I Cannot Stress The Importance Of Letting Yourself Be Autistic

Allow us to reintroduce someone … the name’s Perseverance. 

With this new name, our Mars 2020 rover has now come to life! Chosen by middle school student Alex Mather, Perseverance helps to remind ourselves that no matter what obstacles we face, whether it’s on the way to reaching our goals or on the way to Mars, we will push through. In Alex’s own words, ⁣⁣

“We are a species of explorers, and we will meet many setbacks on the way to Mars. However, we can persevere. We, not as a nation but as humans, will not give up. The human race will always persevere into the future.” ⁣

Welcome to the family.⁣ ❤️

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Discovery Approaches ISS by NASA on The Commons

Charlie: “That ain’t very fun, is it?”

John: “That ain’t very smart.”

It’s Apollo 16′s 48th anniversary so here’s a gifset of Charlie Duke tripping, falling, dropping things and generally being clumsy on the surface of the Moon

Doug McLeod ‘Outbound’ (1988). From the book Visions of Space by David Hardy (1989)

Intellectually disabled autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Cognitively disabled autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Chronically ill autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Mentally ill autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Multiply-disabled autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Young autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Elderly autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

All autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

The personhood of autistic people is non-negotiable.

From the film Ad Astra

Rainbow Rayleigh Moon. Rayleigh scattering is responsible for this phenomenon.

View of Earth from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe