They/Xe/It. Xennial, Discordian, heretical Jew, BLM.
Anti-authoritarian queer analysis, outsider art, medical nerdery, & Homestuck
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Jan 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 I had this realization a few months ago, & shared it with a friend this week, & I think more autistic / AuDHD / DD folks deserve to see it BEFORE they're wrestling with any more internalized shame:
Think of an everyday task you've "always been useless at".
Now ask yourself -
"Did anyone ever actually teach me that, at MY learning pace & in MY learning style?
Or did they just assume ~everyone knows how to do this~, or that I would pick it up without instruction because I was capable of tasks they considered more complicated?"
Feb 21, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I'm realizing there's a whole generation of people who doesn't know who the ULC is so please share this.
They're an ordination mill, designed to allow anyone - including you - to perform any task that requires a religious officiant. Such as gay weddings.
I thought people were dunking on them for making a thread that gave statistics insensitively, and DID NOT REALIZE til I got to the comments how fast we've lost our history.
Some of the reasons for this are good (more religions officiate gay weddings now!) and others are tragic.
Jan 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I am grateful today that although I grew up with an Irascible Neurodivergent Dad I have been spared Tin Opener Dad behavior.
The time he taught me a persistence lesson in the face of frustration was Good Actually because he added a carrot.
You do not add a stick when a child is frustrated and distressed.
When a child is frustrated and distressed there is *already* a stick and it isn't *working*.
Jan 2, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
thinking more about why this line from @flameswallower's story bodied me so hard:
Some of my central adult personality features are built as reaction against living like that - "not knowing what [I am] but...instinctively that [I need] to keep it a secret". I repeatedly root out the impulse to keep the weirdness in my soul buried for the comfort of normies
Oct 18, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
thinking about how one of the ways growing up & living with delayed sleep phase disorder is, nearly all of my memories of mornings and things happening in mornings have been under fairly extreme sleep deprivation
and it's weirdly bittersweet. it's one of the first ways I learned to experiment with altering my consciousness.
but it fucks you up. & everyone demands it from you! think about what it's like when your family, friends, workplace, constantly pressure you to function impaired.
Oct 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
remembering when Tumblr started censoring the existence of certain search tags so they wouldn't autosuggest themselves but misspellings of them were not de-indexed so if you started typing "self" it would helpfully suggest "self ham"
in general, replacing "harm" with "ham" in sentences and phrases generates a funny result. do no ham. hamful behavior. ham to minors
Oct 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
thinking, today, sidelong to a couple of conversations, about how sometimes negative ethnic stereotypes just boil down to "they act like they're at war with us," when in fact, the people in question ARE being warred on, frequently without it being reported that way
thinking about the time a friend of mine, who was Romani, found a news article about Romani people stripping the buildings they lived in for parts, and wished she could find the missing pieces of the story - it was cast in a disparaging light but must have been from desperation.
Oct 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is an interesting question, but I'm gonna springboard off it to ask one I find even more interesting:
Whose work have you approached/engaged with/found pleasure or meaning in, while already fully aware that they were a shitty person?
I have a few answers to this but the one I've been thinking about this week is Peter Christopherson of Coil.
Between his transphobic diss track on Genesis P-Orridge and his extremely questionable photography with minors it seems he was far from good. But his music is beautiful.
May 24, 2020 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
As a society we don't talk NEARLY enough about the way a toxic job environment can mess with your head 24/7 just like an abusive relationship can.
Kids absolutely NEED to hear warnings about this before they're old enough to work, and adults need frequent reminders.
The values our society applies to work were formed around the expectation of a two-way loyalty bond between employer and employee - that if you gave years of your life to a company, you could expect a good standard of living through life and retirement.
1) Oral-dissolving zinc supplementation can block replication of upper respiratory viruses. The key point is keeping a high concentration of zinc in your throat area as much as possible - suck on lozenges or tablet fragments all day.
2) This works for colds, but it's a hassle. People don't want to bother with tasting zinc all day starting at the first sign of a sniffle in order to have a milder and shorter cold. But for a more serious virus, that can make a big difference.
