ThePrettiestOne

james buchanan barnes, howling commando, the winter soldier, the fist of hydra, the deadliest assassin in united states history: can you move your seat up

flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy:

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.

Re: the last reply, I wonder if this could account for people discovering they’re on the spectrum as adults. When I was a kid we had two channels on the tv and no one even imagined the internet would be a household thing someday. Life didn’t bombard me with one tenth of the artificial stimuli it does now.

feynites:

smokesforharris:

generalanger:

muscleluvr2:

the moral of frankenstein is if youre going to build a monster out of dead body parts dont make him like 8 feet tall and super strong

or just love your super strong 8 feet tall son

Like, don’t abandon him because you are scared of him. Like you met him a second ago. He just wants a family

The moral of the story is that you need to be prepared for the realities of parenthood before you commit. Sometimes you get what you expected, sometimes you get an eight foot tall super strong patchwork zombie child, sometimes you get neither of those things. No take-backs.

carrieffisher:

Carrie Fisher explains to a little boy what ‘bipolar’ means, at Indiana Comic Con 2015.

terriblenerd:

oops i accidentally a whole fuck to give

lalondeproblems:

If you’re going to normalize talking about mental illness in Carrie Fisher’s honor, that better damn well include talking openly about addiction.

challahchic:

She will not be “at the pearly gates” or be “greeted by Saint Peter” or being “going home to Jesus” (PLZ).

She is a Jew, and to a Jew, doing what we’ve been doing– extolling her virtues, and pledging continue her legacy– are the most important things.

absolutelyiris:

2016 in a nutshell 

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heliogabalus:

Incorrect Hamilton - part five

“Have you heard about Carrie Fisher?”
I’m asked. Of course, it’s me
The token Star Wars fan
Of course I’ve heard about Carrie Fisher.

Have you heard about Carrie Fisher?
The first princess who ever felt like me?
The damsel in distress who rescued her rescuers?
The real life woman who never apologised for being who she was?

Have you heard about Carrie Fisher?
Who shared her personal stories
Of depression, addiction, being bipolar?
Who reminded us all we were more than our illness?

Have you heard about Carrie Fisher?
Who fought back against media misogyny
Who proved to the world beauty is ageless
Who didn’t stop making the world smile up until the last?

Have you heard about Carrie Fisher?
The woman who burned brighter than us all in the darkest of times
Who threw stigma out the window and told it like it was
Who connected with and treated fans like extended family?

Who lives on in the heart and bite of every single girl and woman?
Who never let the world bring her down?
Who was crass and bold and wonderful and alive?
Who never stopped fighting?
Who will never be forgotten?
Who will always be cherished with all our hearts?

Who always has been
And always will be
A hero?

“Have you heard about Carrie Fisher?”
I’m asked. “Of course,”
I say.
“But have you?”

sacrificethemtothesquid:

NO WAIT I’M NOT DONE.

I MIGHT NEVER BE DONE.

THE THING ABOUT CARRIE FISHER IS THAT SHE GAVE NO FUCKS

BECAUSE SHE FUCKING CARED FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND TRIED TO MEET THE IMPOSSIBLE STANDARDS SET FOR WOMEN 

WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY WOMAN TO MEET MUCH LESS ANYONE STRUGGLING WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS

AND SHE WAS FABULOUS BEFORE SHE STOPPED GIVING A FUCK

BUT AFTER SHE BROKE, AFTER ALL HER FUCKS WERE EXPENDED AND SHE COULD NOT GIVE A EVEN ONE MORE

THAT IS WHEN SHE BECAME OUR QUEEN.

THAT’S A TRIAL BY FIRE AND MY GOD MOST OF US NEVER EVEN GET HALF AS FAR THROUGH IT AS SHE DID BUT SHE FUCKING MADE IT AND THEN REIGNED, EVEN THOUGH EVERY SINGLE DAY WAS A STRUGGLE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT TRIED TO EAT HER FOR IT.

