take off your glasses if you wear them for 20 seconds

Recommended by my optometrist

Look at something 20 feet away, then 10, then 5, then one, then if you can your nose.

Repeat twice, then again without glasses.

Face forward look out of the corner of your eye. As far as you can look. Slowly move to the other corner. Repeat twice.

Look down as far as you can. Slowly look up. Repeat twice.

Roll eyes twice.

Close eyes for five minutes.

I do this every day usually at my halfway point. My migraines went away. My vision go better. Honestly stretching my eyes as she put it feels great too.

This... Puts it in amazing terms.

Like $250,000 to me is a house. A whole ass house. Paid off, no mortgage.

And to a billionaire it's the equivalent of me buying a fancy iced coffee.

Damn.

you are an R L Stein protagonist my friend

the idea that disabled and queer and intersex people are so incredibly Different than and Separate from other human beings that our needs could never be relatable to others or the tools or methods that we’ve developed to suit our needs could never benefit anyone else is inherently dehumanizing and othering.

gender is fake! all dichotomies are artificially imposed! you can be cis and perisex and still experiment with your gender presentation! what does being a perisex cisman or ciswoman mean to you?

life is difficult and exhausting! even if you’re abled, there is literally no reason to make things harder for yourself when there’s an easier way. why do cashiers have to stand on their goddam feet all day when they could be sitting down? why is avoiding unnecessary suffering considered something that should be reserved for disabled people?

the idea that you should be forced into doing stuff that’s stupid and artificially imposed on you like gender norms or unnecessary physical exertion because that’s Respectable and Moral is a mentality that has been normalized specifically to oppress the working class, and it weaponizes the threat of being included in the “othered” groups to keep people in line.

“why are you complaining about unlivable wages? what do want, handouts? what are you, disabled? can’t you provide for yourself and your family?”

“why are you not performing gender norms correctly? what are you, gay?”

we’re all human. we all have complex needs. sometimes our needs are going to differ, and sometimes they’re going to overlap--even with people who have different experiences than us. that’s not a bad thing!

i remember seeing a post (i think reposted from reddit?) of a cis man talking about how much knowing trans men has made him more confident in and proud of his masculinity because they taught him that it isn’t defined by other people: it’s his own.

and abled people could really learn something from the disabled wisdom that there is no moral value in hurting yourself to attain someone else’s expectations of “success.”

we can all learn from one another and grow together. that’s a beautiful thing. that’s what it means to be human!

If the WHOLE COUNTRY'S economy cannot work without the labor that UPS workers provide, than their labor is worth their demands and more.

No other conclusion can be rationally made from this information.