Wonderseeker

It is truly and deeply exhausting to be a direct communicator with people who take directness as an attack.

Y'all, I am just saying true shit and I even try to be polite. Gather thine coping skills.

#doublempathyproblem

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This resonates a lot for me! I think for me the origin story of my defiance & blunted fear is complicated & not all related to trauma (but maybe it is, it hurts to think about it). There are things to love about it (I am super brave & ready to go to bat for people) but boy the grief is there too.

Work has been bonkers this quarter, but I do still plan to continue this series.

The Boundaries of Belonging Notes on eugenics, disabling language, and being in solidarity with folks with low IQs

Trump's out here using the r-slur against Walz--not surprising because he is a shitty, mean person, to say nothing of intentionally ignorant.

But I've also seen LOTS of "racism is low-IQ behavior" posts lately. Eugenicist logic is on the rise across the aisle.

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I also came here to make this silly point!

"Inclusion must begin where exclusion has been the deepest"

"Designing for the intersections of people and contexts that produce high support needs is not a niche exercise. It improves access for everyone."

Read more from this epic paper!

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Massachusetts legislators urged to pass bill banning electric shock treatment on disabled children Disability advocates and their supporters have called on the Massachusetts legislature to pass a bill banning the use of ‘aversive therapy’, as the state’s Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) continues to administer electric shocks to disabled children.

Disability advocates and their supporters have called on the Massachusetts legislature to pass a bill banning the use of ‘aversive therapy’, as the state’s Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) continues to administer electric shocks to disabled children.

Great! Hope you can connect. Let me know if you have trouble, I am in that orbit but geographically distant.

The National Center for START services is based out of the Institute on Disabilities at UNH.

I wish Massachusetts had a START team (it is a little surprising that they don't) but New Hampshire actually does. They would be really great folks to connect with on this because START's whole deal is developing better capacity around supporting folks with IDD who are prone to crisis.

The doctor who falsely tied vaccines to autism is enjoying a comeback Andrew Wakefield, who was once cast out for his retracted study tying autism to the MMR vaccine, is making a comeback in the second term of President Donald Trump as an ally of Health and Human Servic...

Fifteen years after Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license for his bogus study on autism and vaccines, the ascent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given the discredited former doctor a new level of popularity.
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Mkay I will be needing an #OliviaDean & #Hozier collab stat please and thank you

I just feel like we are going through a lot as a species and it might help

Today my bio nibling (3) met my spiritual nibling (10 mos) and they were obsessed with each other and initiated hugging and so I died of joy and am now posting from beyond the grave

I caught Mitch McConnell earlier today and tried to ask him about the CDC promoting the lie that vaccines cause autism.

He voted against RFK Jr.'s confirmation.

But as is always the case, McConnell, a polio survivor, refused to answer questions.

Equivalent to walking into a room with a purpose and wondering why I decided to do so, i regularly log into certainly websites with a clear intention and then forget what I meant to do.

Our electoral patterns are honestly so interesting--we have often elected red presidents and blue governors in the same election year. The gerrymandering has well and truly fucked our congressional representation, though.

I think there are actually a lot of powerful Republicans in Buncombe County, but regardless, the people of NC do not "deserve" climate disasters because of how our elections have shaken out. Our districts are so gerrymandered in favor of Republicans that our democracy is largely dysfunctional!

WE HAVE ACHIEVED PERMANENT AMBIENT "THESE MOTHERFUCKERS HAVE GOT TO GO." And of course I mean the pedophilic corporate/political elite, but by now it's everything: insurance companies, podcasters, and people who put the toilet paper roll on backward.

Trump now faces the worst possible fate in polling: Becoming Joe Biden It doesn’t matter how much Trump talks about how costs are going down. Voters are not buying what he is saying, Eric Garcia writes

New: Trump is now facing the same fate as Joe Biden when it comes to the economy. Despite all his bragging, nobody believe the economy is getting better. Once that happens, a president is typically done.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Oh man I do think having a mommy duck would heal me

Finally Some Wisdom to Move Forward! Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

Big takeaway: we are free when we are in service to each other. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a gem, and I love that she's part of my local community.

I wonder if Megyn Kelly would leave her 14-year old child alone in a room with the president.

"Barely legal." What a gross person.

Hey! Here is a really important distinction:

satire

vs.

being shitty, but in a jokey tone

We’re going to prove that Hitler, who murdered hundreds of thousands of disabled and mentally ill people is evil by using pseudoscience to suggest he was disabled and/or mentally ill

Is so incredibly offensive

Disability does not make you commit mass murder

Being a raging bigot does

Literally and uncomplicatedly this

Cover for Charlotte McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore. The title and author text is set against a moody background of intense ocean waves. There is a circular logo indicating that this is a Reese's Book Club pick.

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy is a legitimate masterpiece. Set in a wild & unforgiving but also desperately loving Antarctic island, this story weaves climate grief in with family & personal grief. This is the best book I've read this year. It will be working in me for a long time. #booksky

I am looking forward to being obsessed with this show!

The best take on all of this shutdown came from @shannonrwatts.bsky.social who told me this would only end by Republicans killing the filibuster or Democrats caving. That’s it. But Schumer somehow broadcast that Republicans would cave when they never gave any indication they would.

One way Autistic people can be misunderstood is when we’re trying to be very thoughtful w/ our words under stress

Some of us stumble

Some of us go blank

Some of us have scripts locked & ready to go

we don’t want to be misunderstood

They can misinterpret our thoughtfulness with intent to deceive