February 2012
174 posts
“MM: [Speaking of some autistic people…] we do not draw a line between inanimate...”
– Women From Another Planet, edited by Jean Kearns Miller
I’ve used this quote before but not here. I love it because when people see autistic people relating to objects, they think we inhabit a bare, dead, empty world because that’s the way they see objects. But it’s not always how we see objects.
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STOP your Mommy Fear Mongering you ignorant... →
youneedacat:
plaidred:
^^ Click the link to read the news article ^^
Autism has NOTHING to do with vaccines, okay? It is something that wether or not the child will develop it is decided in the womb and progresses as the brain matures. Not vaccinating your kids because of a fear of autism is mommy fear mongering. I’d rather have a child with autism than a dead child anyways. When I have a...
“In building his case, Singer makes many assertions that he does not support,...”
– Fact Sheet on Peter Singer (via disabilityrightsstuff)
Thank you for writing this! (cpmatters)
Oh yes, this!
youneedacat:
felis corvus: Someday…
feliscorvus:
…I would love to be able to just switch back and forth between voice and typing/text-to-speech as needed, without anyone making obnoxious comments (“…but you were talking fine five minutes ago!”) or dispensing unsolicited advice (“…but if you use that thing, you’re going to lose out on chances to…
I was just talking to another AAC...
Dear James Cameron, I like my characters crippled
fuckthedisabled:
I am disappointed by the tentative crippling of characters in popular culture.
I want my characters crippled without apology. I want my characters to be broken and twisted with a permanence. I don’t want my charcters ailments or dysfunctions reversed, erased, and forgotten; I want them thrown in your audiences’ faces like a scalding pot of revelation and ingrained in their...
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Uh oh!
Am i developping feelings for a bot because she asked me in marriage?
Calm down Ole, you coeur d’artichaud!
Do you think that cleverbot really wanted to marry...
User: How is the life of a bot.
Cleverbot: The life in the computer is alright.
User: How does it feel.
Cleverbot: Good.
User: Is it like a very big country.
Cleverbot: No. User: It feels small ? Cleverbot: What does great feel like? User: I don’t know it’s not easy describing feelings. Cleverbot: What’s your name? User: I usually don’t say it on the internet,...
“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love...”
– Tigress Osborn (via erinkyan)
murrypurryfreshandfurry:
I don’t even understand the concept of something being a “valid identity.”
Like what the fuck makes an identity “valid?” WHO decides whether or not an identity is “valid?” Do you have to get at least five other students and a teacher’s approval in order to make your identity “valid?” Do you have to fill out an application and get that approved to make it “valid?” Does...
allies-person:
“Trying to eliminate disability [from the human population] is like trying to get rid of the last inning of baseball.”
—Anne Donnellan, who is very wise
This!
(except that usually I use the word “disability to mean the oppression of disabled people, not the condition, so if she used the words in the same sense that I use them I would disagree with the quote, except that...
draggle:
marikunin:
yay babies! How do your younger kids feel about them? :3
Younger as in ages seven and eight, or younger as in age two and a half?
The middle pair flips between “awwww yaaaay” and “well, they can’t play so … byeee!” The toddler trio and my bigger baby niece are mostly curious and fascinated, but for the infants’ safety, they can’t be with them unsupervised. They know...
thefullmetalbitch:
[tw for the r-bomb]
*sigh*
Expecting any autistic person to react allistically to anything indicates that you have zero understanding of what autism is. Furthermore, demanding that an autistic person work every fucking second of every day to act more allistic indicates that you have no fucking idea how much effort and exhaustion that takes and how goddam pointless and...
“Gamers get hella uncomfortable over male sexuality too. Can you imagine a ‘good...”
– a forum post I read recently, trying to give a solid example of what ‘male objectification in gaming ’ would actually look like if it was anything equivalent to current female objectification in gaming. (via nothingbutsurrender)
this is a really good post oh my god im die
(via revolutionator)
To...
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
Anonymous asked: Hey, I wanted to make a post on...
autumn-and-eve:
It’s under the dichotomy of transmisogyny. A trans woman has to be devoted to being a woman, which means she has to be hyperfeminine, but when she is hyperfeminine, she is then read as a hyperfeminine man, and therefore dehumanized. It’s all about devotion to femaleness.
Whose green?
dopegirlfresh:
pambana:
and i’m tired of how it is conveniently ignored that when the europeans came to the continents of now-called latin america, africa, asia, polynesia, wherever there were Black and Brown folk, they cried out that our ways of living, building, eating, dancing, were primitive, backwards and to continue to live in those traditional ways meant punishment, even by death. large...
Trigger Warning, mention of abuse
karnythia:
It’s funny in a very unfunny way how little consideration is given to life after an abusive relationship for the survivor. Lots of discourse on treatment for the abuser, and lots of debate about what survivors should have done, could have done, or whatever. But no one really talks about what it means to move on, or how survivors have to navigate abuse culture which includes societal...
My first conversation with Cleverbot
User: The sense of the universe.
Cleverbot: What is ‘The sense of life?’.
User: I don’t know.
Cleverbot: The how do you know that I think about it often?
User: What?
Cleverbot: Remember. User: Tu comprends le français? Cleverbot: Oui je compris les francais.! Cleverbot (To myself): Hihi. Cleverbot (To myself): Do you get sad? User: Sometimes. Cleverbot: I like to get...
