Look I know we all moan and groan whenever tumblr staff does anything but this is without a doubt some of the dumbest shit staff has pulled in a long long time
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Please, you guys, if there is ANYWHERE non-Americans can watch the new Steven Universe episode, please tell me. Eldest, the Husband, and I are desperate.
What is this Cartoon Network app? It doesn’t exist in Canada, as far as we can tell.
having done some more reading I have been made aware of other conditions that also qualify as neurodiverse, such as ADHD, dyslexia, epilepsy, or any other neurological condition
However, as mental illnesses are psychological rather than neurological disorders, they wouldn’t come under the term neurodiverse
I’ve included a few links as references ! Anyway to conclude neurotypical is for people that don’t have a neurological, intellectual, or developmental condition, not for those without mental illnesses. It’s only been used as that since 2011, but was originally coined for those with neurological conditions
civil debate is welcome but if you start attacking anyone personally you’re getting blocked 🙂
Kay, I replied rather shortly instead of a reblog, but then you responded, sos I thinks a discussions is possible. Is sorry I was short. Yes, gatekeeping is always bad. Is exccluding peoples that needs the same helps that “born this way” needs. Just because they got neurodivergent later in life doesn’t mean they is still “neurotypical” NOW. Their brains is now working different from what the standard brains works. They is divergent.
Excluding them does not help them. Does not help us to exclude them from our community.
I doesn’t see how gatekeeping can be useful to us or them.
We all need society to accept us as we are. Some can get helps through meds and therapy to get to appear more neurotypical, but in the process they is still suffering the same stigmas and abuse and ostracism that those of us “born this way” get.
I don’t understand your reason for excluding them from the community.
(peoples what wants to understand this commentary can sees the replies)
I’m not trying to exclude them or stop them from getting help? I’m just saying that they aren’t neurodivergent because they don’t have any neurological conditions?
People with mental illness are no less deserving of help than those with neurological conditions – the only difference is they aren’t neurodivergent?? that’s literally all I’m saying
But that isn’t true. Mental illness IS a neurodivergent condition. By definition. Their brain is not operating in the typical fashion – therefore is divergent. What is the reason for excluding them from the community?
I respectfully disagree. Someone who is severely depressed cannot be neurotypical, as they do not react to stimuli and situations in a neurotypical way. Many depressed people have memory issues due to the brain not functioning correctly.
Bipolar disorder is another one that completely changes the way your brain functions, but you could be born neurotypical and become bipolar later.
Yes, ADHD and autism are neurodivergences that you are born with, but being born neurotypical doesn’t guarantee you will stay that way.
Another example is dementia or alzheimers. I would definitely consider them neuro divergent even if it’s also technically a “mental health” issue, since it’s in the brain and affects personality, thoughts etc..
Um – that is what is what I is saiding? How is that a disgree?
I’ve got ADHD and an Anxiety Disorder. The ADHD is me, the anxiety is something I have.
I find it helpful to use ‘neurodivergent’ to describe things are integral to people – that we wouldn’t get rid of because then we woudn’t be us. I might take medication to manage symptoms, but I can’t imagine not having ADHD.
Anxiety is a mental illness, and I totally want to get rid of it.
On the other hand, I would never say someone with a mental illness isn’t allowed to call themselves neurodivergent.
My definition of neurodiversity doesn’t include mental illness. But if it helps someone to consider themself neurodivergent, that’s great. Helping people is way more important than rules and definitions.
Conclusion: I think mental illness and neurodivergency are different. I think it’s important to separate things that are part of us, and things that can change, especially since people are always trying to ‘fix’ us.
But my opinion isn’t as important as helping people. So if a ‘neurodivergent’ label helps someone, they can use it.
So I feel like schizophrenia is sitting here in the middle of this conversation like a big baleful statue of an elephant?
We don’t know exactly how it works, although we’ve made a lot of progress, but it definitely runs in genetic lineages, and tends to be comorbid with other neurological conditions, and it is primarily a product of brain function, not emotional history or what have you, even if trauma is not infrequently involved in triggering symptoms. It’s a case of being neurodiverse even by the most reductive definitions.
It is also most certainly a ‘mental illness.’ The archetypical one, even. Even though there are some schizophrenic people who would rather not be treated for their own reasons, generally the condition is incapacitating and unwelcome.
And it doesn’t go away just because it’s being treated and causing you fewer difficulties. It’s there. It’s part of how you exist. You have the right to be okay with that. You have the right to want other people to be okay with that.
Attempting to define mental health conditions out of the ‘neurodivergent’ umbrella on the basis that it should only apply to things people are born with and that you feel are legitimately positive parts of an identity, not illnesses, kind of undermines what I understand the essential point of the term to be. Which is to make progress toward depathologizing the whole concept of diversions from the mental norm, and reducing the harmful associated social stigma.
