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Why are people with down's syndrome always left out of conversations about neurodivergency and intellectual disorders? They deserve better.

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why is it that any kind of post like this automatically devolves into someone in the comments turning it into some kind of thought experiment about eugenics? like the mere mention of people with down syndrome just existing - just existing - sends people into a tailspin of debate over the ethics of their existence, the health concerns, the life expectancy, the countries that are "eliminating" it, etc. and i have seen so many leftist spaces turn the mention of down syndrome into an abortion debate, like it's impossible to be pro-choice and also acknowledge that people with down syndrome might possibly deserve a little bit better than the current hand they're being dealt. why?

like do you realize how fucked up all of this is? do you realize how fucked up it is for a person to say "hey we need to include these incredibly vulnerable and marginalized people in our activism" and for someone else to inevitably and immediately jump into the "is it or is it not eugenics to abort"? do you realize how fucked up it is that i look in these comments and see people spouting off life expectancy statistics, as if that's somehow an appropriate answer to the question being posed? is that really where your mind goes to, when someone says a group of marginalized people needs more support? yes, they very much do deserve better.

does anyone remember those stick figure fighting gifs that people used to use as their icons on forums

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holy shit this thing is old

this gif is probably older than some people on this website

I LOVE being alive so I can be mediocre at SO many different hobbies

People in the tags keep saying this but unironically but this WAS unironic I actually do have hobbies and I am mediocre at them. And they do make me happy anyway

pro tip: if you're ever drawing your ocs in drag, you need to use the Queen metric to make sure you're getting it right. optimal success happens when two of your characters are obviously doing it for a joke, one is clearly in drag but still looks amazing, and one is indistinguishable from the average beautiful woman/man

it needs to look like this.

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If you are making a boy character into a girl character for a gender swap art thing you better put that bulk back on that girl or so help me. You think girls are allergic to muscles? To fat? Do you think big bulky butch women are imaginary or something?? If that boy is as wide as a fridge that girl better be a deep freezer. Cowardice. Rights for women that are built like a tank!