Here's ur friendly reminder that we don't need to substitute words for disabled. Disabled isn't positive or negative. Disabled is disabled. I'm disabled <3

That last quote: if indie productions are able to move forward on the union’s terms, it undermines the big studio’s comment about being “unrealistic”.

Sharecropping.

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

Anyway adults saying “I don’t know isn’t an answer” is part of the reason I learned to lie and bluff so well.

Really though, what was that about? I don’t know is a valid answer. It communicates very clearly that the child cannot answer your question, and therefore maybe needs more help understanding the question/situation. Why do you try and push them to give an answer they don’t have? That stresses them out and it makes them feel like they’re being punished for not knowing something.

i thought i was the only one with an “i don’t know” problem because my parents made it seem it was the strangest and also most horrible thing in the world. i genuinely didn’t know and they got angry and that only blocked my thoughts more which meant i didn’t know the answer to anything else.

THIS ^^^

Also “I don’t know” is a commonly used sentence for children with ADHD/Autism. We DON’T know why we can’t do our homework. We DON’T know why we can’t eat certain foods sometimes. We DON’T know why we forgot to do a chore. It’s really distressing when you genuinely don’t know and people think you’re just lying or indifferent

You know that study that found when doing a blind taste test the majority of people prefer pepsi over coca cola so coke changed their recipe to taste more like pepsi, and people actually liked the new coke a lot less because the people who were buying coke didn't want it to taste like pepsi they wanted their coke to taste like coke. That's what a lot of the new changes tumblr is working on feel like.

i love you disabled people with feeding tubes

i love you disabled people with colostomy bags

i love you disabled people on TPN

i love you disabled people with carers

i love you disabled people with rare disabilities who never see themselves in posts about disabilities

i love you disabled people with high support needs

i love you intellectually and developmentally disabled people

i love you disabled people who live with incontinence, need assistance with hygiene, or have other needs that ableist people consider "gross"

i love you homeless disabled people

i love you fat disabled people

i love you disabled people who use AAC

i love you disabled people who don't see yourselves in other disability positivity posts

i love you.

i love you disabled people who are bed bound

i love you disabled people who cannot sit up without assistance or for only a few minutes

i love you disabled people who've had to deal with bed sores

i love you.

happy disability pride month to everyone with a condition that affects their bladder

happy disability pride month to people with interstitial cystitis and lupus cystitis, overactive bladder, neurogenic bladder, bladder incontinence, spinal cord injuries affecting the bladder, muscular conditions affecting the bladder muscles, paruresis, and every other condition affecting the bladder

happy disability pride month to people who have support for their bladder condition, whether that be catheterizing, a suprapubic catheter, a urostomy, or incontinence products such as diapers, bed pads, and underwear liners

Wearing diapers, needing a bed pad (chux) or wearing underwear liners for incontinence is actually way more common than a lot of people think. When I started having to wear them, it was really stressful and upsetting until a lot of other people in my life were like "hey, I use those too!"

So if you're having accidents, leaking, having too much moisture, whatever the case may be, try incontinence products. They're totally normal and a part of a lot of people's lives. It's such a relief to not worry about having an accident, you deserve that feeling too.

Imagine being the only person alive who can say this

buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”

it's really funny that people think that lesbians of all people don't have weird genders and are only hyper feminine cis girls, like, have you met lesbians before.

a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

"that annoying ki-" just say neurodivergent kid. we know you mean a neurodivergent kid.

Look. I’m going to be honest with you. Adopting that hard anti-plastic surgery stance while trans people’s lives and right to transition is at stake is absolutely horrendous timing. Knock it off.

Plastic surgery saves and rebuilds lives. While anti-aging culture and lookism are both detrimental to society, it’s important to remember that plastic surgery is healthcare.

People in the tags are nottttt getting it. I’m saying you should address the societal influences that lead young women to seek plastic surgery before you seek to villianize the plastics field and/or limit access to healthcare to anyone. Plastic surgery is healthcare.

I am not making this a ‘trans people versus feminists against lookism’ issue. You may require plastic surgery in your lifetime as well. Anyone could. The line of where plastic surgery is frivolous and driven by vanity or necessary for maintaining or creating a greater quality of life is far thinner than you think. That nose job may have been motivated by Eurocentric beauty standards or it may have been motivated by the desire to correct a deviated septum. I am saying that at a time when we are all losing our bodily autonomy and access to medical care at an alarming rate, now is not the time to be writing treatises on why access to certain forms of healthcare is bad.

"all men are evil" is radfem/terf rhetoric, but clarifying "all cis men" because you want to signal that you're not transphobic doesn't work because it's still deeply rooted in radfem beliefs. It's saying you believe there's something inherently evil in being born/assigned "male", and you carry it over in how you treat ppl who transition in or out of that gender. "All cis men are evil", is gender essentialist and you can't get around that.

Fucking tired of ppl who think their terf soundbites with a fresh coat of paint are sooo progressive

also saying "all cis men implies trans men aren't men or at least are a different type of man which is also transphobic so yeah

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

You don't have to understand someone completely to respect them and fight for their right to exist.

!!!

a friend of mine has been saying "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

we have real, life-threatening forces to fight back against.

@vancekilo how does it feel being the most correct person to ever comment on a post

*scritch scritch scritch scritch*

a quick step by step guide on what to do if you come back to your apartment and find yourself locked out because your front door is frozen shut

Me, plunking Stinky Bastard Man’s carrier on the counter: hi he’s here for shots and a nail trim and he’ll need to be sedated

Nurse: Are you sure? We can try-

Me: he needs to be sedated

Nurse: Well, it’ll take longer-

Me: he needs to be sedated, he will try to rip your face off

Nurse: Well we’ll try without first and we’ll let you know if we need to sedate

Me, watching her carry him away: you will need to sedate him

Nurse, coming back 10 minutes later clutching her hand: so, we will need to sedate him

Me:

A man with 3 caution stickers on his med file

Since this post blew up and people have asked for this villain’s record, here are some of Stinky Bastard Man’s more heinous crimes:

Ripped an escape hole

in the patio screen door

in a single night

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

oh my god he’s THIS Stinky Bastard Man!!!!

the stinky bastard man, the stinky bastard myth, the stinky bastard legend

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