Met a 73 year old woman today.
Her spouse died and she was unable to pay rent after his passing. She was a housekeeper and he was a gardener.
She now lives in a park.
She's on 11 different wait lists for senior housing and has been waiting for 2 years.
always amazes me how adaptable kids are bc when i told my (9) year old sister that i was Autistic & needed her to do things like text me BEFORE you call or when asking a question give a lot of detail and she was like ‘okay no problem!!’ but my mom cried and said i ruined her life
Autism and friendships...
So, one of the DSM criteria for autism is having difficulty forming and maintaining friendships. I feel like what's listed in the DSM doesn't do much to explain what's actually going on. So this thread is my attempt at elaborating a bit...
Alex Newell makes history as the first out non-binary performer to win a Tony:
“Thank you for seeing me, Broadway. I should not be up here, as a queer, non-binary, fat, Black little baby from Massachusetts. To anyone who thinks they can’t do it… you can do anything you put your mind to.”
Someone in my mentions was stunned that weaponized incompetence "is a real thing".
Understandable. This is a new term for an old behavior. But for fun, as a treat, how about we share our most absurd experiences of weaponized incompetence.
Ajike Owens’ children were playing in a field near an apartment complex when a white woman yelled racial slurs at them and said to get off her land.
The children left behind an iPad which she stole. When one of the children came back to retrieve it she threw it at him and hit him with it.
Owens knocked on the woman’s door and without even opening it she shot through the door, killing Ms. Owens.
A 34 year old police sergeant murdered his wife of 3 days because she refused to have anal sex with him.
They have detained him but have not charged him. He told the court he was within his religious rights.
#whenwomensayno
Ursula in the original Little Mermaid was inspired by the late drag performer Divine. Pat Carroll, who voiced Ursula, was even told to emulate the same low growls that Divine was known for & she added her own persona. It’s okay to be truthful. Ursula was very much fabulous.
The right wing media is attacking beloved children’s author Judy Blume for filming this TikTok with Dylan Mulvaney, labeling her “anti-woman” and saying she got “Mulvaney’d”
Made my account public bc chef / comic Jax Dell'Osso (@jaxdellosso) was likely kidnapped by people who are disappearing people.
NYC/NJ: if you see her, please report. She is TINY. 4'11"-ish. Female comedian who may laugh at any interaction; if you see her, she is not OK.
Receiving sex ed at the age of 10 was traumatising but not because it was horrifying to learn that my vagina is called a vagina, what its function is, and that no-one should be touching it without my consent. It was horrifying because I saw two classmates realise that they were