tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post1351283518391174941..comments2024-02-04T16:46:03.204-08:00Comments on Radical Neurodivergence Speaking: Why I am not going to Portland Lindy ExchangeNeurodivergent Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-7196161314090853132014-06-30T19:04:27.932-07:002014-06-30T19:04:27.932-07:00So then.
There is a Jason P who is trying to comm...So then.<br /><br />There is a Jason P who is trying to comment.<br /><br />I only knew one Jason when I was dancing, & I really kinda thought he would be able to make a more cogent point than this one can. Yoi'll have to take my word for it bc boring generic hate isn't making it through my comment filter, I'm bored with it.<br /><br />I also remember very clearly asking him to, like, NOT use the R word as an insult and this Jason is all up in my inbox using the R word as well as other lazy ableism.<br /><br />If it is that Jason, I am disappoint. But it would hardly be the first time I mistook Portland Lindy people for decent human beings.Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-45189638986079558492013-03-27T10:05:48.140-07:002013-03-27T10:05:48.140-07:00that's really, epically crap. a lot of the com...that's really, epically crap. a lot of the comments are also epically crap.<br /><br />this event is run for profit, by people who do this for a living, and they can't even stop using flash when asked?<br /><br />no. just no. how about some perspective? I go to Bicon, an event run completely by volunteers (who, incidentally, belong to a demographic with unusually high rates of mental illness so often have their own shit to deal with). they provide a "listening service" (read: emergency in conference counselling), quiet social space for the evening, crash room, gender neutral toilets and have the most comprehensive consent policy I've ever seen. you really think "no flash, I might die" is LESS reasonable than "find me a counsellor! now!"?just_mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09931915832999572861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-46465267210470532642013-03-14T12:50:58.762-07:002013-03-14T12:50:58.762-07:00I really cannot believe how that photographer hand...I really cannot believe how that photographer handled that situation, and for that matter how the Portland Lindy Exchange handled it. Completely unacceptable. I don't know what you have in mind, but assuming you can figure out a way to get a lawyer, you might want to consider turning this into a lawsuit. I understand if you don't-- I have had stuff happen where I should have sued but didn't. I just hope you do whatever is going to make this right for you personally-- I don't blame you for naming names.The Colonelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15886377049900941267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-19216345126980459302013-03-13T08:11:47.091-07:002013-03-13T08:11:47.091-07:00Wow. Are you fucking kidding me.
No. You aren'...Wow. Are you fucking kidding me.<br /><br />No. You aren't. I got quite the messages myself & wasted far too many spoons, bc I'm the kind of person who actually does take "no no, I want to learn" at face value". So I know this is what happened.<br /><br />(There is one comment I did not approve. While my general policy has been 'once you cross me & mine, all gloves can come off', specific 'go kill yourself' directions are an exception. If "Me" would like to post something other than that, they can probably manage). Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-80047850784128591092013-03-13T07:39:27.641-07:002013-03-13T07:39:27.641-07:00@Stryder: This is a public response to the private...@Stryder: This is a public response to the private call for apology you sent to my Facebook.<br /><br />You'll get my apology just as soon as you catch me piling on you and defending people who are attacking you IN A SPACE YOU OWN. Seriously, your tone-deaf defense of an anonymous commenter who was intentionally deceptive in zir conflation of differing definitions of terms and concepts is the problem here. If you can't see that, then you don't deserve civility.<br /><br />My post was an attempt to show you how it feels when people focus on everything but the main gist of your argument and then defend the stupidest, most tangential attacks on you. It was a spoof of the kind of pompous, ableist bullshit you perpetuated by feeling the need to walk into a space you didn't understand and talk as if you knew what was going on.<br /><br />I don't care if your fee-fees were hurt. This isn't about convincing you that Kassiane's arguments are right, it's about calling your attention to how NOT A PART OF THAT CONVERSATION you were and how privileged it was for you to inject yourself and to try to each us poor disabled folk all about how we were misunderstanding anon's points.<br /><br />If you can't see that and appreciate it for the reality-check it is, then you're not worth apologizing to. No one owes you civility or respect. Earn both by your conduct.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09762573738173368437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-46923860427504085732013-03-12T22:58:41.418-07:002013-03-12T22:58:41.418-07:00Dear Portland Lindy Exchange,
