elliebeanz:

when ur sitting in a room full of ur friends and ur all silently doin ur own things on ur phones n laptops and u think about how a baby boomer comic strip maker would be going bananas about it 

caffeinatedautistic:

autisticliving:

Amythest Schaber who is blogging at neurowonderful has a youtube channel with an “Ask An Autistic” series. I decided to collect a list of links to the individual videos so that you can easily find a video on the topic that you’re interested in learning more about.

“What is AAC?”

“What is ABA?”

“How to be an Ally

“What is Autism?”

“Why Autism Acceptance?”

“What’s Wrong With Autism Speaks?”

“What is Autistic Burnout?”

Biomedical Interventions for Autism”

“Is Autism a Disability?”

“What is Echolalia?”

“What is Executive Functioning?”

“What About Eye Contact?”

“What About Functioning Labels?”

“What are Autistic Meltdowns?”

“What is Neurodiversity?”

“What is Passing? Or, Should I Stop My Child From Stimming?”

“What is Prosopagnosia?”

“What is Scripting?”

Self-Injurious Stims

“What is Sensory Processing Disorder?”

What Shouldn’t I Say To Autistic People?”

“What are Autistic Shutdowns?”

“What are Special Interests?”

“What is Stimming?”

“What are Some Good Therapies for Autistic Children?”

“What is Vocal/Verbal Stimming?”

bless this post. I love Amythest!

curlz101:

spuddington:

curlz101:

omg…my brain just failed me on a piece of Dragon Age lore…what I have I become…who even am I…

what was it?

Dorian’s friend in Tevinter that you do all the `Tevinter Resistance` quests for on the War table

(Maevaris. Her name is Maevaris. I totally knew that damnit  -_- )

according to your birthday, in 2016, you will

curlz101:

wemblinfool:

slightmayhem:

plain-dealing-villain:

julieyumi:

1-5: be completely baffled by 
6-10: in the mistaken belief that it is a puppy, attempt to pet
11-15: ascend to the throne of the world as the new god of
16-20: cry a lot about
21-25: seek heaven through
26-31: finally get to be with your beautiful lover, who is

january: the weight of your sins
february: full communism
march: rage bigger than your body can contain
april: the Sun
may: eleven-dimensional space
june: violence
july: the merciless confines of linear time
august: a fictional character
september: the void
october: a ghost
november: every single dragon
december: a giant robot

Ascend to the throne of the world as the new god of violence.

Um. The New God of Violence is lame. Can I be the New God of Greed instead? I am definitely OK with being Renegrayven.

Completely baffled by violence.

In the mistaken belief that it is a puppy, attempt to pet the sun

Finally get to be with your beautiful lover, who is rage bigger than your body can contain

Uhhh

ascend to the throne of the world as the new god of the weight of your sins

dear future teachers

deedeedoozle:

theblueessence:

quitebookworm:

dee-termined:

falulu:

growingupnike:

bellerose1232:

myworldendedwithyou:

hallowdragonmaster:

DO NOT

FORCE SHY KIDS

TO TALK.

DO NOT

TELL SHY KIDS

THEY NEED TO PARTICIPATE MORE.

DO NOT

MAKE PARTICIPATION

A GRADE.

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA

HOW HARD IT IS

FOR SOME STUDENTS

TO JUST RAISE THEIR HANDS?

FORCING THEM INTO GROUP PROJECTS

AND MAKING THEM TALK

DOES NOT “TEACH THEM TO BE SOCIAL AND DEVELOP INTO WELL-ROUNDED INDIVIDUALS” 

IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF THEM.

AND MAKES THEM HATE SCHOOL.

SERIOUSLY.

COLLEGES TOO.

THERE IS NO REASON TO REQUIRE A PARTICIPATION GRADE.

IF I’M MAKING 90′S ON ALL MY TESTS/QUIZZES

IT MEANS I KNOW THE DAMN MATERIAL YOU TAUGHT

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHOULD YOU LOWER MY GRADE 10% JUST BECAUSE I DIDN’T TALK ENOUGH.

I SWEAR IF I GET ANOTHER “B” IN A CLASS THAT I EXCELLED IN JUST BECAUSE I DIDNT FEEL LIKE RAISING MY HAND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS

I MIGHT ACTUALLY KILL U  

PREACH

I may not be shy but I agree with you 100% about the whole participation part !

Seriously. Especially when it’s 20% of my grade

when its 30% of your grade tho, gotta love it

As a shy person I am 100% here for this.

I concur. Especially if they have soft voices and shy. I could barely speak loud on a good day.

Yea it all sucks ass.

Not only is it a passive aggressive attack on introverts, but autistic and socially-impaired people are basically doomed to fail from the start when you require specific interactions.

And can we please do away with the requirement for team projects? This is just another way to force people into situations they’re not comfortable in, especially when we all know how team projects work. One person plans everything, they delegate to the rest of the group what needs to be done, but because people are flakes, one person executes everything and the grade is given to all the members based on the stress one person dealt with.

If someone would rather just do the work themselves (rather than go through all the bs to end up doing it all themselves anyway), why not allow that instead of forcing them to try to work with 3-7 other people all with their own set of issues and obstacles?