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@raybowewrites

Ray. 23. Any pronouns. Lesbian. AuDHD. White and from the US. I draw and write and stuff.
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THE PAIN IS UNBEARABLE

They killed the children in the early morning of the Eid

Instead of wearing new clothes for Eid, children have been wrapped in shrouds, making it the last thing they will ever wear in their lives.

If it doesn't matter for you to see us die, do nothing but If you would like to see us alive please donate here and share

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URGENT EVICTION HELP

Hi everyone! I’m really really panicking right now. The court date for me to get evicted is on the 21st of April. I don’t have anywhere to go if I get evicted.

I am disabled and I have no money right now. I can barely afford food and I really need help. I don’t know what else to do and I’m scared. Please, I really need help. 

Kofi | Cshapp | Vnmo | PyPal

Huh, thought it was 21st of March. And February. And January.

Yes. It was. That is how paying rent works 🤔

You see, if you don’t give your landlords money once a month, they’ll kick your ass out on the street. Not sure if you’re aware of how this works

I'm not talking about paying rent. Yes, paying rent is a monthly bill. I'm talking about the court date for eviction specifically. On the 21st of every month for years now. Always on the 21st, even weekends when courts are generally closed.

Here's an example! 21st of July, 2024, a Sunday.

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URGENT EVICTION HELP

Hi everyone! I’m really really panicking right now. The court date for me to get evicted is on the 21st of April. I don’t have anywhere to go if I get evicted.

I am disabled and I have no money right now. I can barely afford food and I really need help. I don’t know what else to do and I’m scared. Please, I really need help. 

Kofi | Cshapp | Vnmo | PyPal

Huh, thought it was 21st of March. And February. And January.

Yes. It was. That is how paying rent works 🤔

You see, if you don’t give your landlords money once a month, they’ll kick your ass out on the street. Not sure if you’re aware of how this works

I'm not talking about paying rent. Yes, paying rent is a monthly bill. I'm talking about the court date for eviction specifically. On the 21st of every month for years now. Always on the 21st, even weekends when courts are generally closed.

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URGENT EVICTION HELP

Hi everyone! I’m really really panicking right now. The court date for me to get evicted is on the 21st of April. I don’t have anywhere to go if I get evicted.

I am disabled and I have no money right now. I can barely afford food and I really need help. I don’t know what else to do and I’m scared. Please, I really need help. 

Kofi | Cshapp | Vnmo | PyPal

Huh, thought it was 21st of March. And February. And January.

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URGENT EVICTION HELP

Hi everyone! I’m really really panicking right now. The court date for me to get evicted is on the 21st of March.

I am disabled and I have no money right now. I can barely afford food and I really need help. I don’t know what else to do and I’m scared. Please, I really need help. 

Kofi | Cshapp | Vnmo | PyPal

Oh, it's awesome they delayed your court date! It was February before. Weird that most of those posts aren't on your blog now though.

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regarding the ask /post just made about profound intellectual disability I was wondering if people with profound intellectual disability ever go to Day Programs or such? Or is that more for lesser severe? I wonder cause I think you guys have said having disabled characters have disabled community is important :3

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Hello,

Yes, they can. Mod Sasza goes into more detail in this post about writing characters with profound intellectual disability, but to put it briefly- yes, but these programs are often specialized with one-on-one direct support professionals and thus costly and it's kind of complicated.

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I'm in Florida. Here we have the iBudget Med Waiver, which is used by adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. The wait list is outrageous, but an emergency status can often get you bumped up, like the death of a caregiver. The Med Waiver provides recipients a service coordinator, who helps allocate services. I care for several adults with profound ID at the day program where I work. Several have the med waiver, but not all. We have staffing ratios based on needs. 1 staff:10 clients for the lowest support needs, 1 staff:5 clients for kind of middle of the line (I most commonly work with this group, and I love it), and 1:3 for highest support needs, usually profound ID or behavioral challenges requiring a higher level of support. Occasionally, people will have a 1:1 ratio. This is due to extreme behavioral challenges. A client who would fly into rages, attacking people and causing extreme property damage, or one (I love this person, I'm a close family friend) who has no safety awareness and will take off running, going for exits and risking running into traffic, plus will also grab people and bite (not in anger, I think it's sensory). The people who work 1:1 are usually registered behavior technicians (yeaaaah I'm a bit iffy too :/) rather than DSPs. This can also be provided by the Med Waiver, but this service is EXTREMELY hard to receive.

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Hello friends, there's a dogwhistle I've seen used a couple times on tumblr that I want to discuss.

Fellow neurodivergents especially, please listen-- towards the end of this post I describe how some in our community have been using it without knowing what it means.

A fairly common antisemitic dogwhistle used amongst alt-right circles on the internet is being a "noticer," "noticing patterns," "pattern noticer," etc. I've seen this from a couple Tumblr blogs I follow reblogging memes and such that use this term but don't provide any context about what sorts of "things" they may be noticing.

Here's the meme that I saw a blog I'm following reblog last night.

Seems pretty harmless, right? It's a meme with a cute cat.

