Adult Society Orientation Program

03/13/2022

Eek. 💨

03/13/2022

Functioning labels are a common way autistic people are denied support.

High functioning? You're fine without support. Low functioning? You're not high functioning enough to determine whether you need support or not.

[Image description: A four panel comic of an angry person denying autistic people support. The comic is titled "Denied If You Do" and is made by Theresa Scovil.

Panel 1:
Honeydew looks sad and says to an angry person "I need support."
Panel 2:
The angry person points to Honeydew and says "No. You're high functioning autistic, which means you don't actually need support."
Panel 3:
An autistic person looks sad and says to the angry person "I need support."
Panel 4:
The angry person points to the autistic person and says "No. You're low functioning autistic, which means you don't know what you need."]

03/10/2022

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01/19/2022

Anybody else like writing the year as "12022" with the Holocene/Anthropocene calendar?

The Anthropocene (aka the Holocene Era, demarcated by a letter-H) is an initiative to use a calendar with a year-zero beginning at 10,000 years before the common era. In the Common-Era or Christian-Era or Ano-Dominae calendar system (as well as other historical-cultural calendar systems) a complicat...

10/28/2021

Jealousy!

Elon just works 350,000,000 times harder than I do, and he skips the avocado starbucks smh

Musk’s net worth of over $288 billion is over 1 percent of the U.S. GDP of $22.7 trillion.

10/02/2021

So ladies and gentlemen THIS is Mars! 🤯😱

From NASA - This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.

Credit
NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
Edit: Hugh Hou (the 360 sky experience was added for use on Oculus Quest 2)

09/21/2021