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It's okay to be loud.

It's okay to be excited during conversations. It's okay to infodump. It's okay to be frustrated when you're scolded about it. It's okay to talk to everyone at the party.

It's okay to prefer being with other people. It's okay if you instantly want to make friends. It's okay if you can't control your volume, if you repeat yourself, if you have trouble telling when it's your turn to talk. If you have vocal tics, if you have big gestures, if you have emotional outbursts, that's okay too.

You don't owe anyone your silence. You owe yourself the energy you create. You owe yourself comfort. You owe yourself the joy of jumping and yelling and singing at the top of your lungs. You don't owe anyone the right to control your voice, your hands, your body.

It's okay to be loud. It's okay to be you.

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It's okay to be quiet.

It's okay to spend a conversation not speaking. It's okay to say only a few words. It's okay to be frustrated when you're bullied about it. It's okay to be the one petting the dog at the party.

It's okay to prefer to be alone. It's okay to warm up slowly. It's okay to be "bad" at talking, to stutter, to speak irregularly, to forget words. If you communicate via text, sign, an AAC, or non-word sounds, that's okay too.

You don't owe anyone your words. You owe yourself the energy you save. You owe yourself comfort. You owe yourself the joy of falling into bed in a cool, dark, quiet room and smiling. You don't owe anyone progress, improvement, or mouth-words at all.

It's okay to be quiet. It's okay to be you.

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BIG BAD WOLF (1/3)

OOAK handmade art doll

etsy / merch / ko-fi / wishlist / patreon

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Cover artist: Lou Feck Demon Seed - 1973 - Dean R. Kootz

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Has this been done yet

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looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

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Kawaii Naked Mole Rat Adoptable

Drawn on stream. I love them sm... so smiley :)

Buy here: https://ko-fi.com/s/e8945c5dd0 !

(Check out my ko-fi! I have a shop and exclusive perks for supporters! https://ko-fi.com/bethdehart )

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Lined commission for guydudesm

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happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility

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The Mitten illus. E. Bulatov & O. Vassiliev

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i dont WANT pride months to be over,

on the other hand...

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happy disability pride month! please try to write image descriptions for your posts, especially disability-related ones, so they can be accessible to screen reader users and to low-vision people who read with enlarged fonts.

signed, a disabled person who tries to help people provide image descriptions whenever I can, but sometimes struggles to type that much, because of my own disability. to preserve the health of my wrists, I instead offer you this masterpost of ID resources to help you learn how to write them if you can, and crowdsource them if not

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btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

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An engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958 - by Berenice Abbott (1898 - 1991), American