you aren't dumb for learning differently
you aren't stupid for being a bit slower
you aren't less than for not be a gifted kid
you learn differently and that's okay
it's okay to be a bit slower
it's okay to need to be shown how to do things
it's okay to need things to be over explained
those who are autistic and were or currently are in special education, you don't need to be the smart autistic stereotype. It doesn't make you any less part of the community.
the fact is people with learning disabilities (including those who are autistic) like myself exists. We are sick of being ignored because we are "not smart enough" we can fight for ourselves just as much.
stop excluding us and stop pretending we don't exists
we need a bit more help and that's okay! but we don't stop being disabled even as adult. we are still here, we are still here.
( neurotypicals and gifted kids are encouraged to rb!! don't you dare derail from the topic )
don't skip it
Urgent help🚨 🚨📣
Hi guys. Friendly reminder that i think we should be nice to kids when we are in a kids space (I immediately get booed loudly and thrown off the stage)
this is not my best but i doodled this in a haze. anyways what if tddk were fairy/fae yaoi and izukus human stopped believing in fairies and izuku died
tbh i don't think people really understand how dire the water situation is in the west bank. the last time i was in palestine, i could only shower once a month. ONCE A MONTH. we simply did not have enough water to sustain my whole family, because israel controls palestinians' water supply and does not give us enough to sustain ourselves in the long run. plus the water isn't very clean so it was very easy to get sick all the time. when we say that "palestinians drink more olive oil than water", it's not genuinely such a silly hyperbole as you might think.
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friendly reminder as we go into pride month: pride is a protest. it is political. do not forget your trans siblings as their rights are being stripped away. do not forget about the repression, suppression, and extinguishment of gay and trans culture through bans. do not forget the poc members who give so much to the culture as they are discriminated against and ignored, as they suffer in ways white queers could never understand. center them, hear them, shower them with the support they deserve. and most of all, do not forget about the palestinian queers who are among those being viciously murdered in a genocide that is done with aide from the american government. do not forget them. it's fun to party. it's fun to celebrate. but do not forget what the trailblazers marched for first. use this month to speak up. use this month to donate to those who need it if you are in the financial space to do so. use this month in the way it should be used. use this month by using your voice.
We live here in very difficult living conditions that may be unbearable. There is no clean food, no water, and even medicine that can be purchased for colds. Can you imagine that? I just want to save myself and my family to safety You can help us with this by donating Thank you all gofundme.com/Helptahseenfamily
Before starting T, when I socially transitionned, I was surrounded by radical feminists who saw masculinity as gross and inherently evil, something to avoid, something to make fun of, something to destroy. The other transmascs in my friend group, sometimes, told me that they didn’t knew if they really were non-binary or if they just were scared shitless of saying “I am a man”. Because they saw this as a betrayal to their younger self who had been SAd and abused.
I saw many of my masc friends and trans men around me hate themselves, not outing themselves as men because it would imply so so much, it was like opening the Pandora Box. Even when we were just together, talking about our masculinity was always coated with bits like “I know we’re the privileged ones but…”, “I don’t want to sound like I have it bad but…”, “Women obviously have it worse, but last time…” and we were talking about terrible traumas we experienced while taking all the precautions in the world in the case the walls were a crowd of people in disguise waiting to get us if we didn’t downplay the violence we faced, or like crying and being upset and being traumatized and afraid and scared and to say it out loud would make us throw up the needles we were forced to swallow every second of every day living in our skin.
Most of us weren’t on T yet, some of us were catcalled every day and harassed in the streets or in abusive relationships nobody seemed to care to help them get out of because they were “strong enough” to do it by themselves.
I was using the gender swap face app and cried for ours when I saw my father looking back at me through the screen. The idea of transforming, of shedding into a body that would deprive me of love, tenderness, and safety, was absolutely terrifying. I knew I couldn’t stay in this body any longer because it wasn’t mine, but I also knew that if I was going to look like my dad, my brother, my abusers, it would be so much worse.
5 years later and I’m almost 2 years on T, and almost 2 months post top surgery.
I ditched my previous group of friends. I was bullied out of my local trans community. But let me tell you how free I am.
I was scared that T would break my singing voice: it made it sound more alive than ever.
I was scared that T would make me less attractive: it made me find myself hot for the first time in my life.
I was scared that T would make me gain weight: it did. But the weight I put on is not the weight I used to put on by binging and eating my body until I forgot that it even existed. It’s the weight of my body belonging to me, little by little. The wolf hunger for life.
I won’t tell you the same story I see everywhere, the one that goes “I started going to the gym 8 times a week, I put on some muscles, I started a diet and now I look like an action film actor”, in fact if you took pictures of me from 5 years ago vs now I’d just have more acne, I’d have longer hair and still look like I don’t know what to do with myself when I take selfies.
But the sparkle in my eyes, my smile, tell the whole story way better than this long ass stream of words could ever.
I want to say some things that I wish someone told me before starting medically transitionning.
It’s okay to take your time. It’s your body, it’s your journey, if you don’t feel comfortable taking full doses and want to go slow, the only voice you need to listen to is your own. Do what feels right.
If you feel overwhelmed, it’s okay to take a break, it’s okay to ask for support.
Trans people are holy. Everyone is. You didn’t lose your angel wings when you came out because you want to be masculine. You are not excluded from the joy of existence, from being proud of yourself, from being sad, from being scared, from being angry. The emotions and feelings you allowed yourself to feel while processing what you experienced when you grew up as a girl and was seen as a woman are still as valid as before. Nobody can take that from you. If someone tries to, don’t let them.
It’s perfectly normal to grieve some things you were and had before you started to transition, like your high soprano voice or even your chest. Hatching is painful. You can find comfort in things that don’t feel right, so making the decision to change can be incredibly scary and weird and you deserve to be heard and supported through this. Wanting top surgery doesn’t make the surgery less intense, less terrifying, less painful to recover from. When it becomes too much you have the right to take a break and take some deep breaths before going on.
You don’t have to have a radical, 180° change for your transition to be acceptable or valid or worthy of praise. Look at how far you’ve come already. It doesn’t have to show, you’re not made to be a spectacle, you’re human and it is your journey.
Oh, and last thing, you know when some people say “Oh this trans person has to grow out of the cringy phase where you think that you can write essays about being trans or transitionning or just their experience because it’s weird” ? If you ever hear this or see this online, remember all the people whose writing you read and, even if they were not professional writers, helped you more than any theorists did ? If you want to write, do it. It won’t be a waste. It can help people. Or it won’t, and even then, if it helped you, that’s enough.
Love every of my trans siblings, take care of yourselves. You deserve the world.
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markie | he/they | multifandom; mostly mha. but pmmm and splatoon too | artist, writer | todoizuocha 🔛🔝 | art tag: dreamsailor-art | oc tag: dreamsailor-ocs | https://markiepage.straw.page
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