Everyone
needs kindness and respect. Maybe not everyone deserves kindness and respect,
but it is not about what people deserve, it is about what you believe in. Do
you believe you should treat yourself and others with the upmost kindness and
respect at all times?
For Autistic people “The golden rule” to “treat others as you wish to be
treated” simply does not work for us because our wants and needs are often very
different than other people’s wants and needs. This is because we often become
physically, mentally and emotionally overstimulated easily, we have trouble
with communication and social skills and we are usually far more creative,
intelligent, perceptive, sensitive and caring than other people.
Meltdown and shutdown behavior is not impacted by reward systems or by shaping
efforts because it is not willful socially goal driven behavior. Meltdowns and
shutdowns are due to sensory overload and/or due to communication issues such
as not being about to express wants and needs or not understanding other
people’s wants and needs. This is also why trying to use ABA (Applied
Behavioral Analysis) which is based on reward systems to try to limit autistic
people’s self-soothing, meltdowns and shutdowns will never work for any autistic person in the
long term.
The #1 cause for most sensory meltdowns and/or shutdowns is called Sensory
overload. Most (but not all) autistic people have sensory processing disorder
and many have synesthesia i.e. taste colors, hear what someone/thing sounds
like even when they are not making noise and also often “take in” more sensory
details than Allistic people and have more sensory memory than Allistic people.
-By Mx. A. Wolf/ A female/Intersex/Autistic person
This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York. This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.
Got on AO3 to read some stuff, and before I even got to a story, I’m already in my feels. 😭
I clicked Search, but left it blank bcuz I just like to use the Advanced Search. So this makes it show the most recently updated stories of the whole site.
THE FIRST TWO RESULTS GOT ME IN MY MASS EFFECT FEELS. The first one obviously did bcuz it’s FemShep/Garrus (MY FAV). The second one is titled ARCHANGEL and Librarians.
Excuse me while I bawl about one of my favorite ships from one of my favorite game series. 😭😭😭😭
It’s happening again.
I don’t want it to. No. NO! WHY? why does it have to happen again? Why with this one? Why can’t I have one freaking friendship last? this is the first genuine friend that we’ve been there for each other in seven years. We haven’t even been good friends for a year yet! And yet…. I already knew that I was a replacement. That I was filling the shoes of someone who stepped out of her life not long ago. And the one who was there first wants the shoes back. The previous friend is coming back into get life again. I’m being replaced with the one I replaced. Again.
….
I went to a very dark place the last time it happened. If this is truly what’s happening, then I’m done for. I don’t know how bad I’m gonna fall. How long is it gonna be before I start to stand this time? It took years for me to recover. I don’t think I’ll have enough time left for it to happen again. Not again. Please not again. Please.
