Sydney Zarlengo
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Conservatorships are back in the news again so lets talk about them!
Sources & Resources (further autism resources below!):
To Avoid Guardianships and Conservatorships: Speak for Yourself - Michigan Attorney General - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MbIgEA5DW8&ab_channel=MichiganAttorneyGeneral
Realizing the Right to Counsel in Guardianship: Dispelling Guardianship Myths - Patricia M. Cavey - https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1329&context=elders
Why #FreeBritney is a Disability Rights Issue - Jessica Kellgren-Fozard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRUkPZ1Fbqo&ab_channel=JessicaKellgren-Fozard
Guardianship: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG2pEffLEJo&ab_channel=LastWeekTonight
Britney Spears Fights Her Conservatorship - LegalEagle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuRpZYnkrA&ab_channel=LegalEagle
The disturbing history of how conservatorships were used to exploit, swindle Native Americans - The Conversation - https://theconversation.com/the-disturbing-history-of-how-conservatorships-were-used-to-exploit-swindle-native-americans-165140
The Romans, the Supreme Court, and Britney Spears—Conservatorship Abuse Has Been Happening for 2000 Years - The Daily Beast - https://www.thedailybeast.com/britney-spears-the-romans-and-the-supreme-court-conservatorship-abuse-has-been-happening-for-2000-years
What Is Actually Happening With Britney Spears? - New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/arts/music/britney-spears-conservatorship-mental-health.html
Was The Blind Side’s white savior narrative built on a lie? - Vox - https://www.vox.com/culture/23832310/michael-oher-blind-side-adoption-tuohy-white-savior
Amanda Bynes’s Conservatorship Is Officially Over - Vulture - https://www.vulture.com/2022/03/amanda-bynes-conservatorship-ending.html
The True Story of Michael Oher and The Blind Side - Biography - https://www.biography.com/movies-tv/the-blind-side-true-story-michael-oher
Imani Barbarin on Michael Oher - https://www.tiktok.com/@crutches_and_spice/video/7267549215474126123?referer_url=www.businessinsider.com%2Fmichael-oher-conservatorship-tuohy-adoption-racism-ableism-blind-side-2023-8&refer=embed&embed_source=71929438%2C121374463%2C121404359%2C121351166%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%3Bnull%3Bembed_share&referer_video_id=7267549215474126123
The Michael Oher adoption controversy exposes how ableism and racism can work hand-in-hand to create a white savior narrative - Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-oher-conservatorship-tuohy-adoption-racism-ableism-blind-side-2023-8
Michael Oher’s long effort to correct the record on his inspirational story of homelessness to the NFL - CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/us/michael-oher-the-blind-side/index.html
The Blind Side debunked: How Michael Oher’s inspiring rags-to-riches story fell to pieces - Independent - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/blind-side-michael-oher-tuohy-family-b2394001.html
Wendy Williams’ guardianship case highlights the need for reforms - Marketplace - https://www.marketplace.org/2024/03/07/wendy-williams-guardianship-case-highlights-the-need-for-reforms/
Wendy Williams guardianship is the subject of a new documentary. Heres how it works - NPR - https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1234546382/wendy-williams-guardianship-new-york-documentary
Wendy Williams Placed Under Financial Guardianship, TV Host Claims Misconduct by Wells Fargo - Hollywood Reporter - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wendy-williams-guardianship-wells-fargo-1235151417/
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Autism Resources:
Ultimate resource guide - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/resource-guide
How to support an autistic person - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/im-the-parent-of-an-autistic-kid
Help! I think I’m autistic - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/help-i-think-im-autistic
Unmasking/How to Start Over - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/i-want-to-start-over
My Music:
Fearlessly Different (Single) - https://ditto.fm/fearlessly-different
Bold (EP) - https://youtu.be/6pGSdJWO7Bs
Rewrite History (Album) - https://ditto.fm/rewrite_history_0d14daa964
Alive (Single) - https://li.sten.to/alive
Start Over (Album) - https://li.sten.to/start-over
The Confused Linguist (Album) - https://li.sten.to/the-confused-linguist
Check out my #ActuallyAutistic playlist made of entirely autistic artists!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gIiA3ZPsZlx8lZXWdJv6U?si=0mU6TSvXRcmDpn-ff6aq9Q
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![When Martha’s Vineyard Was Deaf: A History of ASL [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VEIqDkSDkH4/hqdefault.jpg "When Martha’s Vineyard Was Deaf: A History of ASL [CC]
