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the thing is. knowing someone experiences hallucinations or trouble reading facial expressions or communication difficulties or any other symptom CAN help you to understand their behaviour and respond to it appropriately. but knowing someones diagnosis is never as helpful as it is to listen to them when they talk about how they can best be accommodated. and if “can you please speak slower” (for example) sounds like a ridiculous request from someone without a diagnosis and a reasonable one from someone with a diagnosis. well you’re the dick in that situation

the way that some people write about aphantasia is so funny to me. like CAN YOU IMAGINE... A WORLD WITHOUT PICTURES... A LIFE WITHOUT SEEING WHAT MAKES US TRULY HUMAN... CAN IT EVEN BE REAL? and i'm just over here like ok my only real question or concern about the rest of y'all is that apparently you guys can just imagine porn any time you want. like. just naked ladies, on demand? whack. how do you get any work done

there are two visual memories i'm sad that i lack: when my husband proposed, and when i saw an octopus. wish i could re-see that octopus. i don't care about any of the rest of this stuff. "can you picture an apple?" no i'm busy fucking

the main mental disorders people are really “”sympathetic”” to are depression & anxiety but even then it’s always abundantly clear that there is a very distinct limit to what society sees as acceptable and pitiable. and once someone goes over that it’s “what the fuck is wrong with you” and “why can’t you stop being like this” and. well you know

never mind the fact that the usa is in itself a colonized land

OK but I do genuinely believe we need to push for something like this before it's too late - and not just in digital spaces. We should have the right to peace and quiet from advertising. There should be more limits on how much and where we get advertising because otherwise it'll just become a creep of more and more until every fucking public space is lit with several billboards blasting us with ads, and the walls between spaces lined with ads, and our commutes filled with ads, and local parks sponsored by corporations to offset the cost of local councils, and so on and on and on and on. No. I need quiet. I need spaces where ads cannot touch me.

My favorite moment when playing FFXIV for the first time was seeing the men in the same ridiculous subligars as the women.

Seriously, Dark Souls is so good about this, I accidentally became female and didn’t even know about it until I was changing my gear.

Sorry, that last bit is funny to me because I’m just imagining this knight changing and looking at a pair of breasts like “…Those are new.”

THE LAST COMMENT KILLED ME

"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.

[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]

Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.

I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.

There's also this assumption that if people were just handed enough money to live that they'd do absolutely nothing, as if they'd be satisfied being completely bored all the time. They'd still buy food. They'd still buy video games. They'd still go out and get coffee and put money into the economy even if they didn't want to work because they still want to LIVE. They'd buy movies. They'd go DO stuff. I review comic books on the internet and I love doing it, but I often have to compromise on some things because I just can't afford to do otherwise and I stress out about stuff because I need to earn money.

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No. A lot of women don’t go to cosmetology classes to learn how to do hair, they have the experience from growing up-their mom doing their hair, Then experimenting which what they can do themselves. This guy probably had short hair his entire life with no clue on what to do. He didn’t just look up how to do a ponytail, he paid for actual classes so that he could do his little daughters hair in cool and creative ways so that SHE gets the learning experience and learns how to do it her own and then can go to school with fabulous. This is A+ daddy right here, he went above and beyond because he knows that he lack in certain areas where a mom would pick this up. Please don’t destroy nice things that men do simply because they are men and you want to hate them.

It reminds me of some thing that a friend of mine told me. When white people adopt a child of color, some adoption agencies and adoption organizations have African hair braiding classes so that the white parents know how to work with black hair so they can have that bonding experience with their child. 

there’s another fucking week this week