Speaking as a perso...Dear Portland Lindy Exchange, <br />Speaking as a person who has never been to Portland, I can honestly say that if I do visit, I won't be stopping by. I think you have all managed to demonstrate how not to resolve an impasse with an individual who came to harm during one of your events. This could have been handled any number of ways, in a manner befitting a responsible dance organization, but congratulations you have managed to upset K further. As I continue to read your comments, doing everything from laying the responsibility for accommodation on the victim to presuming that said victim, a longtime disability rights advocate, would allow you to lecture her on what does and does not apply to ADA, the only word I can come up with for your group attack on a victim's personal blog is train wreck. Here's the thing about being a disability rights advocate. You know a great many other advocates, and all of us are fairly sure that you don't want to continue to assault the victim of an assault at one your events. In fact you may all wish to apologize to K for barging into her personal virtual space and trying to bully her into what? Removing a legitimate complaint against your organization? Not warning other dancers who may have a seizure disorder but may not want to disclose medical information to you that PLX is not a safe space? All it would have taken was an apology and an honest attempt not to place others who may have undiagnosed seizure disorders as well as those who suffer them in a safe environment. The term equal access does not refer to separate but equal access, so uneducated comments about separate spaces for the victim were particularly sad and indicative of an organization that does not appear to care that someone came to harm at one of their events. How things look to others outside PLX isn't as important as the fact that someone was harmed needlessly and your organization did nothing to either stop in or change your policies in order to insure it does not happen again.I am waiting for your written apology to the victim. Until I see it I will be letting everyone I know that your organization is not ADA compliant. I just bet my kiddo's wheelchair wouldn't be welcomed their either. I think this is a good opportunity for PLX to do some self assessment and start over. I am annoyed and underwhelmed. Kerimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08008406418960337170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-66254690713946022882013-03-12T22:41:33.939-07:002013-03-12T22:41:33.939-07:00Oh, and I'd like to make known to the general ...Oh, and I'd like to make known to the general populace that I went to a dance tonight in Harlem (happy 87th Savoy). While some of the dancers used flash photography, neither of the pro photographers did. Somehow, the dance managed to not only continue, but to be singularly awesome despite the lack of flash photography and my split infinitive.<br /><br />Just sayin'.Heldenautiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170750139138262061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-88809204392362432632013-03-12T22:36:23.875-07:002013-03-12T22:36:23.875-07:00@Stryder
"If by AAC you're referring to ...@Stryder<br /><br />"If by AAC you're referring to a specific type of lossy audio compression? yes, I do know what that is. Keep up the assumptions!"<br /><br />Funny, type AAC into google and that is the first link you get. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding<br /><br /> The definition of AAC that would mean something to an autistic is further down the page. <br />I am going to make an assumption here. I assume your claimed expertise in ASL and teaching dance to the deaf/autistics was also earned from the University of Wikipedia: Google campus on 11, March 2013.<br />You're a troll, and a good one at that. You're going to remove yourself from the conversation? There would be no conversation if you and 1110im-20a7891-116douche13 were not harassing this person.ratheruniquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16658832012531012427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-57672573171133247902013-03-12T22:29:04.828-07:002013-03-12T22:29:04.828-07:00Stryder, it is with deep regret that I must apolog...Stryder, it is with deep regret that I must apologize that K, Ibby, Monje, and I have inspired you to fail so fantastically as an ethical being that any further failure would reek of anti-climax.