June 2012
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This is good, but seriously WTF. (And, rambling...
I hate the system. I just hate it.
I got my notice saying I’ll get food stamps and fuel assistance, and it’s not the highest amount but it’s a good amount.
Then attached to it was this notice saying “Fill out this really long form and send it in the next two days or you may not get food stamps after all.”
It had to do with my monthly medical expenses,...
May 2012
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Fey is puzzled by my record player.
And she’s snuggling with me. And both of my ears can pop. And for the first time in weeks I can smell her fur. (And then she just startled again when she heard the needle go back to its holder. I wonder how she’d feel if she had seen it.)
I have a stereo that can hook to my laptop and convert anything that plays on it into mp3s. So I’m planning on (if my parents agree)...
felis corvus: Kitten update: good news and bad... →
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Bad news first: Bella has lost two of her kittens. Matt’s parents found them in the yard yesterday. It’s not clear what actually caused their deaths, but with kittens that yound and fragile it could have been anything. :( I was skeptical from the beginning that Bella would be able to properly…
I’d been worried about that. The size you reported sounded like they could...
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Do other people enjoy really simple board games?
I’m playing Aggravation on my iPad. Taking three colors and giving the other to the computer.
And I’m finding that it doesn’t make the inside of my head all jangly the way Boggle and Yahtzee and things like that do. I’m not sure what’s different but it very much is.
felis corvus: PSA: There is no such thing as a cat... →
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Seriously. This sort of thing just peeves me off to no end. As anyone who’s been reading here for the past few days will no doubt be aware, I’m in the process of trying to hopefully line up potential adoptive homes for some kittens recently born to a local feral mothercat. And today I learned…
That sort of stuff makes my gut clench in utter terror. Having volunteered in...
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This is probably going to puzzle me the rest of my...
So when I came out to my parents as lesbian, I was most worried about my dad. Because he had made… comments about gay men. So I braced for the worst and I told him.
His reaction: “Oh I knew that.”
If I was a cat I would have whipped my ears back and stared at him with wide eyes. As it was, my ears and scalp moved a little bit, pulling my glasses towards my eyes. ...
Lost in my Mind TARDIS: Are there any autistic... →
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nephilimswansong:
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dionthesocialist:
Because I’ve never met one, so why do people keep acting like it needs to be cured if all autistic people are like, “hey, don’t do that.”
There’s about 3 or 4 per 10-15 of us and they claim that they’re the…
I’ve met plenty of both. I wouldn’t know what ratio they exist in. But I do know that a lot of...
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To clarify:
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markleberry:
Is Luna Lovegood meant to be on the autism spectrum/otherwise neurodivergent, or not? It seems like she’s an Aspie to me, but I could be wrong.
Also the fact that this idea took 9 years to occur to me is worrying
I’ve always thought of her as a schizotypal, but she definitely reminds me of an autistic.
Maube she’s both?
My mom swears to me that in my early...
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Being physical.
My whole life, random people, all over the place, have been telling me that my disconnection from my body is not natural to me. That it’s been caused by things, people, events outside of me. Even total strangers would tell me this emphatically. I never believed them. Now, I kind of do.
I was a very kinesthetic child. I might not have been good at specific things assigned to me in gym...
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Watchfeliscorvus:
You can’t really SEE the kittens in this video but they are definitely squeaking loudly! They seemed to be going EEEE EEEE EEEEEEE whenever Bella moved (and they cry whenever she gets up to eat). It is amazing how noisy they are considering how tiny their lungs must be.
Kittysqueaks! It’s been a long time since I’ve heard that sound. I suppose they have to be loud, so...
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Call for Trans Actors of Color for Indie Film →
newwavefeminism:
lalunafemme:
Synopsis: Approaching his 30’s, Passion, a black trans musician two years into his medical transition, juggles his newfound identity as a black male and the societal expectations that come along with it. Though him and his ska band enjoy local success in Oakland, Ca, Passion is discontent with remaining local and wants to extend the band’s fame beyond the bay...
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Cat noises I love.
The sound of purring when they stick their nose in your ear.
The sound of slight purring, heard coming from the direction of their nose, at a distance — soft and high pitched.
The sound of purring interrupted by washing themselves or eating.
The sound when they stretch and a purr gets mixed into the stretching in the same way humans sigh loudly when we stretch.
Tiny little...
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“You know how to count by fives, dear?”
– Staff person just now. Okay, so yes it’s the only way I can reliably count things like beads. (Which I clean up all the time for a clumsy friend who drops them on the floor.) But jeez, the way she said it, and the surprise in her voice.
"You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": I... →
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youneedacat:
I feel much less weird than before. But I still feel weird. I got distracted the other day, when my parents called, and ended up eight hours late on my seizure meds. I don’t remember a lot between then and now but I know it was seriously unpleasant. To make up for it without overdosing or going…
May I commiserate with you on seizure med withdrawals? Cuz...
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So I told my parents I needed to lie down and rest...
Which is completely true and I should have done that after I got off of Skype. (We were going through old records trying to sort through which were mine. Records as in music, not as in papers.)
But somehow the violin was between me and the bed and I ended up spending an hour and a half trying to work out a satisfying arrangement of “Blackberry Blossom”.
Which was foolish. But I...
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I wish there were ways to describe this other than...
I feel much less weird than before. But I still feel weird. I got distracted the other day, when my parents called, and ended up eight hours late on my seizure meds. I don’t remember a lot between then and now but I know it was seriously unpleasant. To make up for it without overdosing or going into withdrawal (seizure med withdrawal is seriously dangerous) I had to skip my morning dose...
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“A disabled woman, Merry Cross, whom I met last year, emails to describe the...”
– My mum was mentioned in an article in the Independent by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown!
In the same article she mentions Camila Batmanghelidjh, one of my mum’s absolute heroines! ashfksjdgkdh it’s just a bit exciting okay (via uswhoresdontneedyou)
…and that’s sadly because they HAVE been...
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That reading speed test again.
Now I’m wondering if that actually gives me an answer to something that’s been puzzling me way too long.
Every time I write anything that I post online. And often when I write things I don’t post. I read it over and over and over and over after I’ve posted it. Not just right after I’ve posted it but later too. How many times varies.
And I’d been trying to...
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felis corvus: Tips for the burping-impaired? →
feliscorvus:
So, I’ve never been able to burp on purpose. I am fascinated that so many people can. It’s like whatever muscles or parts in the body people generally use to produce a voluntary belch aren’t even present in my body map. I mean obviously I can feel that I have a mouth and throat and all that, but…
As I’ve said before, the way I learned to burp in situations like that...
