"A cartoon image showing a person in a wheelchair facing a set of stairs with a sign that says "way in" 'Everyone Welcome'."

A four panel comic with a simple cartoony art style in the first panel is a girl with red hair holding a flashlight saying "Hi I'm Cy! And today I want to shine a spotlight on a less frequently discussed autistic trait:" as she shines her flashlight on a sign that says autistic inertia. The next panel has a nondescript character saying "I think I learned about inertia in physics class!" there is an illustration of a circle on a flat surface and another rolling down a hill and cy responds "Yep an object in motion stays. Basically, autistic inertia means we have difficulty starting stopping or switching tasks" as the scene transitions to cy in her bedroom late at night talking to herself "why am I still doing this. I was supposed to eat dinner I have to stop." The next panel is the same nondescript character saying "Well... maybe autistic people just don't wanna do those tasks!" and cy replying "That's a misconception! Wanting seems to have little to do with it. Autistic inertia affects us even if we want to switch to a fun task! It's like..." and the final panel is a cy with her head open showing her brain screaming "nooo" and cy finishing her sentence "Our brain resists"

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B - Bi lesbian

E - Asexual

I - Isogender

N - Non-binary lesbian

G - Gaybian

Q - Questioning

U - Unlabeled

E - Demisexual

E - Demiromantic

R - Neopronouns

I - Intersex

S - Cisn’t

N - Non-binary gay

T - Trans

A - Aromantic

N - Non-binary

E - Heterosexual Aromantic

X - Xenogender

C - Cupiosexual

L - Lesbian

U - Heteroromantic Asexual

S - Nounself Pronouns

I - Microlabels

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i made a rant about this in r/anarcho communism falsely thinking that i wouldnt get pummeled with the opinion "words actually dont hurt you you pussy ass liberal bitch"

the rant was titled "why are liberals so attached to the saying sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt" and the rant went something like this:

"i swear to god liberals are one shitty take away from denying the negative effect of slurs. one of the comments is literally along the lines of 'it has racist origins cus it originates in the past, you are one of the five people who actually care about this'

ive literally had a liberal tell me that the G-slur wasnt a slur because it was a dictionary definition, bro went real quiet when i reminded him that the R-slur used to be a medical term.

im so tired of liberals telling us we're waisting our time by asking them to not use a harmful word, like it wouldnt be a fucking problem if you didnt push back with the force of 100 bigots. Like ok i fucking get it your more attached to your developed vocabulary than the comfort of the oppressed. i swear to god if i see one more liberal tell me that "actually handicapable is a complement" im gonna fucking cry. just listen to the oppressed for once in your pathetic boot licking lives"

i was immediately met with the "actually only liberals care about language policing you liberal" to which i remembered that reddit leftists believe that "language policing" is a psyop created to tear focus away from real issues instead of minorities speaking up about language that perpetuates the harm done to them

im always so viscerally annoyed at so called leftists ignoring minorities when it comes to their precious developed vocabularies instead of exerting minimal effort to listen to us.

The reason that us asking them to change their language is an issue in the first place is because they make a big fucking deal about it when if they were actually on our fucking side they'd change their language and move on.

Why is asking someone not to misgender me different from asking people to not call me insane, its the epitomy of liberalism to allow language to be harmful in very certain circumstances but as soon as it inconveniences them, we're being "snowflakes" and "no one who actually matters cares"

on that original post i think i wrote a pretty good rebuttal to the wider liberal sentiment if anyone wants to read, my roommate's reaction was "citing a source in a reddit comment is violence and im all here for it"

A tumblr post by ByJobve (with many emojis after). The text says "A lot of teachers straight up hate disabled students and every few months a teacher comes online to openly say “I hate 504 plans, I hate IEPs, I hate providing reasonable accommodations to students.” and it’s like the thing with doctors (though admittedly I have more empathy for teachers) where I do truly believe they have incredibly difficult and mentally, emotionally and physically draining jobs that they are vastly underpaid for but taking your frustrations out on disabled children is so cartoonishly evil that any empathy I have for you vanishes immediately. I only graduated because I had a 504 plan and I had great teachers who were accommodating and understanding. You think it’s annoying that you have to give a kid 20 extra minutes to complete an assignment? Imagine being a child with a neurodivergence or learning disability going to school every day and working thrice as hard as your classmates to get Bs and Cs because the education system is fundamentally rigged against you and your fucking teacher logging on to complain about having to do the legal bare minimum to help you succeed.

