damndroid

  taylornation

And then there were four years of Benji! 🥹

  ozianthus-arts

Oh damn guys my brain is making thoughts

  ozianthus-arts

Hrrrrggghh (sound of me thinking)

  ozianthus-arts

Wizard Snap-back

  biggaybunny

Pronouns? Yeah I gots all the pronouns you could want. Bootleg? No, no, you've got it all wrong. They just, uh, fell off the back of a truck. Now, can I interest you in a she/sher? Or how about a nice he/hee? That one's gonna get real popular, lemme tell you what. What? I'm telling you, these are genuine articles of speech. Look kid, I don't normally do this, but you buy a set of, uh, lemme see... not those... you/youse, I'll throw in another pair free. I dunno, for your dog or something. You ever think about your dog's pronouns? I thought not. Cash only.

  trupowieszcz

  shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

  shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

  thetatteredveil

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

  coffee-or-hot-cocoa

i need all the help i can get for finals

  finnglas

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

  betelguwuse

We really do live in a society lads

  elfwreck

Society may produce un-traumatized autistic people.

They just can't get diagnosed. Because an autism diagnosis requires problems: Difficulty with communications, with managing emotions, with physical behavior constraints.

An autistic child raised by compassionate parents who don't mind that their kid won't meet their eyes to talk, who don't get upset at hand-twitches, who avoid clothes that the kid doesn't like, who help the kid understand their own emotions and how to recognize the emotions in the people around them ("see how his forehead is crinkled? That means he may be upset, or he may just be thinking hard, but either way, he's probably not happy")... may not have noticed that the kid is autistic.

There's a reason a lot of autism isn't recognized until school - because parents that just pay attention to their kids and adapt their communication to what the kid needs, may not set off any of the "problem indicators." And a compassionate school may manage to bypass them as well, especially for girls, who are less likely to have the "fidget" behaviors, and for whom "speak softly while not making eye contact" isn't usually considered a red flag.

According to the DSM-5, autism is characterized by:

• difficulty communicating and interacting with others
• repetitive behaviors and a narrow set of interests
• symptoms that affect quality of life and functioning in areas like work and school

...if the person's symptoms don't "affect quality of life and functioning," they don't get diagnosed. If their surrounding community is supportive, they may not have "difficulty communicating and interacting" - just a different style than most of the people around them. And their interests may be seen as "well, that's what they're interested in; it's cool that they have a hobby."

Autism is only officially labeled when it causes problems for neurotypicals in the autistic person's community.

Non-traumatized autistic people are just "a bit odd," and the medical industry doesn't recognize them.

  spaceshipsandpurpledrank

I ain't even gonna say nothing

  tippenfunkaport

there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter

tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on

truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that

  possibly-in-wonderland

What do u mean "no one knows the source of the shoelace joke"?

Someone said, "I need a way to know other people of the outernet have Tumblr so let's do a thing."

And then they created the stolen presidential shoelace saying.

Unless I'm wrong???

  roboticutie

Oh my god y'all HAVE forgotten the original source

It's demo text from earlier Tumblr years. In order to make a post, you used to be taken to an entirely seperate webpage from the dashboard. This webpage would be different depending on what type of post you made. Each text/input box on each post page had different demo text, the same kind as the faded text you'll see when you go to send an ask or submit a post to someone's blog now. You couldn't actually copy and paste it, it was just in the bg until you started typing.

The chat type post (which used to be completely separate from text posts) had the demo text along the lines of:

Person 1: I like your shoelaces

Person 2: Thanks, I stole them from the president.

Someone joked we should start using this as code to find others who had tumblrs, because although tumblr has basically been the lifeblood of widespread memes only really rivaled by Vine and Tiktok in later years, it wasn't NEARLY as well known back circa 2014 as it is now. Plus, it was seen as weird to have a tumblr, because you were either an Aesthetic Hipster Blogger or a Weird Fandom Blogger, and it was a whole thing. We were all mostly teens around then so it was fun to have a "secret language" we could use to subtly communicate with, because it was super embarrassing to just go up to someone and ask if they had a tumblr.

So, no, we didn't just make that up. We just kinda repurposed it.