<br /><br />It is with even deeper regret that I must apologize that I was not harsher on you from the beginning, given your predilection for ignoring the points being repeatedly made and then being astonished that, upon those points being made the umpteenth time, they are made with spite.<br /><br />My regret is great and my remorse, sincere. I hope that I might be shown grace and be forgiven.<br /><br /><i>Heldenautie crosses himself.</i>Heldenautiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170750139138262061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-25069212345745439542013-03-12T22:19:35.761-07:002013-03-12T22:19:35.761-07:00You don't get to preach civility to me here. S...You don't get to preach civility to me here. Stop. <br /><br />Go look up tone policing.<br /><br />Now shut up about civility.<br /><br />Everything you have said is apologism (defense of) ableist bullshit, or else is sanctimonious more 'civil' than thou posturing. I'm angry. I am fucking pissed. I am sick of able bullshit in general, I am sick of dancer bullshit in specific, I am sick of Portland lindy dancer bullshit in very specific, and I grow weary of your particular brand of crap as well. <br /><br />This space is safe for me & mine first and foremost--which means, first and foremost, people who are doing a good impression of defending people who intentionally cause me harm are on their own, defense-wise.<br /><br />Stop tracking your shit in. If you want to start over, you're going to need to say "let me start over" & then make a noticible good faith effort at taking a vastly different route of conversation. Or, you can keep doing what you're doing & get the same results. Or you can stop. That's how this goes. Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-83185042886715076722013-03-12T22:11:28.084-07:002013-03-12T22:11:28.084-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stryderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17010350657033471756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-14090716606164773292013-03-12T22:06:43.847-07:002013-03-12T22:06:43.847-07:00...funny, I've been waiting 2 years for an apo......funny, I've been waiting 2 years for an apology from PLX for, you know, their contractor attacking me with strobing after they *specifically said that would not happen*,<br /><br />This would have gone away so easily with a sincere apology & reparations. Now it's, what, 3rd on google for Portland Lindy Exchange? <br /><br />You don't get to walk into my house and tell me the rules, Stryder. Nope. You don't get to say "people were shitty and you have to handle it how I want you to". Stop dragging in the shit. Your ableism apologism is not flying here.Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-89961006603498926592013-03-12T22:01:21.125-07:002013-03-12T22:01:21.125-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stryderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17010350657033471756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-85117093771066566102013-03-12T18:44:35.077-07:002013-03-12T18:44:35.077-07:00Cliff Notes:
"Hi. I want to use really pomp...Cliff Notes:<br /><br />"Hi. I want to use really pompous legalistic sounding language to defend my alleged right to treat disabled people badly. Probably, I believe it's my right to treat all people badly, because I'm terribly entitled, and when I make a mistake--wait, what's that? I can't make a mistake."<br /><br />"Nice to meet you, legalistic languager. I would like to construct an oh-so-reasonable good-person identity for myself wherein I defend your right to treat people badly. I will help with this project by using all sorts of disrespectful derailing tactics to make it look like I'm a sensitive new age "do-gooder" when really, I wholeheartedly agree that it's much more important to mistreat disabled people than to listen to them."<br /><br />Guess what, people who write on blogs: You may write anonymously, sure, but you still look every bit as foolish and mean-spirited as you are.Elizabeth J. (Ibby) Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08330631899371657005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-12450135353399545152013-03-12T15:32:28.212-07:002013-03-12T15:32:28.212-07:00@Stryder - It seems like you're bending over b...@Stryder - It seems like you're bending over backward here to avoid confronting the main issue. That was this: There was an agreement, reached between the parties and vetted by an attorney, which the PLX did not find to be egregious or to be a "limitation", and they ignored it.<br /><br />Not only did they ignore it, they pretended it hadn't happened, refused to discipline a contractor acting on their behalf when the agreement was breached, and subsequently failed to make any form of restitution or apology for.