#22q

Hi! On my Tumblrs, it's referring to a 22q duplication, which means there is extra information on the 22nd chromosome, specifically the q section. It's a condition that often has physical and neurodevelopmental impact on the individual. I can go into it a lot deeper, but if you were wanting the short answer, here it is! You could also look at

Thank you for the tag, @whipmyhairlikebangbang! :DDD <3333

Name/nickname: lqt, or half of my real first name

Zodiac sign: Virgo

Height: 5′9″

Hogwarts house: Gryffindor with a bit of Slytherin (though when I take the test I get Slytherin *shrugs*)

Last thing I googled: cross stitch (to see if it was the crafty thing with hoops as I suspected it was; @julcheninred will know why lol)

Favorite musician/s: Not fair. Okay: Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Rachmaninoff, no this is impossible I’m stopping. *headdesk*

Last song I listened to: Do I Want to Know -- Arctic Monkeys 

Song stuck in my head: Portugal. The man -- Feel It Still (which happens every time I hear it, but I love it and I MUST dance to it)

Followers: 1,197 (holy shit dude)

Following: 381

Amount of sleep: Usually between 6.5 and 8.5 hours

Lucky number: 3 and 8

What I’m wearing: Star Wars t-shirt and drawstring shorts that the drawstring came out of several laundry cycles ago

Dream job: Novelist, choreographer, Lit and/or creative writing professor, LGBTQ mentor of some kind

Dream trip: HP convention, anywhere in Europe

Favorite food: Mexican

Instruments: nope

Languages: English. I’ve forgotten most of my French, even though I took it for 6 years.

Favorite song/s: Brandi Carlile’s ‘The Joke’, ‘My My My’ by Troye Sivan, ‘Thought Contagion’ by Muse, Kasey Musgraves’s ‘Slow Burn’, and about 3,000 others.

Random fact: I’m grossed out by other people eating peanut butter off a spoon. I can’t see it. I eat peanut butter off a spoon myself, but I do it extremely meticulously so as to not gross myself out and NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO WATCH ME.

Aesthetic: 

This sounds really simple, but it can be tricky to phrase. Dragon’s disability is invisible unless you know what to look for in genetic facial features or you hear him speak. He doesn’t need me to fetch for him, or see for him, or hear for him. He doesn’t have seizures, or any severe allergies. And it can feel really invasive. Dragon is really open, but a lot of humans are much more private about their needs. Talking about a task may reveal something they don't want to share about their disability.

If Dragon’s mom says, “He applies deep pressure,” or, “He helps Dragon distinguish what’s real,” the average person doesn’t really know what that means and asks a lot more questions. They also don’t understand, “He helps Dragon talk,” or, “He helps Dragon make decisions.” These are all things I do and have been trained for, but they don’t sound like tasks exactly.

Recently, she’s been saying, “He helps Dragon not get lost.” This is true! And also a lot more complicated than it sounds, because I help him not get lost in his own head, too.