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happy disability pride month to severely disabled people who don’t have access to proper treatment or medical equipment, and are stuck without care that would ease symptoms or make their life easier

happy disability pride month to severely disabled people who won’t be getting better, and who will be getting worse, or who will be dying due to their conditions

happy disability pride month to severely disabled people with photosensitivity who can’t look at screens for long, and feel even more isolated by not being able to interact with much the disability community, even online

They may ask ahead about if you want the human or the (counselor, therapist, etc) before some advice, but they are legitimately just like most of your friends, but with heightened awareness of your feelings and behavior.

So, if the character is sassy and extravagant when they aren't in the office, that's who the character is normally. But, the character may be the type to be ready popoff when disrespected, yet be a completely different way in a session. Because the main thing with a therapist is that they are still a human being.

So, I would suggest figuring out what type of human being you're creating and then you can put their therapy personality into their job and not their daily life. The way it shows up in daily life is more like knowing how to function as a reasonable adult. They aren't specifically a therapist to their friends. They codeswitch for work.

So you also need to know what is acceptable for therapists, in general, to write one in their field. But, you don't need to have them behave as though they are on the clock in their daily life.

[ID: the end of game score card for hank and john green's new game, smush. it shows the nine possible letters you can use: L, E, M, Y, D, H, O, G, and T. The O and E are greyed out. The final score is 284 points, with a special achievement for getting the pangram— the word which uses all nine letters (duplicates allowed)— first.]

Thank you Black women of hip hop for giving us representation across the board . That we can be just as masculine just like the men of rap but also as girly and as feminine as can be. That we can reclaim our sexuality either through open sexual expression without shame or none at all no matter the stereotypes thrown at us. That as queer Black women we exist and we can thrive. That no matter the misognyoir, colourism and queerphobia we exist and we will always be here.

I then ask, "what would it be like if you could simply give us feedback, have us graciously receive it, reflect, and work to change the behavior?" Recently, a man of color sighed and said "it would be revolutionary."

I ask my fellow whites to consider the profundity of that response. It would be revolutionary if we could receive, reflect and work to change the behavior. On the one hand, the man's response points to how difficult and fragile we are. But on the other hand, it indicates how simple it can be to take responsibility for our racism."