familiar au: in which Nina gets to grow up, too, and Ed searches diligently for a way to fix everything. you deserved better, and this time Ed makes sure you get it.
OH MY GOD WHY WOULD U DO THIS
Some things don’t need the thought people give them
FUN FACT: in hebrew, “feet” is a euphemism for genitals.
so if you ever see “washing feet” in the bible, it, uh. yeah.
(source is my old bible class textbook which i don’t have on me anymore 😦 )
HOLY SHIT WHAT
I MEAN CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG BUT I SWEAR TO GOD I REMEMBER READING A STORY IN THE BIBLE WHERE JESUS CLEANED THE ‘FEET’ OF A LADY PROSTITUTE INFRONT OF HIS TWELVE DISCIPLES WHO GOT SERIOUSLY GROSSED OUT. THEM GETTING REALLY SUPER GROSSED OUT BY THAT NEVER MADE SENSE TO ME UNTIL NOW.
Time for Bible Lessons With An Ex-Fundie Because All Of This is Wrong!!
The feet-washing custom was exactly what it sounded like. You come into a house in the Roman era Middle East after walking around in your sandals and shit and your host offers to wash your feet with a bowl and a towel and some perfume if we’re REAL fancy. It was a hospitality custom.
And the story isn’t about Jesus washing the feet of a prostitute, the prostitute in the story washed Jesus’s feet while he was a guest in someone’s house. She heard he was there, got super fucking emotional (the Bible says she was repenting of her sins but I like to think that she was a super huge fan) busted in the door with a vial of incredibly expensive perfume, and cried over his feet to wash them and dumped perfume over them AND DRIED THEM WITH HER HAIR, which was over-doing it to the max but hey, I won’t judge a Middle Eastern hooker’s foot fetish if she doesn’t judge me
So the guy who was hosting Jesus (Simon, a Pharisee) was sitting there like “what the fuck” and thinking to himself “if Jesus had ANY idea who this bitch is he’d drag her crusty ass” and then Jesus, using his telepathy Jesus powers, goes
YO I HEARD THAT, SIMON
YOU NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP BECAUSE WHEN I CAME INTO YOUR HOUSE YOU DIDN’T OFFER ME SHIT
NOT EVEN A MOIST TOWELETTE FOR MY FEET
AND THIS WOMAN IS A LOVELY LADY AND SHE HAS DONE BETTER BY ME THAN YOU HAVE SO SIT THE FUCK DOWN
and also that hooker wound up being the sister of Lazarus
you know, that guy Jesus raised from the dead
moral of the story: if you wash a homeless middle eastern guy’s feet with your hair and drench them in Dolce and Gabbana he’ll return the favor and resurrect your brother
every time i talk about eugenics abortion being bad, people assume i want to legally ban or restrict abortion of disabled fetuses, instead of noticing that sex-selective abortion is a similar issue with similar solutions that have nothing to do with legal anything.
disability activists generally want the following things, in order to reduce eugenics abortion:
– no more pressuring pregnant people to abort disabled fetuses or shaming them for choosing to carry the pregnancy to term (in case you’re wondering, doctors absolutely do this)
– no more pressuring disabled and/or mentally ill pregnant people to have abortions or shaming them for choosing to stay pregnant (doctors do this too)
– no more devaluing disabled people’s lives in pro choice rhetoric, such as by bringing up disabled fetuses as an argument or “gotcha” when arguing with people who think all abortion should be illegal
– active valorization of disabled people and involving us in the leadership of pro-choice organizations
– pro-choice organizations addressing the prevalence of doctors and society pressuring people into eugenics abortions
– pro-choice organizations actively challenging and critiquing ableism in their movements, historically and currently
– establishment of better support systems for disabled parents and parents with disabled children
– better health care and better access to it
disabled people who criticize the eugenics abortion are not your enemies. we don’t want to force or pressure anyone to stay pregnant or to terminate. please acknowledge that it’s frankly terrifying for us when a fellow pro choice person directly defends the ethics of eugenics abortion to us.
On some real shit, I do not fuck with people who ride those boat things at the carnival. People who get on those do not give a fuck about life, they don’t care about you, ya mama or your kids. They literally have nothing to lose. You don’t care about life so there’s no need for me to fight you because you’re not going to give a damn about my face.
THIS JOINT!!!!
BITCHHHHHHH. I got on this shit when I was 12. Wasn’t no bar, no protection, nothing in that shit. I didn’t realize until it was too late. You couldn’t pay me to ever get on this shit ever again in my life. We were in Landover, this shit almost smooth flipped my ass to Baltimore. No. Never again.
12? I got on this bitch when I was 21 and had my head in my ex’s shoulder the ENTIRE time. Screaming like a bih too. Nope. Never again. I was praying to the gravity gods the entire time.
?????? All it does is swing back and forth???? I don’t understand the concern??????
centrifugal force keeps you in your seat.
Centrifugal force isn’t keeping me from crying tho
For some reason I feel like alcohol makes sensory input a lot easier. Things that would normally overload me, like being at a club (loud music, flickering lights, crowds of moving people) actually become not only manageable, but enjoyable.
And talking becomes easier (before it becomes difficult again, but for other reasons than usually). Things like dancing happen, too, which I’d never even consider trying when I’m sober. I’d probably fall on my face trying.
I also never get so drunk that I have blackouts or lose control, so far I’ve always had a good feeling for when I need a break, because I notice the changes in my body. Once I start feeling weird, I take a break. So far that has worked well for me.
I wonder if other people with sensory input issues have had similar experiences?
Yeah, it def makes sensory stuff easier, in addition to the social stuff. One of the things that alcohol does does is increases the effects of GABA, which is a primary inhibitory neurotransmitter.
Autistics have deficiencies in GABA – specifically, we have less of it in our brains. Studies suggest this is what causes hypersensitivity, and what type of hypersensitivity depends on where in the brain and to what degree the GABA deficiencies are.
In turn, anything that either improves the functioning of GABA, increases the the release of GABA, decreases the reuptake of GABA, or acts as a replacement for GABA, can and does decrease sensitivity depending where in the brain it happens.
Put another way, alcohol very much can have this effect on autistics.
I have noticed this too, but I don’t particularly like how loose-lipped I get when drunk and I’ve also started getting a strong dislike of how my body feels and behaves while drunk, so I stopped drinking about a year and a half ago.
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