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I love talking to kids about disability bc

1. they often just Get It, and

2. they have 0 concept of disability as a tragedy or something pitiable.

I've watched kids get into an argument with a teacher bc they thought wheelchairs were cool. I told a kid that I can't stand for too long sometimes and they replied, "That's okay, I can't do cartwheels sometimes, but I just do other stuff then. You can sit down with me if you want". Today a girl asked me what the headphones on a classmate's desk were for and I told her that headphones are important for some kids because noises bother them, and she said she wished she had headphones at home, because her baby brothers make a lot of noise and it makes it hard to think. The idea that different people could use tools at different times is intuitive and simple and when accessibility aids are explained neutrally, kids don't see them as bad or unfortunate, they're just things that are useful.

Even mental disability!! In Kindergarten the other day one of the kids asked me why his table partner got stickers when nobody else did. I started off by saying, "Well, when you do your work well, it feels good, right? That's your brain giving you a reward," and the kid just right away went, "Oh, and the stickers are like his reward?" YES! You are 5 and have a better grasp on ADHD than most adults! Kids blow me away every day.

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Remembered the phrase "[someone] is turning in his grave", as a way of saying that someone who's now dead would so deeply disapprove of something that a living person is doing that their corpse would stir in unease.

Then I remembered an expression, "even a worm will turn", as a way of saying that no matter how downtrodden or lowly someone seems, they can nonetheless turn against their abusers and oppressors once they've had enough of it.

Then cross-contamination happened and the phrase "a worm is turning in his grave" emerged to me. I have no idea what that means.

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"do you want women competing against trans athletes" yes? I also want women competing against male athletes. and competing alongside them. because segregating sports by gender is extremely shitty actually?

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*guy who is very clearly going through. something* oh yknow. just a little tired haha

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I hate it when I talk wistfully about the ancient world and then people are like “you wouldn’t survive back then” yeah obviously I would die immediately but do you think achilles would be able to survive in the modern world if he had to send one polite email? no

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Everybody shut up I'm sinking into a daydream universe where I'm loved and nothing is wrong

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Major human pastimes:

frying dough

classifying things and then arguing about the classifications

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me when I disappoint my boss by turning into a large roach (entirely my fault I should have considered how understaffed we are)

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eat drink sleep play

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the most annoying stage of burnout is when i want to write, and i have the urge to write, and somewhere in my skull are the words that want to be written, but they have to get through the cursed minotaur maze first and nobody remembered to bring string

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the underappreciated comedy of Sherlock Holmes and his violin. he owns a world-class instrument he bought for pennies. he's an accomplished musician well-versed in the classics. his favorite way to play? fiddling with it absentmindedly while thinking bout other stuff. bitch uses a stradivarius as a stim toy. he bribes his long-suffering roommate with golden oldies

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new york special deleted scene

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new powerup gained!

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Drew some of my Infinity Nikki looks cause I’m addicted to that game ^^

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with the release of infinity nikki it's so funny seeing new players say things like " momo is so cute" or "I would die for momo" and meanwhile every long time nikki player is like i would punt that little shit like a football

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