My camera is being a silly goose again in this video, my sincere apologies for the focus issues, I’m going to try my hardest to remember to play around with settings before I film my next video cause I know it’s really annoying to look at
Sources & Resources (further autism resources below!):
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Marthas Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce
The hidden history of “Hand Talk” (Vox) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-StAlw3aE&ab_channel=Vox
The Preservation of Sign Language (NAD 1913) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITbj3NTLUQ&ab_channel=TheNationalAssociationoftheDeaf%28NAD%29
A Journey Into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane
Inside Deaf Culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Forbidden Signs by Douglas Baynton
Gaillard in Deaf America: A Portrait of the Deaf Community by Henri Gaillard
The Other Side of Silence by Arden Neisser
The Deaf Community In America by Melvia M. Nomeland and Ronald E. Nomeland
Resolutions of the Milan Convention - https://www.jstor.org/stable/44461122
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Bandcamp - https://sydneyzarlengo.bandcamp.com/music
If you want to support me financially - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sydneyzarlengo
Check out my work! - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/curious-incident
Autism Resources:
Ultimate resource guide - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/resource-guide
How to support an autistic person - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/im-the-parent-of-an-autistic-kid
Help! I think I’m autistic - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/help-i-think-im-autistic
Unmasking/How to Start Over - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/i-want-to-start-over
My Music:
Fearlessly Different (Single) - https://ditto.fm/fearlessly-different
Bold (EP) - https://youtu.be/6pGSdJWO7Bs
Rewrite History (Album) - https://ditto.fm/rewrite_history_0d14daa964
Alive (Single) - https://li.sten.to/alive
Start Over (Album) - https://li.sten.to/start-over
The Confused Linguist (Album) - https://li.sten.to/the-confused-linguist
Check out my #ActuallyAutistic playlist made of entirely autistic artists!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gIiA3ZPsZlx8lZXWdJv6U?si=0mU6TSvXRcmDpn-ff6aq9Q
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Is therapy an actively helpful (or even ethical) tool under capitalism? I keep seeing this conversation on the internet and it keeps coming up in conversation lately so I decided to see what I could learn about it.
Sources & Resources (further autism resources below!):
Disability & Capitalism - https://youtu.be/0d19EbqHUCU
DSM History - https://youtu.be/anfsIs6Ex3M
“Do Neurotypical People Exist?” - https://youtu.be/LIUB4zF3zPY
Autism & Talk Therapy - https://youtu.be/JeQDFAlHS3A
How America Became Addicted to Therapy (this is a really cool article you should read it!!!) https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/02/how-we-became-addicted-therapy/677532/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072932/
Will Therapy Under Capitalism Ever be 100% Effective? - Alissa Semple - https://alissasemple.medium.com/will-therapy-under-capitalism-ever-be-100-effective-64e043882a2c
BetterHelp Ads are Annoying as Hell - Fab Socialism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgMyp0QxQWs&ab_channel=FabSocialism
Does Psychotherapy Reproduce or Disrupt Neoliberal Capitalism? - Mad in America - https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/11/psychotherapy-reproduce-disrupt-neoliberal-capitalism/
Decolonizing= abolishing bioessentialism & the neurodivergent/neurotypical binary - Woke Scientist - https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/decolonizing-abolishing-bioessentialism?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Ftherapy&utm_medium=reader2
The Global Expansion of Psychiatry is Modern Colonialism & the Global South is Pushing Back - Woke Scientist - https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/the-global-expansion-of-psychiatry?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Ftherapy&utm_medium=reader2
The functions of the mental health system under capitalism - https://joannamoncrieff.com/2022/03/28/the-functions-of-the-mental-health-system-under-capitalism/
On instagram - @livedexperienceeducator, @bodyjustice.therapist, @neuroabolition, @thevirtualcouchtherapy, @decolonizingtherapy
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction by Shira Hassan
Does Capitalism Make Therapy Useless? | Therapist Talks Socialism, Capitalism, and Mental Illness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v HS5mXEIsxc&ab_channel=MickeyAtkins
