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and he was like, "has this ever happened to you before?"

and i said, "oh yeah loads of times, since i was a toddler."

and he said, "why are you just now getting help?"

and i said, "well recently when i hit the 60 hour mark i've started hallucinating birds. and that's new."

and he said, "what do you mean, birds?"

and i said, "i don't know, i think they're house sparrows"

and he said, "i didn't mean what kind of birds"

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

yeah our covid safe hour. for the first hour of our event we're asking everyone to wear masks. obviously everyone who needs protection from pathogens can arrive exactly on time and won't take longer than an hour to go through our whole event. not like they've got anything else to do, or any sort of time restrictions.

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

Image #2: Illustrated guide titled: How To Build A Corsi-Rosenthal Box. Body text reads: The Corsi-Rosenthal Box is an affordable DIY air-cleaning system made with simple materials found in hardware stores. The box fan pulls air through the filters on the sides and blows out clean air. It is proven to reduce indoor exposure to airborne particles including those containing the virus that causes Covid-19. The box can also decrease the levels of other particles in the air, such as dust or wildfire smoke.

Illustration by Amanda Hu: Unassembled Corsi-Rosentheal Box, arrow pointing to assembled box. Text:

Filters can last up to a year

Keep away from walls and corners

The Materials. Illustration: 2 air filters, a box fan, scissors, a utility knife, tape. Text:

Filters 3M 1900 MPR (20" x 20" x 1" or 20" x 25" x 1") or MERV 13 (20" x 20" x 2" or 20" x 20" x 1" or 20" x 25" x 2" or 20" x 25" x 1" [2-inch preferred)

Lasko or Mainstays 20-inch Box Fan

Scissors, Utility Knife, Duct Tape

The Cube. Illustration: 4 filters arranged to form a cube; hands taping the edges of 2 filters together at a right angle; 4 filters taped together to make a cube. Text:

Arrange the filters to create a symmetrical structure

Ensure the arrows are pointed inwards

Duct tape the four edges

Vertical orientation of the pleats is preferred

Illustration: An air filter, with arrows on the outside edge corners. One corner, with the arrow, is circled in and enlarged.

The Base. Illustration: A cardboard square on top of the cube made of air filters; hands taping the cardboard square onto the cube; the cardboard square taped to the cube on all 4 sides. Text:

Use one side of the fan's cardboard box

Cut the cardboard box to fit the base of the cube

Duct tape it on all fours sides

The Fan. Illustration: A box fan on top of the cube made of air filters; hands taping the box fan to the cube; the fan taped to the cube, with an enlarged circle on a corner showing the tape leaves no gaps. Text:

Place the fan on top of the cube

Seal all sides, including corners

Ensure any holes on the side of the fan are sealed off with duct tape

The Shroud. Illustration: A cardboard square with a large circle cut in the middle of it; that cardboard square on top of the box fan; hands taping the cardboard square to the top of the fan which is on top of the cube made of air filters. Text:

Cut the other cardboard sheet to fit the top of the fan

Cut a circular hole (15.75" diameter)

Place the shroud on the fan and tape it on all four sides

The shroud increases efficiency and decreases the noise level

Alternative fonts!

My personal favorite is Atkinson Hyperlegible, designed by the Braille Institute to be easier to read for folks with low vision - especially since each character is very clear and unique. It's also completely free to install, and I've added it everywhere on my devices that let me change the font. I can't advertise this font better than the website can, so here is the link:

Honorable mention: Open Dyslexic

My friends with dyslexia swear by it, and it definitely does help with legibility,

From the web: OpenDyslexic is a new open sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. The typeface includes regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. It is being updated continually and improved based on input from dyslexic users. There are no restrictions on using OpenDyslexic outside of attribution.

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

Needs Filtering

Large amounts of bright colors, including backgrounds

High contrast bright colors

Chromatic abberation

Optical illusions

Fast-flashing or bright animations

Intense glowing effects

Doesn't Need Filtering

Small amounts of bright colors

Slow flashing animation (under 3/sec)

Minor glowing effects

Image two is a "Visual Guide to Eyestrain Filters" showing example art by lycanthropylive of a simple person with the following color effects, respectively labeled as needing or not needing a filter.

Small amounts of bright colors (person with splashes of magenta and cyan on their hands): no filter needed

High contrast bright colors (person with bright rainbow shirt): filter needed

Bright/neon backgrounds (magenta square behind person): needed

Chromatic abberation or glitch effects (person with glitch effects): needed

Intense glow (cyan/white glow around person and their eyes): needed

Clashing patterns & optical illusions (checkered black/yellow/cyan pattern on leg): needed. End ID]

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Here's your handy guide to what can count as eyestrain!

The school, under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, will not/cannot tell the teacher that it was you who reported them, nor can the teacher question you or your class about being reported.

