Stunning sunset! This happens because of a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering: cirrus clouds scatter the longer, red wavelengths of light and give the sky an orange or reddish hue | source
I think ive said it before but you really gotta feel bad for oedipus that wanting to fuck your mother got named after him. He really did not want to do that . It is central to oedipus rex how badly he didnt want to do that. Dick move by freud
not so friendly reminder that saying autism/adhd “isn’t a disorder” is just another way of saying “differently abled.”
i recently saw a post on instagram by a high support needs autistic and i completely agree but i wanted to add this on.
i’ve recently seen people say adhd “isn’t a disorder, just a different way of being” and i have no idea how these so called advocates don’t recognize that the language they’re using is literally just another way of saying “differently abled,” which is ableist.
“but anpa, the word disorder is ableist!” no. no it’s not.
the bottom definition is what i’d like to focus on. “an illness OR condition that disrupts normal physical and/or mental functions.”
now, i don’t know about you, but executive dysfunction, sensory overload, etc. definitely disrupt mental functions, and in general, most, if not all, people disabled with conditions that affect these skills say that they do not enjoy nor appreciate these disruptions. i have yet to meet an autistic who enjoys sensory overload/overstimulation (not the same as preferring more stimulation), meltdowns/shutdowns, and executive dysfunction. i think we can all agree that this are pervasive disruptions to our daily lives. therefore, since autism is the root cause, autism would be classified as a disorder.
“but disorder implies that we’re broken.” where in the definition does it say that? you are talking about the biases of society and doctors. referring to the construction of the word (disorder, disorganized - dis meaning not, therefore disorder is “not orderly”), this isn’t problematic as “orderly” in this sense is referring to someone that we would call neurotypical, who does not struggle with disruptions in mental functions. therefore, “disorder” is literally “neurodivergent” in a different font. they literally are synonyms.
“but if neurodivergent and disorder are synonyms, and disorder and disease are synonyms, are you saying autism is a disease?” absolutely not. synonyms are things that are like each other, but not the same. neurodivergent isn’t the same as disorder because disorder includes physical conditions while neurodivergent does not. the word disease doesn’t actually have a solid definition (as in there is no consensus on what classifies something as being a disease), but this is the first definition:
note the example they used helps aid in why disorder and disease are not the same. you would not call bacterial meningitis a disorder, and you would not call autism a disease. see what i mean?
disorder is an inherently neutral term used to describe certain conditions such as ASD, ADHD, OCD, etc. i do not care if you don’t want to refer to your own condition as a disorder and instead prefer to use another term due to the socially created stigma around the usage of the term, but saying that certain disorders are in fact, not disorders, is pseudoscientific rhetoric and spreads misinformation. it’s literally “differently abled/handicapped/diffabled” in a politically correct coat. i find it extremely similar to saying that ADHD isn’t real, as most people who believe disorder is a bad term often say things like “ADHD is just another way of being,” which is dismissive of the problems that many high support needs/severe adhders (and autistics, etc) face.
Working at a movie theatre and a male coworker being like ugh all these guys being forced to dress as Ken for their girlfriends but every couple I see is just beautiful excited girls and their absolutely adoring boyfriends looking at them glowing in the sunlight from the theatre sunroof in the popcorn line and like
This is why you don’t have a girlfriend man. Men in fact love and adore their partners wake up we love men sound in their masculinity
I find the fact that the Barbie movie is simultaneously being criticized by the right as “too radical”, and criticized by the left as “too nice to men” and/or “too pandering”, quite funny, given that America’s WHOLE SPEECH was about how, no matter what women (like the director of the Barbie movie) do,it will simultaneously always be too little and too much.
