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New Order: “Age Of Consent”
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You might struggle with auditory processing if…
– Your catchphrase is “what?”
– You ask someone to repeat their question then finish processing and respond halfway through they’re finished repeating it.
– You somewhat processed what someone said but your brain won’t take it.
– You mishear what people say wildly wrong. Like, wildly wrong. Then you process it and it makes wayyyy more sense than whatever you thought someone originally said.
– “Wait, what?”
– Default face is a perplexed, confused look.
– You have to deal with rude people who refuse to repeat themselves and act exasperated at the suggestion, than proceed to get angry when you won’t respond to them and/or remember what they just said.
– You can hear a car door open down the street but you can’t hear someone talking to you in the same room.
– Talking is weird.
– You’re constantly seen as a bad listener (which, maybe isn’t that far from the truth- but they assume you’re not trying), unfocused (which I tend to be, but it’s unrelated), and so on. Nobody stops to consider that maybe you have processing issues.
– You were tested for hearing issues as a kid because you didn’t respond to people or talk much, but every test came back negative and your parents were told you have perfect hearing.
– The idea of talking to two people at once is terrifying beyond imagining.
– Responding to something someone said ages ago, even with a different conversation still going, the topic has moved on, and everyone forgot about it.
– “Huh?!”
Black celebrities tell their first experience with racism pt. 1
These stories i’m going to share with you are about how you can face racism in America. And how shocking it can be. From spitting into a can of coke to throwing someone out to the street for nothing, just because their skin color differs from white. Here comes the first part. A story of Van Jones, who once had his coke mixed up with white people’s saliva. This is unbelievably disgusting.
Van Jones, CNN commentator: “There was a young white girl sitting next to me and she reached for the Coke can. And the guy said, ‘No. No. No. Don’t drink that.’ It felt a little awkward, but I drank my Coke and we kept talking. And then we got on the buses and we went back home. The young white girl started crying, and I asked her what was wrong. And she said, ‘They told me later that everybody in the room spat in your Coke while you were outside. And that’s why they didn’t want me to drink out of that can. And I’m so sorry.’”
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What the entire fuck???
that sounds about right
somebody spray painted “DIE N*****S” on the wall outside our apartment building when I was four and I got called the n-word on the playground when I was five, but I think being spat at by older boys while walking home from middle school probably had more of an impact
The intellectual picture of the atmosphere of craftsmanship from which the storyteller comes has perhaps never been sketched in such a significant way as by Paul Valéry. “He speaks of the perfect things in nature, flawless pearls, full-bodied, matured wines, truly developed creatures, and calls them ‘the precious product of a long chain of causes similar to one another.’” The accumulation of such causes has its temporal limit only at perfection. “This patient process of Nature,” Valéry continues, “was once imitated by men. Miniatures, ivory carvings, elaborated to the point of greatest perfection, stones that are perfect in polish and engraving, lacquer work or paintings in which a series of thin, transparent layers are placed one on top of the other – all these products of sustained, sacrificing effort are vanishing, and the time is past in which time did not matter. Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated.”
Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (via helloalexcl)
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