In alt-right circles, what they are referring to "noticing" is the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world/"noticing" evidence of an imagined globalist (read: Jewish) world order/etc. If you see a meme that uses terms like "noticing patterns" that doesn't elaborate what those supposed patterns are-- just leaves you to fill in the blank yourself-- take a look at the types of things OP might be posting. The alt-right has an idea that it's forbidden to talk about who might be behind the "conspiracies" they talk about (again, the target is frequently Jewish people) so lack of context is often a red flag.

I sent the blog who reblogged this an ask informing them that the meme was a dogwhistle. If you see someone reblog something like this, check what they've been posting. If this seems like an isolated incident, the person probably reblogged it not knowing what the term actually meant. That's why dogwhistles are so effective-- to the average person they look harmless if you don't know what to watch out for!

Let's take a look at how alt-righters use this term.

Here's an alt-right definition of it from Urban Dictionary.

Oh boy, this one gets a bigotry bingo for all the dogwhistles used here. If I miss any, feel free to comment. Here are the ones I found:

-Noseticing: Noticing plus nose, based on the stereotype for Jewish people to have large noses.

-"those who cannot be named"/skirting around saying Jew: again the idea that it's forbidden to talk about who they think is behind their conspiracy theories.

-"world events and agendas": idea that Jewish people have a Globalist agenda etc etc

-Degeneracy: Nazi term to describe the behaviors/people they find undesirable.

-Early life: refers to the section in a person's Wikipedia page. If a person was brought up Jewish, it'll usually say so there.

-Oy vey: a Jewish exclamation of exasperation that Nazis have unfortunately co-opted when talking about Jewish people.

Here's probably the most obviously antisemitic meme I found.

The title and first bullet point include the "noticer" term. This meme also talks about a "group" who controls wealth. Who might the poster be referring to here?

Here's a Twitter account with many similar alt-right terms. Explicitly identifies as a Nazi and ethno-nationalist, etc etc.

A couple other pages. I clicked on them to see if I could find any more examples but the first seemed pretty blank and the second... Well, I don't have a twitter so I couldn't view.

Let's unpack these a little. The first one has "13 outta 52," a statistic used among white supremacists to depict Black people (especially African-Americans) as "savage": 13 referring to the percentage of America that is Black and 52 referring to the alleged percentage of murders in the U.S. that are committed by Black people. "109 countries" refers to the idea that Jewish people have been expelled from 109 countries during history. (Which isn't entirely true. Some "countries" in this count are actually cities, regions, etc.) Some white supremacists may use the number 110 instead to suggest that it should happen again.

The second one has a blurb alleging a global sterilization effort and concerns of fertility. This is likely in connection to pro-natalism for white people. If Nazis want a so-called "Aryan nation," they're going to want white people to populate it, and so they encourage white people to have babies for their cause. Nazi Germany employed this tactic as well, even awarding "Aryan" German women who had four or more children for their contributions to the Nazi cause.

The reason why I'm emphasizing that context matters is that some neurodivergent people have seen this and co-opted it into neurodivergent circles. As a person who is Jewish and autistic, this is pretty alarming to me. I'll show a couple examples from Tumblr:

And

I've left out the URLs of the OPs because I want to give the benefit of the doubt-- they both explicitly refer to being a "pattern noticer" in terms of neurodivergence. And it's easy to see why introducing this term to ND folks would be an easy way to get a dogwhistle passed off as harmless! Since autistic people often have analytical minds, we often make connections that others might not be able to see. But unfortunately, using terms like this only makes it much easier for antisemites to fly under the radar.

Stay safe and let's keep Tumblr free of this shit.

TLDR: Dog Whistles that use Nervo-diversity to hide antisemitism. "A Pattern Noticer"

[News of Jesus] came from Japan later, in 1933, when a Shinto priest in the Ibaraki Prefecture discovered written documents that turned out to be the last will and testament of Jesus Christ. What's more, the papers (which disappeared just before the outbreak of World War II) identified the nearby village of Shingo in Aomori Prefecture as his last resting place. Jesus, it turns out, did not die on the cross - that was his previously unreported brother Isukiri, who had secretly taken his place. As Isukiri suffered the crucifixion, Jesus secretly fled for Japan, taking with him his brother's severed ear and a lock of the Virgin Mary's hair as keepsakes. On a journey of four years, he crossed the Siberian tundra to reach Alaska, then sailed for Hachinohe, and finally reached Shingo. There, he made a fake identity for himself and enjoyed a quiet life, marrying a farmer's daughter named Miyuk and raising three children, farming garlic and tending to those in need. Described as bald with features of a 'long-nosed goblin', Jesus Christ died in Japan at the age of 106... The most remarkable aspect of this story is that you can visit the grave of the Japanese Jesus to this day...The villagers of Shingo are certain of their godly heritage. "I'm not really planning anything at all for the 25th of December, as it doesn't really matter to us," a 52 year old villager named Junichiro Sawaguchi told a reporter in 2008. "I know I am descended from Jesus, but as a Buddhist, it's just not all that important."

Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

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