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We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

Just to try and help out and spread the word, there are two chrome extensions I've found that might be able to help.

Seizafe: This extension scans youtube videos and warns you if they contain things like flashing lights that could cause a seizure.

CogniShield: This extension (supposedly, it has like no reviews) dims the screen to a safe level if flashing lights are detected; it can also be used to limit volume. It might help.

I've mentioned before how deeply traumatic that word is for many of us. It carries a stigma that exists just as strongly as it did when we were featured in circus freakshows (which I've seen billboards for in my lifetime), because that's where people know us from and there hasn't been a movement to change that. We're still portrayed in media as freaks and villains, using our appearance to shock you. You're supposed to see us as evil, abusive, manipulative, and never worthy of redemption, because they don't expect for you to see those characters as human. If you can't think of any examples, check out the TV tropes article for Albinos are freaks.

I've experienced endless bullying and harassment, adults calling me disgusting and a freak, physical violence, and had my sunglasses and hat taken on multiple occasions (both are necessary for me to be able to see outside, essentially blinding me and leaving me downtown somewhere). I've been discriminated against so many times I can no longer remember each detail. This is what albino means to me: being subhuman.

I will never see albino as a positive word, even when people mean well. Getting people to care about us is like pulling teeth; I'm not saying this is a slur and you're a bad person if you ever say it. I'm asking for some common respect, and for you to learn about us before you talk about us and make your OCs based on more than just looks.

There's a lot more I could cover but ultimately I'd really like the word albino to fade out of our lexicon. I don't really care what you call animals, although albinistic is the scientific term.

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If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

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had to put a little bit of research into it but yeah, it…doesn’t look great. her grandparents being witches is questionable, her being in the school of evil is also questionable, her having “hooded red eyes”…it kinda just reinforces everything i’ve said in the past. i don’t know what it is with story/moviemakers and insisting that all characters with albinism have to be evil and red eyed and witches (the latter is the most degrading imo because there are myths that PWAs harness magic and are witches and we actually do get hunted, disembodied and killed because of these misconceptions…so you can usually tell absolutely zero thought was put into these characters, especially when they follow the same cookie cutter caricature route as all the other albino characters.) they’re always evil, too…like idk why every damn albino character has to be described as evil, but whatever.

and yeah, i don’t know how i feel about non PWAs playing PWAs…the only time ive seen a PWA actually play a PWA was with that whitey character and he said he regretted playing that role and wondered if it would just reinforce people into thinking is okay to make fun of PWAs and call them shit like q-tip. but yeah, like non PWAs playing PWAs is always so uncomfortable, especially considering they just make us look like ghosts or freaks. like the twins from the matrix, or the albino from the princess bride, or the guy from the da vinci code whose name i’m forgetting. like if these were just average people who tried to make a character with albinism, i’d give them the benefit of the doubt but like…these are influential people and influential movies. i’ve said this a billion times, but albinism isn’t commonly known about, so when the only exposure you have to it is “the evil twins” or “the albino wolf who got hunted down and whose name translated to “evil/unwanted ghost”…it holds a sort of influence to it.

Spoilers for the first SGE book, but I don't really care.

In the book, there is a scene in which all of the "good" characters become "evil" and "ugly", and all the "evil" characters become "good" and "beautiful."

Not much sticks out to me in that scene nearly as much as what happens to Anadil.

She loses her albinism. Her eyes turn green and her hair turns "chestnut".

In order for her to be pretty and good, she cannot have albinism. People with albinism are ugly and evil. That may not have been the author's intent, but that's sure how it reads.

As for the movie... I have mixed feelings. From what I say in the trailers, the actress playing Anadil is not a PWA... and neither is Anadil herself. They took out her albinism.

On one hand, I'm glad they didn't do the "non PWA plays a PWA". I'm glad Anadil, who was a stereotype, was not longer an albinism stereotype.

But on the other, they could have tried to fix it in the movie. They could have cast a PWA, they could have written her to be less of a stereotype. I don't know if the movie kept the scene I mentioned the same, but they could have taken the chance to fix it. To fix Anadil.

Important PSA

Strobing lights on trees and other decorations are triggering and can be dangerous to people sensitive to light!

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Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure. 

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this has led me to a startling discovery

albinism is not an invisible disability, it is a condition that has gotten so aestheticised that the aspect of visual impairment has been concealed, ignored and overlooked.

When you look at a person with albinism you already know that they are visually impaired just from the lack of pigment in the hair skin and eyes. They most likely need accommodation.

The large participation of pwas in the modeling industry which requires us to look and behave as if we are not disabled has falsely influenced the perception on albinism in my opinion. That is not to blame people who work as models, of course, since internalised ableism and the lack of job opportunities work in awful ways.

The only potential indication of a disability on my person (unless I'm using my cane) is my lazy eye, and not everyone with a lazy eye is disabled.

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