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One of the reasons that many autistic women get turned away from a diagnosis is that they are in a romantic relationship. how could she possibly have a disability related to social dysfunction? she was socially skillful enough to attain one of the primary goals of a woman's life, she has a partner! what this ignores is that for women, especially autistic women, getting into a relationship is something that can just straight up be done to you without you taking any action at all or even really consenting to it. Men approach women, involve themselves in women's lives, push women to give them attention and spend time with them, begin forming expectations around the woman's availability to them based simply on having been around her a lot before, and every individual in the woman's life will typically encourage her to grant the man a chance and get into a relationship with him, and will begin asking her questions and forming assumptions that push that relationship further along. when are you two going to move in together? surely you want to have kids! well of course he wants to spend a lot of time with you, you're dating! and so in fact a person who is disempowered due to misogyny and who is also extremely passive and socially confused due to autism can actually be even more likely to wind up into a relationship or always to be in one. hell a great many autistics say that they didn't even choose their friendships at all, those friendships just happened to them by virtue of proximity and sufficient pushiness (or interest) on the part of the friends! so it's actually very easy for an autistic woman, no matter her degree of social skills or ability to neuro conform, to wind up in a relationship.

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Cher

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Crushway AU | It was the 90s... and they were ⋆⭒"roommates"˚.⋆

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frankie adams as bobbie draper in the expanse - one ship: win or lose

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Tracee Ellis Ross

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Shohreh Aghdashloo as Detective Inspector Saliyah “Sunny” Qadri in Law and Order SVU S12E14 “Dirty”

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im just gonna say if i was julie mao and died a brutal and awful death from alien space fungus and then wake up from what i know as a weird ass fever dream to some creep detective w/ an awful undercut who's obsessed with me (and hits on me before trying to kiss me) im piloting that asteroid towards earth FASTER. im speeding up. mb ill turn around and get ceres first for good measure

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gayness made me do it

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idk why people photoshopped the crying cat meme on this pic when the unedited version is so powerful

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At 67 years old, Emma Rowena Gatewood told her adult children she was going out for a walk. What they didn't realize was that her "walk" would span 2,168 miles and make history. In 1955, Gatewood became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail solo and in a single season, starting from Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia and finishing at Mount Katahdin in Maine.

A farmer's wife from Ohio and mother of 11, Gatewood-affectionately known as "Grandma Gatewood"-embarked on her journey with little more than determination and a deep resilience forged through hardship. Having endured years of domestic abuse before finally escaping her marriage, she found solace and strength in nature. Her trek was more than just a physical challenge-it was an act of liberation.

Unlike today's well-equipped thru-hikers, Gatewood traveled light. She wore simple Keds sneakers, carried a homemade denim sack, and relied on her foraging skills and the generosity of strangers along the way.

Via @roadtrip_newengland on IG

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hey sexy. I can tell by the frequency of your blog updates that you are once again avoiding it all

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i love how everyone on this website is kind of pathetic it brings such a sense of understanding and community

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South Indian bodybuilders photographed by Keerthana Kunnath

Not What You Saw, 2024

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can you take my white ass to funkytown

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Haris Alexiou

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I hope I'm not just a mutual to you, but someone you want to bring up in irl conversation so you have to awkwardly and cryptically say "my friend..." and refuse to elaborate on my origins or the origins of our friendships