trans women really get axed over the most spurious of allegations. like it doesn't even have to be remotely true. people just hate trans women.

trans women really get axed over the most spurious of allegations. like it doesn't even have to be remotely true. people just hate trans women.

if you're transfem and there's so much as a rumor you might be a bad person you suddenly become fucking radioactive to everyone, it's so wildly unfair.

some of you are fucking spineless. i think it's fucking spineless to immediately drop support of transfems in your community knowing the marginal space they have in society at the moment, knowing there's fascist fearmongering against them coming from everywhere, knowing almost every transfem faces some amount of harassment either online or on the streets.

I love when platonic love and romantic love is so blurred that it doesn’t even matter anymore. All that matters is the devotion that’s there, the unwavering devotion

Little commission for my friend @nyct0phile from a few months ago. Please please PLEASE ignore the misspell on my Twitter username oh my GOD...

Idk how people can look at men's reaction to the female only London gym and trans women's reaction and not see the same fucking picture. Both men and transwomen hate the idea of not having access to women and they both have zero desire to go start a male-only or transfem only gym. It's just really funny. Imagine being so angry at a group of people but you wanna right next to them at all times. lmao

It's discrimination against trans women, WHO ARE WOMEN. It's not that hard to grasp

shaun murphy as autism representation

disclaimer: i've watched only 2 or 3 seasons of the good doctor (don't remember exactly) and it was a couple years ago (don't remember exactly #2), so i may forget something/remember something incorrectly/unclearly. also i'm not the best person in clocking bad representation because i miss a lot of subtext, so i'll likely miss something from the "bad representation" part. but i still want to talk about the show and my thoughts about it's depiction of autism.

disclaimer #2: i'm MSN visibly autistic and shaun is LSN visibly autistic. i have some similar/close/overlapping experience with him, and some different/not close/not overlapping experience. i can't evaluate how good shaun's experience represents LSN visibly autistics' lives and struggles. but i can evaluate some parts of experience and general stuff.

so. to the topic.

i don't consider shaun murphy to be The Best Autism Representation Ever, or even completely good representation, or even really good representation. but i also don't consider him to be The Worst Autism Representation Ever, or even completely bad representation. my feelings are complicated.

i think the bad part of representation is hidden in how the narrative treats shaun, and not in his autistic behavior. he is *portrayed* badly, the plot *treats* him badly. there's a fine line between "being realistical about visibly autistic character's struggles in ableist world" and "narratively punishing visibly autistic character for being visibly autistic and having any support needs." and, in my opinion, the show fails to balance on it. also there are some arcs that i see as trying to "fix" his autistic traits.

for example, when he insists on putting toilet paper one way and his girlfriend doesn't understand him and doesn't makes any efforts to find a solution. she is just like "it doesn't matter" and he spends the whole day trying to prove his point and at the end finds a solution himself by using two rolls and two holders. and it could be a realistical depiction of autistic (and overall disabled) people's experience — having to compromise and search for solutions by themselves why ableds refuse to cooperate and put any efforts in caring about your comfort and/or needs — but the show portrays it like something good, like some kind of winning and some kind of cool situation.

and there's more episodes like it. he's regularly *portrayed* as bad because of his autistic traits by *both* characters and narrators. like, it could be realistical depiction of ableism — people around autistic person treat them like shit every time their autism inconvenience them — but the creators seem to be agree with people around shaun. at least i felt like that watching the show.

so, in my opinion, the ableism and bad representation in this show is not about how shaun acts and how his autism presents, but is about how the story is told.

i think it would be fair to criticize the show for some stuff they included in his character. for exploiting "autistic genius" trope again (it'd be great to see visibly autistic non-genius character! why disabled people always have to be genius/very cool at something to exist? why they can't just mind their business?), for him being white cis allo hetero man (marginalized people can have only 1 marginalized identity, you know /sarcasm), maybe something like that. but, you know. there *are* actual white cis allo hetero men who are visibly autistic geniuses. people like shaun can and do exist in real life. they're not majority of autistic community, but they exist and so can be represented in media.

