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My life is ruined

iamoutofideas

Love how he acts like Australians don’t speak english

pochowek

they don’t

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disabilityhealth

Working out while disabled

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We all have different abilities and strengths, but here are some exercises that I do 5 times a week (note that I have myopathy, a neuromuscular disease that makes me physically weak and unable to do some basic activities). I do all of these while sitting in an armchair.

  • Crunches - Basically, I just contract my abdominal muscles. I don’t try to sit up all the way.
  • Arm punches - Both vertical and horizontal. Just punch the air and have a good time.
  • Leg lifts - I lift my leg about 2 inches off the ground. Because I can’t do it otherwise, I use my arms to help but I try to focus on using my leg muscles for most of the lifting. 
  • Foot extensions - While my feet are on the ground, I point my toe, effectively raising my knee a little and working out my ankles.
  • Toe lifts - Mostly I’m just wiggling my toes with this one.
  • Reverse sit ups - I’m not sure how else to describe this. Basically, I lean forward while in a sitting position and then sit back up straight. This works out my back muscles which don’t get much activity otherwise.
  • Shoulder lifts - I just shrug about 15 times. It might be awkward if someone walked in on me while I was doing this. 
  • Wrist curls - While making a fist, I take my wrists through their full range of motion about 10 times each.
  • Chest flexes - I just flex my pectoral muscles. 

I’m sure I’ll add more to my routine in time, but even just this gets me 10000x times more active than I have been in the past. If you’ve got a muscular disease or limited mobility like me, maybe try out some of these (but be careful). Take care of yourself.

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the american high school experience

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  • million-dollar gyms but bathroom stalls with no doors
  • speaking of bathrooms, shit sayings on the walls, mostly along the lines of “fuck this shit”
  • stressed out anxiety-prone teens running on 3 hours of sleep and a shit ton of coffee
  • the Pacer
  • teachers saying “this isn’t middle school anymore”
  • broken air conditioning 
  • classrooms that either feel like the arctic tundra or the pits of hell
  • “wikipedia isn’t a reliable source”
  • a shit ton of standardized tests
  • “if someone dies during the final, everyone gets an A, so who’s gonna take one for the team?”
  • “if the teacher is fifteen minutes late we can leave.”
  • jeopardy
  • quizlet
  • the cha-cha slide
  • “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”
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  • kahoot
  • substitute teachers that are either loved immensely or are so old their phone numbers were one number
  • “this is a college-level essay/class/quiz/test/assignment”
  • MLA format
  • school version of memes
  • art classroom floors that are always wet
  • “Good morning.” silence “…GOOD MORNING.” every voice replies ‘good morning’ in the same monotonous voice at the same time
  • “let’s start by introducing ourselves by saying your name and one thing that makes you interesting”
  • “are you the sub?”
  • morning announcements
  • screaming outside the classroom
  • “please stand for the pledge”
Source: the-american-bad-dream
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fiercefatfeminist

Feminists don’t wanna live in a world without men, we want to live in a world without patriarchy and violent, toxic hyper-masculinity

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So a world where men can’t be themselves.

fiercefatfeminist

Being violent and overly masculine is men “being themselves”? Sounds like you’re the one who wants to demonize men

jumpingjacktrash

THIS. christ, i am so here for the option of being a man who can nurture kids, and make squeaky noises over cute animals, and not have to constantly present myself as some kind of hard-hearted, aggressive asshole to keep from being beat down by other men who are afraid of getting Teh Ghey on them. toxic masculinity is TERRIBLE for men, and i refuse to participate in it.

which means, as a man, it’s beneficial for me to hang out with feminists as much as possible. they’re the ones who’ll let me be myself, not insecure dudebros who are so scared someone will see through their hyper-masculine facade that they’ll attack any guy who doesn’t front that way.

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evil feminists: we believe that men can be good and kind and experience a full range of human emotions and desires and sexualities while also treating their fellow human beings of all genders with compassion and respect

heroic dude: not all men

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Toxic/Hyper masculinity is watching a friend of mine being mocked and shamed for crying when his big sister died. Because men don’t cry, apparently, they should punch something instead. When his cousin was told he had to stop playing piano and pick up an ‘less sissy’ instrument, and that preferring soccer to football was ‘wimpy’ and made him ‘basically a girl’. It’s when a grown man in a tow truck CRIES when he breaks down and tells me how his divorce is going, because he doesn’t feel like he can talk about it with any of his guy friends and he doesn’t feel like he’s allowed to be friends with women, so he’s been bottling up all his sadness and worry about his family breaking apart and his kids struggling to handle it. And then reacts with shame after because he should “be a man” about it and “just suck it up”. No one should be forced to bottle up emotions to the point where one kind question from a stranger unleashes a decade or more of emotions locked away.

