I’ve seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they’re being groomed, and it’s bugging me because, like, there’s no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says “groom that thing”.
Autistic people experience psychosis at a higher rate than the general population. And people with schizo spec disorders are likely to have strong autistic traits even long before they develop psychosis. On top of this, both diagnoses have a big general overlap in traits and experiences. And that’s why I think we need to discuss “auschizm” just like we’ve started discussing auDHD
A good place to start could be Barneveld et.al. (2011)’s article. Based in the fact that up to 35% of autistic youth go on to develop a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (dependent on the study), Barneveld and co. studied the connection between autistic and schizotypal traits in autistic youth. They found significantly higher rates of schizotypy in autistic youth than in control groups, across both negative, positive and cognitive symptoms. Higher scores on autistic symptoms scales was associated with higher scores on schizoptypy scales.
Another interesting study in there, by Eack et al. (2013), compared a group with schizophrenia with a group with ASD and a healthy control group on a number of cognitive and social-cognitive parameters. They found that there was no significant difference between the autistic and schizophrenic group, but both groups did significantly worse than the control group. (For reference, social cognition refers to basic social skills like reading other people etc., that are a part of the diagnostic criteria for ASD. So in other words, on average the schizophrenic people struggled similarly with social skills as the autistic people in this study).
I can also recommend reading Rapoport et al. 2005 and 2012 (and maybe Cannon (2002)) for elaboration on schizophrenia as a unique neurovelopmental disorder, which presents with delays in language development, motor skill development, cognition and social-emotional functioning in childhood way before psychotic illness onset.
So yeah, in short, there is a huge overlap between the autistic community and the schizo spec community in a bunch of interesting ways!
I hope this helps someone as a place to start looking into this!
Sources to back up my claims! ❤️
Schizospec disorders/conditions are developmental disabilities like autism is.
laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!
i trusted you
Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people
saw this on twitter and though tumblr folks would appreciate it
edit: realized I forgot to add alt text to the image! updated now. i don’t have much experience with alt text so if I inadvertently made it harder for a screen reader let me know and I’ll try to fix it!
i think that all the people who argue about gender by saying “the woke left cant even define a woman” need to get hit with the “who are you” question by a buddhist monk. no, thats your name, who are you. no thats your profession, who are YOU. no you fucking idiot thats your species, who are YOUU. dumb bitch u cant even define yourself
as an optimist i dream of a beautiful world where people are fucking normal about aromanticism
At first I read “as an optometrist” and was just ready to accept the statement as is like oh yeah maybe some kind of pun about if people’s views weren’t clouded by hatred and biases they could be normal about aro and aspec in general but then I reread it was like “sigh, time for my nearsighted ass to go back to the optometrist.”
as an optimist i dream of a beautiful world where all these beautiful aromantic people get to go to the optometrist
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
But queer is more inclusive
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
shortest possible answer: So that you’re not involved in the next My Lai massacre or the next Kunduz Hospital airstrike
My father joined the US Army to provide healthcare to his family. As a result, he was directly involved in war crimes in Kosovo, where his battalion (101st Airborne) bombed schools and hospitals!
Nothing the US military can promise, be it healthcare, housing, “life experience”, travel, or tuition, is worth the atrocities you will be responsible for or complicit in.
Does anyone know the URL of that website where you can simulate sex with computers/phones? The one that was created as a social experiment? I used to know the URL, but I was afraid to use it. I felt weird doing it. And now I want to use the website but don’t remember the URL. If anyone can send a link that would be great.
Never mind found it. I saved it to my bookmarks so I can’t lose it. The URL is pippinbarr.com/itisasifyouweremakinglove/ for anyone else who’s interested.
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
But queer is more inclusive
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
Putting this here because apparently Tesla wants it taken down and the og post was already deleted.
I saw a news story about how Teslas were slowing down early for a junction and it turned out the STOP signs were about 50% bigger than regular, and the car brain which has no LIDAR or other depth sensing tech other than smooshing several camera inputs together was just assuming the signs were closer and so needed to be stopped sooner.
lol, lmao etc but someone in the comments posited ’Hey maybe a TESLA just sees a child as an adult who is further away and thus there’s no need to brake just yet’ *THUD*
I’m out here buying tshirts and pants like a chump while some people are just wearing the world’s best rectangles
Pre-manufacturing cultures will really be like, here is the most elegant and gorgeous outfit you can imagine, and it’s achieved entirely with rectangles, ropes, and pins.
