KatLS

KatLS, 1 day ago to Rabbits

#rabbitsofmastodon #citylife #stlouis

JeremyMallin, 1 day ago to actuallyautistic

Does anyone ever consider learning sign language not because they can't speak, but just because sometimes they don't want to? Or don't feel up to it?
#ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

YusufToropov, 3 days ago to geopolitics

#Maddow nails it, as usual.

From the Republican perspective, this election is not actually about policy or governance. It's about the GOP's project to change the American form of government from democracy to autocracy.

https://youtube.com/shorts/rQUdyV3uxRE?si=yubPoh5p6pykNfZL

#BidenHarris2024 #democrats #Project2025 #democracy #autocracy

@DemocracyMattersALot
@DefendDemocracy
@uspolitics @geopolitics @politicalscience

KatLS, 5 days ago to random

Suddenly it’s nap time. #caturday

KatLS, 10 days ago to stlouis

Fat city#rabbitsofmastodon

#stlouis

StillIRise1963, 12 days ago to random

I have an old friend who I feel is always testing me in our friendship. I’m trying to fail so she’ll leave me the fuck alone. I’m tired of nonsense.

StillIRise1963, 13 days ago to random

The attorney should have asked SCOTUS if it would be okay if the Executive had them murdered.

StillIRise1963, 16 days ago to random

In 1968, at the age of 5, I was immersed in American white culture. At 16, I participated in an exchange program in Tunisia and lived with a family. During college, I studied abroad in Spain and have lived there on and off for 40 years. I’ve met a lot of different types of people from a lot of different cultures and socio-economic groups. All of this has given me a clear understanding of the fact that PEOPLE ARE JUST PEOPLE.

KatLS, 22 days ago to random

So the justices #scotus seem to confuse violence with noise. Planes make noise, traffic makes noise, peaceful protesters often make noise- none of these disruptions come with the intent and means to use violence to kill. When protesters show up with weapons and start murdering people that would trigger the violence standard. Like #january6. Heckling at a SOTU address is not violence unless your wittle snowflake ears start bleeding when you hear someone else’s opinion, then you’ve got a case.🩸🩸

meganL, 25 days ago to accessibility

People would think horticulture has nothing to do with accessibility, but it does.

Planting an Acanthus in this narrow spot was already a bad choice even if there were no wheelchair ramp there. You have to design your landscape for the projected mature size of the plant, not the size it is when you buy it.

But having it here and not constantly trimming it means you're just performing accessibility.

This is the entrance to an art gallery. #Accessibility #Gardening @plants

RickiTarr, 26 days ago to random

Whenever I laugh at a line in a movie, hubs will look up a T-shirt with the line on Co-pilot, and send me the results. The line was:

She missed her High Colonic?!

SHE WOULD NEVER DO THAT!

Okay another Mexican guy T-shirt with this time he has a nice suit but he has finger guns instead of real ones
Another Mexican guy, this one is very tough looking, he has the fanciest suit of all, still pistols and pink roses all around and the word: HISPANTANIC, For some reason
Now It's and African guy in a fancy outfit and a great head wrap there's a city sunset in the back and a floating guy

pathfinder, 26 days ago to Autism

@actuallyautistic

I once wrote about how it was not unrealistic, to think that there was no such thing as an un-traumatised autistic. About how so many of us have known bullying and persecution simply for being different. Not even always for what we may have said or done, but often for simply standing out; in all the ways that we didn't even know we were. How just simply being, was so often an excuse to be attacked or punished. That our very existence, even as hard as we tried to mask, whether we knew that was what we were doing or not, was the cause of so much pain.

All the scars we carry from misreading situations. Or from believing in something, or someone, and being burnt as a consequence. All the times we've tried to stand up for ourselves, or as often as not for others, and been dismissed and ridiculed. All the misjudgements and disbelieve and times when our intent and purpose have been seen in the ways that were never, ever, meant. The sheer inability for others to see us as we are, or to judge us accordingly. But, always to seem to want to see the worst and to base everything else on that.

