running and shenanigans

The number of people I have known who have pretended to be more ill/disabled than they really are: almost none.

i was gonna say “the only times ive pretended to be more disabled than i am was to get accomodations i really needed but wouldn’t have gotten otherwise” and then i was like wait.

I’ve been genuinely dishonest about my symptoms in order to get what I needed, but only in situations where my actual symptoms were not being respected as “real problems”.  Mostly, this was pretending to vomit so I could get out of school, because my parents’ policy was that only a fever or vomit were legitimate reasons to miss school.  I had times where I legitimately had an infectious illness of some kind that “didn’t qualify” also, so it wasn’t even just my actual disability being disregarded.  Same thing for going to the nurse’s office to lie down for a while when I had sensory overload, aka “not a real problem”.

i learned that elephants are tremendous distance swimmers. They can swim for up to six hours and 25 miles (48km). They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink. They can also use their trunk as a snorkel and dive (x)

Fun Fact, thats, more or less, something that wealthy people in China and Japan did, they were called “musical floorboards.” Designed to squeak when stood upon. A person could make noise all the way down a corridor.

I NEED people to understand that condoms aren’t free because “MEN like to FUCK lol,” they’re free because thirteen thousand people die from AIDS every year in the US alone.

If you want to clown on this post, I can and will block you.

Whether you believe bisexuality was inclusive of nonbinary people in the 1960s, or whatever the latest debate is, the fact is that the bi community has spent the majority of the last decade trying to make it clear that bisexual means or should mean much more than just “attraction to men and women”, and there has been very, very little push back from within the bi community. The general consensus is that the word “bisexual” should be infinitely broad and inclusive, no matter what the etymological root is. Bisexuals do not want “bisexual” to be limited.

Ohh my fucking lord