, or failing to follow every step of a math problem

My sixth grade math teacher, who publicly called me out for writing the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem on my hand, claiming I didn’t study, though I had spent five hours the night before preparing

My parents, who grounded me every time my report card came out, trying their best to discipline what they thought was laziness

My family doctor, who, once told about my math troubles, prescribed me ADD medication without any running any kind of diagnostic

My Algebra teacher senior year after I was diagnosed, who claimed that giving me extra time on my test would be “unfair to the other students”

Every teacher who ever laughed and pointed at the clock when I asked them what time it was

The boy in my band class that said I was the “stupidest smart person he’d ever met”

My former boss, who when I told I had dyscalculia told me “I probably have it too, I am always mixing things up!” (she was an accounting major and ran the accounting portion of that place of business)

But you know who would have really benefited from knowing about dyscalculia? Me. I wish I had known. I wish I could go back and tell my ten year old self that it wasn’t my fault, that I am extraordinary in the best way. I wish someone, somewhere along the way could have seen what was really going on.

Autism doesn’t equal having a mental illness, but mentally ill autistic people exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.

Many autistic people are or will become capable of working, but autistic people who are unable to manage a job exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.

Many autistic people are or will become capable of living on their own, but  autistic people who will never be able to live on their own exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.

Autism doesn’t equal being unable to feel affective empathy, but autistic people who are unable to feel affective empathy exist and they are just as important, human and as deserving of respect, autonomy and support as everyone else.

Are harping on Sesame Street for being associated with A$ are also equally harping on Google for also being associated with Autism Speaks. And they are near impossible to avoid and has way more influence over what autistic representation looks like than Sesame Street does.

This is why I have problems with simple guilt by association. I want to see what that association does before shunning someone for being associated with a group I don’t approve of.

a video where a parent complains about parenting an autistic child

another video where a parent talks about how exhausting parenting is

a lot of focus on neurotypical siblings and parents

almost no time for autistic kids to express themselves

no awareness that autistic children or adults might go to the Sesame Street site

“person with autism” everywhere instead of “autistic people”

“1 in 68 children” figure used without acknowledgment that autistic adults exist at all

“1 in 68 children” figure described as being more than the children who have three different diseases when autism is not a disease

“Contact us” page lets you identify as either “parent/caregiver” or “provider” – no way to identify whether you are autistic or not

NOTHING ON THE SITE IS FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN.  It is 100% aimed at “communities.”

Stella Young, "Stella Young’s letter to herself at 80 years old"

thisiseverydayracism:

beccatheb:

raivaryn:

lotticauda:

coolator:

Everyone please take the time to report Beau Miller (https://twitter.com/swerveodactyl) of Port Orchard, WA.

These are just two of the disgusting things he has posted over the past few days.

File your report under ‘threats of violence’ and direct link to this tweet. 

okay i reported this guy but then i got an email stating that if I’m “not directly involved” that there’s nothing they can do because it’s not their policy or some shit

I don’t think I can

co mpre h en d

Fucking filth

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