<br /><br />Furthermore, your defense of Anonymous Douchebag's definition of the difference between a limitation and a barrier is fatuous. Zir strict definitions were accurate, but the comparison between the wheelchair being provided and flash photography in K's vicinity being forbidden is about as disingenuous and unserious as they get.<br /><br />The only possible interpretations of your defenses of the Douchecanoe are:<br /><br />1) You don't take an agreement between parties seriously if one party is disabled and the other might be inconvenienced by accommodating that disability<br /><br />OR<br /><br />2) You're not literate enough to grasp the narrative.<br /><br />(2) is supported by the fact that you're too busy focusing on word choices and definitions to follow the line of thinking. If that's true, and you have literacy issues, that's OK. Literacy is a skill like any other, and having problems with it is not a major shortcoming. It does mean that you might want to talk over what you think K is saying with another person before reacting to it, though. Otherwise, you run the risk of misinterpreting something central to the issue. That's a basic personal responsibility kind of issue that people with LDs and other literacy-related issues have to live with. Not taking responsibility for making sure you understand is just kind of an entitled douchey thing to do.<br /><br />If it's not (2), then I have to conclude all of your concern with language and definitions is just a smokescreen to hide the fact that you really don't think that PLX did anything wrong when they ignored an agreement between the parties that was brokered by their own legal counsel, in which case you're a really, really big bag of disembodied genital bits and there's no use talking to you.<br /><br />As far as your dating someone who taught ASL and having teaching experience teaching autistic people to dance goes... right. And my book is a best seller, which you can tell because I say so right on my web page. Also, I have some acai extract pills that will prevent prostate cancer, and I will send you 10 million dollars in a month if you wire me $500 today. <br /><br />Come on. It's the internet and you're being anonymous-y. The whole "but I can't be ableist because I work with disabled kids" defense doesn't work when friends I have actually seen work with disabled kids use it, so your conveniently invented personal life for this troll persona isn't going to get to use it either.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09762573738173368437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-48256397734733057282013-03-11T21:42:25.082-07:002013-03-11T21:42:25.082-07:00Clarification noted. Clarification noted. Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-81189935318007708392013-03-11T21:38:23.155-07:002013-03-11T21:38:23.155-07:00Oh there you go with the tone policing again.
The...Oh there you go with the tone policing again.<br /><br />The time for "Talking like real people" was 2 years ago. You know, when your friend lied to me on behalf of PLX (or else PLX lied to her. Whichever. Lying happened. Hurt happened. Harm happened). That ship has long since sailed. That ship sailed, sunk, and was rediscovered. You're walking into a lot of hurt, a lot of harm, a lot of shitty things other people did and the wreckage it left, and your timing is pretty suspicious.<br /><br />You don't get to walk up to someone who is bleeding, poke them in the wound, and get pissy when they yell at you to stop poking them in their fucking wound. That is what you are doing here, which is even more egregious than most tone policing, since it's in my house and it's in case of, you know, actual harm.<br /><br />Steer clear all you want. Or don't. Whatever. You're associated with people I don't trust at all. They've earned my distrust, & you may treat other autistic people well, but you've been tracking shit on THIS Autistic's carpet.Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-32017967062417156122013-03-11T21:37:30.185-07:002013-03-11T21:37:30.185-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stryderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17010350657033471756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-24078196211650432642013-03-11T21:24:35.390-07:002013-03-11T21:24:35.390-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stryderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17010350657033471756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-40021544528980121642013-03-11T21:02:37.486-07:002013-03-11T21:02:37.486-07:00Since this is my blog, and my personal story, and ...Since this is my blog, and my personal story, and a personal story, and personal attacks from your friends, after a personal legal promise made to me, yeah, here, it *is* about me.<br /><br />Theyre the ones who said I, me, singular, am an extreme minority.