#metapianycist

[metapianycist]

i got an ask asserting that amy sequenzia was fraudulently being manipulated by her carer and thus can't be credited for her contributions to autistic advocacy, which include significant work against the idea that nonverbal people should be pitied or presumed not to have thoughts.

i didn't want to let this sit in my askbox without a response.

you should always ask yourself what someone's goal is when they tell you that a prominent nonverbal activist—one whose entire body of work is about presuming competence and advocating for nonverbal people's agency and dignity—is in some way fraudulent.

you could also ask yourself: if it's true that this autistic person's caregivers are deliberately manipulating their words (or, as in related conspiracy theorizing I've seen about other autistic activists: if it's true that this person is faking being nonverbal...), who would be materially benefitting from this very effortful fraud, and what would be the goal of orchestrating such a complex fraud? if there's no clear benefit or goal to this kind of fraud, this should give you serious pause.

conspiracism about prominent nonverbal autistic people being fraudulent very frequently occurs alongside a reluctance to believe that a nonverbal person who uses communication supports can genuinely have and communicate thoughts, and doubt that such a nonverbal person could ever have thoughts as complex as a verbal person's.

ask yourself: what is the goal of asserting that a prominent nonverbal activist's words are not their own and that they've been manipulated by their caregivers?

is it to draw attention to legitimate harm done to the nonverbal person by their caregivers?

is it drawing attention to harm done directly to nonverbal people by the activist's work?

or is the assertion meaning to discredit the idea of presuming competence at all in nonverbal people who need assistance communicating?

be wary of people who wear their skepticism as a badge of honor yet are committed to the idea that some prominent nonverbal autistic activist is either faking or can't possibly be responsible for their own words, especially if the self-styled skeptic shows no interest in figuring out ways to protect nonverbal people from harm in a way that presumes that they indeed have thoughts.

amy sequenzia is not the first nonverbal autistic person who's been the subject of conspiracy theorizing suggesting that her caregivers are using her as a puppet and that her entire body of work consists of their words and not hers. she will not be the last nonverbal person whose communication is questioned. but we can always critically examine these kinds of claims to see if they come from a place of genuine value for nonverbal people's agency and safety.

[pathos-logical]

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[librarycards]

hello everyone, and welcome to my Q3 book recs of 2024! this has been a *huge* book summer for me, not least because i've gotten to visit and chat with so many independent booksellers. after all, my debut novel, Failure to Comply (GR) (Storygraph), is now available for order, and I've been running around doing events and other publicity things to celebrate! While I'm obviously not going to recommend my own book in my top 9, if you enjoy experimental speculative fiction, Mad/trans cyborgs, and evil dykes + body horror, consider checking it out.

anyway! here are my favorites from this summer. it was, as always, a tough choice, but i hope you find something you like!

Gayl Jones, White Rat

Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

Michael Faber, Under the Skin

Randa Jarrar, A Map of Home

Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun

Evan Dahm, The Last Delivery

Tommy Pico, IRL

Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Integration of Strangers

Camila Sosa Vilada, tr. Kit Maude, Bad Girls

thanks, as always, for reading + enjoying these! i enjoy sharing them with you. if you want to see more regular recs from me for a variety of media, consider subscribing to my newsletter – I share short poetry/prose; audio; books; and more every month.

tagging people below, but no pressure to do it if you're tagged, and those not tagged are enthusiastically encouraged to do this + tag me in it (whether we're mutuals or not!!)

@campgender @capricornpropaganda @fluoresensitive @closet-keys @fatehbaz @lunarianbeams

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@abstractlesbian @grimesapologist @aldieb @bioethicists @heavenlyyshecomes @trans-axolotl & anyone else who wants to!!

[mysticalmomma]

My friend gave me this today (randomly cuz she's knows I'm all about them rocks🤗🙃) can anyone help me identify it?!?!?!?

[walltowalltitties]

have i ever told you that your username gives me great amusement whenever i see it, because it gives me the absurd image of a wall covered in disembodied breasts? thank you for putting your excellent username on my activity page ❤️❤️

Thank you for this ask and for having such an excellent blog!

[powerfultulips]

@wornbinder @art--school--wannabe @enby-ralsei @weirdgirlfag @polyamorouspunk @finley-myself @garden-of-growth @demilypyro @trauma-rat @pretty-ichor @himbo-butch @asracadabraa @nerdenthusiastsquad @bromantically @cryptid-corpse @jackalopefreckles @kitschycritter @librarycards @metapianycist @oddly-okay @queerautism @ramblelifeaway @river-witchery @remy hey would y’all mind reblogging this please, my partner is really scared

hey yall, i could use some help

without going into too much personal detail, im a disabled trans man and i need some help paying my phone bill and getting groceries. even if you cant spare anything if you could spread this around id really appreciate it.

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[borrowedfeathers]

metapianycist ответил(a) на ваш пост “Any other neurodivergent trans/non-cis people ever get the feeling...”

