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autism problem #435

when people keep comparing you to other kids your age

forever grateful that my mom tried to keep up with my interests– even when things got a little lost in translation

Extremely Good

so far ive stopped using this account anywhere besides my phone since im still logged in here on mobile. that may continue for a while until i get my bearings on the other account but eventually i will stop using that one soo

idk anyone following here whos a friend/buddy/acquaintance etc send a message to ptoots for the url, ill get the message no matter which account im logged into

You know what frustrates the diddly doo outta me?

When the subject of autism is being discussed in non-autistic spaces, and an autistic person contributes and says they are autistic, and other people act like that means absolutely nothing. So many times I’ve seen people be like, “Since you’re able to type, you’re high functioning and this isn’t about you”. 

But anyone else who contributes to the conversation is always like, “I have a kid with autism” or “I work with kids with autism” like that gives them authority and ownership over autism. 

I am just so confused as to why autistic people are constantly told they don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to autism, yet if a neurotypcal person just *knows* an autistic person, they’re allowed to contribute whatever the heck they want.

I feel like that didn’t make sense. Hopefully it did?

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Pls note that if you’re part of an organization with a budget for speakers you can invite Eisha to come speak!!! Great way to funnel institutional money to a trans woman in need

@staff hey guys u know the feature u added? the one where when u reblog something sometimes the post’s content completely deletes itself and is only fully visible on your blog? so on your dash it just looks like you reblogged an empty post with a headline sometimes? Yeah that’s a great feature i love it.

yes this has been happening to me a lot lately

might be an extension causing it? i know xkit was doing that to me for a while. if not...well im impressed tumblr

Please help my friend escape his abusive home

My friend Klaus is a 17 year old mentally ill intersex trans person who needs help escaping his living situation.  He currently resides across the country from me with his physically and emotionally abusive legal guardian  Initially my partner and I were going to raise the money ourselves by working and doing commissions, but due to an incident that happened earlier today, Klaus feels it is urgent to leave as soon as possible.

He wants to raise $1500 so he can fly out to oregon and move in with with my partner and I, we have most of the money saved up but we need this 1.5k to pay for his plane ticket, deposit on an apartment, and first month of rent.  I would appreciate it if you could reblog this post, even if you were to just delete it later, any amount exposure would be tremendous help. Klaus is also taking commissions and will complete them once he has a safe place to stay 

Here is Klaus’ blog for his art, and to contact him if you would like to commission him: @beige1840 and here is his gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/fw3f5rng

Indonesian mechanic welds with a “robotic” arm he built for himself after he became partially paralyzed.

http://foto.metrotvnews.com/view/2016/01/22/472963/tawan-si-manusia-lengan-robot

PLEASE REBLOG

Jesus Christ

Holy shit boost and please stay safe if you use rideshare stuff like this.

so far ive stopped using this account anywhere besides my phone since im still logged in here on mobile. that may continue for a while until i get my bearings on the other account but eventually i will stop using that one soo

idk anyone following here whos a friend/buddy/acquaintance etc send a message to ptoots for the url, ill get the message no matter which account im logged into

what is a group online activity to do…

there are sites where you can play board games (boardgameonline is a fun one) and then there are sites to draw as a group… there’s a cards against humanity clone out there somewhere. uh… 

mafia is a fun game to play but you need more than three people. it works better with 5+ people

Chub art of characters you’re attracted to

it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, “but I am le tired… well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internet 

tbh i still start sentences with “hokay, so” at least 3 times a day 

Also, while this is on my mind. In my master’s-level food toxicology class today we discussed various genetically modified crops and watched part of a documentary about them, and as someone with a food science degree I would like to be clear about the following:

The only health risk that has been shown to us throughout twenty plus years of having genetically modified crops as part of the food system is that there is a possibility of introducing proteins that could cause allergic reactions. New strains are required to be tested for this, of course, but that is a practical risk that needs to be closely monitored.

The objection to GM in general should be the patenting of genes and other legal matters; there are a number of crops that have been saved from blight and overall extinction via modification in the past two decades, and much like putting up inaccessibly expensive paywalls to scientific journals, patenting of genes within crops limits our ability within universities, small research companies, etc to make significant breakthroughs to further the scientific progress of humanity. 

Furthermore. People think of organic crops as the environmentally-friendly option. If you believe this, please pay attention to what I’m about to say. Current regulations dictate that to have a crop classified as organic the land on which the crop is grown has to have been pesticide-free for a significant amount of time. There is no interim label available to farmers. So what do they do? Do they use no pesticides and take the losses from disease and insects for a decade, waiting for a time in which they are allowed to reclassify their crops in such a way that they can sell them for more money?

Of course they don’t. It isn’t practical. You can say what you like about how the system is structured; I’d personally like to see an interim classification come into play. But what farmers actually do, and states like Montana are feeling the full effects of this–they clear-cut forests and plant their organic crops on entirely new land.

You want to tell me that clear-cutting forests is environmentally friendly? It’s not. Hell, for all that people make a big deal about saving the environment by limiting how much paper they use, paper production is done in a more sustainable manner (because the paper farms replant their trees in a regular cycle so as to not deplete their sources; they don’t just go out and cut down random trees). 

There are objections to be had in regards to GM crops on a legal basis. On a scientific one, there isn’t much. Call them frankenfoods all you want; look up what most commercially-sold produce truly looks like in the wild with no modification and you will learn very quickly that all foods have been modified in some way over the years through conventional breeding. We just think of that differently. 

Biotechnology is not the enemy. Pseudoscience tells us that this is the case. Pseudoscience also tells us that we should seek out natural supplements instead of medicine, and, well… that’s a rant for another day, but suffice to say it’s an even more dubious proposition.

Don’t buy into it.

tl;dr:  Biotechnology is not the enemy. Major corporations patenting genetic strains and preventing new agricultural breakthroughs is the problem. Additionally, crops classified as organic are not generally environmentally friendly because farmers clear-cut forests just to plant crops on land untouched by pesticides.