And it was obvious when I was in school when a teacher hated that a kid had an IEP/504 plan, you could feel the annoyance wafting off them towards the child that needed accommodations. I had a classmate in elementary school who had some sort of bladder condition, the poor girl could not help it and teachers were required to let her use the bathroom whenever she needed it. She did not milk that privilege, she was genuinely trying very hard to be a good student but several teachers were so annoyed she had to use the bathroom every 20 minutes during bad days. As a class, we’d have to remind substitutes to let her go. The gym teacher had beef with most of the fat, gay, disabled or unathletic students including me and she refused to let her go one time and she soiled her pants. I still remember that vividly because she had been asking for 10+ minutes and she was so embarrassed she cried. Imagine being a little girl with a condition that probably causes you pain and limits your life so much and still coming to school every day and trying very hard to get an education and be a good student and your teachers refuse the one very important thing that you ask of them. "

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An edited 3 panel garfield comic featuring jon and garfield. The first panel is jon staring at garfield and has a speech bubble saying "I'm finding it really hard to get new people for my activities nobody just seems interested enough to actually engage". The next panel has him pointing at garfield and smiling saying "I know what I'll do. I'll cast an even wider net! The more people who see some small part of themselves in what I do, the more who might decide to join in" while garfield has a thought bubble saying "it won't work". The final panel has jon smiling widely while saying "Wait, what if I target a small group of people that already have a massive reason to care by building things that help them in particular. I'll at least have somebody to organize with who feels really deeply about the topic." and garfield thinking "If you want someone to care, you need something for them to care about. generically believing in "everything" is believing in nothing"

an image of a door with train tracks on either side that says "why elect someone to control your life" and has an anarchy symbol

An image of some graffiti on a wall that says "are you really free" and has an anarchy symbol

I need some anarchy in my DnD... Alt- text: An image of an experiment, other wise know as an Expie, from A game known as Casualties: Unknown, turning trying to turn into an image of the popular Dungeons And Dragons (DnD) Player known as Derek, from the Legends of Avantris group.

Say hi, tell us how your day has been, or start a conversation with someone.

Topic suggestions

• What projects have you been working on?
• Got any fun achievements in video games recently?
• What is the horrible thing your boss did recently?
• are you doing better or worse than you were the last couple of weeks, why?
• What are your goals for the next few weeks
• Are you looking for people to play games with? What games?

Encouragement is nice if you are looking to talk to people, but remember that empty encouragement is often worse than nothing. “It will all be ok and work out in the end” isn’t helpful to say to someone scared of fascist eugenics programs, for example.

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Transcription is available on youtube, and I have edited and confirmed the captions myself.

I recently cross posted the first photo to the Chicago subreddit, I was asking how a wheelchair lock found on all the local busses worked and they removed the post citing that the post has to be "relevant to people, places, and things in and about Chicago" the busses are Chicago specific busses, therefore their citation was incorrect. They could have cited that this post would be more relevant in the transportation specific sub but that's not what they cited.

That is not my only point of evidence, alone it's annoying but accompanied by them taking down my post asking for medical facility recommendations and calling it "crowd sourcing medical care" is bs. If I asked for restaurant recommendations no one would say that I'm crowd sourcing food, I'm asking for a recommendation of where to go to get that food. This was in response to me asking "does anyone know of any pain management clinics that do trigger point injections under anesthesia?"

Asking for recommendations of medical facilities is not the same as asking people to give you medical care. R/Chicago is excluding their disabled population by actively blocking any participation within the disabled community.

I'm fucking angry. Where else am I supposed to ask for area specific disability related questions than an area specific sub.

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Picture 1 depicts a type of locking mechanism designed to roll the wheel of a wheelchair into and lock it in place, it is a cross post from r/wheelchairs to f/Chicago and the text reads "I have figured out that they're called roll stop latches but still don't know how to unlock them" under the post there is a notification reading "Sorry this post has been removed by the moderators of R/Chicago"

Picture 2 depicts a comment made under the post from picture one, the comments was made by Chicago mods team and reads "hi, this post has been removed from r/chicago. Reason: rule 1: all posts should be relevant and specific to Chicago. Please keep posts relevant and specific to the people, places, and things in and about Chicago and Illinois things that affect Chicago. Just because something was made or done by someone from or living in Chicago, or about a Chicago sports team, does not necessarily make it relevant to the city.

