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**Time is Running Out**
Imagine enduring a harsh winter in a tent made of tarpaulin, with nothing to shield you from the elements.
Every day brings the threat of freezing temperatures, and rainwater can flood our small space, putting us at risk of drowning. The cold can lead to serious health issues, such as chest infections and chronic illnesses.
You can see
I am pleading for help to save my family from this life-threatening situation.
Please, we need your support to escape this danger and find a safe place to live.
After returning to northern Gaza, we have no home, no water, no electricity, and the transportation is difficult. Life is hard, and we are facing many challenges like these.
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who has supported and contributed to me and my family during this time.
My friends remember every donation, no matter how small, makes a significant difference and holds great value in helping us to improve our lives during these challenging times.
Thank you very much for everything you have done for us.
OR
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(#167 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi) (but we had to make a new gfm campaign cuz our old organizer stopped contacting us).
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**Time is Running Out**
Imagine enduring a harsh winter in a tent made of tarpaulin, with nothing to shield you from the elements.
Every day brings the threat of freezing temperatures, and rainwater can flood our small space, putting us at risk of drowning. The cold can lead to serious health issues, such as chest infections and chronic illnesses.
You can see
I am pleading for help to save my family from this life-threatening situation.
Please, we need your support to escape this danger and find a safe place to live.
We Are a Family in Gaza — We Have Nothing Left but Hope
We’ve lost our home, our jobs, our safety — and now we’re fighting just to stay alive.
We sleep under blankets of dust. We wake up to explosions. We go to sleep hungry, and sometimes we stay that way for days.
We have no source of income. No savings. Nothing left.
Your donations are the only thing keeping us alive.
We divide one meal between all of us. We drink water that isn’t clean because it’s all we can find. Our children no longer ask for toys — they ask for bread.
Leaving the house to find food could mean not coming back. But hunger doesn’t wait for safety.
We don’t want comfort. We don’t want luxury. We just want to survive.
If you can help us, you’re giving us more than food — you’re giving us a chance to live one more day.
And if you can’t donate, please share this. Someone else might be able to help.
Please, stand with us.
Every action matters. A single share, a heartfelt prayer, or a donation starting at just $5 could give us one more day of life.
Vetted!!!
(#167 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi) (but we had to make a new gfm campaign cuz our old organizer stopped contacting us).
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Vetted ! ! !
(#167 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi) (but we had to make a new gfm campaign cuz our old organizer stopped contacting us).
# dlxxv-vetted-donations
**Time is Running Out**
Imagine enduring a harsh winter in a tent made of tarpaulin, with nothing to shield you from the elements.
Every day brings the threat of freezing temperatures, and rainwater can flood our small space, putting us at risk of drowning. The cold can lead to serious health issues, such as chest infections and chronic illnesses.
You can see
I am pleading for help to save my family from this life-threatening situation.
Please, we need your support to escape this danger and find a safe place to live.
**Time is Running Out**
Imagine enduring a harsh winter in a tent made of tarpaulin, with nothing to shield you from the elements.
Every day brings the threat of freezing temperatures, and rainwater can flood our small space, putting us at risk of drowning. The cold can lead to serious health issues, such as chest infections and chronic illnesses.
You can see
I am pleading for help to save my family from this life-threatening situation.
Please, we need your support to escape this danger and find a safe place to live.
no you won’t be “high support needs” “like me” if you just unmasked, especially if choose to unmask, thank you very much.
I love you level 1 autistics
I love you level 2 autistics
I love you level 3 autistics
I love you autistics who can talk verbally
I love you autistics you use AAC or other aids like sign language
I love you autistics with no professional diagnosis
I love you early diagnosed autistics
I love you late diagnosed autistics
I love you queer/trans autistics
I love you autistics who don't look autistic
I love you autistics who do look autistic
I love you autistics with co-morbid conditions (intellectual disabilities, ADHD, ARFID, etc.)
I love you autistics with 'scary' mental disorders (dissociative disorders, personality disorders, schizospec, etc)
I love you autistics with high empathy
I love you autistics with low empathy
I love you physically disabled autistics
I love you autistics! <3
Saw a post and it really got me thinking.
The post was talking about why don’t lower support needs, higher masking individuals even believe that higher support needs, low masking, “severely autistic” people, exist. And that got me really thinking. Because, I do think they know we exist. I just don’t think they want too.
