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A does not stand for ally, it stands for ASPECS. aros and aces and agenders and aplatonics and ASPECS damn it.

i will fucking swallow a motherfucker whole if I hear that argument again.

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I am unfortunately just like other guys. I like trashy horror, dog poems, cannibalism as a metaphor for obsessive devotion, religious imagery, people who use my name in a sentence, academic validation, lying for fun, being bisexual and bleeding out in the snow.

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DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

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Hey man don’t cry. Animals wearing little outfits, ok?

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Liz Mamont

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whenever there is weakness of the flesh it’s like um okay so replace it with the purity of the machine then?

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"I felt like I was spamming you so I stopped" girl if I could download every thought you've ever had as a PDF I'd read that shit start to finish. Spam me more. I want to hear what you have to say.

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Nono they're right though. This all makes perfect sense

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The green on the aro flag represents the fact that we are correct about everything.

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if you eat very aromatic foods in the breakroom I hate you

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I think, under certain circumstances and on the top of his game, martin would enjoy the club, whereas jon would rather burn alive (again) than have to go. melanie feels like she really should like the club and is always pissed off when she goes and remembers this isn't the case. basira doesn't get the appeal, she brings a book and zones out for several hours but she could do that anywhere. tim does like clubbing, but it's not the top of his list of favorite social spaces, he prefers slightly quieter spots where he can actually talk to people. georgie has a true clubber's spirit but she doesn't have the time to go often between her podcast and day job. gerry went clubbing once and had such a good time that he was banned from ever coming back. follow me for more topical tma opinions.

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i love you nonspeakers. i love you nonverbal people.

i love you nonverbal people who prefer to be called nonverbal. i love you nonspeaking people who prefer to be called nonspeaking. i love you nonspeaking nonverbal people who tired of debate about terminology or can’t keep up with it and just want be heard and communication rights respected.

i love you people who not speak ever since birth ( hi! ). i love you people who use to speak but experience regression / catatonia / burnout or with degenerative physical disabilities. i love you nonspeaking nonverbal people with acquired disabilities.

i love you multimodal communicators. i love you people with complex communication needs. i love you apraxic people who are unreliably speaking. i love you minimally verbal people. i love you semiverbal people. i love you speaking people with selective mutism with speech loss who listen to us and not speak over us.

I love you nonspeaking nonverbal autistic people. i love you nonspeaking / nonverbal people with other intellectual & developmental disabilities. i love you nonspeaking / nonverbal people with apraxia / dyspraxia ( full body or apraxia of speech ) . I love you nonspeaking nonverbal people with brain injury with stroke with aphasia with genetic disorders. i love you nonspeaking / nonverbal people with mental health disabilities that affect language ( eg schizophrenia ) .

I love you AAC users. I love you users of text based AAC. I love you users of picture based AAC. I love you users of low tech AAC. I love you people who can’t afford the big expensive robust systems and rely on free apps or low tech for that reason. I love you people who need small grid size. I love you people who need visual accommodations to AAC like high contrast. I love you people who need alternate access like switch , eye gaze , head track , joystick , partner assisted scanning to make AAC accessible. I love you nonspeaking / nonverbal people who use sign languages. I love you PECS users. I love you letter board users. I love you people who need human support to use AAC , people who use methods like FC and RPM and S2C and all the “ discredited ” method that are constant at risk of being take away from you.

I love you nonspeaking nonverbal people who haven’t found a way to functional communicate that works for them yet. i love you people who communicate mostly or entirely with behavior with gesture with pointing with vocal sounds not words. i love you people who only way communicate is what the system calls “challenging behavior.” I love you people who communicate through violent meltdown, who SIB and hurt others , run away unsafely , destroy property etc and who are punish institutionalize incarcerate or other abused oppressed instead of helped find other way to communicate. i love you nonverbal nonspeaking people who won’t ever see this post, who under institution control or informal more subtle control and don’t have access to social media , or who disability make social media hard , or who just don't like / have interest in being on here (was me for a while !)

I love you nonverbal and nonspeaking people who have found a home in the nonverbal / high support need community on here and who feel like experience is represent. i love you nonverbal and nonspeaking people who have found a home in offline AAC / nonspeaking world like CommunicationFirst and the spellling to communicate conferences. i love you nonverbal and nonspeaking people who tired of and criticize things in these communities , who alienated by respectability politics and " our mind is fine " language and insisting that most nonspeaking people don't have ID (and other issues can't think of right now) . I love you nonverbal and nonspeaking people who not find their " home " in the disability / nonverbal nonspeaking community yet , who not see own experience represent anywhere.

i love you nonspeakers of color. i love you nonspeaking nonverbal queer and trans people. i love you physically disabled nonspeaking / nonverbal people. i love you mentally ill / Mad nonspeaking nonverbal people. i love you poor nonspeaking nonverbal people. i love you nonspeaking / nonverbal people not from global north.

i love you nonverbal people. i love you nonspeaking people. we are great and we deserve to be heard.

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I'd sacrifice my firstborn to have a bun like that first photo

So we all agree, that the plot was fine, but the real star of season two was Ed's hair?

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all I want is a piece of naan the size of a queen mattress