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Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.

Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.

It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine — a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health — and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] — for it to be okay for these words to be censored.

And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.

I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry

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i am unreasonably proud and excited about this

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shout out to every disabled person with a rare condition. to people who's condition doesn't have a Wikipedia page. people who have a condition so underresearched there's no developed treatment. someone i knew has a condition which has been recorded in fewer than 100 people worldwide. i don't even want to say the name of it because it's a privacy concern. and it's not limited to like this 1 guy i knew. it can be isolating having to keep quiet about your condition because it's so rare. it's isolating that no disability positivity posts has ever named your condition. or being considered a medical anomaly. it's especially important for the autonomy of these people that disabled people don't have to disclose all/any specific disabilities we have

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“surely this will not cause my chronic illness to flare up,” i say, actively doing something that has never failed to flare my chronic illness

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Toothpaste review: Hello Unicorn Sparkle

Oh boooooy, I found my next toothpaste winner.

The toothpaste also sparkles.

But as a quick reminder of my criteria:

Is a gel, not a paste (bc paste texture is yucky. Some people will describe the paste texture as gritty. I am not a fan.)

Has sufficient amounts of fluoride (about 0.25% sodium fluoride)

SLS free (because SLS is a foaming agent and can be very harsh and strip the surfaces inside your mouth. It leads to dry mouth and can increase how many canker sores you get, which is my issue.)

Not mint flavoured (This is bubble gum and tastes great)

Not stupid expensive (It's $6 CAD, which more than my old toothpaste and regular toothpaste, but it's not too terrible.)

So far, this may be my new all the time toothpaste. I have now tried 4 different toothpastes since my old one got discontinued. I'm ready for this journey to be done. May they keep making this one.

Also, the cap is really easy to open and I find the nozzle squirts out very clean, which I am a fan of. And of course, it's rainbow and sparkles, literally could not find something more aesthetically appealing for my brain if I tried. Whoo!

So remember to brush and floss, everyone! And if it takes finding a toothpaste that doesn't make brushing the worst chore ever, please do! The point isn't to suffer, it's to get the job done. So work with yourself. Figure out what you like, what you don't like, and go from there. Good luck, everyone! May you all find your toothpaste.

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you there. high quality production youtube channel with a team of people. why are your captions autogenerated.

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because I've seen this a couple times now.

'ambulatory' does not mean "uses aid sometimes"

'ambulatory' means "able to walk, even just a little bit"

the phrase 'ambulatory mobility aid user' means anyone who is able to walk And uses a mobility aid. yes it includes people who are not full-time wheelchair users. but it also includes people who are full-time users of aids that include walking (e.g. canes, rollators, etc)

I think some people are using these terms incorrectly in a way that makes me confused about the point they're trying to make. so just thought I'd clear that up

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being traumatized is so embarrassing sometimes like oooogh my mom was mean to me when i was little so now i want to eviscerate myself anytime i think i’ve done something wrong. fuck you

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if the pain isn't my fault then why do I feel guilty?

(society has led you to believe you are a burden for needing help)

I want to love my body but some days I hate it

(your body is trying its best to keep you going, but I understand why you feel that way)

I want to pause everything, I don't want to feel like this anymore

(me too. maybe we could just sit together for awhile?)

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Life-changing OCD hack is learning that you can literally call poison control to check if you fucked up and took medications wrong in a way that could kill you instead of having a panic attack while reading reddit and quora threads for an hour. They won't even be mad at you. Like obviously don't do it every day or something but genuinely you can do this if you need to

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Medical condition: gets worse without sleep

Medical condition: makes it harder to sleep

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saying this as a disabled person that genuinely does need a shower seat to bathe but i think shower seats are so fucking awesome even if you dont """need""" one for a disability. i think all showers should just have a chair built in so you can chill out in there and vibe. also if you like to shave your legs it's convenient

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disability advocacy went wrong when it became about inspiration porn and “differently abled” and savants. its incredible that that guy with no legs did a triathlon but your sister with no legs will not and she doesnt need prosthetics or five hour training days to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. its incredible that that autistic guy can look at a city from a helicopter for an hour and then draw the entire detailed skyline from memory when he lands but your autistic friend cannot and they dont need to have a special Autism Power to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. 

activism framed around “we are just as CAPABLE” means that when people genuinely are less capable they are left behind. activism framed around “we are just as WORTHY” is fundamental to radical compassion.

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there’s nothing shameful about making things easier or more accessible for yourself btw.

if your disability means you can rarely/never cook so you have to order out a lot, or buy precut ingredients, or if you need other people to help you cook even “simple” meals.

if your disability means you struggle with personal hygiene so you don’t shower standing up, or don’t brush & floss “correctly” or long enough, or put up your hair when you can’t handle brushing it.

if your disability means you’re not able to engage in your hobbies in a “normal” or “correct” way. if you have to watch movies multiple times because your brain fog is making it hard to follow the plot. if you need accessibility tools to be able to draw or paint. if you have to do everything from bed.

you’re not doing anything bad or wrong. you’re being kind to yourself and caring for yourself in the ways that you’re able to. it’s nothing to be ashamed of.

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my biology professor: here's how the autonomic nervous system works

me to my body: are you taking fucking notes?

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I think one of the goals of society should be that someone who requires expensive medicine and a lot of care can live an amazing life, the longest life they possibly can, with dignity, even if they have no friends or family or anyone who cares enough about them to help. the goals of a society should be to make life better than if we are alone, society should want life to be as good as possible for as many people as possible, and those goals should account for people not having social support networks.

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The thing about becoming disabled is that it touches every part of your life—which means it changes every part of your life.

Your own self image will likely be completely broken down. You are not who you thought you were, and your life will not be what you thought it would be. It’s up to you to decide how you want to rebuild yourself. It’s up to you to figure out how to even begin to do that.

Likewise, the way you see the world around you will change. You start viewing everything through a different lens. You have to decide how to interpret what you see, and what you do about it.

You learn which parts of you are intrinsic, unchangeable. In some ways, you become a new person. You learn things about yourself and about the world around you that other people might never have to learn.