i've mentioned that i have some overlapping experiences with shaun. and i really *like* that some of them are represented, while dislike the "conclusions"/attitude of the creators towards them.

one of this things is being visibly autistic and known as cool in some academic/working area. shaun is visibly autistic and known as cool in surgery. i am visibly autistic and known for my academical achievements. one of the struggles i want to talk about is feeling pressure to "compensate" for your visible autism by being very very very good in your area. people basically are "well you're weird freak and we don't like your weird freakness, but we allow you to exist near us and even sometimes accommodate a bit because we need your cool skills. we'll still mock and bully and abuse you and we won't give you enough accommodations, but we are ready to tolerate a bit of your needs while you're as cool and useful as we want." like, people make us "outweight" our disability by our achievements. so we can't fail, can't burn out, can't take a break, can't achieve less, because all our (little! not enough at all!) support will evaporate if we aren't as useful as they want. like. shaun is allowed to be a surgeon only because he's a very talented surgeon. not just good, not just regular, he's a very very very talented surgeon. he constantly faces ableism and the only reason why he avoides being fired is because he "outweights" it by his amazing skills. basically his only "protection" (which doesn't protect him from other forms of ableism, only from some) is his skills. and it's very pressuring experience, very difficult experience, and very specific experience i want to talk about but can't really because of fear of misunderstanding. it's different from experiences of invisibly disabled & known for their skills people (because the first part is invisible. even if people see them as "weird" or "outcast") and from experiences of visibly disabled & not known for their skills people (because the second part is invisible. maybe these people are very skilled in something, but no one notices because of ableism. or not very skilled in something, which is like. very normal way to be a person). when you're VISIBLY DISABLED and KNOWN FOR YOUR EXTREME SKILLS, it's specific. both facts are under people noses and it shapes your experience a lot. neither part can be ignored or hided. they still don't respect the disabled part (treat symptoms as your personal flaws while know for sure that it's your disability. they just don't give a fuck. they still brush it off. you technically have "justification" but they treat it as "excuse." they KNOW FOR SURE FROM THE FIRST SIGHT and STILL DON'T CARE. or use it against you when it's convenient for them. treat accommodations as optional and unnecessary while KNOW FOR SURE YOU NEED THEM. etc). and they exploit the extreme skilled part as they want. and manipulate and pressure and use guilt and use accommodations as a reward and all other shit. and the extreme skilled part is taken for granted. they act like it's just natural part of who you are. ignore any hard work you put in developing skills, ignore anything. you've JUST get it. you haven't do anything to get it. it becomes a part of your disability. if you're [insert disability] and good in something, you're definitely good in something BECAUSE of your disability. it couldn't be separated facts. and the slightest hint of connection (like my autism & dyslexia shape my learning process) is used as a proof that you're "just like that." that it's inevitable that you're extremely skilled in something specifically BECAUSE you're disabled. some of them see it as "compensation" from the "fair nature/god/world" for your "flaw (disability)." well it become ranty and off-topic so i leave it for another post.

so. the good doctor is like. the only show i know that centers this specific experience. and the show gets it kinda really good. with one huge exception. creators seem to fall in the same trap THEMSELVES. they could show how bad this attitude is, how destroying it is, how it affects shaun negatively, but they just... encourage it? push it further? they could be like "this character is visibly autistic and genius. he faces this specific type of treatment that is bad and deeply ableist. he struggles because of it. you shouldn't treat people like other characters treat shaun." but they chose to be like "this character is visibly autistic and genius. he is difficult walking autistic problem, but he's genius! look, his skills are absolutely necessary for the team! yes, he's an autistic inconvenience... and his autism is bad flaw... but he's very useful! and other characters value him after he proves his usefulness DESPITE his autism! you can do it too! give your autistic acquaintances a chance to prove their usefulness, maybe they're secretly genius! but if they fail or become too inconvenient, you may kick them out of your life! just like that guy kicked shaun out from the surgeon team!"

