I moved from one county to another in the same state between the last two presidential elections. Three months before the 24 election I get a letter from my old county saying I need to prove my disability or vote in person. No idea what that was about, because you don't need to be disabled to vote by mail in this state. They obviously knew I moved five hours away because I changed my address everywhere and it was directly mailed to me, not forwarded to me.
So I wrote them a nice letter back saying I had moved and had already changed my registration to my new county. One month before the election all my friends had gotten their mail in ballots, but I hadn't. Turns out my voter registration was canceled in my new county by the old one. So I re-registered, took my new ballot home and filled it out. Then I took it to the courthouse to file, and guess what? My voter registration had been canceled again. I still have no idea if my ballot was even counted, but this county was one that was blue all the way down except for president
I voted by mail in '22 from my new address with zero issues from the old one. So I'm extremely suspicious at the length that someone went to in order to discourage my vote last year. I'm positive it happened to more people than just me
I have a hard time believing they didn't know of and weren't complicit in the attack on Iran. They just diverted an arms shipment from Ukraine to Israel that specifically are claimed to counter Iranian drones
Edit: I saw it was to Israel on the BBC I think, but this article says otherwise
There's quite a few different forms of aromantic and asexual identities. All of them have a lack of sexual or romantic desire on some level. Cupioromantic is someone who desires a romantic relationship but doesn't experience romantic feelings. A demiromantic only experiences romantic attraction after forming an emotional bond.
Trying to define "romantic feelings" is kind of difficult, because it differs for everyone. I would probably say you have an aversion to sexual intimacy, and that can include deep kissing.
Here's list I stole off the internet of types of love. It might help you narrow down your feelings
7 Types of Love
Friendship: Intimacy without passion or commitment
Infatuation: Passion without intimacy or commitment
Empty love: Commitment without passion or intimacy
Romantic love: Passion and intimacy without commitment
Companionate love: Intimacy and commitment without passion/sexual desire; this could also be called "platonic" love
Fatuous love: Commitment and passion without intimacy
Consummate love: Commitment, passion, and intimacy
I've honestly been chickenshit and kept my head down despite invitations. I know how necessary these protests they are doing are, I've just not gotten to a place where I can join yet. I don't know if my friend who I mentioned was there, I didn't see him, but he's also not replying rn lol
Thank you for sharing this, I've spread it around locally
Holy shit. I know people in that group. I'm kind of surprised it took them this long to do this. One of my buddies has been threatened with revocation of his benefits for past civil bdisobedience. I imagine the 50 or so that made it to the steps are in that position now.
I only watched ten or so minutes of the video, but I don't think a lot of people know what these veterans are risking to make this stand
When I was going through evaluation to start hormonal transition my primary care doc's nurse asked me to explain what non-binary is, and when I figured it out. I explained the things I told the doctor who evaluated me, thinking that if it was good enough for her, it should be good enough for this nurse.
My nurse told me I just hate the patriarchy and that's why I hate myself. Lol
My cats are fed in separate rooms for the same reason. I put a little collar activated flap on one door so the picky one could eat without my youngin sniping her food. He's still trying to figure out how to get in that room, I'm a little surprised he hasn't tried to brute force it yet lol
Oh, yeah. I didn't mean to imply that getting a job with a disability is easy or that employers actually follow laws. I was more trying to point out that a personality disorder is a disability, because most people won't see it that way
I remember similar articles back in '17 or so, mostly because I reached out to a few friends warning them not to track their periods on apps. There were threats of charging women who miscarry with murder back then, too
My therapist told me that a diagnosis of a mental health disorder means you have a disability*. So if they choose not to hire you because of your ASPD diagnosis, in the US at least, that's discrimination against a protected class.
I have AvPD, and that was a concern for me too
*(although many disorders don't always earn the label "disability" when a person is seeking benefits)
I don't understand what he means by it "has not been a very successful experiment". What does he think the goal of FEMA was? If it's failed people, it's because it keeps getting whittled down in the face of larger and more expensive disasters
