Every Now And Then I Remember That During Ww2 Poles Had A Fucking Bear In The Military And My Day Immediately

I feel like the thing thats really different about the polish trans experience is that because the language is heavily gendered and asking about a persons gender is very much not normalized, now that my body looks mostly androgynous people started referring to me with grammatical forms that have never been uttered by human tongue before. Last week a woman couldn’t decide what gender I was so after trying several she settled on speaking to me in plural and infinitive

WW2 and military stuff mostly

*blushing*

So, do you have any special interests you ramble on about?

Dont forget the Yamato's main guns

Oh, and ofcourse can't forget the:

Type 94 motorcar

Type 94 fuel bowser truck

Type 94 cable layer truck

Type 94 optical sight

Type 94 rangefinder

Type 94 air defense searchlight

Type 94 field gas mask

Type 94 wireless radio set

Type 94 field telephone

Type 94 signal light

Type 94 aiming circle

Type 94 steam generator

Type 94 field kitchen

Type 94 mobile water purifier

Type 94 aircraft torpedo

Type 94 depth charge

Type 94 naval mine

Type 94 practice bomb

Type 94 explosive demolition charge

Type 94 flare pistol

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Penny and her eeveelutions

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I hate how often some (typically abled) people will go “well, if you can’t [get a specific support], then what?” when it comes to disabilities. As if it’s a “gotcha” moment. And then act like you’re exaggerating when you answer that question honestly.

Disabled people often die from a lack of support. A lot of disability aids are not a luxury, but a basic need in order to live.

“Well what happens if—” people die. People hurt themselves. People hurt others. Disabled people don’t magically become abled if our needs aren’t met.

If a bedbound quadriplegic is caught in a housefire, and there’s nobody there to save them, they’ll probably die. They won’t magically become able-bodied out of sheer will.

If a nonspeaking/nonverbal autistic is denied access to alternative methods of communication, they’ll suffer in silence. They won’t spontaneously become capable of speech.

Disabled people are disabled all the time. Our disabilities don’t go away just because they’re inconvenient, or if we’re in danger.

There IS better autism research they could be doing, like trying to discover other medications that help with sensory issues and quality of life problems and trying to get better childhood diagnosis rates for autistic girls. But no, the decades long useless search to find out what causes autism and how to eliminate it continues. The push for “autism research” is never really about how to make things better for autistic people, it’s about how to make autistic people stop existing and that is nottttt possible. But they’ll continue to fixate on it.