If you find that your proofreading improves immensely AFTER you have submitted your work, it may not entirely be your fault. This is because you have written in a particular font, size, and frame (for example: on Tumblr, AO3, Fanfiction.net, etc.) and it is so familiar to you that your brain skips past the errors. So, next time, try to change the environment by shifting the font and size and perhaps even putting it in a different document altogether. This way, you will catch more of those faults.
Me: yeah so I just donât have the energy to get up and make myself a sandwich or wait for something to cook so I just. Donât
Her: why donât you just eat the sandwich components without putting them together
Me:
Her: you can just eat a handful of cheese and some sandwich meat. You donât have to make a sandwich.
Me:
Me: what
Therapists finding loopholes for mental illness things is one of my favorite things about dealing with mental illness because it really helps me understand that just because a reaction is Common doesnât mean itâs Right. Does doing dishes stress you out a lot? Buy paper plates. Do your obsessive thoughts make you worry about leaving your curling iron on so you drive home from work to check? Just put the curling iron in your purse and bring it to work with you while we work on tackling where this worry comes from. Symptom management doesnât have to look like drudgery.
i used to go days without showering because seeing my body was so upsetting that i would end up spiraling and then i realized i could simply turn the lights out. it took some getting used to but iâve been showering with the lights off for years and itâs now one of my favorite parts of my day.
do whatever you want nothing is real and thereâs no need to inflict unnecessary suffering on yourself just to try to seem ânormalâ
I love this post
Hmmm
These kinds of loopholes make life so. Much. Better.
One of my favorite stories is this lady had extremely bad OCD. Every day sheâd be late to work because she was convinced that her hair dryer was going to burn down the house so would always have to turn around and check it. Multiple times a day even. A bunch of doctors tied to âfixâ her of that fear, until one day she got a doctor that suggested she bring the hair dryer with her. Other doctors were annoyed, saying that wasnât a the correct way to help, but she gave it a go. When she had that fear, sheâd look over and see the hair dryer unplugged in the seat next to her and was able to carry on. I think itâs such a perfect example of actually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standard.
That story helped me stop repeatedly checking if my front door was locked. Instead of checking that the door was locked over and over I would check my security system app. If itâs on it will alert me if the front door opens.
ââŠactually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standardâ should be added to the Hippocratic Oath.
I wrote this post for Dwarfism Awareness Month (which was in October) in collaboration with a friend who is a little person. It wasnât ready until now, so I am posting it now.
Here are some things worth knowing:
Adult little people are adults, but people often treat themâŠ
I agree w/ a lot of this but my house is still my house for me to live in and Iâm not going to keep everything super low on the doors/walls/shelves bc of a slim chance that one little person might enter my house one day? Like if I have a friend then of course Iâll help them but Iâm still not going to redesign my house by putting latches low on doors and keeping everything low on the shelves because I live there, not them
People should know what potential pitfalls are. âHere are accessibility issues you should be aware ofâ and âcommon obstacles/attitudes that suck for little peopleâ doesnât mean ârearrange your entire house immediatelyâ. It means âhave some sensitivityâ.Â
If youâre going to build or decorate a living space, then take care not to install obstacles. If youâre arranging a group meet-up somewhere, mention accessibility concerns. If youâre having guests, let them know they can ask you to help with accommodations they might need. If a group is disrespectful of someone else, donât join in or let it slide.
Yes this ^
Itâs also important to note that accessibility standards mentioned by the OP are generally about *public* spaces (bars, restaurants, shops, work places, government buildings, schools, parks, sidewalks, hotels, etc.) and only apply to private spaces (your home) when someone who needs those accommodations is frequently there (they live there or they come over a lot). To use myself as an example, I have a physical disability that prevents me from climbing stairs, but I canât expect my friends not to live in their walk-up third floor apartments; we just make sure to not schedule gatherings there, and instead at places I can reach, with ground floor access, ramps, close parking, elevators, etc.