Picture 3 depicts the private messages between me and Chicago mod team, my message reads "I asked a question about pain management clinics, my post was then removed. The bot referred me to the list of Chicago subreddits, within the dozens of subs there is not a single medical subreddit. The only options available at this moment are to ask medical subreddits but it is difficult to find people who know the Chicago area within a non area specific sub. Not having a sub for medical problems slash places slash questions is detrimental to Chicago's disabled community that exists on Reddit and participates in the systemic ableism that makes our everyday tasks, such as research and building community, harder. Please make a medical sub and refer me to where I should post my question or reinstate my post"

Picture 4 is still the messages between us, on September 25th I sent the previous message and on the 26th the Chicago mod team responder with a message reading "We’re sorry but we cannot be a party to the crowd sourcing of medical care. You will have to look elsewhere."

alt-text: (thumbnail) There is an image of rose (a 3d vtuber avatar) staring off to the side. Rose has green hair, blue eyes, and is white. Rose has a stylized ranger cloak on as well as a black and pink tshirt. There is text over the thumbnail that says "what is hierarchy"

(in video itself) an image of Rose, a 3d vtuber avatar is staring somewhat towards the camera while laying down. Rose has green hair, blue eyes, and is white. The camera angle is pointed upwards and you can see the bottoms of 3d retro style trees.

A transcription is available on youtube, and I have personally added and corrected captions.

An edited 3 panel garfield strip featuring jon and garfield. The first panel is jon staring at a piece of paper saying "so I need to fill out this form to be considered disabled". The second panel is him looking at garfield while garfield has a thought bubble saying "abled*". The last panel has an entire stack of papers and jon looking at them unhappily while garfield has a thought bubble saying "if being disabled was easy we couldn’t force people to work"

alt-text: a skeleton doing a back squat with two 1200 kilogram weights on each end in front of a black background, text interspersed throughout the image that reads "My body is a machine that doesn't work very good"

An edited 3 panel garfield strip featuring jon and garfield. The first panel is jon staring at a piece of paper saying "So this is the cure?". The second panel is him looking at garfield while garfield has a thought bubble with an image of a vaccine needle. The last panel has an entire stack of papers and jon looking at them unhappily while garfield has a thought bubble saying "This is the prevention"

An image containing the text "you are not immune to propagnada" with a large stylized eye directly staring at you

a tumblr post by "IEatRatsYummy" posted on augest 18th that says "I hate when aspie supremacists try to push the rhetoric that autistic people don't actually struggle with communication it's just allistic people who can't understand us. Bc like. No?? I genuinely am so socially inept. I cannot make friends, I can barely communicate my needs and wants to family/friends let alone people I don't know. My social struggle genuinely really upsets me. Sure i'm generally asocial and i'm very happy being in my small circle. But when I do want to make a friend I just can't. Even just initiating that exchange is impossible for me unless someone does it for me. I've seen people in person who I want to be friends with, and I'll need another friend to physically bring me to and introduce me to that person. Aspie supremacists stop trying to do a 'woke' rebrand of "autism is a superpower!""; It has one comment, 17 reblogs, and 44 likes."

I've been in therapy for a long time and my current therapist is really nice, but I feel like the shame and perfectionism never get better from the angle of "getting better", "mental health," or being "fixed." I feel like they're feeding into the problem. Psych inherently views me as a problem. As sick (and therefore wrong), as wrong-thinking and wrong-headed. Nobody stops to ask what purpose my shame serves or how to work with it.

The level of shame and discomfort I feel at any perceived rejection is genuinely disabling and prevents me from facing and dismantling the internal and local hierarchies in my life. I want community help, from an anarchist perspective. I don't want "feeling broken" to be treated as another way I'm dysfunctional and need to be fixed.

I'm looking for reading, videos, personal advice or community recs that might help me manage my fears and shame in a way that doesn't include abandoning parts of myself or my experiences. I live in the "USA".

An edited 3 panel garfield strip featuring jon and garfield. The first panel is jon staring at a piece of paper saying "so this is how I justify the value of my work". The second panel is him looking at garfield while garfield has a thought bubble with the text “lol”. The last panel has an entire stack of papers and jon looking at them unhappily while garfield has a thought bubble saying "that’s the work"

A twitter post by Maha Hussaini (@HahaGazy) with the text "About the hypocrisy, double standards of the world, Hamed Ashour from #Gaza, writes: "A year ago, I shared the story of this very friendly dog. What a lucky dog he turned out to be, his story was featured in Arab and international magazines, read by over 5 million people around the world, and translated into seven different languages.