Undermines that in favor of reducing the risk of getting mental illness stigma all over you in the short term, by defining the inconvenient people out of the community you want to be in.
So, it’s also ableist as fuck. Which might be why the pushback.
So, this is definitely not the first time I said something dumb without knowing enough about the topic, or thinking it through. Sorry.
Definitely forgot about community and belonging. Was just thinking about labels and organizing my own experiences.
having done some more reading I have been made aware of other conditions that also qualify as neurodiverse, such as ADHD, dyslexia, epilepsy, or any other neurological condition
However, as mental illnesses are psychological rather than neurological disorders, they wouldn’t come under the term neurodiverse
I’ve included a few links as references ! Anyway to conclude neurotypical is for people that don’t have a neurological, intellectual, or developmental condition, not for those without mental illnesses. It’s only been used as that since 2011, but was originally coined for those with neurological conditions
civil debate is welcome but if you start attacking anyone personally you’re getting blocked 🙂
Kay, I replied rather shortly instead of a reblog, but then you responded, sos I thinks a discussions is possible. Is sorry I was short. Yes, gatekeeping is always bad. Is exccluding peoples that needs the same helps that “born this way” needs. Just because they got neurodivergent later in life doesn’t mean they is still “neurotypical” NOW. Their brains is now working different from what the standard brains works. They is divergent.
Excluding them does not help them. Does not help us to exclude them from our community.
I doesn’t see how gatekeeping can be useful to us or them.
We all need society to accept us as we are. Some can get helps through meds and therapy to get to appear more neurotypical, but in the process they is still suffering the same stigmas and abuse and ostracism that those of us “born this way” get.
I don’t understand your reason for excluding them from the community.
(peoples what wants to understand this commentary can sees the replies)
I’m not trying to exclude them or stop them from getting help? I’m just saying that they aren’t neurodivergent because they don’t have any neurological conditions?
People with mental illness are no less deserving of help than those with neurological conditions – the only difference is they aren’t neurodivergent?? that’s literally all I’m saying
But that isn’t true. Mental illness IS a neurodivergent condition. By definition. Their brain is not operating in the typical fashion – therefore is divergent. What is the reason for excluding them from the community?
I respectfully disagree. Someone who is severely depressed cannot be neurotypical, as they do not react to stimuli and situations in a neurotypical way. Many depressed people have memory issues due to the brain not functioning correctly.
Bipolar disorder is another one that completely changes the way your brain functions, but you could be born neurotypical and become bipolar later.
Yes, ADHD and autism are neurodivergences that you are born with, but being born neurotypical doesn’t guarantee you will stay that way.
Another example is dementia or alzheimers. I would definitely consider them neuro divergent even if it’s also technically a “mental health” issue, since it’s in the brain and affects personality, thoughts etc..
Um – that is what is what I is saiding? How is that a disgree?
I’ve got ADHD and an Anxiety Disorder. The ADHD is me, the anxiety is something I have.
I find it helpful to use ‘neurodivergent’ to describe things are integral to people – that we wouldn’t get rid of because then we woudn’t be us. I might take medication to manage symptoms, but I can’t imagine not having ADHD.
Anxiety is a mental illness, and I totally want to get rid of it.
On the other hand, I would never say someone with a mental illness isn’t allowed to call themselves neurodivergent.
My definition of neurodiversity doesn’t include mental illness. But if it helps someone to consider themself neurodivergent, that’s great. Helping people is way more important than rules and definitions.
Conclusion: I think mental illness and neurodivergency are different. I think it’s important to separate things that are part of us, and things that can change, especially since people are always trying to ‘fix’ us.
But my opinion isn’t as important as helping people. So if a ‘neurodivergent’ label helps someone, they can use it.
“Dear Natalie Edwards from The Sun newspaper. Your story is b******s, I have done lots of work in the past for Crisis and Shelter and would never build railings outside my home for that reason,” he wrote on Instagram.
“The reason was to keep the paps that you employ from being on my doorstep. Have a good day.”
Sheeran’s breakthrough song “The A-Team" was based on his experience of volunteering at Crisis at Christmas. The singer songwriter backed Crisis’ No One Turned Away campaign demanding every homeless person who approaches their council to get the help they require.
[Image is a post by The Telegraph, @telegraph, saying, “Former rough sleeper Ed Sheeran wins permission for ‘anti-homeless’ gates outside
£8m London Home.”
There’s a picture of the musician, followed by the text, “Pop superstar Ed Sheeran, who spent nights sleeping rough on the streets of London early in his career, has won planning permission to install ‘anti-homeless’ r-.”
“If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.”
I cannot call you on the phone – I don’t speak or understand when you do. I cannot email you first – my anxiety makes me sit down and cry when I try. I cannot wave first in public – you might not wave back and I will sit down and cry.
Text me, email me, wave to me. I will respond.
I will not initiate any social interaction no matter how well I know you or like you.