No, dyscalculia is not "dyslexia but with numbers". They're very different, with few similarities. I really wish dyscalculia were talked about more often, so people would understand me just a little better.

Because I'm dyscalculic, I intensely struggle with multi-step tasks, get lost very easily and frequently (not just in new places, but EVERYWHERE), can't remember important numbers, can't remember anyone's birthday besides my own, take a very long time to do most math equations, can't read an analog clock, can't do any oral math, can't manage my time, can't tell what time it as at any point without a digital clock, can't understand maps or navigation, can't recognize some "simple" math terms or symbols, and I can't reliably count backwards.

Me: *unmutes it*

Image 1 of 4: Tweet from Rae (@/ raeOfStarshine), reading:

Autism on TV: I say insulting things to people and when they are upset I argue with their logic instead of apologising Autism in real life: a friend hasn't spoken to me in a few days so I am analysing everything I have ever said to them in case it was rude and they hate me now

Image 2 of 4: Tumblr tags, reading:

#tv characters with autism always seem to carry this unshakeable confidence in themselves #like they've never been truly rejected by people they care about #whereas every autistic person i know myself included #has at some point had to internalise the message 'there is a line at which people will get sick of you.' #this line is invisible and you don't know which of you natural behaviours push you closer to that line #and which are fine to do and help build relationships #so you had a childhood of just being constantly surprised when suddenly you find the line #and it's a bad surprise because now you've lost something or someone you care about and it's your fault #you might not be able to get it back either - you just have to accept that life is like stumbling through a minefield in the dark #sometimes you'll get to the other end. sometimes you'll lose an arm or a leg. and you have no idea which or when. #and this means that a lot of us do the logical thing and don't move #we don't socialise we don't stand out we don't show any sliver of personality in case that's the step that blows up up #we toe the ground so carefully hoping we'll be able to pick up on the danger before we die from it #but there'll always be those you don't see coming #and then you end up lonely and people tell you to make friends you have to be yourself #being yourself is synonymous with deciding to just start running. you know you *could* in theory do it. #but your body's so aware of he danger it physically won't let you #so what now?

Image 3 of 4: Different Tumblr tags, reading:

#there actually are a lot of people with a similar brand of autism as "tv autism" #but it's a really different flavor of autism than the kind you see on tumblr. you see that more in reddit and game forums and such. #in the 2000s/2010s it was called 'male-presenting autism' in a lot of circles but I'm not unpacking all that mess right now lol. #but anyways: those autistic people do exist but with a lot more nuance than TV shows give them. #Sheldon Cooper is a bastardized stereotype of a very real and common presentation. they do exist- just not quite like that. #I grew up in sped classes and therapy groups. I've spent my entire life around other autistic people. I've been friends with this type #and I actually DO think there's merit in digging more into the 'tv autism' thing because they face the same things that reblogger 2 said! #they also have the experiences of missing out on unspoken social cues. #and a lot of times the "insulting" things they say are just factual or very dryly presented and not masked well enough for others. #like how outright disagreeing with someone in casual conversation is seen as rude but to that person it's just stating their opinion. #it's really easy to read into it as insulting when that person meant NOTHING by it- someone shared their thoughts and autist shared theirs #but then the other person gets offended because it came across as contrarian and assholey within unspoken social conventions #and the very blunt logical 'stereotypical' autistic person ends up in the same spot as the more social-anxiety presenting one: #the spot where you lose cherished friends for reasons that don't make sense to you and you feel like you've missed something.

Image 4 of 4: A continuation of the tags in the previous image, reading:

#I just think that we can talk about autism without whittling it down to only experiences and presentations that we personally experience. #not that anyone was explicitly doing that in this thread but it's just good to keep in mind that autism is REALLY varied #and there are people out there who present similarly to type 1 and their struggles are often really similar even if presentation isn't. #I could say so much more about this and I'm sure I could articulate it a lot better and with more nuance but tumblr tags aren't- #-great for that lol. #I just think that pushing back against stereotypes should never end up at the point that you push back against real people. #I love blunt dry factual autistics just as much as I love fellow anxious "overly-emotional" autistics! #and everything in between and all of our overlap! #I just didn't like the implication that that kind of person only exists on TV. I have met him and he works at a card/retro game shop. #almost dated someone like that once actually lol. great person! just incredibly blunt with very little tonal inflection #which understandably didn't always mesh well with my flavor of autism which reads WAY too much into tone. but anyways.

for anyone who doesn't know, wheelchairs are very expensive and insurance will usually only cover one every five years or only cover a new one if your needs have changed significantly. the expense is especially true for anyone who has complex positioning needs (i.e. requiring tilt/recline/elevation in power wheelchairs, general group 3 power wheelchair needs, one arm drive for manual wheelchairs, etc.). as with so many disability related issues, those most impacted by their disability are most at risk of harm when adequate support is out of reach.