That’s the kind of thing we want to change. It’s fine to like football or not to react to sadness with tears. But we don’t want all men to be forced into having to do things one way to be considered ‘real men’. Those should be choices, not requirements.

The point isn’t that all masculinity is toxic. Masculinity is fine! But when people are forced to be hyper masculine it’s a problem.

Source: fiercefatfeminist
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This blog did not and will not send requests for bitcoin donations.

There seems to be a virus or some sort of malware going around causing blogs to “send out” chat messages to blogs that they follow asking for help with the purchase of certain items through donations of seemingly small amounts using bitcoin and adds a link to the message.

The message goes as following (at least the first message I got went like this): “Hi there buddy. I need help, I’m trying to buy a laptop and I can’t afford it. I’m about 0.36$ short, and I’d really appreciate if you could help me and transfer some money to me via bitcoin using this *link*.”

The small details in the message seems to have a few variations with the greeting, amount and purchased item showing up in different variations from formal to friendly, from 0.016 to 2$ and from a phone case to a laptop among others.

The blogs that are affected send out the messages to blogs that they follow for a long time mostly, so you are most likely to receive the message from a long time, active follower whose name you might recognize or a mutual etc. The blogs that are affected are not spam bots but actual active followers who follow the recipient for months or years and most likely the blogger who “sent” the message is unaware of the message being sent.

DO NOT OPEN THE LINK.

Opening up the link will cause the virus to spread even more and infect your computer/mobile with any sort of malware.

If you have received a message of that sort from this blog please know that it was not sent by me or within my control and ignore/delete the message without clicking the link.

autasticanna

The Problems with ‘To Siri With Love’

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You, like myself, may have heard a buzz about autistic people boycotting the recently-published nonfiction novel To Siri With Love. Seeing the controversy surrounding this publication, I decided to take a short break from my university assignments and do a little research for myself about the book and the issues it raises, hoping to be able to explain in short why the #BoycottToSiri movement is so important to the autistic community. The book is a memoir written by Judith Newman about her experiences with her autistic son, Gus. That alone is not a bad concept, but some of the comments the author makes send nasty shivers down my spine. To start with, here’s some of the smaller problems that were discovered:

  • The author did not ask her teenage son’s permission or advice when writing an invasive commentary on his life, a choice she views as “selfish but necessary.” She also published text conversations between Gus and his friends. Though I cannot claim to know whether or not anyone involved consented to have their words published, it is difficult to overlook the possibility that they did not.
  • Transphobic comments regarding the use of the terms “cisgender” and “they” (as opposed to “he or she”) to be an “ugly and imprecise” evolution of language. Also, I there’s something that rubs me the wrong way about her insistence on using “the masculine pronoun” when “talking about people in generalities”, but I can’t pinpoint exactly what it is that makes me feel so uneasy about that.
  • Newman described popular autism advocate Amythest Schaber using a sexist movie trope by saying that they resemble “everyone’s favourite manic pixie dream girl.”
  • Made the ableist claim that someone like her son will “never have real friends,” which is incredibly insulting to autistic and otherwise neurodivergent individuals.
  • Declined using person-first language in her book not because of the many valid criticisms about the dehumanisation of autistic people but because it is “clunky” and she didn’t want to have to write “the phrase “person with autism” over and over again.”
  • Continued the long ableist trend of desexualising disabled people when she mocked the possibility of her son having any sort of romantic experience (“I could not imagine that any girl, anywhere, would find him interesting at this point”) and described the situation as one she imagines to be soundtracked by “Benny Hill” theme. 

Now we get onto the main problem of To Siri With Love, and it concerns the topic of eugenics. In the novel, Newman declared that she wanted to get Power of Attorney so that she could force her son to have a vasectomy so he couldn’t have children, so that she could have “one less worry. For [her.]” She then asked how she could make such a comment “without sounding like a eugenicist,” which only makes it worse by highlighting that she understands the horrific concept of eugenics. She then explains the unpleasant history of eugenics, acknowledging how “the history of disability is inextricably intertwined with the history of euthanizing and enforced sterilization,” but admits that she would still be “the first in line to sign him up.”

I hope this explanation sheds some light onto the problematic nature of this memoir and the ableist commentary within it. Please, if you want to read a real-life story about autistic life, do yourself a favour and read any one of the countless memoirs by members of the autistic community instead of the undeniable ableism presented by Judith Newman. 

(Quotes are taken from screenshots of the book posted to Twitter by disability inclusion advocate Andrea Pregel, as well as from a tweet by Elizabeth Roderick and a screenshot from Amythest Schaber.)

autasticanna

Why didn’t she just title it “I hate my son”

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