Hey so my dog broke his ass on christmas eve and now I need to raise money to fix it for him
He decided to run into traffic to see another dog and did the tango with a ute, and now he's got a fractured pelvis so his hip doesn't sit in the socket right (he also lacerated his leg but that's doing good and needs no more surge)
The ortho vet gave me the quote of 2.5k-2.8k nzd, and I've managed to raise about 1.1k so far
I'm offering deals on my KoFi for any donations over $10 to receive a little gift from my store, just make a donation to the koha box on my page and message me with what things I sell caught your eye and we'll work out getting them to you :)
target acquired. small animal deployed.
INCOMING
zoning out or imagining things is not dissociation. dissociation is a severe trauma response. fucking stop with this. you were not traumatized by your math homework and dissociating at your desk, you were uninterested and zoned out.
it is really cool that there is now an official maori word for autism, created with input from autistic maoris, and it was specifically coined to be nonjudgmental
quote from article:
“In my experience, people with autism tend to have their own timing, spacing, pacing and life-rhythm, so I interpreted autism as ‘takiwatanga’, meaning ‘his or her own time and space’,” [Keri Opai] told government-funded Maori Television.
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I’m not crying, you’re crying.
It’s also key to note that the word for disabled in te reo Maori is now whaikaha (to have strength or to be differently able), and at the same time takiwatanga and whaikaha were minted, about 200 words were added that also describe other mental health, addiction, and disability issues.
So now, about 125,000 of the roughly 561,000 Maori people in NZ will be able to effectively describe and discuss autism and so much more in their native language for the benefit of themselves and their loved ones. That is the best thing I’ve heard all day.
Please note that this kupu (word) is not without controversy. There was a term by Māori autistic people created in the 90’s, ‘kura urupare’, which loosely translates to ‘treasure in the head’ (hard to translate, so that doesn’t sound very good in te reo Pākehā / English).
Takiwatanga is grammatically person first, rather than identity first, and not a term created by the Māori autistic community.
There are some issues with some of Keri Opai’s other translations too for disability and mental health terms, I take particular umbrage with his term for ‘schizophrenia’, being ‘Māuiui Wairua Tuakoi’ aka sick divided spirit. Ew. Not exactly mana enhancing, nei?
Whatever. Go My Beatles
gnarp gnarp
everyone more pretentious than me is an insufferable poseur and everyone less pretentious than me is a clueless philistine
romantic and sexual partner.
Hey so my dog broke his ass on christmas eve and now I need to raise money to fix it for him
He decided to run into traffic to see another dog and did the tango with a ute, and now he's got a fractured pelvis so his hip doesn't sit in the socket right (he also lacerated his leg but that's doing good and needs no more surge)
The ortho vet gave me the quote of 2.5k-2.8k nzd, and I've managed to raise about 1.1k so far
I'm offering deals on my KoFi for any donations over $10 to receive a little gift from my store, just make a donation to the koha box on my page and message me with what things I sell caught your eye and we'll work out getting them to you :)
Loving the defense of "But slavery makes things cheaper 🥺" as if everyone didn't already know that. As if the main reason to enslave people was for the love of the game.
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you can lie on the floor in your home and the Soft Baby who lives there will approach you. this will increase your chance of contact with Nose Wet by 75%
naan before beer you’re in the clear. beer before naan ghengis khan
*becomes a knight strictly because the local bard is cute, and I want him to write songs about me*
*becomes a bard strictly because the local knight is cute and I want to write songs about him*
*becomes the village idiot because of a chemical deposit in the well behind my house*
*becomes the evil wizard because the local strong knight is cute and I want to get beaten by them.*
*dumps my evil chemicals in the well behind some random dude’s house*