horrible pictures of life

Is that really a lesson you want your kids to absorb?

I…. wish I would have heard this more….

Don’t forget the classic solution: poison is a girl’s best friend.

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

I’m not trying to romanticise the past because I know it was hard, dirty work with a constant risk of premature death. I don’t actually want to be a 16th century farmer! What I’m saying is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Our environment isn’t making people autistic in the sense of some chemical causing brain damage. But we have created a modern environment which is hostile to autistic people in many ways, which effectively makes us more disabled. When you make people more disabled, you start to see more people struggling, failing at school because they’re overwhelmed, freaking out at the sound of electric hand dryers and so on. And suddenly it looks like there’s millions more autistic people than existed before.

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong

this is exactly what we need

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton

“Twenty-five years ago I was working as a reporter when I received a tip from a police detective in Belgium.  He’d been working to break up a child pornography ring, but suddenly the case was closed by his bosses.  The order had come from the mayor.  He was so upset that the case had been squashed that he mailed us some of the evidence.  We received two black-and-white stills from a surveillance camera.  They featured a man.  We knew that his name was Robert, he lived in the south of Holland, and he operated by feeding hungry kids in order to abuse and film them.  We searched all over for Robert.  We showed the photos to all our sources connected with these networks. And after months of searching, we finally discovered him living just a few kilometers from my house.  We rang his doorbell, told him some bullshit story, and got inside.  There were piles of VHS tapes everywhere.  We waited until he went to the bathroom and grabbed as many as we could.  They contained all the horrible things you could imagine.  We called Robert in to our offices, showed him the tapes, and he started pointing fingers at other people.  A giant ring was uncovered.  And one of the people that Robert accused was named Mr. Norbert.  We discovered him in one of the videos.  He was only visible in four or five frames.  And do you know who he was?  The brother of the Belgian mayor who squashed the original investigation.” (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

and not even a big fish! there were tons of bigger and equally-big fishes but they got ignored bc of having the wrong skin tone/reproductive system. big fish in an artificially shrunken pond!

- Stephen Jay Gold

The Fresno thing DESTROYED me actually

The Five Senses

Maria Gavrish kissing Ella Kovalenko who defeated her in breast stroke, during unofficial Olympic try-outs at Lenin Stadium, Soviet Russia - Moscow, 1956 by Lisa Larsen.

Relm

romance