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Empathy: the ability to feel what another person is feeling or to immediately recognise when somebody is feeling a certain way.

Compassion: wanting to support or help somebody.

Empathy: the ability to feel what another person is feeling or to immediately recognise when somebody is feeling a certain way.

Compassion: wanting to support or help somebody.

Potent minimalist art sends a strong message about police and vigilante brutality in America

Journalist and artist Shirin Barghi has created a gripping, thought-provoking series of graphics that not only examines racial prejudice in today’s America, but also captures the sense of humanity that often gets lost in news coverage. Titled “Last Words,” the graphics illustrate the last recorded words by Brown and other young black people — Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and others — who have been killed by police in recent years.

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Empathy: the ability to feel what another person is feeling or to immediately recognise when somebody is feeling a certain way.

Compassion: wanting to support or help somebody.

my whole life, people have told me that i am smart. but i was denied from the gifted program because I was “slow”, yet, somehow, my siblings got in. it was the autism. it made me too different to pass the fairly biased tests into a program that i honestly NEEDED to be in. 

then, in middle school, i took another gifted test when I moved to florida. again, I was slow, but you know what the gifted parents told us? to pay 1,000 to a psychologist to diagnose us as gifted. I’M NOT KIDDING. there’s a reason that all gifted programs have such rich kids in them. it isn’t because they deserve it. it’s because they paid for it.

My parents were constantly being reminded that I wouldn’t excel in school and a teacher tried to convince my parents to give up on me. I couldn’t understand what was being said at the time but now that I do... wow, that hurt.

I become so distressed and cry/scream/yell that I can’t go through the thought process of making words with my voice/mouth and my throat feels closed. It really hurts.

When I’m tired (end or beginning of every day) I find that speaking is really hard even though my thoughts are racing and I have a lot to say inside of my head but don’t know how to express or say it verbally, like I don’t have the energy or can gather thought process. I usually just make some noises to tell people I’m listening.

Too tired to talk after distress; too frazzled to put words together correctly and then Send To Mouth. Tongue feels clumsy and heavy anyway.

Too tired to talk for other reasons, not enough energy to say words. Just can't put the effort in.

Unable to locate words needed. Can't talk if there are no words to use.

I become so distressed and cry/scream/yell that I can’t go through the thought process of making words with my voice/mouth and my throat feels closed. It really hurts.

When I’m tired (end or beginning of every day) I find that speaking is really hard even though my thoughts are racing and I have a lot to say inside of my head but don’t know how to express or say it verbally, like I don’t have the energy or can gather thought process. I usually just make some noises to tell people I’m listening.

I’ve also been given two new medications with my current two being taken out of the mix. Seroquel and Prozac. If any of you have any insight or experience with one or both of those medications I’d like you to share if you’re comfortable. Thank you all again for supporting me through this.