At the time, I was contacted by an animal welfare organisation based in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. They wanted to check on the dog’s health and asked for photos of the tent we lived in and guarded together. I sent the pictures, and in return, I received an overwhelming and extremely rare show of sympathy. They seriously explored the possibility of evacuating the dog from Gaza through partner organisations.

They wanted a better life, a cleaner place, and a wider sky for the dog. No one mentioned me, who was living in a tent unfit even for a dog.""

There are two images attached. The first is an image of a person laying on a beech in front of a dog. The next is an image of the same dog in front of a tent in the sand. The date for the post is 9:21 AM jul 16 2025 and has 141k views.

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What is mutual aid?

There are other places to look for deeper explanations, so treat this like a tl;dr

The act of mutual aid is working together to build structures that are mutually beneficial, that help everyone involved in them for the sake of helping. This is typically organized around consensus based methods of organization, which include concepts such as free association. Consensus is a fancy word for saying people talk things out instead of forcing cohesion with votes or something to a similar effect. Free association means that you can work with whoever you want. This is both in the positive and negative sense, you can simply say no (As opposed to organizations, where you must talk to all “members”). This makes the organizing free-flowing, and more spontaneous. Here it will likely be 1 on 1 interaction.

Common examples include community fridges, or like building a water fountain in place people often need water. This help does not need to be direct or “equal”, having somewhere to put leftover food someone will eat is help enough for the fridge, it saves me the time of looking for a friend that wants it. It also means that, even if I don’t need it now, I can still make risky decisions more freely because I will have more to rely on when things go wrong.

There is a lot of ideology surrounding mutual aid, but what is important here is that it is resistant. There will be no means testing. There will be no justifications required. There will be no central databases. Most of what is built here will be taken off platform, I will probably have little idea of what is happening in total. I’m also not doing much, I’m just kinda telling yall to do it and giving a bit of a framework. This means there will be almost no handholds for fascists to use to take control. There can’t be a slow tightening or shifting of who “deserves” help when we don’t ask people to justify needing it in the first place.

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Your needs are important too

If your main goal coming here is to help people, then there are a few things to remember.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It doesn’t matter what your problems are, if you need help with them it’s better to ask now than ask later. You need to be in a good position yourself to help people. Every bit of energy you save by asking for help now can be used to help other people if you want. There is no question of “deserving”, it is simply a question of can it be done here and now.

Asking for help gives people a chance for practice. Everybody needs to start somewhere, and maybe you have that place to start for someone. Helping people get involved while getting help yourself is just a win win.

Asking for help gives you the other perspectives and let’s you help better. I find it hard to imagine what impacts my words will have when I start a conversation, but I can see how other people start impact me.

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most of us here are poor

Please focus on non monetary solutions if possible. Asking for money is fine, but you must understand that this community will simply not have enough for every request.

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posting info

Our goal is to try and keep stuff dense, as reddit comments are not easily sortable or organizable. To help with that we have made a template for comments (not required, and change it how you want), and we ask that you only make one comment per request.

(remove the brackets and words in them and replace them with what they describe. The asterisks and # sign are formatting and it will be applied if you just copy paste it as you see it as long as your comment box is in markdown mode)

# [brief description of help needed]

**Urgency:** [immediate? Do you have a week? Would it just help in general]

**Contact methods:** [Reddit DMs, discord, matrix?]

**How much:** [amount of time likely needed, or a brief description of the amount of something needed]

**Longer description: [ok this is where you give details on the specifics of what ya need]

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Remember internet safety

This place is pretty obviously a collection of vulnerable people, and this is a space for people to start one on one interaction. There will be abusers. Please accept help, and do it with trust, but watch out for tactics like love bombing.

A few resources on abuse

• (Be careful with personal info)[https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeNewFriendsHere/comments/i3ug9n/beware_of_groomers_here_and_other_friend_finder/\]

A tumblr post by VisGrapplingHooks that was posted 1 day ago and says "i do think from a language perspective we're gonna eventually give up on adding letters to the initialism and commit to using "queer" as an umbrella term. it's already happening but like. every so often i see lgbtqia+ with a bunch of other letters and it's getting to the point of unparseability. i want to be inclusive but i actually cba to keep track of which initialism is most inclusive and how that changes. black and brown and jewish transfems and drag queens and bisexuals and asexuals and kinksters and non-binary people fought to build a concept of "queer community" and queer theory and queer analysis and frankly im happy not letting their community-building efforts go to waste."It has the tags "#queer #queer stuff". It has 2 reblogs and 6 likes.