March 2012
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Abilify for autism?
I have heard good things about Abilify for symptoms of autism, but the only articles I can find online talk about using it in children, not adults. I’ve been thinking about trying to get on it because I feel like my social anxiety would be more manageable if I were capable of acting “less autistic” (or at least had to devote less energy to acting NT). I’m not sure if...
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Reblog if your Tumblr is NOT connected to your...
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the-last-secret-garden:
mistaken-identities:
Because outting myself to my family is not on my to-do list.
Yeah, I can’t…even imagine connecting this Tumblr to facebook.
Definitely not. Our facebook is full of queer stuff, but no plurality, and it’s going to stay that way.
~K.
There are a few folks I know on both sites but I don’t post links from here on FB because...
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Equal Rights For Transgender Canadians – Bill... →
apihtawikosisan:
The bill that died on the floor last year when Harper dissolved Parliament, is back up and running and needs your support!
Bill C-279, which will add gender identity and gender expression to the list of statuses protected under the Canadian Human Rights Code, and amend the pertinent sections of the Criminal Code in regards to anti-transgender violence, assault, and...
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There are few faster ways to get blocked by me than spouting textwalls of fat-shaming, pro-disordered-eating, pro-diet-industrial-complex bullshit and then insisting that it’s ~just faaaaacts!~
Bonus points if you accuse me of “trying to be a victim” when I suggest you should actually read a fucking book.
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Repeat after me: autism is not a "social...
allies-person:
And propagating the idea that autistic impairments are essentially “social” in nature does damage to us.
Case #178798: horrible New York Times blog entry about autistic drivers
This article, unsurprisingly, manages to marginalize autistic people and completely miss what our actual difficulties with driving often are.
Hint: The problem isn’t “literal thinking” or “understanding...
http://io9.com/5881462/publishers-destroy-scary-sto... →
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the-rain-monster:
This is the stupidest decision in the six thousand years of recorded decisions by humans which are full of STUPID.
It really is so satisfying in a smug way to know we may very well be the last generation of children to know what it is to be genuinely traumatized by turning a page.
Something Awful has been shitting spiky kittens over this, and for good reason....
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vastderp:
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roxanneritchi:
oh, my god, if you are cis gender and someone refers to you as cis, that isn’t an insult. that’s like complaining about being called white when you’re white or complaining about someone calling you straight when you’re heterosexual. ????????? COME ON
#and it isn’t at all comparable to anti-trans slurs R U 4...
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Katy Perry and queering gender
I’m currently really, really disturbed at the hate I’ve been seeing toward Katy Perry and her new video in which she’ll be appearing in drag.
Now normally, this shit doesn’t bother me. I have such a deep and abiding loathing of contemporary celebrity culture that I tend to uncritically back any negative thing I see about a celebrity, taking a “Yeah, fuck ‘em,...
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Talking in Tongues: Gender and multiplicity →
[content note: discussion of gender/body dysphoria]
eyesclosedmindsopen:
**Trigger warning (perhaps?) for discussion of gender identity**
I’d meant to post this on my public, non-plural blog, but…just…couldn’t.
My thoughts about this topic are in flux and even now I’m not certain I should be writing this because nothing is going to be definite.
I’ve been a part of…
So, ugh, I suck at...
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thegingerwiththedragontattoo:
“Hey Jesus, how much do you love me?”
“This much!”
“Aw, that’s nice!”
“Jesus are you okay?”
“JESUS NO!”
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sidneyia:
Oh look, another bingo card from Free Thought Blogs. This time it’s on a super useful and insightful glossary of trans*-related terminology put together by Natalie Reed, who had the unmitigated gall to include “asexual” on her list (because it’s sometimes mistakenly used as a gender identity descriptor). Bring on the trolls!
Why am I doing this?
I want to show...
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anatomy of a sexual aversion
This is going to be frank and graphic so I’m putting it behind a cut.
