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If anyone else cares to try explaining to @NPR why ableist slurs are not ok, the relevant episode is the most recent one and the problematic term is the answer to the limerick in wwdt. Please let me know if you successfully reach anyone about it. I didn’t.

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Hey @NPR you are making it really difficult I’ll let you know about your ableist slur in your last episode when my comment to you just results in a form letter email that says you may not read my comment at all.

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@LavenderNRed @tashakaminsky 3 if you include the one only at the end of words!

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@Athleta there it is again.

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If anyone can help me block these specific @Athleta ads, please, let me know. The rage that comes now every single time I have to totally halt whatever I’m doing for the second time in less than a minute because of these interruptions is getting harder to manage.

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I seriously hate @Athleta now. I went out of my way to find them just to make sure I don’t accidentally shop there and I will be telling everyone I know to avoid them, too, unless they deal with these ads very soon. In the meantime, I’m also avoiding anywhere that has the ads.

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Previously, I’d never heard of @Athleta. I’m no longer neutral. These ads are ridiculous. They require multiple steps to close every time and they pop up *way* too often. I should be able to view a page for 5 minutes without getting the same page-blocking ad multiple times.

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I don’t know what @Athleta is thinking with their pop up ads that block most of the page and repeat often only seconds apart, but I’m now actively avoiding any pages with these ads, I *hate* this brand with a fiery passion, and I will tell everyone I know to avoid the brand.

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@thesarcastix @aliterative @tiffstevenson @AlisonSpittle I’m not surprised! Seems like the sort of thing you would know about. Did you know about goldilocks, too?

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@aliterative @tiffstevenson @AlisonSpittle I’m 7 minutes in, so maybe you joke about it later or are being tongue in cheek and I’m not getting it, but I’ve been all confused trying to figure out whether you were talking about sleek, sexy, hairy gay men and bear-specific fag hags or actual quadrupedal water animals.

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@LilyaWoodburn @GrinnellCollege This is why we can’t have nice things. Grr. C’mon, Grinnell. Be smarter than this.

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@GiftedNotBroken But if something stands out as ‘wrong’ and it’s directly in the way and cannot be avoided, you can’t just decide to close your eyes or look elsewhere. How are you suggesting someone ‘control focus’? Are you talking about reframing when you say interpretation?

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#AskingAutistics how do you deal with changes you hate over which you have no real control? How do you manage while the thing is actively happening in space you think of as your own? (Ex: the condo is installing multiple, prominent ugly things in our tiny back and front ‘yards’)

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@GiftedNotBroken I think people can *influence* their interpretation using tools like reframing. They *might* be able to avoid the area of change if alternatives exist or avoid looking at the change *if* it isn’t in an area where they are required to look. They can try to distract themselves, too

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@LaurenPBurka Makes sense. I’m sorry about the chronic pain.

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@LaurenPBurka As an anti anxiety technique? As pure escapism so you stop caring about the thing (and everything else) while it’s happening? As a dampening technique while you get desensitized to the change (and hopefully stop caring as much or noticing it over time)?

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@LaurenPBurka I like that. It’s more than just living or not living. There is more to quality of life than survival.

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This year, during Rosh Hashana and now Yom Kippur, I’ve been wrestling with the idea of praying to be written in the book of life. How does one pray for such a thing while holding onto the knowledge that people *will* die? While remembering so many we have lost this past year?

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And then we ask for us to be written in the book of life. Us. Not I. Even uncertain of my place and future in the world, I can safely, confidently pray for others and for a collective us. For forgiveness. Redemption. To be written in the book of life. My heart lighter, I pray.

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We don’t ask for forgiveness for our *individual* sins. We ask for our *presumed,* *collective* sins. ‘We’ have transgressed, betrayed, lied, stolen, etc. We. Not I. We take responsibility and pray as if we had each done all of these and need to be forgiven for each one.