basketballwifey:

hundondestiny:

criminologyonthemind:

the Drake and Millie situation? why is this being allowed to happen. I know it happens all over the world but here - right in the public eye it’s happening and nobody is thinking anything of it??? Or are turning a blind fucking eye??

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https://www.facebook.com/1885503711697761/posts/2146402772274519/ ))

Stop leaving out the Black girls.

Jorja is only just now 21 and Bella Harris is only 18.

dont lie to yourselves this IS as digusting as it sounds and these people had sex with these girls probably at the age they met them… maximum a year after.. not EVEN a couple years

magica-tenore-regina:

holder-of-stars:

queenrinacat:

brainstatic:

Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.

My expectations weren’t met, they were exceeded.

I HATE THIS POST LMAO 

aumeryrose:

open and honest communication, genuine effort to understand someone else’s perspective, love and affection,

After watching Surviving Kelly eps 3 & 4 with parents, we were discussing how certain phrases were received and used in our respective black communities (Dad from North, Mom from Texas, Me Louisiana). And it started getting a little testy when I was bringing up questionable behaviors by people we all knew. 

I came to the conclusion that we need to start nipping bad behaviors in the bud at a community level desperately. The community  I was from protected me. And my dad’s community was very good about calling out bad behavior. I have been harassed 4 times and all by white people outside of my community. 2 of them were actually white women in their 40s, touching on my donk. And I knew it was harassment because I felt shame and icky after they did it. 

Now, these white women, I dont think their lives should be ruined for rubbing on my booty inappropriately, without my consent, in a public area, in a professional setting. I dont even think they should lose their jobs. But they SHOULD be fined, have community service, and sit through 10 hour session on sexual harassment.

They should give out tickets for this, like they do parking tickets and speeding tickets. There should be consequences!!

Just a thought. We need a forum to discuss these things  in the community. AND when we’re outside of the community (which is where I was vulnerable). And their should be consequences! 

mulukhiyah:

@minimalistgrufti tagged me to do eight selfies of 2018 but i did ten too 🤷🏿‍♀️

i tag @rosewatergirl @3smalleyes @sttheno @golom @velvetvetiver @proto-homo @orbgoddess and idk whomst else

oockitty:

coldalbion:

grace-and-ace:

neddythestylish:

memelordrevan:

rosslynpaladin:

iamthethunder:

s8yrboy:

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science)  indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

I think it’s worth noting that many like me, who are diagnosed with ASD now, would probably have been seen as just a bit odd in centuries past. I’m only a little bit autistic; I can pass for neurotypical for short periods if I work really hard at it. I have a lack of talent in social situations, and I’m prone to sensory overload or you might notice me stimming.

But here’s the thing: life is louder, brighter and more intense and confusing than it has ever been. I live on the edge of London and I rarely go into the centre of town because it’s too overwhelming. If I went back in time and lived on a farm somewhere, would anyone even notice there was anything odd about me? No police sirens, no crowded streets that go on for miles and miles, no flickery electric lights. Working on a farm has a clear routine. I’d be a badass at spinning cloth or churning butter because I find endless repetition soothing rather than boring.

I’m not trying to romanticise the past because I know it was hard, dirty work with a constant risk of premature death. I don’t actually want to be a 16th century farmer! What I’m saying is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Our environment isn’t making people autistic in the sense of some chemical causing brain damage. But we have created a modern environment which is hostile to autistic people in many ways, which effectively makes us more disabled. When you make people more disabled, you start to see more people struggling, failing at school because they’re overwhelmed, freaking out at the sound of electric hand dryers and so on. And suddenly it looks like there’s millions more autistic people than existed before.

“…disability exists in the context of the environment.”

Reblog for disability commentary.

That last paragraph is absolutely important.