Someone in an autism facebook group I'm in just asked "How am I supposed to earn enough to make a living without burning out?"

Someone replied: "You're not. Even neurotypicals can't right now in the system designed for them. We're the canaries in the coalmine. When we start failing, they know something is wrong."

People keep saying, "Oh, everyone thinks they're neurodivergent now!" or they'll say it's the foods or chemicals or whatever other nonsense they've fallen for, but to me the answer is so obvious?

We've gotten to a point that more and more people are being left behind by the system, making it so that neurodivergent parents who could get by fine *enough* in decades/centuries past are bringing children into a world that cannot and will not attempt to accommodate them. There's nothing in the water and people aren't faking, it's just that this is no longer sustainable or livable and of course people with disabilities will be hit first and hit the hardest. There aren't more people with it, it's just harder to go through life without being aware that you're not functioning the way your peers seem to be able to.

losing my mind what do you MEAN mr. brightside is 20 years old

WHAT DO YOU MEAN 2003?????

i just can't look, it's killing me 😔

watching a video on brewing Mesopotamian beer and look at this orange man (his ass cannot guard the barley)

sabotage is one of my favorite words because it comes from pissed off workers throwing their sabots into the gears of machines to break them and secure better working conditions. how fucking badass do you have to be to have your protest against the deadly machines of industry coin an entirely new term that means ‘destroy it with your shoes’.

Roomba kept crying because she couldn't find her spring toy and uh. Well, she had a good reason for it.

She's blind, she makes a lot of different sounds, and her poor social skills mean she tries to groom any other cat she bumps into. She doesn't bump into furniture or walls anymore but she used to. Whenever she bumped into something, she'd just turn around and keep going.

there's no shovel emoji. no dirt mound emoji. no open grave emoji. they don't want us to express ourselves

By far the funniest transition timelines are the ones from trans men where the "before" picture is some teeny little guy with sad baby seal eyes and the "after" picture looks like Kratos

This is one of the top posts in r/transtimelines and it really sums up what I'm talking about

My irl saw this post and sent me this even crazier transformation today! The little guy to Kratos pipeline is real!!!

if u feel the first cramp and think "i dont need a painkiller yet, itll pass" ? that the devil speaking, take that painkiller immediately

It's a lot easier to prevent cramps from getting bad than to stop them once they already are. Take the medicine sooner and use the heating pad sooner rather than later.

This is true of pain medication for ANY condition. My mom drilled this into me back when she worked as an O.R. nurse: Do not wait until the pain is bad. If you know it’s going to be, get ahead of it. First cramp? Medicate now. Twinges of a headache? Medicate now. Pulled your back and you know you’ll feel it later? Medicate NOW.

Adult ProTip, from a security professional: If a kid tells you, "My parents are gonna kill me / kick my ass / kick me out" for something relatively minor, don't respond with shit like "Really? ;) that sounds a little extreme, don't you think sweetie?" because that shit really does happen.

Instead, respond as though whatever threat they are afraid of is fully valid, and offer whatever you can do to help- ask if they believe they are in danger of being hurt in any way, and work accordingly.

If they're overreacting, they'll usually realize and dial it back, self-correct and begin thinking a bit more rationally.

If they're not overreacting, and the danger is real, then they'll need a level-headed adult in their corner, not another condescending authority figure who doesn't believe them.

This. Is. So. Important.

Goood every time I think back to my childhood, I can’t help but wonder how the adults in my life missed the abuse. How? It’s not like it was well hidden. I’d have anxiety attacks over getting an A minus. I’d confess to the most minuscule of issues. I had absolutely no friends. I’d cry at the drop of a hat. A teacher once asked me why I’m always pushing myself to get good grades and I said “if I don’t my mom will dig my grave and put me in it.”

How did they miss it?

How could I have been more obvious?

So my mom has been in the hospital in unbelievable pain all week and I'm like. What if I got people to read her smutty books. And she gets out of the hospital to hit like thousands of reads on Kindle

The problems with this plan;

She writes mostly m/f (well, m/m/m/m/f occasionally and everyone I know is a homosexual of some type)

I don't know how to market romance/smut

I don't know how to say "will you read my mom's porn" without it being weird

Basically if anyone has ideas I'd love to hear them

ok here are the books (i like the pen name lol)

points for buying/reading totally wrecked

bonus bonus points for drawing fanart and tagging her tiktok

she doesn't want this kind of promo but I'm doing this anyway bc she's my mom and she was at a 9 on the pain scale all week this week

i don't really know anything about romance (not my genre) but her other stuff are fun reads

WELL GOOD NEWS SIS I HAVE NO SHAME

READ MY MUMS PORN BOOK CAUSE SHE'S IN HOSPITAL

Tumblr: No NSFW! You know how it is we banned it because of the bots in 2018!

Also tumblr:

lmao

love when creatures sniff your hand and are like. ah understood

Natasha Lyonne has always been an icon.

Reminds me of this lol

I know how we joke about how all autism focused resources are focused almost entirely on children, but I was looking for a sensory friendly bra and literally the first 5 results on my first search were for like "for her first training bra for small chest preteen girls :)🧩"

I'm a 32 year old grown woman with C cups, give me something that will work for me, please for the love of G-d I am dying here.

please don't reblog this post a devilish temptress tricked me into making it and she placed a hex upon it so that every reblog removes a molecule from my body

I think we can do it.

Posts that have 2x10^25 notes to me.

#we’re not even close to destroying a single cell#sunlight probably does more damage to op every day than we’ve done collectively as a site

We gotta work harder!!

painting made easier

[Audio Transcript:

Do you want to paint but pain, disability, limited range of motion or tremors are getting in the way of that?

It’s world watercolor month and disability pride month, so let’s combine the two and talk about ways that you can watercolor and make it a little easier on yourself.

First up, if you struggle with grip issues, some manufacturers like Blick will actually make some of their brushes with egg shaped handles.

These are typically easier to hold, but they do come in a limited range of options so you can get something like one of these egg shaped pencil holders that will do more or less the same thing. These are just a bit easier to hold and they can reduce hand fatigue.

Next up, if you struggle with something like tremors or shaking, weight is your friend. There are universal weighted handles that you can slip onto the end and tighten on your brush or whatever you’re using as long as it fits in, and it adds a bunch of weight to the back end of it so it reduces the amount of shaking that’s possible.

If you struggle with grip strength or need something to help you hold onto something, this is an easy ring writer clip, and you can slot your brush into it and even if you’re not gripping it tightly it’s still secured to your hand.

Another option is something like this, this is an easy grip. It’s a silicone attachment that you can place on that give you an extra handle and extra security for holding your brushes and other art tools.

And finally one of my favorite tools is this artist leaning bridge. Mine is an acrylic piece of plastic that just sits over the top and allows you to rest on top while you can paint underneath it.

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