(but maybe it was fixed in next seasons. i haven't watched the whole show).

there also are other good moments like when shaun understands trans girl after her explanation of gender feelings, and he changes his opinion on transgenderism (he was like "wtf" and lowkey transmisic at first) and even suggests the solution to prevent her from entering testosterone puberty when she can't take puberty blockers anymore...

basically all my problems with representation in this show is not about shaun as a character, but about how other characters and narrative treats him. and i dislike that most of criticism is just about him being visibly autistic at all or experience something embarrassing because of his visible autism. which like. happens when you're visibly disabled.

so, ironically, this type of criticism fails in the same ableism as the show: idea that being visibly autistic is a character flaw.

So when are we as Ninjago fans finally going to talk about the fact that Zane canonically has the robot equivalent to a CDD (complex dissociative disorder, stuff like DID and OSDD).

Like the way the Ninjigma functions is INCREDIBLY similar to structural dissociation. Layers upon layers of encryption to stop you from remembering something horrible that happened to you? Then when you go poking around in that like memory vault, your own mind shuts you down or in some cases forces you to harm yourself? Yeah. That's structural dissociation.

And his struggles with his identity is very very typical of CDDs. Like that whole thing in season four (yk directly after one of the most traumatic moments of his life, FUCKING DYING) where he didn't feel like "Zane" anymore and felt like he couldn't call himself the white ninja because he wasn't the white ninja, he's just a copy of a dead man. Like that's VERY host change coded to me at least.

And like the way he tends to like freeze up when triggered (cause keep in mind, CDDs don't exist independently, they always come with PTSD/C-PTSD) especially when they're talking about going into battle or like talking about literally anything to do with the Overlord ever. He starts playing with his hands and biting his lip like he's trying to calm himself down, until they actually go into battle and he's fine again (alter switch).

Don't even get me started on the Ice Emperor. Like the fact he only turns back into him as he's dying in Crystalized (an incredibly triggering situation for him.)...

And like the way he just completely dissociates and disconnects himself after Nya disappears and seems to be doing something similar in Dragon's Rising because Pixal is missing (side note I hate Dragon's Rising. If you like Dragon's Rising I think you should have your Ninjago fan card revoked lowkey.... I couldn't even finish it).

Anyways Zane is severely traumatized and half the fans + the writers tend to forget that a log but it's my favorite thing to yap about.

No idea if this made any sense whatsoever.

He's so Language of the Lost and Am I Awake? coded...

you have to outlive donald trump

imagine how funny the internet will be on the day he dies.

Is this like, a prediction?

likes to charge reblogs to cast etc etc

every piece of ""autistic representation"" in hollywood sucks not just because of the infantalization and inspiration porn but because movie executives always fail to realize the real universal autistic experience: spending your childhood slowly and unfalteringly realizing all of your friends not so secretly hated and/or merely tolerated you at best and you've missed every social signal about it ever

there is nothing quite as damaging as realizing you were the only one not invited to a classmate's birthday party. the only one left out of yearbook photos. the only one not told about an in-joke or groupchat or anything of the sort. once you experience it even once it fucks with your head for the rest of your days

people with tooth decay aren't bad people. they aren't lazy either. neither are they unclean or irresponsible. tooth decay doesn't make you a bad person. you don't deserve mockery, judgement, or tooth pain for having any. the only thing people with tooth decay deserve is healthcare.

Reminder that a vaccine for the strain of bacteria that causes tooth decay has been shelved several times in the last 20 years for fears of its lack of economic viability.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine

Update: a crowd sourced project to recreate a vaccine that was tested in the year 2002 was funded last year and they are working on brining it to market. It's currently available at a clinic they partnered with in Honduras.

”pdf file” “unalived” “grape” “corn” what if i killed myself right here right now

imagine you read the local newspaper and in the section where they discuss a recent murder they describe it as “young adult unalived by serial game ender”. like you’re a toddler surrounded by adults who need to watch their language around you. you’re sanitizing and cutting down gruesome, horrific actions and situations into digestible baby words. i know this has been said before by other people but i’m so so sick of it dude, don’t speak advertiser language to me.

I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic