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like people want to think any disabled person who is after money is morally suspect some way, because they're not asking for "treatments" or "accommodations" like a lot of our issues can be fixed way more easily with money. can't drive? paying for a taxi is often one of the more accessible alternatives. can't cook? you can pay more to have prepared food delivered to you. food restrictions? that food straight up costs more money. can't clean? you can pay for someone to do that. house inaccessible? having (lots) of money can help with that, you get the gist.

before I got laid off, I was paid enough to be able to do a lot of meal delivery, rideshare, and other services that I now recognize were directly related to my disability

Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career

This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!

If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!

What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!

What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually

I realized recently that when I describe ‘people like me’ in terms of the way I process information, being highly sensing, and other things like that, people might assume I’m only talking about some subgroup of other autistic people.  But that wouldn’t be true.

There are autistic people I relate to very strongly.  And they come from every diagnostic category and every functioning label, because nobody has come up with an official category that defines my sort of autism.

But there’s other people I relate to very strongly as well.

There’s some people with intellectual disabilities, who are not autistic, but have similar processing issues to me.  They often are labeled as having a severe or profound intellectual disability, but some are labeled as having a mild or moderate one too.

There’s some people with epilepsy that is severe enough that they seize every few seconds.  This interrupts their sensory processing and cognitive abilities in a way that can resemble my sensory and cognitive processing issues.

There are people whose only diagnosis is various sensory processing disorders, whose experiences can resemble mine, although this seems to be a bit rarer.

There are people who have had strokes or brain injuries or dementia who have very similar processing styles to my own, even if they didn’t before the onset of their condition.

So basically, when I talk about ‘people like me’ in terms of sensory and cognitive processing, I’m not just describing a group of other autistic people.  I’m describing a wide and diverse group of people with disabilities, that have somehow led their brain to process things in a manner extremely familiar to me.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

(here using 'voice' to mean both an aac program and an aac device.)

Your voice used to be free but now is behind a paywall. Your voice only runs on a subscription payment model and doesn't offer outright purchasing. The cost of outright purchasing your voice is several hundred dollars. Your voice runs ads. Your voice has planned obsolescence. Your voice ran out of funding and is no longer being updated. Your voice is free but requires coding knowledge to create. Your voice can only be used and accessed with a wifi connection. The people most trained to help you with your voice are expensive or unavailable specialists. You require additional aids to use your voice that are difficult to get and/or expensive.

I did everything I was supposed to do. And got Covid once, after wearing a mask, washing my hands, being fully vaccinated my entire life. And now I’m severely disabled. I took all the steps, and I’m still here. Now what? And I may not be the majority, but people like me aren’t being listened to daily. Case and point by your response.

It’s *luck* that I didn’t die. It’s luck that I recovered to this point. And it’s luck that someone who has multiple infections is walking around just fine instead of being in my position. Because in this case, the people who didn’t mask and didn’t take care the way I did, who didn’t get sick have much different luck than the person who got sick from doing “everything right”.