<br /><br />Anon posted in an ableist manner. Stop defending it & own y'all's privilege.<br /><br />AAC is alternative/augmentive communication. So, it wasn't a wrong assumption. You have no fuckin' clue what that is, do you? <br /><br />The wheelchair analogy is in no way shape or form accurate. I did not ask for anyone to give me anything that cost money. I asked them to not hurt me, and had the audacity to assert my right to not be hurt.<br /><br />His camera wasn't equipped to prevent it, promises were made and broken, is utter bullshit.<br /><br />If I am 3rd that comes up, and PLX wants this to go away, probably spending this much time arguing with me isn't the way to go. They fucked up. They fractally fucked up in their comments here. You aren't helping their case either. <br /><br />They could have helped their case a long time ago. Telling me that epilepsy is too scary, I'm an extreme minority, that I'm a meaniepants, that saying "don't flash in my face" is exactly the same as "buy me a top of the line power chair", threatening my friends via email (oh yeah that one happened too), citing section 2 when section 3 applies? All of that? <br /><br />Not helping their case. Helping me break out of a blog slump actually. Might wind up front page.<br /><br />Christ on a stick. Why are you here? I know your friends don't think I'm a person, I don't need you to remind me.Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-64281581025369638782013-03-11T18:42:22.704-07:002013-03-11T18:42:22.704-07:00My late fiance had epilepsy. Because of the very c...My late fiance had epilepsy. Because of the very close experience I had with him experiencing seizures and seizure clusters on a daily basis, it is completely unthinkable to me how PLDS (I hope I got the acronym right - I'm not from the area, nor am I a Lindy dancer) behaved. <br /><br />One person to avoid. One. A person who stands out quite easily, unless Lindy dancers have some trend toward wearing blue glasses that I didn't know about. Many awesome photos could have been taken all night long, all weekend long without ever getting near that one, specific, easy-to-spot person. <br /><br />And I would expect a photographer to have great vision and a good eye for detail. It should be *easier* for a professional photographer to keep track of where "the girl in the blue glasses" is and not be there than it would be for me to keep track of that. And I could keep track of it easily. And I've got prosopagnosia! (face-blindness.)<br /><br />I think what was done to K was inexcusable and criminal and I think that anyone who would try to defend those actions is heartless and I think anyone who wants to call *my* tone into question can cram it all (how's THAT for tone?)<br /><br />Epilepsy is serious shit. In case you missed in when I said it before, my LATE fiance. As in my DEAD fiance. As in my extremely epileptic fiance who died at age 36 because of epilepsy. <br /><br />No, K should not cower in her house in fear. She should have a life! But other people, once informed of her epilepsy, should take that shit DEAD serious because they could fucking kill her if they play that shit they were playing on her a couple of years ago at PLX. <br /><br />You just don't do that shit. <br /><br />Unless you're a total asshole.<br /><br />And you just don't support that shit.<br /><br />Unless you're the grand sphincter of the PLX asshole.<br /><br />Seriously, people. Seriously! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-71570028572814598332013-03-11T16:42:36.458-07:002013-03-11T16:42:36.458-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stryderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17010350657033471756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-33636971463275164072013-03-11T16:20:41.704-07:002013-03-11T16:20:41.704-07:001. I reserve the right to be capricious and biased...1. I reserve the right to be capricious and biased about what I do & do not let through. I figure if someone is posting big long screeds about how I shouldn't leave my house & how I'm too disabled to matter, they've kissed all goodwill goodbye. I'm tired of defending my humanity. I've been tired of it for over a decade now.<br /><br />2. That they did not. They still are defending a barrier, and denying that it exists, and their flimsy comparison was ridiculous.<br /><br />3. Um. So. A limitation is something you just can't do. It's completely reasonable and not discrimination to say "Sorry, K, you cannot get a professional drivers license". That isn't a thing I can do. That is a limitation. I will never run a radio show. This, also, a limitation. These are things I can. not. do. Altering them to be things I could do would change them fundamentally (well, radio show could be done with AAC. But you don't know what that is.)