No one is saying that you have to shelve things down low or lower all the doorknobs in your home if you donât even know any little people or anyone in a wheelchair or anyone with other height-related needs (though it would also be worth talking about how hard it is for disabled people of all stripes to find housing because almost any house you look at is designed for average-sized, able-bodied, healthy people). Weâre talking about public spaces here, which, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (federal law, icydk), are supposed to be equally accessible for everyone and are supposed to provide accommodations for people with widely varying needs and levels of ability. Many public spaces *arenât* accessible, though, in a multitude of ways, beyond just widespread bigoted, ableist attitudes, which is why weâre having this discussion in the first place.
This T-Shirt was created by the founder of MagnificoGreatWhites, with 10% of the proceeds being donated to a Shark&Manta Conservation Group, and the remaining funds being dispersed between Great White Shark conversation groups not listed under TeeSpring. Shark finning is the removal of shark fins, afterwards the shark is discarded back into the ocean to slowly die by starving, drowning, or from being eaten alive by other fish. All species of sharks are at risk, and the demand for Shark fin soup is still on the rise. Millions of sharks are killed each year for this, causing a drastic decline in the number of sharks in our ocean.Â
conservationists ocean ramsay and lesley rochat are filmed swimming with sharks in order to help dispel myths concerning the publicâs perception of the animal, and to raise awareness regarding itâs diminishing numbers in the wild.Â
says ramsey, âitâs difficult to express the incredible joy and breathtaking emotion experienced âŠwatching the shark acknowledge and observe me, while i peacefully and calmly allowed it to swim towards me, and then experiencing it accepting my touch, allowing me to dorsal and tail ride.â   Â
she adds, âgiven the number of surfers and swimmers who frequent shark territory in low visibility often dressed in black wetsuits or floating on surfboards portraying a seal like silhouette, it is a huge testament to sharks sensory systems and intelligence that mistaken identity bite âattacksâ are so rare.â Â Â
in fact, as rochat notes, only five people on average are killed by sharks every year, which is less than number of people killed each year by faulty toasters or falling off chairs. in contrast,  approximately  70 million sharks killed each year by humans.
âitâs important for me to walk my talk and show people that sharks arenât monster man eaters with insatiable appetites for humans, but rather beautiful animals we ought to respect and protect,â rochat says. âthey really are baldly misunderstood and need all the help they can get.â (x, x, x)
In lieu of all of the sensationalist shark media occurring out there this summer, letâs talk about shark behavior and, in specific, shark attacks and white shark.
Some basic white shark facts (and yes,
Carcharodon carcharias is often also officially called the great white, but that just exacerbates all the media attention, so white shark it is). Whites are huge pelagic (open water) sharks that get on average 4-5 meters long, and their only known predator as an adult are orcas. Theyâre one of the longest lived cartilaginous fish known with a lifespan that appears to extend into their 70âČs. They have hella tons of teeth and lots of rows of them, so that when one pops out the next just pops into place as if on a conveyor belt. A white sharkâs bite force is something like 4000 pounds per square inch from a six-foot-long animal. (Thanks to wiki for all the basic facts).Â
Have a white shark anatomical drawing from wiki, because while itâs nightmare-inducing, itâs the only thing about sharks that should be.Â
People love to talk about sharks as these horrible monsters of the deep, eating everything they come across with gruesome abandon. This is just âperfectâ for summer, when sharks start showing up on beaches in the US and scaring the bejeezus out of basically everyone.Â
Luckily, those people are making things up. Youâre more likely to die because you shook a vending machine and it fell on top of you than you are to get bitten (note: not attacked) by a white shark. Thereâs a couple things youâre got to know about how sharks function to understand why worrying about getting nommed on by one at the beach is pretty silly.Â
To start, theyâre not man-eaters. Sharks donât even know what a human is. Weâre not aquatic organisms and theyâve probably only rarely encountered humans before, so thereâs no reason to assume theyâre going to be like âomg tasty hoomanâ and charge over for a snack We donât fit into what sharks consider prey, so theyâre not going to prey on us intentionally.Â
However, they do prey on seals. Tasty, blubbery, freaking-stupidly-clever-and-fast seals. And a human on a surfboard (which is when almost all shark encounters happen that result in injury) happens to look mightily like a seal if all you can see is a silhouette. More importantly, itâs a slow, stationary seal, which implies an easy meal. Most of the time, sharks âattackâ surfers thinking theyâre seals. And guess what? Humans do not have all that tasty, energy-loaded blubber that seals do. Weâre pretty bony and weâre on these weird plastic things that have got to taste nasty as hell. Most shark âattacksâ last for one bite, because the shark pretty quickly realizes that weâre not the pinniped it thought we were, and those bones arenât worth the effort, and it leaves. Not great for the surfer who is now missing lots of bits, but hey, the shark isnât purposefully being an asshole. It was a case of mistaken identity!