SHE STOOD UP AND SAID FUCK OFF, THIS IS MY LIFE AND THIS IS HOW I NEED TO LIVE IT, AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, THERE’S THE DOOR DON’T LET IT HIT YOUR ASS ON THE WAY OUT

SHE COULD HAVE BEEN BITTER

SHE HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE

BUT INSTEAD OF SHUTTING DOWN AND LOCKING HERSELF UP

SHE OPENED HER ARMS AND SAID “FUCK THESE HATERS, COME SIT WITH ME AND MY DOG AND MY DOG’S UNREASONABLY LARGE AND FABULOUS TONGUE.”

I GUESS WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO IS THIS:

I LOVED HER WHEN I WAS A SCABBY-KNEED LITTLE GIRL BECAUSE SHE HAD FANCY HAIR AND COULD RESCUE HERSELF

I LOVE HER NOW FOR THE SAME FUCKING REASONS.

amandawtwong:

amandawtwong:

2016, please please don’t take Carrie Fisher

Goddammit.

My preferred take on the present situation: She is now more powerful than we can possibly imagine.

Terrific actress, thoughtful writer, clever screenwriter and gifted script doctor, courageous advocate and gadfly: she will be so missed.

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galadrielles:

#basically

chriandra:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

G'nite space mom 💜💜💜

good night, i love you

pinklikeme:

I ran home and drew this on my lunchbreak because I felt like my world would explode if I didn’t. Thanks, Carrie Fisher, for teaching me that girls like us can be princesses, generals, or whatever we want to be. #RIPCarrie

ishipanarmada:

jponstantine:

:(

I was wondering when someone would do this. :(

shadowedhills:

Someone on Twitter pointed out that the worst part of the year of deaths is not simply that we’ve lost celebrities, but that we’ve lost a whole group of the celebrities who helped an entire generation realize that being different was somehow okay. That your sexuality and sexual identity/presentation didn’t have to be set in stone, or conform to the conservative standards. That you could have a mental illness and still be happy and successful and loved. The people we lost this year helped so many people come to terms with who they were, and losing them hurts precisely because they were so comforting in those ways.

This year has become a parody of itself. I cannot wait to toast its end on Saturday.

“I’m good at this,” Carrie Fisher says about 10 minutes into a 1994 interview with Charlie Rose. But she’s selling herself short. Fisher was great at this. Though we all fell in love with her interview appearances during the promotional cycle for 2015's The Force Awakens, she had been doing this—that is, giving every interviewer more wit, thoughtfulness, and well-meaning aggression than the average celebrity—for years.

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cardozzza:

public-rhetoric:

Bree Newsome on Nationalism as theology

Bree Newsome is the black rights activist who climbed the flagpole to remove the rebel flag, if anyone’s wondering why her name sounds familiar but can’t place it!

People reports she died this morning.

Obviously she will be remembered for Star Wars — she played one of its most iconic characters, who was a general, a senator and a princess. But as much as I liked her in that role, she came most alive for me when I learned that she was a writer, and a good one, and not only a good one, but an extraordinarily witty one, one who was called in to save movie scripts and who could write novels and memoirs with characters and turns of phrase that inspired me at least to want to be that witty too.

Beyond that I admired her openness talking about her struggles with addiction and mental illness. I think she did good work in helping people who shared her struggles in their own life know that they didn’t have to stop you, you just had to know they were part of the landscape. I think she saved lives being open about her own.

So she not only played a role model but was one in her own life, for all sorts of people, including me. I’m glad she was here with us. I’m sad she is gone now. I just know she would have a great parting shot about it.

Update: I wrote a longer piece on Carrie Fisher as a writer, for the Los Angeles Times. Here it is.

Update, 12/28/16: Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher’s mother, has died, one day after her daughter.

Following a heart attack last week, Carrie Fisher has passed away. She was 60.

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