<br /><br />A barrier is artificial. And the wheelchair analogy falls right the hell down because I never asked *for* anything. I asked for, and was guaranteed, no flashes in my face. What I offered them was actually way more compromisey than they offered me. I didn't say "so y'all need to provide my fancy schmancy tinted glasses", I brought those. And shoes. And earplugs. The barrier was the barrage of flashes. Breaking down the barrier? Removing the barrage of flashing.<br /><br />And, An employer's rules are different from those relating to a public accomodation or activity. I went over this with lawyers (plural). By any and all measures I'm reasonable about this, no matter how much you don't like swearing.<br /><br />4. Since they knew in advance, actually, deadly weapon. The Portland lindy people know more about epilepsy than I was ever required to tell them, in an effort to work together to ensure access and an enjoyable experience for everyone. Sneaking someone a known allergen does not go over too well legally either. The foreknowledge is considered. <br /><br />5. What the engineer did doesn't do much if the person keeps pushing the button, if multiple people are pushing the buttons, or if the engineer's specs are inaccurate. Many are working on inaccurate data--for example, there are these supposedly random flashers that are safe in theory, except that since t hey occupy your whole visual field it's still a pattern and therefore not random, and therefore a problem. Yeah oops. <br /><br />My picture is found on this blog, or I am sure whoever sent you here can tell you who I am (sorry, not convinced you randomly came across a 2 years old page just after someone else did). We've danced before. I wear nerdy shirts.Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-74420336620346623652013-03-11T16:00:15.578-07:002013-03-11T16:00:15.578-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stryderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17010350657033471756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-18221304292462597972013-03-11T15:34:24.138-07:002013-03-11T15:34:24.138-07:00Stryder.
It's been 2 years.
And their posts...Stryder.<br /><br />It's been 2 years. <br /><br />And their posts were, in fact, not particularly very...anything except ableist ("I'd never leave my house"), inaccurate (definition of limitation is not what they want it to be. Definition of barrier, also not what they want it to be. Definition of slander, also not what they want it to be.), and frankly once you've condoned attacking someone with a deadly weapon--do recall that I met with PLS's lawyer before the event and 4 times during--you've ceded all moral high ground.<br /><br />This is an argument from tone free zone. Ergo, any pleas for "civility" will be treated as saying "I don't have any argument but I don't like how you're saying what you're saying waaaaaaaah". <br /><br />Further. Finding my name ain't hard. Certianly Anonymous Coward Who Uses AOL knows exactly who I am. Pretty sure you do too. Unless of course y'all make habits of attacking *more* people with flashes and then harrassing them online for years after if they dare stand up for themselves. Is this the case?<br /><br />Expectations when I am promised by a lawyer that no one will flash me with a fucking camera are exactly that. This is what happened. I am pretty damn distinctive (we've been over this before). To do otherwise? Makes one an asshole. To follow me into the foyer shouting how I am a crazy bitch who will die in hell? Really makes one an asshole. It goes nicely with the assault with a deadly weapon and repeating the behavior after another meeting with the lawyer and then shoving my friend (assault) was really just the cherry on top.<br /><br />I tell cyclists on a regular basis that their lights can cause seizures. Some are dicks. Most are not as dickish as lindy hoppers. If someone is taking pictures in public? I or a proxy explains that repeted flash can cause photic seizures and most people are very quick to, you know, not cause photic seizures. <br /><br />As in, pretty much the only people who double down on this shit? Are Portland lindy people. And flash photos are not a necessary component of dancing. Really! They arent! <br /><br />Whether or not there is theoretically acceptable flash is a moot point: unless you limit it to one person (something that would have to be enforced, something the lindy scene is bad at, no rules oh noes!) and they'd have to--DO MATH, as it is a flash rate issue. I don't trust my brain to their ability to do math, I'm not convinced they, collectively, can be trusted with a hamster. Their judgement is not awesome, based on their inability to maintain a legal agreement (their lawyer called ME by the way) or to handle criticism alone. Counting? Showing restraint in hitting the shutter? Shiiiit that's just not gunna happen.Neurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.com