But there are lots of encounters where people donât get hurt, right? They just get the shit scared out of them when a shark starts face-punching their arm, and panic, and call the media, and suddenly itâs an attack again. This is actually because most of a sharkâs sensory organs are on itâs face.Â
All those red dots are organs called the ampullae of lorenzini, and they sense electrical stimulus. Theyâre the organs that all cartilaginous fish use to locate food – when you see a ray sweeping itâs rostrum across the sand, itâs using itâs ampullae to search for buried critters. So if a shark is curious about something, say, a human, the first response is to nose it to get more information. Thatâs not aggression, itâs curiosity. Then, unfortunately, if it still wants more information, itâll go and take a nibble – because, if you look above, there are more dots right around the mouth than anywhere else. Sharks are basically the really sharp aquatic equivalent of that annoying baby who has to put everything in itâs mouth.Â
Because humanity is collectively terrified of anything that has more naturally provided pointy bits than we do, everything has to demonize sharks, and that ends really badly. Everything gets interpreted as aggression. This, for instance, is a video in which a shark attempts to figure out what a pontoon boat is and gets stuck in the float. The people watching it of course put JAWS music on and captioned it as an attack, but thatâs just a stressed shark going âwtf is this weird thing and why wonât it give me my teeth backâ.Â
Itâs shark season, but that doesnât mean theyâre out to eat us. Weâre a bony, problematic food that likes to play mean tricks by pretending to be seals. If you donât want to get attacked by a shark? Be careful about being in the water, and donât surf at sunset or sunrise. If you see a shark being inquisitive, just bop it. Theyâre not used to any sort of physical contact from something that isnât either food, a predator, or a mate, so theyâll generally just leave immediately.
Tl;dr, sharks are mouthy babies who arenât good at differentiating humans from seals, and we certainly donât help them any.
Bringing this back since Shark Week is soon.Â
Reblogging this because although I donât quite agree to sharks being âmouthy babiesâ, I find them beautiful and fascinating and it grieves me that theyâre being painted as monsters they clearly arenât.Â
Same. Sharks are amazing and beatiful creatures, but is important to remember that it is a wild animal. It should be respected and protected, not feared.
Hammerheads are actually very shy. Scuba divers usually need to use food to get the hammerheads to even go near them. Like any shark, they arenât very aggressive unless provoked.
During a shark biology course in Bimini, in May, we had a pair of great hammerheads approach us in the water* while we were snorkeling. Only one of them got close enough to concern the instructors, and it took minimal effort to stop it from making a run on a student. It did not attempt this more than once, nor did anyone get the impression that it was interested beyond simple curiosity.
*Their presence in those waters in May was remarked upon as unusual, as they usually left the waters around Bimini before then.
Despite their fearsome appearance, Sand Tiger Sharks are a docile and passive species. Their tame nature and natural hardiness make them one of the few large sharks able to be housed in captivity.
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