Over and over again, across the world, in cultures that never even knew of each others’ existences. Just, rectangles, knots, and pins. And I love that for them.
global islamophobia is a very real and dangerous threat, it is institutionalised in the world’s largest and richest nations, in the first and the third world and it is currently deployed in the defense of a genocide. i don’t think people are taking it seriously – almost no lessons were learned from the war on terror, no restitution made and now as it takes on new forms i expect we will see it begin to be normalised in spaces where it was previously carefully talked around.
Israel’s newest massacre in Rafah is dubbed مجزرة مخيم النازحين
“The massacre of displacement camps”
35 displaced Palestinians killed in makeshift tents. This is where we’re at. This is Israel.
This was posted yesterday (May 27) and the updated number is 45 Palestinians killed in their tents. Hours after this massacre, Israeli prime minister said it was a “tragic mishap” and that they were going to investigate it.
Yet, as of a few hours ago today (May 28), Israel had struck yet another displacement camp in Rafah, killing over 21 displaced Palestinians, most of whom are women and children, the same exact way it did just a little over 24 hours prior.
Israel is demented. Save your calls for ceasefire because they’re useless at this point. Call for sanctions, arms embargo, cutting diplomatic/economic ties, fight normalisation, boycotts and divestments- the lifeline of this genocide needs to be severed immediately. Israel has gotten away with way too many crimes for us just to be asking for the “fighting” to stop, when we are at this stage of genocide.
Reblog this if you support sex-averse and sex-repulsed aces, including:
Aces who never want to have sex
Aces who had sex in the past but don’t desire it anymore
Aces with sexual trauma who feel like their trauma ties into their asexuality
Aces with sexual trauma who don’t feel like their trauma caused their asexuality
Aces who don’t want to talk to you about sex
Aces who don’t want to hear about sex
Yes even aces who do not want to engage with any sexual content and don’t want it in their own personal spaces
Yes even aces who express the desire to have more spaces for queer adults where their boundaries are met (on top of the queer spaces that exist, we do not want to sanitize your existing spaces ffs)
If you cannot be normal about these people existing, if you believe they’re a threat to our community and to how we’re viewed by people who aren’t aspec and the rest of the LGBTQ+ community, you are not an asexual ally. Yes, even if you’re aspec yourself. Especially if you’re aspec yourself.
Because it’s been pride month for 4 days and I’m already seeing people trying to throw us under the bus or pretend we don’t exist because that makes the ace community more palatable to exclusionists and people who swallowed too much “aces are puritans” propaganda.
jewish gay pride flags, not associated with israel in any way and should be allowed to be flown by jews:
israeli gay pride flags, associated with the colonialist state of israel and should not be flown:
notice how the second set have the white bar in the middle like the israeli flag, or contain the israeli flag themself, while the first set is simply a pride flag with the star of david.
if people could spread this i’d be grateful, i’ve seen so many antisemitic takes on this topic on one side and so many zionist takes on the other side.
jewish gay pride flags, not associated with israel in any way and should be allowed to be flown by jews:
israeli gay pride flags, associated with the colonialist state of israel and should not be flown:
notice how the second set have the white bar in the middle like the israeli flag, or contain the israeli flag themself, while the first set is simply a pride flag with the star of david.
if people could spread this i’d be grateful, i’ve seen so many antisemitic takes on this topic on one side and so many zionist takes on the other side.
jewish gay pride flags, not associated with israel in any way and should be allowed to be flown by jews:
israeli gay pride flags, associated with the colonialist state of israel and should not be flown:
notice how the second set have the white bar in the middle like the israeli flag, or contain the israeli flag themself, while the first set is simply a pride flag with the star of david.
if people could spread this i’d be grateful, i’ve seen so many antisemitic takes on this topic on one side and so many zionist takes on the other side.
i’ve seen too many people arguing that marcille was already a full grown adult when she went to school at 35 despite literally all of the canon evidence indicating otherwise
ALT
