dandelion boy 🍂

01. a brief summary of my stances:

01. antifascist anarchocommunist 02. pro-palestine, anti-zionist 03. strong supporter of land back 04. Black Lives Matter, anti-cop 05. prison abolishionist 06. anti-ABA therapy. if you want to know why, read my experience. read this as well. actually just go through my #aba therapy tag 07. anti-psychiatry 08. for fat liberation 09. not involved in syscourse, shipcourse, and most queer discourse nor do I have the desire to be (don't ask me about it)

02. some information about interacting with me:

. I try to answer all the asks I get. I usually fail. many of the asks I get will be answered a month+ later than they were sent. I get a lot of asks and it's hard for me to keep up with them. if it's been a while since you sent your ask feel free to resend it, it probably got lost. all my asks are tagged #ask so it's easy to search for yours

. I assume good faith in most interactions until someone proves to me that they are interacting in bad faith. I don't bite, I promise. I am sometimes blunt but I don't usually mean to be hurtful

. I would prefer to be asked before having my posts shared publicly on other platforms

. I don't have a DNI but I do frequently block people. as long as you don't bring discourse onto my posts, act overtly bigoted, or engage with me in bad faith you will probably not be blocked.

. I will sometimes delete posts written by bigots after I've reblogged them. I require evidence to be sent with your message to do this (I will not go digging for it myself) and I don't delete posts over internet discourse or interpersonal drama

03. some other information about me, if you care:

I'm a university student studying biology and I work as an undergraduate research assistant researching biology pedagogy. I like being a university student and I like my job. I'm hoping to go into pediatric occupational therapy but I've been taking my sweet time getting through undergrad. my back up plan is ornithology.

I love birds and all things birds. I'm slowly getting into bird watching! I'm a crow and roadrunner therian (also a gray fox). my favorite birds are the american crow, greater roadrunner, and woodhouse's scrub jay.

I'm big on hiking and climbing mountains. I grew up in the rocky mountains and the mountains are truly home. I've climbed 2 14ers (mt blue sky + mt sherman), a 12er (lake peak in the sangre de cristo mountains), and every time I make plans to climb mt bierstadt something goes wrong. I belong above timber line. I was big on skiing but lately I've had problems due to my disability + the severe drought in the southwest has reduced snow pack substantially.

once upon a time I had plans to become a chef but I became too disabled to go to culinary school. I still love cooking. I publish a lot of my recipes under my #recipe tag. many of the recipes I post are disability friendly and use few dishes and have minimal steps to make them easy with low spoons.

now that you see me as a person rather than a walking list of labels:

I am multiply disabled with:

hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome & co

systemic lupus erythematosus

miserable malalignment syndrome

I used to use a wheelchair nearly full time but with a lot of physical therapy and the right lupus meds I have been able to reduce my wheelchair use to mostly just around campus. I also use forearm crutches.

I have auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) which causes hearing loss and symptoms comparable to auditory processing disorder. I wear hearing aids much of the time and use an FM system to access classes and other presentation-style events.

I am mad and neurodivergent. I have schizoaffective bipolar type and I am autistic- together these make me schizotistic. I have professionally diagnosed DID but I do not consider myself a system, though I will not be upset if you call me one.

I am an intersex intergender trans foxboy! I am also bisexual. I've been on T for years and have had a hysterectomy + BSO. feel free to ask me about these, I love medically creating new men 💪🏳️‍⚧️

T date: September 26, 2022

Hysterectomy + bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy date: July 8, 2026 (#hysterectomy chronicles)

Self harm free date: February 1, 2025

Resources

Activism & Direct Action

Offline activism beyond protests and marches

Black bloc 101

Blocing with mobility aids

About Watchlists

How to Assess Protest Risk 101

Where to get and tricks for using radical stickers

-> also check out my #Practical Advice tag for more

Things I made

Lupus Flag

Bipolar flag

Disabled Antifa Symbol

Disabled Antifa Symbol 2

Crippled antifascist userboxes

Intersex antifa symbol

Mobility Aids

Things to research before getting a manual wheelchair

Wheelchairs for chronic pain

Setting anti-tip wheels higher to allow wheelies

Pros and cons of armrests

Basic information about forearm crutches

Management

Basic dislocation/subluxation care

Coping with inflammatory arthritis

About

What is Idiopathic Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)?

Explaining Dysphagia

Overview of immunocompromisation

Nervous System Effects of Lupus

Gait Lab/Gait Evaluation Experience

Butterfly/Malar Rash

Limb difference basics

Small Fiber Neuropathy

Flow chart for the hEDS diagnostic process

Deafness, ASL & Addressing Audism

On people with speech loss using ASL

The difference between APD and being HOH

Sign names created by nonverbal people

Lifeprint and using online resources to learn ASL

The problem with cochlear implants

All people with hearing loss are deaf

Audism exists at the intersection of interpersonal and institutional ableism

Antipsychiatry

Dispelling antipsychiatry myths

There are no good psychiatrists

Psychiatry saving lives does not negate its harm

Why I'm antipsychiatry

Policing of mentally ill people's use of language