Jeff Beck could fucking get it. My taste in men is a sliding scale between Robert Plant and Jeff Beck.
Jimmy??
Nobody talks about episodes of uncontrollable emotion and dangerous behaviors in severe Autism.
I apologize for the long post. This is important to me. Heavy CW for mention of knives, self-injurious behaviors, description of intense emotions, brief descriptions of restraints and police. Yes, I used the word "severe" to describe my Autism. This is because I am Nonspeaking, very High Support Needs, visibly Autistic, and have a Borderline IDD. This is how I choose to describe my Autism. Please don't attack me for this, Tumblr. Anyways. Darting out into busy streets. Repeatedly banging your head against walls. Throwing objects, sometimes even very dangerous objects such as knives. Breaking things - anything - no matter the value or durability. Unplanned, sudden violence towards self and others. Lashing out, in pure emotion, just screaming into nothing at the top of your lungs, for no obvious reason other than pure, unadulterated, terrifying emotion. This may not seem like symptoms of Autism for anyone, and they may not be caused by Autism at all. But for many young people and adults with severe Autism, this is what our families deal with regularly. "Difficult behaviors", as I've often heard them described as by social workers. There's often no clear reason for then. They just. Happen. We are almost never diagnosed with secondary conditions. It is considered a symptom of our severe/profound Autism. While in many Speaking and Low Support Needs people with Autism, they would be diagnosed with various conditions. Conduct Disorder. Bipolar. Borderline Personality Disorder. Maybe even a severe case of Intermittent Explosive Disorder. But for those of us on the more visible part of the Spectrum, nobody knows how to deal with us. It's scary and heartbreaking for our families, and deeply traumatic for us. Many times, our families and caregivers will turn to emergency services such as police or EMTs when they have no where else to turn. I don't like this option, I hate it. But in moments of extreme panic and fear, I don't always blame families for this. Nobody talks about those of us who have been restrained by our arms and ankles to hospital beds for weeks at a time. Nobody talk about those of us who turn violent on the people we love most, when we just can't control ourselves. I wish I had good advice for those of us struggling with this. I wish I could comfort you. While mood stabilizers and antipsychotic medications have helped me, it doesn't help everyone. DBT for severely Autistic individuals is another thing that greatly helped me. This is a fact of life for many individuals with severe Autism and their families. It's terrifying. But please keep trying treatment, keep advocating for yourself as much as possible, and keep going. I'm sure you don't think this means anything, but you are strong. You are brave. I see you and I want you to keep going. Nobody talks about episodes of uncontrollable emotion and dangerous behaviors in severe Autism.
Beethoven — Fur Chiken
that’s them officer, those are the brain cells you’re looking for
Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.
Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.
This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.
The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.
This one text exchange could:
- Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered
- Get the company to pay back taxes to the government
- Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines
- A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal
If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.
Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:
You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:
Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.
States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.
A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.
Fantastic addition
Like the thing is we oppose evil because it's important to reduce harm. We do not and should not oppose evil because it feels good to punch someone, because it's a fairly deep-seated human instinct to like being right and this comes with a sense of exclusivity, of flattery, when we're right when other people are wrong.
Conspiracy theories are seductive because it's tempting to feel like you're the smart person who knows how the world works when All Those Other Guys don't. And the more All Those Other Guys aren't real to you, the more comforting it feels to be right while they're wrong.
And the idea, we are opposing harm, we are reducing harm, is both extremely true and important and another seductive allure. No matter what, we don't want to be wrong. We don't want to feel like we made the bad choice. So there's also a common instinct to double down. We aren't quick to reevaluate things we've put our whole heart into.
An extremely important part of opposing evil is to not assume people who do evil are built differently from you. Don't assume they are somehow incapable of love or happiness or compassion, don't assume they are some different breed of human that you have no overlap with, or you will be unprepared the day you look yourself in the mirror and ask, have I done evil, participated in it, believed earnestly it was right?
I was raised on high fantasy novels where Good and Evil were as stark and obvious as the pieces on a chessboard, and from that format I am eternally fascinated by how complicated evil can be and how easy it is for good people to do evil.
I admittedly rankle- perhaps undeservedly- at discussions of "villain stanning" and the notion that you can only find depth or intrigue in a character if you agree with everything they did, or are willing to boil them to a sort of thickened, less-featured version of themselves easily consumable as innocent. I think that we should think about characters that scare us, that upset us, that we find abhorrent.
It's very important to maintain a detailed idea of what evil is, and stress-test it frequently.
are you fucking kidding me. Mummy please can I keep this one? No absolute not. They are not so cute when they grow up yknow
Jaybefaunt on Youtube is doing a livestream book club of Laziness Does Not Exist! He's reading through the book on stream and then discussing it, chapter by chapter. Currently he's on Chapter 2. If you're not a big reader or do better when hearing words read aloud to you and would like some additional analysis and discussion surrounding what you've read, check it out! I'm always so thrilled when readers do things like this.
Here’s some pictures - they’re so damn pretty!
