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Tis the season
I am going to eat this entire candy cane.
autistic people! spark research, partnered with autism speaks, is trying to find a prenatal link to autism so they can practice eugenics and eradicate autism from the gene pool.
allistics pretty please reblog this!
HEY HEY YOU
The strike for PALESTINE STARTS TODAY
Retweet everything. Do NOT Be silent. USE YOUR VOICE. USE YOUR PLATFORM. FOR ONE DAY DO NOTHING BUT REPOST EVERYTHING ABOUT GAZA
Everything ABOUT PALESTINE
Use this time, use your voice, use your life. You have freedom, the citizens of Gaza are being killed without mercy.
Please. Iām begging you all. Please, strike. Strike. Repost nothing but Gaza on march 2nd.
Please.
Fun fact: Iām autistic Iām gonna do a thing inspired by another person
oh and
WTF
just to be clear, the fact that music was nominated for a golden globe is absolutely disgusting. every single (adult) involved in that gross, ableist movie should be sickened by themselves.
for those of you who don't know, music (2021) is a movie being directed by sia about a nonverable autistic girl. not only does it not include any actually autistic people in the movie itself but it also only took advice from autism speaks which is looked at as a hate group by the majority of the autistic community. leaked scenes have also shown the movie glorifying prone restraints which are incredibly dangerous and have resulted in major injuries and even death to disabled people as recently as last year.
autistic people just like me have been incredibly outspoken about how harmful this movie is but the allistic have been mostly silent. we are already seeing reviews calling this movie 'inspiring' and important' and it's absolutely horrific! we need your help calling this out. please stand with us and call out this disgusting display of disrespect to autistic folks.
š - your local actually autistic pal
p.s. please, please reblog if you aren't autistic.
Chronic migraines. Dyslexia. ADHD. Autism. Vision impairment. Visual sensory processing disorder. Colorblind. & Neurotypical. Abled.
These are aspects of people that are affected by Discordās new update to its color scheme and font, and there very well could be more I didnāt mention. Yes, you read it right, abled people and neurotypical people too. You are not immune to eyestrain.
A font which is both overly uniform and overly squished, with many letters that have essentially the same silhouette as others and could easily be flipped and look the same as another. ā» This is dyslexic-unfriendly, as well as generally harder to read and an issue for people with visual impairments who may find that letters bleed together or that their eyes āskipā over letters or words at times.
A color scheme that is so highly saturated that it both immediately draws your attention and also makes you want to immediately look away. ā» This is generally unfriendly, affecting people with sensory issues the most (ADHD/Autism, migraines, processing disorders), but itās also colorblind-unfriendly. Due to the differences between the colors being exclusively the part that changes the named color (hue; āgreenā vs āblueā) instead of both that and the colors being different intensities (saturation; āneon greenā vs āleaf greenā), they look practically identical.
Arenāt there more? No. This is pretty much all that was changed.
Discord changed TWO THINGS and pretty much managed to land every single person possible to genuinely hurt with a visual design change that doesnāt add or remove any elements. Including abled and neurotypical people!!!
Discord is currently a good number of peopleās lifeline and way to connect with others. And with this change, they just made using their app hurt. They know that we canāt leave their app without leaving our friends and communities behind. They know that if they can just sweep this under the rug, they wonāt have to do a thing.
...So we canāt let them.
Itās actually fairly simple. Discord was hemorrhaging money from its very conception. Discord only exists because investors think itāll make money in the future. If Discord doesnāt do as well, investors will push to make it ābetterā or theyāll drop their funding. Discord was probably forced into this situation, they probably knew exactly what would happen.
We have to show their investors that Discord was right.
DONāT:
Reply to Discordās tweet about the design change. ā» It gives Discord more attention, and if any complaints are acknowledged they are directed to Discordās accessibility forums.
ONLY post on Discordās accessibility forums. ā» It gives Discord stats to work with, but it also means the outcry isnāt public. We need everyone to see this, not just Discord.
DO:
Reblog this post. ā» Spreads the awareness, and all.
Retweet, reply to, and/or like this tweet: https://twitter.com/KarklesMarx/status/1393223369571586053 ā» This tweet is part of our and our friendsā initiative to get this big and get this public.
Make your own posts about it on different social medias. ā» Tumblr, Twitter, Discord servers, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, whatever ground you have, use it. You can help make this change too.
Find other people doing the same thing. ā» One initiative is never enough. Look for other people making posts like these and boost their posts too.
IF YOU KNOW ANOTHER LANGUAGE, MAKE POSTS OF YOUR OWN BOOSTING IT IN OTHER LANGUAGES. ā» Please. There are probably a lot of people we havenāt reached because this is an all-English post.
We do. Theyāre under the cut, to prevent causing issues for people reading the post.
This compilation post of the smaller problems: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500001066342-Fix-Your-Stuff-or-ALLOW-CUSTOM-CLIENTS-or-BOTH-
Images that show some of the changes:
[Two screenshots of the Discord icon on an IOS device. One is a cool indigo gradient, the other is a solid, brightly saturated indigo.]
[The words āgaming centralā twice in Discordās new font. One is bold, the other is not.]
[The words āreddit fart reddit smellā in Discordās new font. Underneath, the highly saturated indigo as seen in the icons, stretching across the screen to indicate new messages.]
[Discordās old indigo, icon, and stylized font displayed above Discordās new indigo, icon, and stylized font.]