[[MORE]]People want to know what sexual aversion means. For me, sexual aversion is more than just not having sex myself. Hell, that’s the easy part, since my partner is ace also. What it means is crying, shaking, anxiety symptoms (rapid heartrate, GI distress, sweating) and, ultimately, insomnia, when I’m...
pyrex-vision:
aint no condoms in my wallet girl those are ramen noodle flavor packets
I used to carry parmesan cheese packets in my wallet because INSTANT SNACK.
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sparklesandstarkids:
SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 70 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list and paste this on your Tumblr. Then, put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom.
[[MORE]] ( ) A Cinderella Story ( ) Another Cinderella Story...
shiyiya:
Wow, that is some CLASSY mocking of the word zucchini.
(You’re using the bingo card I made! I am rather pleased it is getting use! I mean, I’m not pleased that people are being shitty, but people are always shitty, and I have helped with mocking them/pointing out how fucking PREDICTABLE they are!)
Oh, I actually had no idea she was talking about “zucchini”. I just assumed...
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All this horseshit about asexuals being diseased snowflakes and wearing straight-people disguises in order to sneak into LGBT club meetings, or whatever, makes me pine for the days when most people on the internet had never even heard of asexuality.
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Sex is the biggest nothing →
Yay, an article on asexuality that gets it right!
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kyary:
tumblr a haiku;
i am offended
i am really offended
i am offended
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Kaz's tumblings: A question about vocabulary →
writingfromfactorx:
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I… am not sure if you meant this for me or Kaz? In my case I tend to use “repulsed” more or less entirely out of inertia, not any considered feelings on which word I prefer. My status with respect to the whole repulsion/aversion/indifference spectrum is complicated and weird and consequently not very important to me, so I don’t tend to bring it up much and...
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Kaz's tumblings: A question about vocabulary →
writingfromfactorx:
kazaera:
Because lately, I have seen people using words in the ace tags that are new to me, and also using words I know in ways that make no sense with the meanings I associate with them. Needless to say, this makes constructive dialogue a bit tricky.
Here I work through my thoughts and personal…
My definitions more or less match yours, with one exception: I’ve seen...
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Free thought, unless you're asexual, apparently
So I decided this and this deserved a better takedown when I’m not so fuming. No, I won’t be going back to the original thread because I think it will probably make me throw up. Yeah, I’m chickenshit, whatever.
What we have is a helpful third-party informing me that I’ve missed the point - and am apparently physically incapable of grasping the point - of what the anti-ace...
Also I love when I’m accused of making everything about me. I don’t even like myself!
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More on virginity
morethanx:
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YES. I’ve had similar thoughts, but you say it more eloquently than I could.
Another thing that bugs me is that there isn’t a word for person who has had sex. You are singled out for this one thing that in my case (and yours) isn’t even relevant.
That is a really good point that I honestly hadn’t even thought about! But naming only the outgroup and...
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vocabulary musings
swanblood:
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Sex-free sounds alright. However like you said it could be confused with your bodily sex, and if not that, it may be taken negatively, like the word “child-free” seems to be.
Yeah, I feel like sex-free is not a very neutral word… it sounds very political. I would say nonsexual maybe?
But yes, I would like a word for this too, because I feel...
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vocabulary musings
I need a word to describe myself as someone who doesn’t have sex.
I need a word to describe myself that isn’t mired in patriarchal, puritanical religious horseshit that means I don’t have sex.
“Celibate” refers to someone who denies themselves sexual activity that they want to have - that’s the important part - usually for religious reasons. (And that...
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“‘LGBT’ needs a vowel.”
– My husband, who is awesome.
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(a)sexual exploration
I didn’t get crushes on boys when my friends did. I didn’t understand the appeal of playing spin-the-bottle at lunchtime. Boys were still yucky. I didn’t understand, either, why my friends read Seventeen, because we were twelve.
Desperate to fit in, I got a boyfriend. He wasn’t a nice person. He told me that he had read that the average age of onset of sexual activity was...
One week till I get to go back to therapy.
One week.
I can do this.
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