[ID: Three pictures of a small, robust bodied bird standing on leaf litter on the forest floor. It has a glossy black body and tail, chestnut colored wings, yellow legs, red eyes, and a red beak. End ID]
welcome back 🥺
How could you not include the scientists reaction to the trail cam footage
Wow! Here’s something incredibly personal.
This is Good Bi Gender. A comic I made to express some feelings I have about my gender. I don’t really have that much else to say about it. Here it is.
[Image ID: Light blue background with dark blue text.
Central text reads "Autism Awareness BIPOC Edition".
Arrows spiral out from the central text to various facts. Each fact is accompanied by a small image.
- Black children typically diagnosed on average of 1.4 years later than white children. (Image of the words 1.4 years in a dark blue box)
- Black American children 5.1X more likely to be misdiagnosed with conduct or adjustment disorders, before being diagnosed with ADHD or autism. (Image of the number 5.1X in a dark blue box)
- In the US, white children are about 19% more likely than Black children and 65% more likely than Hispanic children to be diagnosed with autism. (Image of 3 separate human figures)
- Indigenous children are 13% less likely to be identified as autistic. (Image of the number 13% in a dark blue box)
- On average Latino children are diagnosed 2.5 years later than white non-Latino children. (Image of the words 2.5 years in a dark blue box)
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I just think it’s so funny how late-diagnosed Level 1 autistics will praise the statement “Every autistic is different!” and then continually center discussions on only their specific experiences and spout out BS like “Autistics don’t have poor social skills, we have NEURODIVERGENT social skills!!!!!”
If you’re going to be an autistic advocate, then advocate. Not just for the quiet, shy socially awkward autistics, but advocate for the autistics who have public meltdowns. Advocate for the autistics who cannot maintain jobs or go to mainstream schools. Advocate for the autistics who have socially unacceptable stims like smelling armpits, hitting themselves, and stomping feet loudly. Advocate for the autistics who need permanent caregivers or still living with their parents as adults. Advocate for the autistics who have had distinct upbringings than yours.
Sure you say every autistic is different, but have you met different autistics?
I understand why you say this. It is true lower support / higher masking autistics often ignore higher support autistics and be bad advocates.
But there is a good reason to say autistic social skills are not ‘poor’ and similar things - I am saying to allistics ‘do not judge us by what is normal for you’ and ‘you do not decide what is poor when you are not trying the same amount’
ok I am going to think how I can say this better to them.
What if I say - ‘allistic social skills is a bad and wrong idea’ it makes what is easy for allistics into rules we all have to follow. It is not fair.
‘Think about effort to communicate - how much effort are allistics using? is it fair? It it same effort as autistics with high support needs?’
‘Communication is two way - do you have skill to communicate and socialise with us?’ ‘with all of us?’
What the fuck
This is absolutely fascinating. I've now been looking at Alex Colville's paintings and trying to work out what it is about them that makes them look like CGI and how/why he did that in a world where CGI didn't exist yet. Here's what I've got so far:
- Total lack of atmospheric perspective (things don't fade into the distance)
- Very realistic shading but no or only very faint shadows cast by ambient light.
- Limited interaction between objects and environment (shadows, ripples etc)
- Flat textures and consistent lighting used for backgrounds that would usually show a lot of variation in lighting, colour and texture
- Bodies apparently modelled piece by piece rather than drawn from life, and in a very stiff way so that the bodies show the pose but don't communicate the body language that would usually go with it. They look like dolls.
- Odd composition that cuts off parts that would usually be considered important (like the person's head in the snowy driving scene)
- Very precise drawing of structures and perspective combined with all the simplistic elements I've already listed. In other words, details in the "wrong" places.
What's fascinating about this is that in early or bad CGI, these things come from the fact that the machine is modelling very precisely the shapes and perspectives and colours, but missing out on some parts that are difficult to render (shadows, atmospheric perspective) and being completely unable to pose bodies in such a way as to convey emotion or body language.
But Colville wasn't a computer, so he did these same things *on purpose*. For some reason he was *aiming* for that precise-but-all-wrong look. I mean, mission accomplished! The question in my mind is, did he do this because he was trying to make the pictures unsettling and alienating, or because in some way, this was how he actually saw the world?
omf i never thought i'd find posts about alex colville on tumblr, but! he's a local artist where i'm from & i work at a library/archives and have processed a lot of documents related to his art. just wanted to give my two cents!
my impression is that colville did see the world as an unsettling place and a lot of his work was fueled by this general ~malaise?? but in a lot of cases, he was trying to express particular fears or traumas. for instance, this painting (horse and train) was apparently inspired by a really tragic experience his wife had:
iirc she was in a horrible automobile crash, as the car she was in collided with a train. i find it genuinely horrifying to look at, knowing the context, but a lot of colville's work is like that? idk he just seems to capture the feeling you get in nightmares where everything is treacle-ish and slow and inevitable.
He deleted it so quickly but I need everyone to see this Chris Fleming video because it has fundamentally changed me
Sorry Chris but statistically if this is lesbian music it’s highly unlikely nobody has come
this is superior humor
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