But the more I learn and understand about being autistic. The more I realise that so much of my trauma and the scars that were left, came not just from this overt pain, but from the covert well-meaning of others as well. From my parents and relatives, from friends and teachers. From all the advice and instruction I have received over the years that was meant to shape me in the right way. As a child, to teach me how to grow up, how to behave and act. What was expected and what wasn't. And then, as an adult, how I was supposed to be and how a successful life, with me in it, was supposed to look. All the rules I was supposed to learn, all the codes I was supposed to follow. How to act, how to speak, what to feel, when to feel it. What I was supposed to do and how I was supposed to be.

Not in any unusual way. Not in any way that you weren't supposed to raise a child, well a normal child anyway. That's what makes this so covert. If you were trying to do this to a child knowing that they were autistic, then it's overt abuse. It is ABA, it is infantilising and punishing a child for always failing to become something, that they had no more chance of becoming than a cat has of becoming a dog. But for those of us who didn't know we were autistic. It was simply the constant hammering of the world trying, without even realising it, to fit a round peg into a square hole and all the pain and disappointment that came from their failure to come even close.

For me, what made this worse, was that it wasn't as if I didn't know that I was different, not in my heart, but that I thought that I shouldn't be. That I should be able to learn what I was being taught, that I should be able to follow the guidance. That I wasn't any different really from anyone else and so if I failed to act in the right way, or react the way I should, for that matter, then it was my fault. All the patient sighs and familiar looks, simply became just another reinforcement of my failure. Even being told off for the simplest things, became a reminder that something that I should have been able to do, was beyond me and always for the only reason that ever made any sense; that I was broken, that it was my fault somehow.

Is it any wonder that so much of my life has been about trying to justify myself in the light of this, of trying to become that "good dog". Of judging myself against an impossible standard. A constant lurching from one bad to choice to another, and always because I thought they were the right ones. And for each new failure and inability to even come close, another scar, another reminder of what I wasn't. Further proof that my self-esteem was right to be so low. Of how I was such a failure and a bad person. That I was never going to be a proper son or brother or friend. Because I couldn't even be what I was supposed to be, let alone what I should become.

Looking back, I can't help thinking about how much of my life I spent living this way; of trying not to repeat the sins of my past. Of not repeating the actions or behaviour that led to those past failures and trauma. Of, in fact, all the effort I put in to not being myself. Because that, I realise now, was what I was trying to do. I was that round peg and trying to hammer myself into the square hole. Because everything I had learnt had taught me to think that this was how I had to be. That this was how you grew. And in so many ways, I can't help feeling angry about this. About the wasted years, about the scars I carry that were never my fault. About the way I was brought up, even though none of it was ever meant, but only ever well-meant.

#Autism
#Actuallyautistic

RickiTarr, 27 days ago to random

When you read Librarian Erotica and think it's real life:

Garwboy, 28 days ago to random

"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

/1

kcarruthers, 1 month ago to random

Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind’

“Until a much greater part of society is included in that statistical reckoning, we can expect medical gaslighting to remain a part of our medical experiences. “
#MedicalMisogyny #misogyny

http://theconversation.com/medical-gaslighting-when-conditions-turn-out-not-to-be-all-in-the-mind-209611

NorcalGma2, 1 month ago to random

Tulip toot for today.

Pink tulip.

FantasticalEconomics, 1 month ago to Economics

Interesting plan to repurpose office buildings: turn them into wedding venues.

With less than 50% of office workers in DC working on site, there is a lot of underused space, something many cities are dragging with.

"We've got beautiful buildings in great locations with spectacular views, but we haven't been maximizing the potential of the asset."

It'll definitely be much lower cost than turning luxury office space into residential, that's for sure.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/04/04/office-buildings-weddings

#economics

stevesilberman, 1 month ago to random

Denied the nooses, firehoses, and dogs used in previous generations, Texas racists turn to mass firings, in keeping with the anti-DEI theories of Chris Rufo and other GOP darlings, to ensure that people of color never feel comfortable at the University of Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/02/university-texas-austin-firings-dei-ban/

KatLS, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

#bloomscrolling #mobotanicalgarden tulips.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 month ago to DaftPunk

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