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we passed a sign in boring that said their sister city is dull, scotland

No Diana, I’m not going to get better, so stop asking me if I’m better yet.

this is definitely not a new take, but the part of “chronic illness” that abled people can’t conceive of is the “chronic” part.

everyone’s been tired before. everyone’s been in pain before. everyone’s been nauseous before.

so when someone says that they have chronic pain or chronic fatigue or any other chronic illness symptom, an abled person is using the completely wrong frame of reference. they’re going “oh. it’s like that sports injury I had, but it lasts longer” without being able to wrap their heads around the fact that… it’s both nothing like that and also possibly lasts forever

TikTok encouraged me to do some deeper digging about myself, but I did the research. And I’m trying to get an official diagnosis. Very difficult to do when you’re 36 and a woman who did well in primary and secondary school, and always made friends easily. But it is disabling most days.

If you haven’t yet, check out the website embrace-autism.com and the FB community associated with the site. Some of the best resources I’ve been pointed to.

i hate that tiktok has turned autism into "im so quirky and slightly socially awkward, i eat with small spoons and walk around with t-rex hands". its a fucking disability and creating this narrative only furthers the stigma of the traits that actually affect peoples lives. making autism sound fun and relatable does absolutely nothing good. the only thing it will do is demonize autistic traits and create another "well youre not autistic cause thats not what autism looks like" exept this time its people with higher support needs who will get the most affected and i hate that

(edit: i didnt really word this correctly and idk if it really comes across in the way i meant but i definitely didnt mean that every autistic person only should show their struggles or even that autistic people owe anyone showing their struggles. autistic people should be able to show joy online and i, and other autistic people do relate to some of these memes and theres nothing wrong with that. my point was that i dont like that the word autistic is turning into meaning quirky and i did blame these tiktoks for it, while thats probably not right i do think that they contribute to this. again i didnt mean to put down other autistic people and im sorry if it came across this way. (i do however still stand by my original point and from what people said in the notes it seems like other people do as well so im gonna keep the original post up, just with this clarification))

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Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

This week is a little crazy study-wise:

Forensic science - ✅ 1 chapter to read, 2-3 page paper on 1 hr video (✅ watched the video), ✅ midterm

Business communications - create 3 graphs from data sets found last week, read 1 chapter

Gender & society - ✅ read 1 chapter, two part final, posttest

Add to the fact that I’ve been driving my wife to her appts, plus getting an epidural in my neck this week. It’s a bit crazy. But I’m chugging along!

I’m so close to being done with my associates degree. I even registered for graduation two days ago!

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This is one of the better descriptions of what I see.

I hate having aphantasia. It's total bullshit, give me access to the internal images so I can draw better.

it’s fun to stay at the Y