Bullies thought it would be especially fun to call me the D slur and another name that they thought was a masculinized version of my deadname. In addition to cringing whenever I hear my deadname (even when it's someone else's name), I also cringe at the other name I was called.

Yeeeeep. This is why one of my dealbreakers for dating is having any variation on my deadname. Someone could literally be my Dream Girlfriend in every imaginable way but with a name like that? Nope. 

And it’d be one thing if it were a rare name instead of one of the most common names of all for American AFAB millennials.

[equalseleventhirds]

metapianycist

i headcanon that aziraphale pays his rent by conjuring up the illusion of money with angel magic

i also headcanon that crowley has fallen asleep in the bookshop

both Excellent and Factual headcanons!!

[go3dprinting]

metapianycist

replied to your post

“metapianycist replied to your post “Depressed ,Fedup ,Frustrated” ...”

don't sell yourself short

I will because I have a history. I am 39 its not like I am 22. Its always been this way. No one will touch me with a 10 foot pole if it involves anything more then minimum wage work. It not matter the degrees I have or my skills or anything else. Employers treat me like I have Leprosy. 

[emeraldincandescent]

@metapianycist replied to your post: Good idea or asshole idea? Give the Salvation Army...

Give them to people who are about to donate to the bell ringers. The bell ringers are very frequently homeless people who I think have to do it as volunteer work to continue being helped by the SA?

I'm not going to be a dick to the bell ringers, I know they're not responsible. I would just drop it in silently, and then whoever counts the money would see it. It would be great to educate people who donate too, but that requires more spoons than I have for this particular project. The idea was that it was a low-effort, low-confrontation way to protest the Salvation Army and let them know why I won't donate and what they need to do to change.

[chocobabyporcelain]

@metapianycist Exactly. Homeopathy is bullshit anyway, but I’m more pissed of that this site is trying to flog a “”””treatment”””” for autism?!?!

[metapianycist]

sometimes i read old tumblr posts (or even old poems) that i think are beautifully worded or skillfully argued, and i am shocked to discover that i wrote them.

i am working on not viewing this in a self-deprecating "wow my brain is poop now, i used to be Smart™" way but in a way of "i had a lot more time and spoons and opportunities to devote to developing my writing/argument skills when i wrote that, and i'm proud of what I've done." i am out of practice now for multiple reasons, some of which are beyond my control but none of which mean "I've peaked and nothing i can write now will ever be as good, so i shouldn't bother trying" or "i was more valuable then than i am now."

as an undiagnosed neurodivergent child whose disabilities were ignored (or outright denied) because i was categorized as "gifted," i was told i was "too smart to have ADHD" among other fucked up things. my special interests (that teachers knew about) were diagnosed as gifted, my lack of friends was attributed to giftedness making me unrelatable, and all my struggles were diagnosed as laziness instead of executive dysfunction. opportunities when i was able to perform at my absolute best then became the standard i was expected to perform all the time, and my inevitable failure to do so was interpreted as more evidence of my laziness, instead of me being a human being.

tl;dr: i am realizing that i have more work to do in dismantling the Gifted® Kid™ bullshit that laid much of the foundation of my internalized ableism. accepting myself as disabled—more than a decade ago—was only the beginning.

[panicand]

@metapianycist oh trust me i have no idea! well our keys are black and we don’t have any light markers that’d show. she got a new keyboard today so that’s something

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[librarycards]

hi! do you have any recs for other blogs that post about Mad studies, critical disability and queer/trans studies, etc?

I have many! Here are my favorites / comrades. I'm not going to divide by topic bc that's obviously not how our lives work, but all make original posts/commentary on Madness, disability, intersex politics, queer/trans politics, and other topics related to autonomy/bodymind self-determination in the shadow of medico-legal violence:

@sadhoc

@bioethicists

@materialisnt

@venus-macabre

@trans-axolotl

@cannabiscomrade

@campgender / @crippleprophet

@closet-keys

@bananapeppers

@killyfromblame

@metapianycist

There are many more, but these are my treasured mutuals whose opinions are top notch, and whenever they make a post i'm like [note-taking emoji]. enjoy!

[blautitlewave]

you are allowed to hate aspects of being autistic, to hate being autistic, to feel like your autism is a negative thing. but you don't get to argue that it's okay for a non-autistic person to force a hypothetical cure on a nonverbal autistic person as if that autistic person will relate to their autism the way you relate to yours.

I want a cure for myself, that’s it. Y’all can feel happy, but I’m 86% sure that my suffering would be lessened quite considerably if I were cured. That’s my opinion. 

[logicalabsurdity]

metapianycist

in the u.s. the asset cap for SSI is $2000 usd

the explanation is "fuck disabled people"

so i’ve heard

and like there are exceptions to the "no more than $5k in assets" thing for certain kinds of savings accounts or if you need more than that for medical equipment, but. like. byzantine rules and regulations. UGH. sob.