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"Skepticism and the scientific method are the tools of white men, women and brown people (nobly) rely on superstition and vibes instead. I am progressive." is truly one of the worst takes of the year every year.

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i’m a level 2/3 autistic who was not diagnosed until a couple months after i turned 18. instead, i was labeled as severely mentally ill and put through years of hospitalizations, day treatment, and therapies, and institutionalized for months. leaving me with trauma worse than i went in with, precisely because i was autistic, and they treated me with ableism for it despite not knowing what it was.

my semiverbality was seen as dissociation or plain old defiance. my meltdowns were seen as intentional and me being bad and disruptive and i was punished for them or called manipulative. my stimming was seen as a behavior that needed to be targeted and shamed and mocked by staff and peers alike. my sensory issues were just things i needed to be “desensitized” to (which doesn’t work that way). i was yelled at for sensory aversions and overload. i was berated and bullied if i asked them to stop blasting music or making so much noise. all while continuing or increasing the intensity of the stimuli to get back at me. i was forced to eat until i threw up nearly every day at one place and then yelled at for throwing up and having access to comfort items taken away.

my needs were ignored. support was denied or removed. i wasn’t able to take care of myself. and rather than being treated with compassion and given actual help, i faced more and more restrictions and punishments and shaming.

no one listened to me when i said how much it hurt, that i was actually trying, that i was in pain, that i couldn’t control it, that i didn’t understand what i did wrong, that SOMETHING IS WRONG.

my autistic traits were a problem with me. they said it was my fault i couldn’t do this or kept doing that. i was doing it because i was a problem child. i was lying about not being able to control it. i was lying about how hard things were and the harm they caused.

i was diagnosed when i was 18. after experiencing torture for years. higher support needs autistics can go undiagnosed. and it doesn’t mean we have the Smart Outcast experience. it can also mean we’re put through a different path of abuse for disabled children. not having an autism diagnosis did me no favors. it kept me safe from nothing. late diagnosis doesn’t always mean people thought you were normal. it doesn’t always mean you grew up low support needs. sometimes it means they would rather have a “mentally ill” child who’s problems are a moral failing of its own lack of effort than admit you weren’t lying.

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"Trans women are actually women for real, not in a metaphorical sense, not in a "anyone can be anything" sense, but genuinely actually make more taxonomic sense to classify in the category of women than any other group you could classify them in" is a position you'll find is pretty radical even in queer spaces

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nobody is immune but some of you are… concerning susceptible… 😟

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gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy�� problem

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Is this a problem?

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You are Clara Oswald, you are human, you are unimportant. Incorrect. See, that is what you’re supposed to think. That is what everybody thinks! Clara Oswald is a cover story, a disguise, there is no Clara Oswald. DOCTOR WHO — Death In Heaven (S08E12) 10 years ago, 8th November 2014 directed by Rachel Talalay | written by Steven Moffat ››› Jenna Coleman as The Doctor

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If you're in Australia and Jewish, please be aware that in Victoria, Melbourne a synagogue was firebombed with worshippers inside this morning.

Thankfully no one was killed however this is a horrific attack that could lead to copycats and or an escalation of hate crimes against Jewish Australians. I am in no way qualified to talk on how to handle such an event as a non-Jewish person. I cannot begin to think of the many Jewish Australians who are now fearful of their life in public, in their place of worship and in their home. I can only provide you some resources that may help ease you.

Here are some helplines that are catered to Jewish people and for anyone else impacted by the attack to call or use;

JewishHouse: 24/7 service offering support for those experiencing a crisis. ➡️ 1300 544 357

JewishCare: 9am to 5pm service offering counselling. ➡️ 1300 133 660

HeadSpace: provides online counselling and telephone support for young people aged 12 to 25. ➡️ 1800 650 890

Kids Helpline: 24/7 telephone and online counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25. ➡️ 1800 55 1800

Mental Health Line: 24 hour mental health telephone access service for adults and children. ➡️ 1800 011 511

Lifeline: 24 hour telephone counselling service. ➡️ 13 11 14

Please don't hesitate to reach out for support or to connect with the people in your community. I believe that as people we can always find comfort and strength in one another to get through tough times.

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death of subcultures and death of third places are directly connected and you can’t convince me otherwise

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I am getting tested for OCD in April (along with a barrage of tests for various neurodivergences) and I will be very curious to see what the results come back as...

I was diagnosed with clinical anxiety and depression years ago, but also the nurses in the out-patient program thought I had OCD, so...

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Here's a quick disclaimer:

I do not care about Jesus. I do not like Jesus. I do not want to hear about Jesus, in a "secular" way or otherwise. No, I don't think Jesus was a pretty cool guy anyway. If you talk to me about Jesus or reblog my posts with additions or tags about Jesus, you will be getting blocked.

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Is it just me or is there a real trend of neurodivergent people who are allergic to the word disabled?

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Elphaba is the kind of autistic where it is inconceivable for her to mask and Glinda is the kind of autistic that has her mask so firmly in place that she doesn't even realize she's doing it. They are in love also

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I need you people to realize that you can be friends with people older than you. like, much older than you. like, decades older than you. you can be friends with these people. regular friends, just like anyone your age. it is possible.

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Really tired of online autistic communities (usually populated by high-masking and level 1 ASD people) remaking Aspie Supremacy but with "neurodiversity-affirming" jargon.

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Why is it that it never seems to occur to y'all that Jews who oppose the war in Gaza, or name the Nakba or the apartheid system in the West Bank as things that exist and are bad, or oppose Zionism, are doing it out of actual sincere desire for justice and ethics?

Why do you always assume we're doing it to be "good Jews" or to save our skins or for social media clout? It's never occurred to you that we oppose the war in Gaza because people in Gaza are suffering and we actually sincerely care about that?

Honestly the level of false motives you ascribe to us would be antisemitic if it was coming from goyim.

And it's just disrespectful. Feel free to disagree with us. But please for half a second assume that we're not doing this to try to earn cookies from goyim.