olivia lolley

BLM

[No Nonsense Neurodivergent @NoNonsenseND]

Only 1-4% of Autism Speaks' budget actually goes to autistic people and their families for support (they are more interested in trying to prevent us from existing).

Meanwhile, their executives make ENORMOUS salaries, some at more than $600k a year.

#ActuallyAutistic

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

I am guilty of saying these to myself and to others. I’ve had to work through so much internalized (and externalized) ableism these past couple years, and it’s still a process.

Being unknown autistic until recently, these things were said to me thru my life without the word autistic. They’d just call it weird, annoying, over-sensitive, anger issues, crybaby, bitch, exaggerator, liar, rude… the list is exhaustive.

Try to remember that everyone’s life is as complex as yours, and when someone tells you their experience, believe them. #ActuallyAutistic

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

Pedro Pascal as mushrooms.

A thread.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

@Jamie_Cold

[olivia lolley @nalanigrace]

@LydiaAnalisa Looks like the rest of us know what pipeline you fell down 🙃

[olivia lolley @nalanigrace]

@pot8um You said it well, the loneliness is so incredibly heavy. You’re not alone 💜✨ there seems to be many of us. It will be all the better to create environments and a world where this isn’t repeated

[olivia lolley @nalanigrace]

@joegthecpa @pot8um Careful, sounds like you would excuse neglect and abuse. You should read thoroughly before choosing to pick apart someone’s personal experience. Consider the harm in victim blaming, and the fact that adult children can and should hold boundaries with such parents. Buh bye 👋🏻

[Joss Prior ❤️🌈Female-Coded Energy🌈❤️ @joss_prior]

Language, is a gift.

[R. T. Jenkins @RTJenkinsAuthor]

@WholesomeMeme This is both Schrödinger's wholesome (simultaneously wholesome and unwholesome until directly observed) and Rorschach wholesome (ambiguous enough that people project their own thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and concerns onto it)

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

Hitting your kids teaches them that

• their needs don’t matter
• they’re expected to love their abusers regardless of the extent of abuse
• they need to lie in order to keep the peace
• your love for them is contingent on compliance + obedience

Essentially, you’re creating codependent people-pleasers with complex trauma who are likely to go limited- to no-contact with you as adults once they realize what they experienced wasn’t healthy or normal.

Hitting your kids is your way of avoiding actual parenting.

[Beth Felker Jones @bethfelkerjones]

were you told, as a child, that if a boy picks on you it means he likes you?

[Frog and Toad Bot @FrogandToadbot]

Toad said, 'Frog, you are looking quite green.'

'But I always look green,' said Frog. 'I am a frog.'

[Angel's Whisper @AngelsWhisperr]

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