anyone that portrays a modern au link as a cool trendy hipster boy is wrong, link is the weird horse kid who owns and takes pictures of himself with his sword
If someone says something that you only partially understand:
DON’T ask for clarification with a generic “What?” or “I’m sorry?” (In my experience, people will repeat the phrase the exact same way without helping you to understand).
Example:
Them: “Hey, do you like pahganabasa?”
Autistic Person: “What?”
Them: “Do you like pahganabasa?”
Autistic Person: “I’m sorry, what?”
Them (annoyed): “Do you like pahganabasa?”
Instead, DO repeat the part that you did understand, and substitute a “What?” for the unintelligable part.
Example:
Them: “Hey, do you like pahganabasa?”
Autistic Person: “Do I like what?”
Them: “Pineapple pizza?”
Autistic Person: (Understands the words!)
I’ve also had successes with “I’m sorry, I only heard the first half of that sentence,” or actually verbalizing my interpretation of the part I heard incorrectly as a question: “Pahgana… basa?”.
Sometimes that makes the speaker think that they might be mumbling, or verbalizing in a way that makes them difficult to understand (because there are times it’s really not your brain–it’s their mouth).
This is also a lifesaver if you have Auditory Processing Disorder. It stopped the amount of annoyed sighs because ppl thought I was deliberately ignoring them or them saying the same thing but louder (which does not help when volume isn’t the problem)
I do this a lot- I have really shit auditory processing and ADHD, and we often get sensory issues. I have to be on the phone a lot for work and my auditory processing isn’t good enough for me to really deal with phones. I’ve def done the repeating thing a lot.
Customer: “Do you have the green car with the akj;ldfjksal;fjda?” Me: “The green car with… the flux capacitor or the mobile pizza oven?” Customer: “The pizza oven!” Me: “Okay cool! Yeah, we’ve got that, and in lime green too!”
Makes my life a zillion percent easier, especially since phones add an even worse layer of difficulty to my words-to-brain lag time.
Tumblr: Boycott Coco! It’s made by white people and is offensive to Mexicans!
Meanwhile, in Mexico:
🙄🙄 Ignorant people. It’s not offensive, even if it was made by white people. Just a complete copy of an amazing movie (Book of Life) this movie is doing well because well, it’s a DISNEY movie.
Go watch both Coco and Book of Life and learn more about Mexican culture.
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@erikaamichelle Nope, not even that. Coco is Not a ‘Complete Copy’ Of Book Of Life. It is actually Completely different from that film in so many ways! The only thing they have in common is Dia De Muertos. And these points are what I’m standing by.
• Focuses On Mexican Heritage And tradition while Book Of Life is more based on Spanish.
• Disney/Pixar didn’t turn down Book Of Life! That was DreamWorks
• The stories are NOT the same
• Completely different art styles.
• Mexican heritage Representation.
• Heavily researched and detailed for authenticity and respect.
• All Hispanic Cast.
• The two films went into Production a few years apart. This film isn’t anything new.
• And The Team behind Book Of Life is in full support of Coco and are wishing it much success! There is no rivalry at all between them at all.
If Hallmark can make 85000000 Christmas movies around the same fucking premise (lonely cishet white people find love on Christmas) then we can have two popular Dia de los Muertos cartoons without cries of “plagiarism” thrown around.
when people say shit like “if you’re at an antifacist event, don’t talk to reporters” they mean you. you aren’t an exception to that. you can be the smartest, most articulate person on the planet and right wing news stations can still edit shit to make you look like a dipshit.
when people say to not take selfies or leave your face uncovered at antifacist events they mean you. when people say not to get into public debates with nazis (because it just gives them a platform and a persecution complex) they mean you. the way to actually, effectively combat fascism is by organizing en masse – you can’t be a hero or get famous as a black bloc activist and you shouldn’t be trying to.
your fifteen minutes of fame on local news isnt worth potentially giving your political opponents soundbites of “crazy sjws” to pass around on reddit and recruit more scumbags with. it’s not worth risking the safety of other people to take photos at events that might get other, more vulnerable people identified. it’s not worth it to get into pointless arguements with fascists in atmospheres where you’re just giving them an excuse to spout their bullshit and a soapbox to do it on. if you think feeling like a hero is more important than the actual, physical safety of the people you’re supposedly trying to protect, you’re just a narcissist who happens to have left wing politics.
this goes x10000 if you’re white. instigating police violence at protests or riling up violent fascist shitheads isn’t noble in the slightest when you aren’t the one who’s going to get stabbed in the ribs.
PkCaramel 