When it's really bad... depression feels a lot like freezing to death...
Things becoming more and more sluggish, slowly shutting down... you start losing feeling in the outer edges of yourself.
Even if you're not suicidal... it still feels like it'll eventually kill you, like one day you'll lose everything you are and just become an empty husk...
Even the incredible love of my family feels like curling myself around a small candle for warmth at times...
And when it gets really bad... you're faced with the overwhelming urge to just lay down and fall asleep, regardless of the consequences.
I know I'll make it through the other side... but sometimes I wonder how many (metaphorical) fingers or toes I'll lose before I get there...
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So disabled benefits that help disabled people to work (PIP) is getting cut to force disabled into work AND support in work to enable them to work is being cut. Make it make sense.
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Edit: because it seems like people are confused, I'm not asking for clarity in how to talk about these things. Just commenting on how much of our language is dominated by allistic norms and an amusing joking idea. I have no interest in "here's how to make it clear you're asking someone on a date" and any comments in that vein will just contribute to a now forming headache...
Random half-joking idea with my sibling when talking about how dumb the differences are between hangout and date are (pretty much arbitrary definitions).
Idea crossed my mind of, we need an explicitly autistic language. Y'know, one where intents are part of the conjugation.
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It's happening every single day. Getting food is dangerous.
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Gaza still under siege as more killed trying to collect aid – Channel 4 News
This keeps happening.
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Honestly don't talk about this much because I don't expect to get heard...
Almost no protest happening right now in the US is doing anything more than defusing protests that can actually work.
I'm not saying protests don't work, I'm not saying nonviolent protests don't work... I'm saying current protest tactics accomplish nothing toward the ends they're pursuing.
Protests work in one of two ways:
* They draw attention to an issue people are unaware of
* They are a threat that if things don't change they'll get worse
All we do is the first, and it doesn't work because everybody already knows. They either have heard the message and can't do anything or they don't care, alternatively they thing it's all made up/blown out of proportion/etc and there's no way to show them proof of that by showing up to a protest.
The largest protests of our time made for symbolic, but ultimately fruitless victories. They got so big that they accidentally crossed into threat territory and they sent in the cops to shut it down... and because they were met entirely with passive non-violence, the threat disappeared as soon as they had a symbolic victory. They threw a few token scraps and made a show of enacting changes that they gradually rolled back within a year or two.
The second option also doesn't mean we go out there throwing molotovs right now...
It means we go out there saying "stop what you're doing or we'll give you a real problem to deal with". And it doesn't just mean violence against people, it can absolutely be violence against objects and institutions. It means burning down cop cars, it means sabotaging ICE vehicles, it means smashing the windows of businesses that donate to or provide support to cops and crooked politicians.
And more important than the actual violence and harm is the simple threat... "Fix this, or we escalate".
I'll leave it there because I know I'll already get so many people preaching the propaganda that violence never solves anything, that all we have to do is politely ask loud enough and they'll turn from their evil ways like life is some saturday morning cartoon.
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Small-ish pet peeve right now...
I hate seeing people calling current events "unprecedented".
What's happening is absolutely and horrifyingly precedented. If you think it's unprecedented you either know nothing of history, the meaning of that word, or you refuse to believe the reality of what's happening right now.
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Sharing again, Charlie is my sibling and has helped me through so much. And Lucy has helped them through even more.
Every life matters, and Lucy is my fur niece even if I've never met her in person. Please if you have the space help her get back her health and my sibling keep their home intact when they're already struggling before this.
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Being the person who listens, who provides support is hard...
It's hard to speak when you're always listening, and even harder to feel heard.
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Lately I've been providing support to people losing hope.
Others often give platitudes, try to rekindle that hope, because many people think hope is a must.
I've said a few times recently... in the story of Pandora's Box there's a reason hope is among the evils... It's not always good to have hope, while it can help you survive many impossibilities, it can also blind you to threats.
Worse yet, so very very many base their foundation on hope, and losing it can be a trauma in itself.
What I want people to know is that it's entirely possible to live your life and find joy without hope.
It's possible to find a reason to put one foot in front of your other even if you've lost hope for the future... in large part because we still have the now.
Me personally, my foundation is a mix of faith, duty, and love. What matters to me is the day to day choices I make, the impact I have on the people I love. I may disappear into history, quickly forgotten... but my impact on the lives in my life will ripple out long after, regardless of whether it appears in history books.
I find joy snuggling with my cat, thinking of ways to make her later years more comfortable and enjoyable, and knowing that her life has improved immeasurably from what it was before. I have siblings I've adopted, and I find joy spending time with them, encouraging them to be their best selves, and holding them when they hurt.
I know every day may be my last, and I have no doubts things are going to get much worse before they get better.
But I know that nothing can strip away the love I have and nothing can take away the choices I have already made. So I will keep loving and keep making those choices day after day, not because I have hope of the world turning around... but because that's one more day I get to love and choose, and one more day the people I love get support.
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I seriously recommend this video explaining that We Do Not Know How AI Actually Works
For all the people saying it's just "autocomplete" or throwing together chunks of other people's text, etc... This breaks down what we do know, and what we don't, and why we have so few safeguards on it
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From what I've seen (from the host's side) a lot depends on the company/institution. For example, our university has a dedicated international office, that can take care of a lot of the admin.
In smaller companies, this is usually the job of the office manager, so it's a bit less predictable whether they will have the bandwidth.
Depending on the city, the biggest issue is going to be housing. Expect to pay a lot and expect the host not to be able to help out.
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