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Tonight I have seen the effects of emotional and p...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:50:48 -0400

Tonight I have seen the effects of emotional and physical ptsd on someone, and it’s very sobering when they wont sleep without pepperspray.

Former NASA Engineer Awards Kiera Wilmot Scholarship to Space Academy

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:53:21 -0400

Former NASA Engineer Awards Kiera Wilmot Scholarship to Space Academy:

emir-dynamite:

shickalenia:

hamburgerjack:

esotericalesbians:

jalylah:

As a show of support, former NASA engineer Homer Hickam awarded Kiera a scholarship to attend the United States Advanced Space Academy (ASA), a branch of the famous Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama!

YESSSSSSSSS!

I LOVE WHEN THIS SHIT HAS A HAPPY ENDING

EXCELLENT

THAT’S AWESOME.

Not to mention that the NASA engineer in question is Homer Hickam.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:52:17 -0400

theboywholovesfeferi: emileesfunhouse: AW YEA he’s in the car...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:51:52 -0400

theboywholovesfeferi:

emileesfunhouse:

AW YEA

he’s in the car with his mom tho

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rustybirdcage: yabamena: itsthelesbiana: revolutionriche: Red...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:47:39 -0400

rustybirdcage:

yabamena:

itsthelesbiana:

revolutionriche:

Red Velvet ice cream on a chocolate cone

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i am so turned on right now.

#well fuck me sideways

orbsteeb: my body is a cage and my heart is a bird and my brain is a parrot and my lungs are owls...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:45:15 -0400

orbsteeb:

my body is a cage and my heart is a bird and my brain is a parrot and my lungs are owls and my spine a heron and god its just a mess in here, all flappin and hootin and poopin

jumpingjacktrash: mothface: personificationofcorruption: ((Can...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:41:07 -0400

jumpingjacktrash:

mothface:

personificationofcorruption:

((Can we just appreciate how cute this is?))

God, cuter than a kitten- I swear.

omg fat little cutie

nuclearcarrots: dirkdave, sketch by skullcaps!

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:40:20 -0400

nuclearcarrots:

dirkdave, sketch by skullcaps!

yummytomatoes: i didn’t nap but i did doodle tavkat

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:38:19 -0400

yummytomatoes:

i didn’t nap but i did doodle tavkat

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retrogrammartown: oh my god, akibaranger went there

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:34:55 -0400

retrogrammartown:

oh my god, akibaranger went there

acklesboner: fullmetal-moonchild: w00dlands-boy: foreveralone-lyguy: tooawkwardforturtles: spoke...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:33:33 -0400

acklesboner:

fullmetal-moonchild:

w00dlands-boy:

foreveralone-lyguy:

tooawkwardforturtles:

spoken-not-written:

foreveralone-lyguy:

Marina and the Rubies

Noah and the Sharks

Mumford and daughters

My Chemical One Night Stand

Stare 182

Bruno Jupiter

Gentleman GaGa

Main-Street Boys

jumpingjacktrash: frillygills: so this spawned from a...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:32:11 -0400

jumpingjacktrash:

frillygills:

so this spawned from a depressive sollux who was so motivated he wouldn’t even get off the floor

now featuring actual cat karkat

hey seebs does this look familiar

toni-tan: It’s good to see that you dont have to stop posting...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:31:07 -0400

toni-tan:

It’s good to see that you dont have to stop posting stuff like this when you get famous

samskrit: scribblenauts: “hey we’re gonna order pizza” “you have to finish your homework...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:43 -0400

samskrit:

scribblenauts:

“hey we’re gonna order pizza”

“you have to finish your homework first”

“you can go out now”

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:30 -0400

hedgehoglike: This post is some personal observations I have...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:25:51 -0400

hedgehoglike:

This post is some personal observations I have made about people’s perceptions of The Autism Spectrum. When I refer to “people”, I don’t mean “all people”, I just mean the people I’ve encountered personally, whether in real life or talking to online.

