Friends if you are taking any kind of medication, check the interactions, please dear god. I have a couple of posts about this coming up, but basically last April I took a prescribed pain medication. It interacted badly with my epilepsy meds and I had a mild asthma attack in my kitchen.
Do not trust your doctors to check that shit. They’re human, they fuck up too. Check any new meds. Don’t end up struggling to breathe on your kitchen floor like me.
drugs.com isn’t bad, however…
https://online.epocrates.com/home
Epocrates is what most doctors seem to use, and you can create a free account that checks interactions. You can even put in all your medications and it will cross check them all against eachother.
hey if u can’t drive/are a slow learner due to a disability or mental illness, just picture historical figures like pirates or the founding fathers trying to operate a car.
it’s only “easy” bc we’ve normalized it.
it would be great for neurotypicals to reblog this
I didn’t get my license until I was 26 because of my mental health struggles. Just sayin’.
This is actually really encouraging
How do different identities accept and reject the label “queer?”
Overall, queer was approved of by 72.9% of respondents, with 37.2% of respondents specifying queer was their preferred umbrella term.
Queer is the most widely preferred umbrella term, and the 3rd most approved of umbrella term, behind LGBT+ and LGBTQ+.
Groups that do not prefer the use of queer as an umbrella are: straight respondents, exclusionst-identifying respondents, transmedicalists, truscum, sex-negative respondents, and sex work critical respondents.
Queer as an umbrella was preferred above other umbrella terms by all gender identities, and by all orientation groups other than straight.
I’m fascinated to see that exclusionists are BY FAR the most opposed to the term “queer.” And that the only group that comes close to their 17% approval of the term is truscum, at 27%.
Not that I’m surprised they don’t like it. I’m surprised at the immense gap between what they insist, and scream, over and over – that very few people have reclaimed queer, that we should all avoid using it, that older people hate it because it was used against us but younger people hate it because only older people briefly reclaimed it –
and the reality of it being overwhelmingly accepted, preferred, and used, outside of all but a few very insulated groups.
What tickles me the most about it is that the one group where the majority does agree with exclusionists’ view of “gueer” is THE STRAIGHTS!
Like this makes me think so much of the whole “terfs and conservatives agree on a lot of stuff” -thing. (There’s a whole game somewhere, with quotes from terfs and conservatives where you have to guess which one said it, and it is a real fucking hard game…)
Like maybe you aren’t really all that much on the side you think you are, if you actually have a lot in common with the side that wants to hurt the group you claim to support.
We are officially done arguing about the appropriateness and appropriate usage of “queer.”
A digital billboard crashed during a foggy night in Odessa, Ukraine and displayed a floating error warning in the night sky.
if i looked up while driving and saw this i would assume the world was ending
TERMINOLOGY AND MAGIC
When it comes to magic, semantics can be frustratingly important. When it comes to magic, words are at their most powerful, and herein lies the reason that magic is considered a studious art. My two favorite examples of this are the terms Spirit Animal and Mana.
Spirit Animal is a term specific to the Anishinaabe people and their culture. The term does not apply to outsiders. The term was co-opted by american spiritualists in the pre-civil war era, but this does not mean that the term has lost its meaning. These tutelary spirits have watched over the Anishinaabe for millennia, and communion with a one is a rare and powerful thing.
Mana Is a concept in Polynesian cultures with no real parallel in other languages. It is a complex socio-spiritual concept combining elements of power, effectiveness, prestige, holiness, gravitas, and influence. It is determined by a combination of birthright and polynesian astrology.
The point to all of this is that if you use a word, you need to know what it means. Do your research, because if you dont, not only are you disrespecting a living, breathing culture, but you are probably pissing off the being you are trying to invoke and you deserve whatever comes from it.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
I would rather let a “special snowflake” into the autistic community than exclude an autistic that needs support and cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather validate ten “special snowflakes” than invalidate one autistic who needs support and cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather welcome a hundred “special snowflakes” without question than force an autistic to disclose their entire life to me just to get the support they need when they cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather help those that don’t need help, than deny help to those that need it.
and tbh? the vast majority of those people do need help, even if theyre wrong about what exactly they need help for. it is very, very unlikely that a neurotypical would genuinely believe they are autistic. they are probably what we sometimes call an “autistic cousin”-someone who has a disorder with symptoms that are like those exhibited by autistic people. people with ocd, adhd, anxiety, and many other disorders.
these people may not be autistic, but they still need the help that the autistic community can provide. and in the very rare case that someone who is entirely neurotypical thinks theyre autistic? theyre not hurting anyone. refer to the op.
I thought I was autistic for a very long time before I puzzled out that I’m schizophrenic. Don’t exclude those who need help, because there are such things as overlapping symptoms.
This is such a great example especially if you know the name of autism before it was autism – juvenile schizophrenia.
The visible aspects of autism are remarkably similar to those of schizophrenia, and there’s a reason for it – the neurology itself is strikingly similar. People have made their Ph.D.s studying the similarities.
In the meantime, there seem like there are a lot of similarities because there are a lot of similarities and while there are some things the autistic community cannot offer a schizophrenic and there are some things the schizophrenia community cannot offer autistics, there are many shared struggles that we can help each with.
And honestly, if you get the help you need, I don’t care if you are wrong. Correct diagnoses, wrong diagnosis, self diagnosis, clinical diagnosis, what I care about is people getting the help they need in the moments that they need it.
I read somewhere ADHD and Autism have similar genetic roots. And some similar symptoms too like sensitivity to certain censory stimuli, problems in school, problems with social interaction, problems with executive function. so yeah. THIS^^^
50% to 70% of the same genetics. They are def different things but so much overlap that results in similar experiences.
Sorry if you’ve already explained this or if it’s common knowledge, but what’s the flag that’s dripping in your icon?
No apologies necessary! I didn’t know the flag existed for a good long while myself.
It is the Genderfluid Pride Flag! I have identified as genderfluid for a while now, and I was so excited to find out that there was a flag for me.
You can see it oriented like a regular flag here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer#/media/File:Genderfluidity_Pride-Flag.svg
I was thinking about it, and I realized I don’t actually like Star Wars.
Nor do I hate it. When I think about Star Wars, any Star Wars, my basic response is “eh, it’s fine”.
It just doesn’t grab me. I don’t know why. I tried to get into it for a long time, because that’s what you do, right? It’s one of the big fandoms. But…
Pff. Nothing.
Dunno. Weird to realize, I guess.
Zest is Chaos Hour 