I was an obnoxious weirdo, because that is who I am in my heart and soul. I’m not cool. I’m not coordinated. I’m not athletic. I’m not confident. I’m none of the things that make it easier to exist in the fucking crucible of a school. And I was bullied for it at all levels, from peers to teachers to my own father, all the way through my entire life until I was old enough to disengage from my bullies. It didn’t help me, it didn’t teach me anything. All it taught me was that the person I was, the weird, awkward, obnoxious little weirdo who loved everyone and everything and just wanted to have friends, and to be good at *anything* my peers cared about, was worthless and worthy of contempt. I was physically and emotionally abused by too many people to count, including people who *absolutely* knew better.
I didn’t learn anything from this except how to most effectively hate myself.
I am *incredibly* lucky that I took a lifetime of bullying and abuse and channeled it into my art, because I had that positive outlet available to me (and I had the support and encouragement of my 7th grade teacher, who knew I wanted to be a writer and supported that). Most people who are bullied and abused for being who they are don’t have the privilege and opportunity that I had, and they don’t deserve to suffer or feel unworthy, simply for being weird and nonconformist.
Bullying is cruel and hurtful and has no place in a family, a school, or anyplace else.
(This was posted in response to a post that claims bullying is “the only way obnoxious weirdos learn how to not be obnoxious weirdos.” I don’t know why the original post disappeared).
I want a Hawkeyes movie where Hawkeyes is deaf like in the comics, and in the first five minutes he loses his hearing aids, and the rest of the movie is silent except for a constant running commentary of what Hawkeyes is thinking until the very end when he gets his hearing aids back.
And there would be closed captions or something for when people use sign language.
And when people don’t sign and he has to read lips, they should get genuinely hard of hearing people to translate so that they know what words or phrases are hard to catch by lip reading.
Also, lots of explosions with no sound. I feel like that would just be cool.
A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.
The little tufts of hair in a cat’s ear that help keep out dirt direct sounds into the ear, and insulate the ears are called “ear furnishings.”
The ability of a cat to find its way home is called “psi-traveling.” Experts think cats either use the angle of the sunlight to find their way or that cats have magnetized cells in their brains that act as compasses.
One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.
A cat’s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.
If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.
A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.
Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.
The claws on the cat’s back paws aren’t as sharp as the claws on the front paws because the claws in the back don’t retract and, consequently, become worn.
Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.
Researchers are unsure exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs by vibrating vocal folds deep in the throat. To do this, a muscle in the larynx opens and closes the air passage about 25 times per second.
A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats.
A cat’s back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.
Some cats have survived falls of over 65 feet (20 meters), due largely to their “righting reflex.” The eyes and balance organs in the inner ear tell it where it is in space so the cat can land on its feet. Even cats without a tail have this ability.
A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance.
A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.
A cat’s brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dog’s. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.
And that’s how cats work.
I learned more about cats in this post than I did in my freshamn biology class in college
I PHYSICALLY CAN’T NOT REBLOG THIS WHEN IT COMES UP ON MY DASH
IT’S TOO COOL
It’s called Winterguard. It’s a sport. Those girls are marching band color-guard girls during the summer touring season, and during the winter they compete against other color-guard teams to music. Costumes, props, mats, everything has to be carried onto the gym floor and then taken back away and counts as part of your performance time.
So when Family Guy or other popular media makes fun of color-guard girls, it pisses me off. We are not rejected cheerleaders. We are what you see above. We kick ass. We spin rifles and flags and sabers.
Gods, women are just…. *flexes hands” SO amazing!
HELLA COOL
Speaking as someone who lived and breathed cheerleading for five years of her life, color guard girls are fucking cool as hell and I WISH I could pull off the shit they do.
Swap those rifle blanks for spears and these are the shoulders you want on the front line of battle.
Society either criminalizes & dehumanizes disabled people, or accuses them of cheating the system. We are either second class citizens, or liars and thieves.
The accusations vary based on what is most likely to allow privileged parties to shirk the social responsibility of allowing disabled people to live and participate in society as equals human beings. The easiest way to turn the public against its minority citizens is to insist they are undeserving.
We are inconvenient. In their eyes this is an inexcusable crime.
