you've gotta understand i don't post on here to gain followers i do it to empty my mind ruthlessly each day so i dont go insane . me posting about a character is just me shaking my brain upside down to make sure everything comes out
yknow what i hate those "you can totally kiss your friends!" posts that do a 180 when you have a partner. why can't i kiss the homies if i'm dating?? those are two separate relationships, my guy
There's a thought/theory/whatever I've long had about a specific pair of episodes from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ever since I was a teen, and I'm putting this post out there to see if anybody else had the same thought.
I think Julian Bashir from Deep Space Nine, especially his plotline about having been genetically altered at a young age, is a commentary on neurodivergency.
Bashir is characterized as being highly intelligent, albeit lacking in social insight. He excels in academic matters but frequently finds himself floundering around women, being led by the nose by more charismatic people, and not picking up what other people are putting down. This alone would make him the average stereotypical TV depiction of an autistic person, but what I want to focus on is the episode that provides a canonical reason for these traits: the season 5 episode Doctor Bashir, I Presume.
In this episode it's revealed, or retconned really, that Bashir owes his intelligence to genetic tempering. Bashir originally suffered from a learning disability. He was not as intelligent as other children his age, falling far behind his peers, and his parents resorted to illegally altering his genes to "cure" that disability. As a result he instead became exceedingly intelligent. In essence, it took away a symptom that made his life more difficult, and traded it for one that made him more functional.
That episode on its own isn't a super strong nod towards autism. Though it does establish that Bashir is at least neurodivergent, it's more a discussion on eugenics and the theoretical ethics of removing disabilities through genetics. What I really want to focus on is the sort-of-sequel to this episode, and the only other episode that really focuses on these themes: the season 6 episode "Statistical Probabilities." In this episode, Bashir sets out to help other people who underwent genetic alteration, but for whom the treatments didn't go as well. The people he meets all display symptoms of one neurodivergency or another. One of them is very hyperactive and lacks empathy, another is very childlike despite being an old man, and another is entirely unresponsive.
For me, as someone who grew up in special education, I couldn't help but recognize some of the people I knew. To me, the metaphor was clear: "genetic alteration" was really just sci-fi talk for neurodivergency. Julian was the savant, the high-functioning autistic person who successfully integrated into society, because his neurodivergency gave him intelligence and insight that made him useful. And the others weren't as lucky, struggling to lead normal lives because their symptoms impeded their ability to function by themselves.
Bashir spends the episode trying to prove that the other genetically altered people have something to offer society, that there is a place for them. It felt very on the nose to me. But no one I've seen talk about this pair of episodes ever seemed to have taken from them what I took from them. I can't find anyone else online who interpreted the episodes the same way. Maybe my perspective is very particular, as someone who spent so much time in special education growing up, and who has personally struggled with finding a place where I can offer something to others. But idk. Am I seeing allegories that aren't there? What do yall think?
((Idk if you’re still interested in coined terms but I coined this one so))
alterous - experiences attraction that can only be described as a desire for emotional closeness because neither romantic or platonic attraction is accurate*
is intended to be used in place of romantic or platonic. for example someone may identify as bi-alterous, poly-alterous, homo-alterous, etc.
*note: a person who IDs this way may experience varying degrees of attraction that is identifiable as romantic or platonic but ultimately feel discomfort / unease / or just a sense of inaccuracy in calling it wholly romantic or platonic
we are absolutely still interested in coined terms! thank you!
this can really help some ppl express themselves wow ty so much
~ Tabs
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star trek heritage post (March 30th, 2023)
Good morning Mr. Jigsaw I noticed that this trap has a time limit of 60 minutes but as per my accommodations through the school Center of Disability Resources I get time and a half on exams and quizzes is that still something I can apply to this game right now? Thank you for understanding have a nice day
Things that I SWEAR I'm not making up about the Star Trek franchise:
- A shifty alien bartender, his brother, and his nephew were what happened at Roswell
- There are three mutually contradictory canonical explanations for what exists at the centre of the Galaxy, none of which are "A fuck-off gigantic black hole"
- Two of these things are, respectively, God and the Devil
- (The crew got along well enough with the Devil, but Spock had to blow-up God with a torpedo)
- One of the most compelling and sympathetic characters in the franchise is a hologram of Professor Moriarty who gained enough self-awareness to realise that he didn't need to be evil just because he was written that way
- If you fly too fast, you turn into a salamander
- (Said salamanders are actually the inevitable endpoint of human evolution)
- The universe is balanced on the back of a giant koala (why is it smiling? What does it know!?)
