roughkiss:

teaboot:

I noticed when I was a kid that adults seem to forget that everything is real, no matter how young you are. A seven year old doesn’t feel like a helpless infant, they feel the oldest and most mature they’ve ever felt. And they will when they turn eight, too. And nine. Twenty. Thirty. Fifty.

You never feel as young as you are, because you’re always the oldest you’ve been. You can only look back and equate childhood with ignorance and silliness, because there were things you didn’t know then. But there are things you don’t know now, too, that someone older is looking down at you for.

I promised myself I would never forget that, growing up. I put it in a time capsule when I was nine because I wanted to be certain. And sometimes it slips away, and I catch myself scoffing at people younger than me, but you have to fight that. You have to hold on. You have to keep a little bit of your younger mind inside you, so you don’t forget.

I think that’s important.

Remember that you’ll always change, but know that the person you’ll become isn’t going to be any more real than the person you are, or the person you were. They’re still going to feel like You.

I once read somewhere that the reason teenage troubles seem ridiculous is that when you’re an adult you’ve weathered many many storms and the things that seemed huge then are more commonplace now and you know you can survive it because you HAVE. The teenage heartbreak may seem silly, but this is the first heartbreak after the first love, the biggest one, the untrodden ground. We can’t forget that. Instead of using it to invalidate those younger than us, use that information to show them that they will make it, you’re living proof that you can weather that storm.

autistic–rory:

non verbal doesnt mean anything other then that person has a different way to communicate

autistic–rory:

lack of speech does not mean lack of intelligence 

todayifeltproud:

NORMALISE MOBILITY AIDS IN YOUNG PEOPLE

autistic–rory:

respect everyones boundaries whether you understand them or not

autistic–rory:

just because a person cannot speak

doesnt mean they dont understand or have nothing to say

autistic–rory:

be nice to “weird” people

even if you don’t know much about them

cozyastronaut:

If someone is having a panic attack please don’t yell at them

If someone is having an anxiety attack please don’t yell at them

If someone is having a meltdown please don’t yell at them