listen. There’s a whole mentality shift that needs to happen culture wide here, from the schools to the public infrastructure to pet ownership to the justice system
The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior
The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.
The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.
you see how there’s like, a commonality at play here?
The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -
you don’t invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don’t relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don’t resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don’t prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.
a whole ass shift in a basic mindset, i’m tellin’ you. We need it.
a person online: i hate it when adults act like childish little freaks in public, smh. you’re an adult, you should be able to order your own food without help. get over yourself. also, why are some people, like, waaaaaaay too into the stuff that they like? omg, and the people who CLEARLY can’t even have one (1) normal conversation without acting Weird??? it’s embarrassing, u guys are embarrassing, get help
the same person five seconds later: we gotta remember to love and support the autistic community u guys <3
you know, in hindsight this reminds me of something
when i’m at work, people get mad at me for not hearing them the first few times. like, openly agitated. they’ll assume that i’m stupid, or rude, or careless. sometimes they will indirectly chastise me for ‘not paying attention.’ at which point i say “i’m sorry, i’m hard of hearing. you were on my right side and i’m severely deaf in that ear,” and they go “oh my god i’m so sorry i didn’t know.”
yeah. you didn’t, did you? the only available information you had about me was… that i didn’t hear you say something. the thing you hated enough to comment on was that i couldn’t hear you. you don’t get to backpedal once you find out that i have can’t-hear-well disease. i shouldn’t need to present a diagnosis to expect decency from you
if you attach negative characteristics to “didn’t hear what you said,” that will affect how you treat d/Deaf and hard of hearing people. if you attach negative characteristics like “weird and childish” to utterly harmless and well established autistic traits like “doesn’t make eye contact,” that will affect how you treat autistic people. it’s not rocket science
Edward Carpenter (1844 – 1929). Early gay rights advocate who lived openly with his lover, George Merrill (1867–1928). They had a home in the English countryside, made socks and sandals fashionable, and were pretty much the originators of cottagecore.
George Merrill gave us the greatest and gayest work of art, the book Maurice by patting E.M Forster on the bum.
Additional things I have gleaned from his Wikipedia article:
was the person to popularize the phrase/concept of “the Simple Life”
had a kink for manual laborers and the working class, and when I say kink– “the grimy and oil-besmeared figure of a stoker”, “the thick-thighed hot coarse-fleshed young bricklayer with a strap around his waist”, etc.
Not only inspired Forster’s Maurice, but also DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The socks and sandals thing. Wtf. It is not adequately explained. Can we blame all bad “dad” fashion on one gay man who wanted Indian footwear but fuzzy feet?
Did refer to himself as a Uranian, so yup, totally identified as the period-equivalent of Super Gay
…this isn’t stated outright in the article but it does sound like he traveled all the way to New Jersey once to dick down Walt Whitman
I begin to ask: who *didn’t* travel all the way to new jersey once to dick down Walt Whitman
Bad thoughts can’t touch me . I know so many Pokémon facts to replace any possible bad thoughts with.
“I’m a loser” —> the gen 2 moon ball was supposed to work better on Pokémon that evolved with the moon stone but the item ID was programmed wrong and so it only works better on Pokémon who evolve with a burn heal. Which is none. So it’s a normal pokeball, functionally
