"The Autistic Girl Experience Is Where You Have Great Social Skills And Socially Acceptable Special Interests

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV

Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

Referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time.

Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.

ai bros need to understand that llms are basically a text predicting newspaper collage. human creativity is nothing like a ransom note.

push pop yo !!

rely on someone to meet basic needs and perform basic self-care tasks is okay and morally neutral, but can we talk about how hard it is? how vulnerable it makes you, how dependent it makes you, how tiring it is, how anxiety-producing it is, how it affects your dignity and self-esteem?

how much guilt it brings to constantly ask people to do something for you, especially something basic and presumably "simple." how little privacy you have left when you need someone to assist you with bathing, feeding (putting food from plate to mouth), dressing, moving, brushing your hair and teeth, and other tasks socially considered private and/or very basic.

even if your caretaker(s) are always nice and respectful and patient and do everything like you wish, it may still feel humiliating. and lots of caretakers are not like this, not even close.

and it's hard for you, and it's hard for caretakers, yes, even paid ones, but often our caretakers are not professional and paid workers. often, it's our loved ones. and it creates unique dynamics that are too taboo to discuss because society sees disabled lives, dependent lives as gross, and toxic positivity requires never to show complicated parts of our experiences even in disability rights activism.

depending on someone for surviving and/or daily living is normal, but it's a complicated experience with plenty of nuances, difficulties, problems, and heavy emotions.

"You must be Star Guardian, Guardian of the Stars." *cues Vine flashbacks*

Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl by @kianamaiart

Absolutely loved the pilot and was gobsmacked when that kid dropped an F-bomb in the canteen.

It's honestly quite frustrating that technical books - both medical and philosophical - on plurality cost so much damn money. Sure, if you're a psychiatrist you'll be able to afford to read up on historical literature concerning DID, for example, but if you're just a system trying to read up on the history of how plurality was understood in the pre-internet era, you better be fucking rich or you're shit out of luck.

Still genuinely baffles me every time I remember that the average person isn’t in some form of pain all the time.

Like..not even a tiny bit???

It’s actually crazy to me every time I remember that most people actually don’t experience pain outside of injuries.

No but fr, like how do they not act alike ???

Everyone is scared or intimated by Percy when they first met him, kinda like Hobie when we first see him in across the spider verse. Like even before we met him we were feeling kinda small compared to him. Turns out they're a chill dude. Like they are so similar. I love them both for a reason.

'Hobie Brown dosen't act like Percy Jackson though'YOU MEAN THE 'I'm not a hero because yourself a hero makes you self-mythologizing' GUY?!

Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments