let's bloom

Unpopular opinion? No one should ever accuse another person of faking a disability. Yes, it sucks that people fake disabilities. But as an ambulatory wheelchair user, someone who can walk sometimes and not other times, someone with two invisible disabilities...too many people have accused me of faking needing a wheelchair, faking Autism, that I could never do the same to anyone else, even if they really might be faking it. I should be able to stand up from my wheelchair and walk without fear of getting yelled at. I should be able to wear headphones, have loss of speech, and stim in public without people spreading rumors about me. I should be able to have tics without being accused of faking Tourette's (forgive me if I spelled that wrong, I don't have it, I simply have tics that are caused by my FND). Disabled people should be able to live their lives without being questioned on whether or not they're ACTUALLY disabled, or being talked about behind their back.

if you didn’t realize, ableism is actually bigotry and systemic ableism and inaccessibility are really oppression and it’s not something disabled people brought on ourselves by having bodies&minds that you think are inferior and therefore not worth fighting for. disabled people’s lives and wellbeing matter. we don’t have to earn our worthiness by doing “enough” to deserve a good life. nobody does.

such insolence... guards? seize her! ...no. stop. not like that. you are doing it gay. why are you seizing her gay style

Also just to clear up any further confusion, cerebrospinal fluid (as the name implies) is contained to just your brain and spinal cord. The rest are protected by mucous

I remember an interview with a guy that did the camera work for nature documentaries and he said that baleen whales like these guys were the scariest things to shoot because “They’re the size of a train, they can suddenly appear out of nowhere in dark or murky water and they don’t make a goddamn sound. I was absolutely sure that one of them was going to hit me and well, ‘that’s all folks!’. Gave me a lot of perspective on how I handle myself when filming smaller animals now.”

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

Shakespeare is like this

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?