Worst Part About Meeting New People, Especially If They're The Ones Who Came Up To You, Is Telling Stuff

Autistic trauma is so devastating and yet so corny. You'll be doing everything perfectly normal in public but someone will sneer at you and you'll spend an hour agonizing over yourself like "fuck what if no one told me it was Don't Wear Yellow Thursday"

“If you want my body AND you think I’m sexy, come on baby let me know,” sings Rod Stewart. He puts a lot of emphasis on that conjunction, which I take to mean that both conditions must hold before the imperative consequence obtains. Thus, if you think he’s sexy but you don’t want his body (perhaps he is only astrally sexy), you don’t have to let him know. Likewise, if you want his body but you don’t think he’s sexy (perhaps you want his body for science, or meat) he doesn’t want to hear about it.

So if you're in the UK you have probably heard about the proposed changes to disability benefits. If not, here is a BBC News article (link) about it, and the Big Issue (link) have been running basically non-stop articles about it since the announcement.

Crucially, the government is holding a consultation. Will as many of us as possible weighing in change the outcome? Possibly, though it's far from guaranteed. Will not filling it in help the situation in the slightest? No. So let's all have a go.

You can find the full Green Paper here: (link) and the options to respond are at the bottom of it, including the link to respond online, which is also here: (link)

It's also always worth contacting your MP to let them know what you think, if only to get a response on fancy Commons stationery. You can find your MP here: (link)

So, have at it, UK folks! (These proposals don't apply to Northern Ireland as benefits are transferred, but they are still taking NI comments and sharing them with the Department for Communities, so you may be able to influence whether this approach is taken up in NI in future, too)

And if nothing else, please reblog!

what part of “ :3 ” don’t u get? i want to have sex with u.

people online: hey how are you

people in real life: we should round up the homeless and send them to camps

Sometimes blurry means there's too many near front to figure out who is in control

Somtimes blurry means we don't feel like anyone at all

Sometimes blurry means we're someone, but they're new or unknown so we can't tell

Sometimes blurry means there's a mix of a few of us and it's easier to just say we're blurry

Sometimes blurry means we're so dissociated we can't process who we are at all

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