I don’t think they want to know we exist. They know we exist, but keep us on the back burner. They live in ignorance bliss of us. I have what some people would think of as severe autism. Im nonverbal (although nonverbal later in life. But outside people don’t care about that. They see nonverbal as nonverbal), I’m intellectually disabled, need help in everyday life, etc. but I’m in the middle. I’m moderate support needs. To me, I’m not severely autistic. But to society, I am considered and seen as severely autistic because society doesn’t have the understanding of moderate autism yet. They don’t understand it. And I’ve seen more times than I can count that severe autism doesn’t exist. Not because they don’t believe in severe autism the label itself because it’s “harmful” but because they don’t believe that it’s just caused by autism. They often believe that’s it’s caused by comorbidities. Like ID, or cerebral palsy, or apraxia/dyspraxia, or mobility issues, or genetic conditions, and so on. Although none of this is bad.
They believe that autism itself can’t create severe autism. Which…isn’t true. Before, it was believed that severe autism was the only type of autism. That it was the only type that existed and if you weren’t severely autistic then you weren’t autistic. Then more research happened, then social media happened, and now..white, lower support needs, high masking, late diagnosed individuals are the majority of what’s being centered. And, that isn’t bad. We need awareness of all autism. But when one type of autism gets centered, it becomes a problem. It becomes the new norm. It becomes what everyone expects out of autism now. Which, isn’t true. Autism all of all types and traits exists. Autism of all support needs exists.
When people say severe autism doesn’t exist, they’re ignoring and saying that a BIG percentage of autistic people don’t exist. They’re saying that we aren’t real. That we aren’t on the internet, or in the communities they live in, or in their schools, or whatever. We’re everywhere. Severe autism is still a thing. It isn’t a misdiagnosis. It isn’t from comorbities, although if someone’s autism is more severe from comorbidities then that isn’t bad.
I think a lot of people need to be more aware of severe autism. And not just severe autism like me or my mutuals, or the people you see here on tumblr. But the ones with even MORE severe autism. The ones who live in group homes, residentials, institutions, and so on. The ones who aren’t on the internet. The ones who aren’t here blogging about their lives. We need to be aware of them too. We need to believe they exist, and believe that their autism is real.
Don’t erase severe or profound autism.
a thing about being severe autistic adult on internet is people expect u know everything, every non-said/clearly stated boundarie, every slang, acronym, people mad when ask what things mean, need plain language, people rude because "how u not know this simple basic thing?" i feel so rejected and out of place.
i dont navigate things same as you, my brain works differently, i dont know lots things and often dont know how to search how to find dont know how to make sense how understand it hard makes me so frustrated and angry and sad.
people are so mean
Talking about a discourse that doesn't even exist on Tumblr
On Tumblr, us higher support needs nonverbal/nonspeaking people often had 2 possible scenarios to deal with:
1. People ignore us and our opinion because our writing isn't "proper" English, and they make fun of us or comment on our writing style.
2. People think we're faking because our writing is good.
I couldn't care less about scenario number 2. And luckily I'm not affected by scenario number 1.
But what happens now is that somebody tries to discuss a Twitter discourse that simply doesn't exist here on Tumblr: Nonverbal/nonspeaking people with severe or profound autism and/or severe or profound intellectual disability who use FC to run their blogs.
This isn't happening.
Nobody on here (except maybe 1 person, but even there I'm not sure) has profound autism. Severe yes, there are some. But we don't use FC to run our blogs. Nobody on here (except maybe 1 person) has a profound ID. Severe yeah, maybe. But most people with ID are mild or moderate. And none of them use FC to run their blog.
So what happens now is scenario number 3:
3. People (or rather 1 online troll) think that what we write is facilitated and not our own words.
Especially those of us who have severe autism and/or ID. This is worse than scenario number 1 or 2. Especially because there's no way to disprove it. The better our grammar, the higher the probability that somebody else wrote our posts; at least to this online troll.
So whenever you encounter someone who says that what we write is facilitated and/or written by someone else: Don't believe them. Yes, sometimes people write something for us, but we can always check if we agree with what's been written.
I've heard of the FC problem where caregivers wrote something for the nonverbal/nonspeaking person, and it always was about how great FC was, etc. I think this was on Twitter and on individual blogs somewhere on the internet. But this isn't happening on Tumblr. Nobody with severe autism and/or severe or profound ID uses FC to run their blog on Tumblr.
It's basically "Yelling into the void".
Edit:
Since this post reached people who aren't aware of what was going on lately:
FC is short for Facilitated Communication. It's a method for people who can't speak and struggle greatly with other communication methods, such as writing, signing, or using an AAC device.
There's nothing wrong with people helping someone to run their blog; I, too, sometimes need help to run my blog. There's also nothing wrong with people writing posts or messages for someone. This post was only to inform others that nobody on Tumblr uses FC full time to run their blog. Because this is what this troll believes. She basically complains about something that's not the case.