- There have been three separate groups of Space Nazis (not just aliens with a fascist government; literal Nazis with armbands and swastikas)
- There are also: two (2) cowboy planets, two (2) planets that are just post-apocalyptic versions of Cold War-era Earth, one (1) planet ruled by Chicago mobsters from the 1920s, and one (1) version of Earth where the Roman Empire never fell
- The Roman planet has its own Jesus
- There is an anthropological law governing parallel planetary development that holds that planets are likely to recapitulate eras from Earth history
- Because of the intervention of an ancient race of ur-humanoids, most sentient races in the galaxy look like human actors with rubber prostheses glued to their foreheads
- There are so many planets centred around sex and hedonism that people in the fandom use the term "Roddenberry Sex Planet" to describe them
- Jack the Ripper was an alien ghost
- Amelia Earhart was abducted by aliens
- If you have a high ESP score, you turn into a god when you try to fly outside of the Galaxy
- The major antagonists are: Space Vikings/Samurai, Space Romans (not the Romans mentioned earlier), Space Fascists (not any of the nazi groups mentioned earlier), the Space British Empire (ruled by goo people), and Space Bees (except you'll turn into one if they sting you)
- Klingons have two dicks
- Borg assimilation can be catalyzed by eating car batteries
you forgot to mention that one of the roswell aliens eventually becomes the pope-king of his capitalism planet
- When a Ferengi dies, their families dry out their body, chop it into pieces, and sell those pieces as collector's items
- The fight for Ferengi women to gain the right to wear clothing is an ongoing plot thread throughout Deep Space Nine
- There is a sentient patch of chaotic spacetime that communicates only by punching
- There's another sentient patch of chaotic spacetime that communicates by rearranging hallways
- Somehow both of the abovementioned episodes manage to suck
- Various spacetime anomalies can: + Make you violently, murderously insane + Make you violently, murderously insane but in a way that specifically attacks your ability to enter REM sleep + Retroactively prevent life from arising on Earth + Make you hyperfixated on whatever you're working on + Turn gravity sideways + Turn you inside out (offscreen) + Cause you to turn insubstantial just long enough to fall partways through the floor and then turn solid again and die horribly + Trap you in a timeloop + Trap every member of your crew in a separate quantum reality in which time flows at radically different speeds + Splinter space into regions where time flows at different speeds + Splinter your ship into regions existing at different points in its history + Turn reality into musical theatre + And more!
Deep in space, there's a hellish planet, bathed in radiation and rocked by unending storms. There, in the stygian darkness far below its thick, turbulent atmosphere, you will find a single antique revolving door, hanging in the void. Passing through it, you will find a late-20th century Las Vegas casino hotel, where shades that look human endlessly re-enact a terrible pulp novel to amuse the skeleton of a long dead American astronaut.
Reblog this if you think that asexual, aromantic, agender, or any type of aspec folks should have more important roles as main characters
If you have any good ideas on what type of aspec main characters you can think of, share your ideas
"damn I'm crying over an insect" "why am I having such strong feelings over how the sky looks" "it's weird how happy this small thing made me feel" THAT'S BECAUSE YOU LIVE HERE!!!! you live on this earth. everything all the time is an experience, no matter how common or mundane. this world is unique. so are its small moments. it is good to enjoy a tiny thing. you love the world even at its smallest scale.
Friendly reminder that aphobia doesn’t always sound like “you’re lying”, “you’re wrong”, “you’re evil”, it can also be just a pitying look, a slightly too personal question, a joke they thought you would laugh at.
Well-informed allies are rare and it can be easy to tell yourself it could be worse. Of course it could be, but the little things can still hurt. Your anger, frustration, loneliness, or anything else you feel isn’t going to go away just because someone wasn’t as aphobic as they could have been. You don’t have to be grateful for “small” hurts.
oh to live with your qpp. oh to be in separate rooms or bunk beds but always join each other if we need to. oh to dance in the kitchen and make meals together. oh to cuddle while watching a movie. oh to have our time to our selves but still be close to each other. oh to be able to say i love you irl and any time you want. oh to own a cat together. oh to go grocery shopping together. oh to sit on the porch and watch the stars together. oh to simply be with one another. wouldn’t that be great.
Anonymous asked:
Sorry, but what;s the difference between transexual and transgender?
transsexuals hang from the ceiling and transgenders grow up from the ground
I’m only just on season four but I am very confident about these placements
Who’s Weyoun
so, you're telling me that big-time millionaire director christopher nolan knew löded diper but not one direction??? that's a win for music in my eyes
