For Anyone Who Is Semi Verbal, Nonverbal, Or Otherwise Struggles With Speech, Please Know That There

For anyone who is semi verbal, nonverbal, or otherwise struggles with speech, please know that there are people who will accept your methods of communication. There are people who won't infantilize you for using AAC, communication cards, making noises instead of words, etc. There are people who won't expect you to pick the mask up again when you stop being so 'talkative'. There are people who don't mind waiting for you to sort your thoughts, and are happy to include you in the conversation.

There are people who accept you as yourself, and I don't just mean toleration.

Average boomer logic/not at you 💀

yall when children play on their cellphones: I CANT BELIEVE... 😡 KIDS ARENT ALLOWED TO BE KIDS ANYMORE... 😭 THEY DONT EVEN PLAY OUTSIDE... 🤬 THEYRE ALWAYS ON THEIR SMARTPHONES... 💔

yall the very minute children try to have fun in real life:

Rolling Stone

Students Dressed as Furries Could be Collected by Animal Control if New Oklahoma Bill Passes

If one Oklahoma representative gets his way, children who act like dogs and cats during school hours could be punished by... animal control.

Okay so I have a lot to say about this (not aimed at you OP)

'Validity' doesn't exist in terms of identity. I hate that validity culture has polluted the OTHERKIN COMMUNITY of all communities; it's a parasite that does nothing but cause infighting and distract people from actual issues.

Who cares if someone kins Rainbow Dash for fun? Who cares if their kintype is a sparkly pink wolf? Who cares if they can influence shifts or can't experience shifts at all? Someone's experience is their own and is wonderfully unique and real. Being 'valid' has nothing to do with that.

Communities are supposed to uplift each other, damn it, not make certain individuals of said community feel even more isolated.

I see a lot of posts listing experiences we have as alterhuman/therian/otherkin/nonhuman folk and exclaim that every one of them is valid.

Which they are.

Why does it bother me? Because I hate to see that this is needed at all. That we need to slap a “valid” sticker on our experiences.

It doesn’t matter whether or not we, (as individuals), decide they are or aren’t valid.

it doesn’t matter. What happens will happen regardless of whether or not you have an opinion on how “valid” it is.

So what if you’re nonhuman but also human? That’s an experience, it won’t magically stop happening because someone goes “nyeeeh”. (Just an example. You can insert whatever gatekeepers like to complain about and it would still work).

It’s saddening, more than anything. The fact gatekeepers think they can push people out for having different events happen to them ended up making us feel the need to say “hey, your experiences are real and they don’t make you lesser than those who have more common experiences”.

Imagine saying to someone that is crying that it’s okay to cry even though you and/or others aren’t. Of course it is. It should go without saying.

But these are just some Kxena thoughts, hopefully I was able to put them clearly into words heheh

I don’t believe uplifting posts are bad in the slightest, it’s just saddening to see we need them at all. Keep on lifting each other up! We all deserve to feel accepted and respected in this community. Write some words of kindness today!

The transmasc experience of being a dog

how can someone identify as a guy and be a lesbian? i genuinely dont get it. doesnt being a lesbian means liking non-men, and being gay liking non-women???

The most common explanations for it that I've seen are multigender people who are men to some extent, butches who are cusper (in between) between man and gender nonconforming woman, and people who would otherwise fit the 'non-man' label (genderless people, women etc) but use masculine terms. As far as I'm concerned, it's up to the individual.

The thing is, with LGBTQ identities, having a baseline definition is alright. But often, people will blur lines and defy the 'rules' of certain labels and that's also alright!

I appreciate the reach out, and hope this cleared some things up./gen

ID: screenshot of tumblr tags that, put together, read 'glad to know I'm not the only one who has had dreams of Serj Tankian and system of a down. It's a long story.' End ID

I literally had a dream last night (as of writing this it is the dawn of January 11th 2024) that included me meeting (and hanging out with) Serj in a Walmart 😭

System Of A Down made a press release announcing that Serj Tankian passed away, and then a few minutes later they had to cancel the announcement because he somehow came back, and was found in a Five Guys, for some reason.