When people first learn about autism, it’s because their new friend [be it a real person or a fictional character] has been described as “having autism”. These people, not really understanding what autism is yet, look at their friend’s characteristics and decide that all the traits they have are autism - that’s what autism is, it’s being like Sherlock, Abed Nadir, Einstein, that quiet kid in class, your friend’s nonverbal son. The stereotypes can be nice (look at all the aspergers characters in film, books and television, which paint most of them as eccentric, bad with people, but nevertheless geniuses) or they can be bad (like “Autism moms” complaining how difficult it is for THEM to raise their child… or Louis Theroux’ documentaries painting a bleak portrait of autism “sufferers”).

At this stage, the person learning about autism usually seems to think of it as a binary state… like a lightswitch. They’ll tell you you either HAVE AUTISM and are therefore exactly like the stereotype they’ve created (lights on) or you DON’T HAVE AUTISM because you’re not exactly like that stereotype (lights off).

If they’ve read up a little more, they might have seen the word “spectrum”. Now they have a more generalized view of autism. But they get the idea of “spectrum” wrong - they see it as a linear thing: a number-line, a scale, a dimmer switch or volume control, from Zero to Autistic — or from “low-functioning” to “high-functioning”. At that point they say silly things like “You’re very high-functioning!” or “No, but I mean like, the really really autistic kids, who, like, can’t do anything because they can’t talk”. They invent this linear relationship between a person’s verboseness and “how autistic they are”.

A lot of people seem to get stuck at this point, so I think the word “spectrum” requires some explanation.

When I see the word “spectrum” I immediately imagine a rainbow, or light being split from a prism. I’m sure most people do. And sure, the spectrum of colours is derived from the electromagnetic spectrum - we get different colours at different wavelengths - it’s a continuous range.

BUT- where does white light come from? White light is a combination of all those different wavelengths. You can create new colours by mixing different colours together. You can make colours brighter by adding a little bit of the other colours. You can mix the wavelengths together at different intensities. There’s a lot of ways of combining colours.

Which essentially what the autism spectrum REALLY is. Which is why labels like “high functioning” and “severely autistic” are dumb labels. Just because one autie excels at public speaking doesn’t make them unanimously “high functioning”. Conversely, I know of nonverbal auties who are masters of writing. To tell someone with a vibrant imagination, intense emotions, passionate interests and brilliant intellect that they’re “low-functioning” because they don’t vocalize their thoughts out loud is a massive insult. To refuse someone’s pleas of help because they’re “too high functioning” is also a shitty thing to do (I’m looking at you, ATOS).

There’s lots of ways in which we function, some of which are interdependent, others independent, and the levels vary wildly between autistic people, and they also vary wildly in non-autistic people too:

- Long-term memory

- Short-term memory

- Socializing

- Physical awareness

- Spatial awareness

- Vocal ability

- Verbal reasoning / ability to understand instructions

- Linguistic skills

- Mathematical and logical skills

- Executive function / Planning

- Ability to filter information

- Processing speed of sensory input

- Ability to focus / attention span

- Emotional self-awareness

[These might not be the exact distinct cognitive ‘functions’ as according to all the sciencey literature, this was verbatim]

I see my functions as a bar chart. In the version I drew it’s a prism splitting white light into the whole spectrum, but the different colours fade out at different places (and it’s a homage to Pink Floyd :p). That bar chart can vary throughout the day, be markedly different on different days, and is always changing over time.

In times of anxiety all the functionality unanimously drains out of me. In a nice chilled out environment it all comes trickling back.

When I’m in the zone doing something I enjoy, some of those rays of colour will be shooting off the image :D

(Note how there’s no lines on the image denoting the “average person“‘s ability towards a particular function, because this shit is nigh on impossible to quantify person-to-person. All you can do is compare yourself to yourself)

I think that’s more accurate than “low functioning” vs “high functioning” ??????????

I don’t care who you are.

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:24:18 -0400

I don’t care who you are.