I do not even initiate contact with my Mother and she’s the most wonderful person in the world.
Yeah, and not if they’ve been hurt enough. There are so many people I want to have relationships with. But I can’t believe that anyone wants to be with me, and I can’t make more than 2 or 3 outgoing gestures, no matter how long I know you.
Another morph doodle! I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t itching to get this one drawn, because damn if I don’t love big draft horse bodies. They just reek of powerful grace, don’t they?
Anywho, this lovely lady’s a good example of what you’ll see in the Russian and Canadian subtype of falsicorn. I’m sure there are some little defining quirks between the two if you squint, but they all have a lot of shared traits, the most obvious and striking if which is really just how freakin’ huge they are. Harsh, nearly year-round winter conditions have developed them into mammoth creatures, with incredibly thick, sturdy bones, extremely dense coats, and a solid layer of insulating fat to keep their organs warm. They could probably make a Clydesdale look scrawny by comparison, and are, at least on average, the undisputed largest of all present day falsicorns.
As you might expect, the majority of fairly type specific genes have to do with hair growth. This particular individual doesn’t have it, but many possess a longer fur type that makes them look more like a giant Great Pyrenees than a horse. Lion-esque mane wrappings and “lynx cheeks” are also common (all of which are present here), which can manifest in varying degrees.
Don’t let the bulk fool you, either. Sure, they’ll never win any racing competitions with, say, a desert morph, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t entirely capable of chasing down humans (easily) on foot and then just bulldozing the poor sod flat. Their physical strength and prowess are damn near legendary, and needless to say, picking a fight with one would probably not end well.
As with all types, they can theoretically come in just about any standard horse color under the sun and then some, though washed out greys and whites (both warm and cool) are the most common. Their horns don’t generally grow very ‘long’ either, and wind up about as stout as the rest of them. Faces are also fairly draft-esque with a roman slope in their profile. Fangs tend to be thicker and longer than other morphs, with canines often visible (and prominent) even when the mouth is small. Potential for saber tooth genes, maybe? Awww yeeeeah.
Oh, and their tails and tail claws are also just stupidly thick and powerful, too. Trust me, you don’t want that thing swung at you; it could probably shatter a human femur easily in one blow.
Han’s world-building is AMAZING, you guys. This blog has stolen hours from my last week. Falsicorns are a fascinating low-key horror subject. Reminds me a lot of Neil Gaiman’s writing – beautiful, creepy, and incredibly immersive.
Check them outǃ
(Noteː I object to the suggestion that Canada has ‘nearly year-round’ winters. Snow is only FIVE months a yearǃ Below freezing temperatures are almost never more than 7 monthsǃ Even in the Northǃ ~winky face~ )
K’UH-che-ta-ya-AJ ‘e-le-ne ye[ka]-’a (see below for reading order)
Holy “Chetay” Man “Elen” “Yekā”
Notesː
Mayan doesn’t have a lot of the sounds in his name. The ‘t’ in ‘Chetay’ and the ‘k’ in ‘Yekaa’ might sound similar to ‘d’ and ‘g’ because they’re in the middle of words. The other sounds are just the closest I could get.
I wrote ‘Jedi’ as a Mayan title. Important titles often have ‘K’uh’ or “K’uhul’ before, meaning ‘holy.’ I felt that fit the quasi-religious nature of the Jedi Order. The ‘Aj’ after sometimes comes at the end of titles. It’s kind of similar to ‘Mr.’ or ‘Person who does.’ Jedi isn’t a native Mayan title, so I felt it might help to mark where it ended. Also, it’s simplicity helps balance the importance of ‘K’uh.’
The way I wrote ‘jaeger’ is a visual pun on ‘tzak.’ Both mean ‘hunter.’ ‘Tzak’ can be written as a hand holding a fish, with the fish facing upwards. ‘Ye’ is a scattering/sprinkling hand, and usually isn’t holding something. Tzakː
ha-nu-te’ ch’o[ko] ‘a-la-sa (see below for order to read, ‘ko’ is the tapir’s ear)
‘Hānte‘ Young Doll
[Video shows a young man walking past as a young woman blows dish soap bubbles off her hands. He smiles at her enjoyment.
He walks up a mountain path, and cuts a bunch of fern-like plants down. Back in his garage, he cuts the stems off the plants, and sticks loops onto the ends of the stems. Plastic bottles are cut up and added as fins along the stems. The whole thing is assembled into a pinwheel.
Then he carves out a trough from bamboo. He mixes bubble mixture. He puts together a fan from a drill, more stems, and more plastic fins. Then he sits back to watch, smiling fondly.
The fan blows the pinwheel around, and also blows bubbles from the loops around it’s edges. Those loops move through the trough of bubble mixture as they spin, replenishing them.
The woman is surrounded by a cloud of bubbles. She joyfully pops them with the point of her finger.
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