World’s Finest (1990), Art By Steve Rude

In light of the things RFK said about autistic people recently, I feel like it's important to remember where the term "Asperger's Syndrome" came from.

It was the nazi's way of sorting between "useful" autistic people that could still work for them, and "unwanted" autistic people that would be sent to the camps. We kept using the term until very recently to my memory, and I'm not one to speculate but I wouldn't be surprised if the distinction comes back into popularity in the near future. Or even becomes legally recognized.

This isn't about whether or not you personally paid your taxes or wrote a poem. People have value and a right to exist regardless of their ability to do those things, and the second we forget about that and say "oh but I'm not the kind of autistic person he's talking about, I'm useful" we've fallen directly back into the line of thinking they had in literal nazi germany.

Autistic Tim Drake for the winnnnn

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Lois: *mentions the president*

Clark:

A Superman we can all truly relate to.

I’m suffering because finals are coming up. But once school is over, I can finally do things that make me happy.

Like trying to cosplay Bubble from the Amazing Digital Circus. I have a terrible idea for it, but that’s what gets us through high school sometimes.

I'm obsessed with him lol

I wasn't going to derail the disability pride month post for people with peanut allergies but in relation to that topic

I have never seen another allergy that has been so viscerally hated and mocked by people working in education like nut allergies. I've seen fellow teachers cringe that their classroom was the "nut free" classroom that year. Support staff that are trained and willfully don't follow cross contamination protocol in the lunchroom because it's too "tedious" or "time-consuming". Full preschools + childcare centers that refuse to accommodate nut allergies. Schools where the only free lunch is a PB&J. Before/after school programs and summer programs whose food curriculum has nuts and doesn't provide an alternative activity.

Allergy discrimination is so so insidious and prevalent. It's happening behind their back and it is everything from the exposure joke to possibly causing someone to go into anaphylaxis from willful ignorance.

Also other parents in the classroom are guilty too. The "not my child not my problem" brain rot means that those lunchboxes are like bombs for airborne exposure allergies

do you think helen of troy thought about persephone when she was taken? her first winter in this new city, far from her brothers and sisters and cousins and mother and father and husband, all alone and watching the war from her windows, did she wonder how persephone was doing with her husband in the underworld? did persephone wonder about her, in return? in some stories they're half sisters, you know; daughters of zeus, kidnapped on their father's encouragement, crying for each other on opposite ends of the year. Never meeting but knowing the other anyways, caring for the other anyways. mirrors in bronze and gold.

Yet another reason he’s the worst. Eat the rich.

I would like to thank Elon Musk for breaking the stereotype that “high functioning” autistic people are geniuses, because he’s genuinely so fucking dumb I can hardly even fathom it.

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