Petitioning the White House to stop transplant discrimination against autistic people »

girljanitor:

allisticntprivilege:

girljanitor:

placeholderbutt:

allisticntprivilege:

allisticntprivilege:

We have until December 14 to get 25,000 signatures on it. You need to live in the USA, and you should seriously sign, signal boost, tumblr bomb, anything you can. Lives are on the line- lives of people like me.

Reminder.

Okay, I am judging you for the fact that this still needs 23,000 out of 25,000 signatures, Tumblr. What the fuck.

Um, do people not understand that this so so people with autism can get life-saving organ transplants, instead of given a death sentence on the grounds that our lives are inherently worthless?

Do you think this doesn’t happen to young adults?

23-Year-Old Autistic Man Denied Heart Transplant at UPenn Hospital

Do you think this doesn’t happen to children with various developmental disorders?

3-Year-Old Amelia Rivera Denied Kidney Transplant

Do you think this doesn’t happen to adults with Down’s Syndrome?

32-Year-Old Sandra Jensen Denied Heart Transplant

UNTIL THE 1990’s, “mental retardation”, meaning any sort of cognitive impairment, was considered “contraindication” for receiving a livesaving organ transplant(link opens as PDF)

“Contraindicated.” That quite literally means that they considered saving a cognitively impaired person’s life HARMFUL.

These two facebook pages are also relevant.

Case 1: Autistic, did eventually get a hospital willing to do the transplant from a family member after the original hospital wouldn’t even accept a relatives kidney.

Case 2: Autistic, may need a heart transplant, already getting lots of obstacles to care.

reblogging for additional info.

hey if you’re going to sign this ever do it soon

peggys-feet:

who/when/performing what

i’m going back thru my blog archives atm and its ridiculous how i never included any contextt or credit for any of the photos i posted. they’re mostly images i found on the internet looking for reference for drawings, i think its funny that i was looking for images that i could copy elements of and in doing so remove those elements from the larger context of their source (using them as uncredited reference) and as an offshoot of that i posted the results of those image searches on a blog, removed from any context by not including the photographer/artist, who/what is the subject, why was this picture taken/created, what time period/what was going on at the time, etc etc. especially since i was an art school student and sometime during art school maybe they talk about that, about the context and power of images.

like when i was visiting my grandma a couple weeks ago, we went to a bunch of art museums and in one (the fenimore art museum) there was this one painting of a black man polishing shoes in a basement, the shoes were like better painted than he was, and there was like a cracked-open door in the background. the description card next to the painting said it was painted during the civil war and that they thought it was probably pro-abolitionist propaganda (it didnt say if the artist was white or what, but like white being the “default” they’dve probably said if he were not. i don’t remember the artists name ) anyway my grandma was looking at it and i came over and she was like “i don’t get why they have to make it about that why can’t it just be a nice painting??” and i was like “never ever take an art history class ever”