#lack of accommodations

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autism and Vulnerability

The Autistic Teacher

I just wanted to add that I really wish we had more helpful resources for teens and adults. All I see are about parts who had an autistic child or autistic children in general. Teens and adults need just as much support as parents and kids do.

This is what inspired me to create this blog. I want to help everyone who are teens, adults, and everyone in general. Even those who are not neurodivergent.

[olskuvallanpoe]

having a very im-alone-and-suffering kind of evening

[bunnieswithknives]

Okay but does Peri KNOW that Dev has a robotic leg when he shows up? Something about the fact that Peri's wand is a cane and the fact that Dev could have kept his leg and just had a cane for the rest of his life instead tickles my brain.

I mean he doesn't know immediately, he wasn't like briefed or anything, but he basically lives in Dev's house so he definitely finds out. Peri doesn't comment on or react to it all though really, there's no reason for him to think anything of it, plenty of people have missing limbs, a lot of people are born without them, it doesn't necessarily mean anything sinister happened. He had no reason to pry or ask and I think Peri's lack of reaction to it helped Dev feel a bit more comfortable in his skin. (Not by much but.. a little bit.)

[puppyeared]

man

[mantisgodiveblog]

Against all odds, we have survived. We're taking a university course now, because the government will pay us for it and we do need the money, but it has unfortunately been eroding at our sanity somewhat, and we are learning nothing that we don't already know. We are, however, getting money.

We have somewhat of a backlog on Discord at the moment, as it doesn't have a daily upload limit and also it's easier to stick things on while we are being told things that we already know by people who are phrasing in in ways we find significantly misleading or incorrect (note: we don't use apps for things the vast majority of the time and if we access Tumblr via browser it immediately fucks up our formatting on PC, which can last several months). We will, hopefully, be posting these soon, but all is dependant on if we can actually scare up the time between courses to conglomerate that and fix any formatting errors in thoughts and such.

If that will happen any time soon... good question! Every time that our work practicum teacher opens her mouth, we take points of physical damage, and we don't think she understands the fact that getting back after we walk to a place also involves walking. We've had a lot going on for a while now and very little of it has been good. We're on new meds, and if the gods prove merciful, we won't have to tolerate this particular clown show past March. If there is no mercy to be found, however, we might have to keep doing this until June, in which case you can probably expect the quality of this to take a sharp downturn as the short time we have already spent in this program is already having immediate and catastrophic effects on our mental health.

We do not recommend going to university in any circumstances, but we are unfortunately aware that it may be necessary to get such things as a fancy piece of paper saying you are employable. Additionally, we would tell you to calibrate your expectations for anyone with a degree lower, but apparently what we consider the basic level of knowledge you should know before saying anything on any topic is everyone else's "bachelor degree and a bit", so our estimations on what people think is a high degree of knowledge to have are probably also off.

Any donations go to the Fund To Compensate Us For Having To Correct A Teacher Multiple Times In A Lecture And Then Looking Up Her Sources Later And Discovering They Are Blatant Misinformation. We are very tired. Please do research on things before talking about them. Thank you.

[all-chickens-are-trans]

yesterday I had the absolute pleasure and honour to watch a dance performance that had around 40 non-professional dancers who moved and danced naked outside and in historical buildings and I just have to say. it was absolutely healing. there were old bodies. young bodies. bodies with various disabilities. trans bodies. intersex bodies. fat bodies. thin bodies. bodies in all kinds of shapes and sizes. bodies with scars and tattoos and piercings and hair -

and what you learn from watching 40 naked bodies, moving together, moving in spaces, moving against and on top of each other

is that every body holds beauty. and no body fits what is somehow supposed to be the norm or standard. and that's exactly what we all need. just ninety minutes of this and I don't think anyone will ever be able to make me feel shame again about my naked trans body, just because I saw others like mine dance, joyfully, naked, in spaces they're not supposed to belong.

[justcrafting]

There really is a lot to be said about How to Train Your Dragon and visible disability vs invisible disability and neurodivergency and how neurotypical parents (and society as a whole) treat their neurodivergent kids and how we’ve always felt the desire to belong and to do that we try our hardest to be like everyone else but even if we pass there’s almost always something that gives us away and there’s always that knowledge that we know we’re different and “Ever since he could crawl he’s been different” and “It’s not so much as what you look at it’s what’s inside that he can’t stand” and “Stop trying to be someone you’re not” “I just want to be one of you guys” and “You need to stop all this” “But you just gestured to all of me” and how it’s only once we confirm it’s when we’re paid attention to and “Finally we have something we can talk about” and“This conversation is feeling very one sided” and “For once in your life can you please just listen” and finding companionship, understanding, and humanity in the non-human before you find it in humans and, and, and-

[nyxofdemons]

four years for this show...

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[natandacat]

Ok im going home as soon as the ambulance arrives! Which could take up to 24h lol but idcccccccc

[cicada-days-of-summer]

been traveling to a bunch of college campuses this last bit, with more to see. they are IMPRESSIVELY inaccessible. like holy shit.

[hauntedfalcon]

speaking as an able bodied person who thinks frequently about accessibility and wheelchair strategy on behalf of a wheelchair using acquaintance for whom I provide transportation, I do think that able bodied people should not opt to represent mobility aids in works of media unless they’re prepared to commit to portraying accommodations with some degree of verisimilitude. without that commitment they’re undoing whatever good they might do through representation

[danielpowell]

Okay. In the tags of my last post about this game, I mentioned wanting to talk about my favorite line.

It's this:

Transcript

Peppermint :

Might be able to bypass security on that one. It's a rough route, though. Lotta stairs...

I just. I love it so much. I thought it was a brilliant way to segway into a new movement mechanic section while also highlighting the disabled aspect of the characters.

Peppermint WOULD know how rough stairs can be with a leg prosthesis.

But Chai doesn't have one, does he ? He is, however, only hours out of a major surgery and still getting used to the weight and feel of a new limb. At certain points you can even see him teetering off balance in cut scenes where he has to hop up higher levels.

Peppermint absolutely would have noticed this. Or I could be overthinking and she just felt this way from her own experience.

It was such a small line, but it was everything to me.

[fluffypurpleglitterdemon]

Xie Lian's banishment is different! I'd been wondering about how banishment and exile works for other officials based on the rules we know for Xie Lian, now I know, Xie Lian has unique rules. Other banished heavenly officials age slower than mortals but they age, and they still die - it's just Xie Lian who's sealed off from dying while shackled. (Of course: Jun Wu wouldn't want everything he did ruined by Xie Lian dying unexpectedly)

[traumagenica]

people claim to understand that progress isn't linear and recovery can take a long time until it becomes personally inconvenient to them and then you're just a stupid lazy bastard to them no matter how you behaved before you became outwardly sick or how hard you've been trying to get better. and i will be mad about that forever

[natugood]

It’s really weird and kind of sad realizing that you are growing differently than how someone you’ve known for a long time is growing