If you have depression or anxiety? you’re not tired for no reason.

You’re tired because you have depression/anxiety.

Not only do they both come with low energy/fatigue as a legit common side effect, but they’re both fucking /exhausting/. fighting your brain all the time? exhausting. adrenaline crashes from anxiety/panic attacks? exhausting. being on edge all the time? exhausting. plus doing things costs /more/ energy when you have those mental illnesses.

Video shows Maryland cops REPEATEDLY pepper spray 15-year-old honor roll student.

5 ft 105 lbs girl, whose name has not been officially released yet, was brutalized by Hagerstown police after she on her bike was hit by a car, but refused medical assistance. 

Her family’s attorney says that when police arrived, they grabbed the little girl, lifted her hands above her head and slammed her face into a wall.

“They slammed her against a wall, arrested her for refusing treatment, maced her 4 times in the police car while handcuffed, and took her to the police station instead of the hospital.”

She was put in the car, which is when a bystander began filming the incident. The video shows the 15-year-old with her hands handcuffed behind her back kicking at the police car door and later a cop is heard saying: “Put your feet in, or you’re going to get sprayed!” Officer proceeds to pepper spray her a few times. 

The girl can be heard screaming: “I can’t breathe!”

The girl was only taken to hospital when she was released to her parents. 

Three hours after being pepper sprayed she was finally able to wash her eyes.

She is now charged with disorderly conduct, two counts of second-degree assault, possession of marijuana and failure to obey a traffic device.

#BlackLivesMatter    #StopPoliceViolence

I want to prove a point.

This is created for recent trending #whyIsign. #whyIsign was started by Stacy Abrams. She wanted to spread knowledge about sign language, how it helped so many deaf people and families, like myself, and to encourage more people to learn and use sign language, especially with deaf children.

My cousin invited me to see a play and I said no, because I am deaf and hard of hearing and therefore wouldn’t understand anything and it would be frustating to us both. But, well, instead of understand like an actual decent human being he said and I quote “Oh, but you should go anyway because you will get used to the sound ((still don’t understand what’s that supossed to mean)) if you go many times see plays. And other people will invite you to go to plays so you must get used to it now”. 

Then, I explained, calmly, that it doesn’t work like that and it’s the same to say to someone on a whellchair that he should try to get used to walking because if he tried to walk everyday one day he would be cured. 

And people wonder why us Deaf/HOH get so tired easily? Well, this link explains it all.

Us Deaf/HOH struggle everyday to understand what hearing people are trying to communicate to us. We strain what residual hearing we (may) have. We use our eyes everyday to pick up visual cues, lipreading, and whats around us.  There is a reason why us Deaf/HOH are mostly visual people, we rely on our eyes, not our ears to communicate. Most of a reason why many of us prefer Sign Language as a mode of communication, even using paper/pen, less of a strain to our ears/mind.

When you see us close our eyes, look at our phones, not pay attention for a brief moment, go off to get some alone time… it’s because we want our eyes/brain to relax and give it a few minutes rest to regain some or little energy to keep going intensively, again for another long period of time.

new video about deafness and invisible disabilities 

Hope you like it 

Reblogs and shares appreciated muchly

love to all

Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD: How/Where Do I Learn ASL? [CC]

People are always asking me where I’m learning ASL and how they can learn ASL, so for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I made a video telling you about some resources that I use.

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