Pepper Potts

Florida

If you are autistic and you've been acting more autistic lately — like by focusing on your special interests even more than usual, stimming for hours, losing speech, etc. — this is a normal autistic response to traumatic times and you are valid and ok fren. <3

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Oh yes, I loved that book too. The Hobbit. The Chronicles of Narnia. The Little House books before I knew how problematic they were. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. Anything by Robin McKinley.

I could smell it through the screen

Thank you. I've been disabled so long I forget that people believe this. They also think that if they get sick/hurt, a doctor will make it all better, and I must have done something wrong to be disabled.

Community video for Severe ME awareness day, please share and tag politicians and public figures who need to see this!

All participants IG handles tagged at the end 💙💙

#SevereME #SevereMEAwarenessDay #MECFS #MillionsMissing #UnitedForME

What if your body couldn’t bear light, sound, movement — or even touch? Today, #SevereMEDay, we ask you to imagine living that way not just for a day… but for years. For people living with Very Severe ME, this isn’t a metaphor — it’s reality. 🧵

Great information and recommendations re: severe ME in the below thread

Or a social life, or anything else. Facts.

This is the necessary context I've been looking for in all the online discourse. Thank you for pointing out the bigger picture.

Disability communities have so much to teach the world about community & resistance.

About creativity, love, & anger. About power, justice, & politics. About acceptance & change.

I wish more of you would listen to, learn from, and collaborate with us.

The world would be better for it.

Love. The people who would miss me if I was gone. All the love I still want to show the people who matter. Sheer stubbornness. Hope, because I've been at rock bottom before and things have always changed sooner or later.

Folks love to quote @timothysnyder.bsky.social, often "don't obey in advance" but there're further lessons—So what’s keeping you from wearing a mask? It’s easy to fall in step if there are only maskless faces around you; break the spell of denial, set the example—we must protect the health we have.

When my PEM is bad, I slur my words. I've been accused of being drunk or taking drugs (I don't use substances).

Bald eagle in a dumpster

Bald eagle eating trash in a dumpster

Bald eagles fighting magnetically over a dumpster

Bald eagles in a dumpster

happy independence day to those who celebrate, pls enjoy dumpster diving bald eagles with me

Agreed. And ableism underlies every other marginalization, including race. Ableism is used to control us.

The evil that men do lives after them

Drew just sent me this

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5. Remember, you're doing this out of love. Love for yourself, love for the people who truly care about you and want the best for you. You're worth it.

> 4. There's something very satisfying about knowing that everyone notices when you don't show up for weddings or funerals. Your family can say whatever they want about you. They can't deny there's a problem anymore.
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> Do you regret waiting as long as you did already?

3. Think of the family members you're influencing, especially younger ones. You're setting an example for how to handle it when people don't treat you the way you deserve. You can change their lives for the better.
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You don't. You feel the guilt and do it anyway.

1. Don't listen to what other people say. They don't know your history. They don't have to live with your decisions.

2. Imagine yourself 5 years down the road. Will you have wished you went NC sooner or waited longer?
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Barbara Lee tried to warn us.

I don't know who's going to see this but I stand with trans folks of all ages. What SCOTUS did is wrong. Everyone should be able to make their own healthcare decisions. I'm sorry there's so much transphobia in the world.

I'm so happy you have the help you need. Community care is very precious.

"I suspect of all the humbling wisdom and necessary perspectives that so many people I love with chronic conditions have developed could be valuable for so many if only we would listen and engage with the content instead of pushing it away."

My Army father taught me how to do the half-step when I was a kid. He said they teach it in boot camp.

How long before we find out that the Minnesota assassin has a history of domestic violence?

Reminds me of the ESPN producer I dated who, when learning that I write fiction, told me that I "should write".

I do, dumbass. I just don't write copy for basketball ads.