neurowonderful:

[Image description: White rectangles filled with text overlaid on a photo of the Capitol Crawl that took place on March 12, 1990. The photo shows a blonde eight-year-old named Jennifer Keelan, who has cerebral palsy, walking on hands and knees as she leads a group of physically disabled people in crawling and walking up the stone steps leading to the austere white Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

The text reads, “Not person experiencing disability as in ‘a Republican president gave me the ADA’, Capital D Disabled as in people literally crawling up the steps and parking their chairs in front of buses gave me the ADA” and is credited to activist Kassiane Asasumasu. End of image description.]

kasplode:

being out in public spaces with people who don’t have anxiety issues is so fucking weird

like. they want/need to do something and just.. go do it. they just DO things without hesitation or being overly awkward or weird. they just. they just go and do things! just like that!

that?? does not compute for me????

?????

ace-inclusionist:

okay the thing is like

some people aren’t depressed.

a diagnosis for depression, according to WebMD, needs a patient to display at least five symptoms of depression. sometimes that doesn’t happen. sometimes people have only two symptoms, or three, or not for long enough to get a diagnosis. and they suffer still.

sometimes it means they do have depression and that their doctor didn’t pick up on it. sometimes it means that they don’t have depression, but they do have the symptoms, and they need help because it’s affecting their life.

it’s important to help people like this.

psychology, and psychiatry, are younger sciences. we don’t know much about mental illnesses. but here’s what I know: people who are suffering deserve help.

maybe somebody isn’t depressed enough. but they’re suffering. they aren’t thriving. we need to help them.

we can’t gatekeep who does and doesn’t deserve help. if somebody says they need it, then they do. and if somebody wants help, they deserve it. people deserve help. people deserve to thrive.

CosDNA – Cosmetics Ingredients Search

spoonie-living:

If you’re sensitive to a bunch of stuff, or trying to suss out what could be setting off a new reaction, you’ll love this site!

CosDNA lets you search by product or ingredient, and lists out ingredient functions, safety, level of irritation, and to what extent it might impact your acne.

It looks like it’s Chinese in origin, so if you like your imported makeups, you’ll probably be covered.

Be sure to cross-reference with INCIDecoder, which goes into significantly more detail on ingredients’ usages and research.

CosDNA – Cosmetics Ingredients Search

feminismandmedia:

jumpingjacktrash:

mugwomps:

jumpingjacktrash:

watching a science documentary and they did a bit on face blindness

they were like “imagine not being able to instantly recognize the actors in the latest blockbuster, or your friends and coworkers”

i was like WOW IMAGINE FUCKING THAT

That would be simultaneously terrifying and exhausting.

what, faceblindness? nah, it’s just inconvenient. it’s not like y’all are just faceless egg people to me. it’s just that two people with brown hair and blue eyes and long hair and roundish faces look substantially the same.

things like facial expressions, being tired, a sunburn, or a change of room lighting changes how your face looks so much that to me, you look like a different person. i do not actually think you ARE a different person.

everyone keeps looking different all the time, it’s not something that happens suddenly. all my life people have always changed with the angle of the light, like flowers opening and closing, you know? like the tree in your backyard that is still the same tree in all seasons. it doesn’t freak you out that the tree looks different by moonlight than it does in the afternoon, right? same way it doesn’t freak me out when seebs looks different when eating noodles in their pyjamas than when striding out to go conquer the world.

it’s just that 98% of people have some kind of brain hardware that goes an extra step when looking at other humans, and recognizes a pattern that is somehow coherent despite all these visual changes. i don’t have that hardware. i recognize people by a collection of visual characteristics that are no more hardwired than how you’d recognize a tree – low fork on the left, kind of a knot about six feet up, top looks sorta pointy, there’s that broken branch where the phone truck bumped it – and by things like voice, gait, and scent.

so yeah, sometimes i lose a friend at the mall because they changed their glasses or put their hood up. it’s a bit annoying when that happens. but i just holler, and they holler back, and i recognize their voice.

This is summed up really well, and as someone who suffers from face blindness as well, I thought I’d share. It’s actually something connected with autism, for me!

Despite not being specific to autism, it is quite common among the autistic community. 

-mod Aleksandr

I actually did find it exhausting and anxiety inducing in the workplace, probably because it’s paired with severe social anxiety.  People, IME, aren’t very forgiving when you mess up their names several times. I don’t find neurotypicals to be very receptive to being told you’ve got a problem like that either.

I had a few tricks to cope with it when I was working, but people still didn’t like them very much. 

I wouldn’t call it terrifying, except in a social consequences kinda way.  Friends are generally understanding, coworkers not so much. 

heads up if you use etsy

dollsonmain:

luckyxiii-bjd:

mintyliciousbjd:

sidneyia:

a couple months ago i re-opened my etsy shop because we’re having money troubles. about 2 weeks ago i sold a $65 item, but today when i went to look at my balance i had negative money. why? because etsy had automatically opted me into their “boosted posts” marketing feature, which costs $1 per day. i had to go find the option and turn it off manually.

etsy is opting people into paid marketing without their permission. if you use the site, make sure you aren’t getting charged.

O___O

I gotta check this! Thank you!

check your settings often!

etsy wtf.

ingdamnit:

onyourleftbooob:

onyourleftbooob:

jas720:

samvinyl:

elisamaza:

Oh you’re fucking kidDING ME 

So you’re writing numbers on people and you don’t think “oh this is like the Nazis” you should be shot

I could only find one source for this and I don’t know how reliable it is, but here it is.

This is a reply from the original twitter post. You remember when we used to think “how could people let this happen” when we learned about Nazism?

This is how.

THAT’S ALSO WHY THE NAZID DID IT YOU FASCIST FUCK