Why Doesn’t Standard Talking Therapy Work for Autistic People? - https://www.dralicenicholls.com/why-doesnt-standard-talking-therapy-work-for-autistic-people/
Psychological research has a racism problem, Stanford scholar says - https://news.stanford.edu/2020/06/24/psychological-research-racism-problem-stanford-scholar-says/
People who go to therapy arent inherently better than those who dont - Woke Scientist - https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/people-who-go-to-therapy-arent-inherently
Therapy Wont Make You a Better Person - Dr. Devon Price - https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/therapy-wont-make-you-a-better-person
How to Get the Most Out of Therapy - Dr. Devon Price - https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-therapy
Life under capitalism is monotonous/repetitive to deprive us of time & drive emotional numbness - Woke Scientist - https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/life-under-capitalism-is-structured?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Ftherapy&utm_medium=reader2
Its time to embrace community care & let go of individualistic self-care - Woke Scientist - https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/its-time-to-embrace-community-care?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Ftherapy&utm_medium=reader2
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Autism Resources:
Ultimate resource guide - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/resource-guide
How to support an autistic person - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/im-the-parent-of-an-autistic-kid
Help! I think I’m autistic - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/help-i-think-im-autistic
Unmasking/How to Start Over - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/i-want-to-start-over
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![Is Social Media Shortening Our Attention Spans? [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WqErFv4XNv0/hqdefault.jpg "Is Social Media Shortening Our Attention Spans? [CC]
(No, not really? Its complicated. Lets talk about it)
Sources:
Why Everyone’s Worried About Their Attention Span—and How to Improve Yours - Time - https://time.com/6302294/why-you-cant-focus-anymore-and-what-to-do-about-it/
how i fixed my attention span - Answer in Progress - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYaNiC4kchg&ab_channel=AnswerinProgress
what mindless scrolling does to you - Answer in Progress - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQTrW9NP68&ab_channel=AnswerinProgress
Busting the attention span myth - BBC - https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790
Speaking of Psychology: Why our attention spans are shrinking, with Gloria Mark, PhD - APA - https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/attention-spans
Multitasking performance in adults with ADHD - Merk et al. (2009) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264467820_Multitasking_performance_in_adults_with_ADHD
Multitasking in adults with ADHD - Gawrilow et al. (2011) - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21461781/
Early television exposure and subsequent attentional problems in children - Christakis et al. (2004) - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15060216/
Association Between Screen Time and Children’s Performance on a Developmental Screening Test - Madigan et al. (2019) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6439882/
Media use, attention, mental health and academic performance among 8 to 12 year old children - Cardoso-Leite et al. (2021) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8598050/
Social Media and the Effect on Our Attention Span - Medium - https://medium.com/@ccalbr/social-media-and-the-effect-on-our-attention-span-6e25713eb5a3
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen - Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media
Attention spans dwindle due to social media use - The Standard - https://standard.asl.org/22338/opinions/attention-spans-dwindle-due-to-social-media-use/#:~:text=Social%20media%20platforms%20garner%20instant,their%20relationships%20and%20academic%20performance.
Social media causes attention spans to drop - The Standard - https://standard.asl.org/27705/uncategorized/social-media-causes-attention-spans-to-drop/
Wait, What? On Social Network Use And Attention - https://wp.nyu.edu/steinhardt-appsych_opus/wait-what-on-social-network-use-and-attention/
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Check out my work! - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/curious-incident
Autism Resources:
Ultimate resource guide - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/resource-guide
How to support an autistic person - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/im-the-parent-of-an-autistic-kid
Help! I think I’m autistic - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/help-i-think-im-autistic
Unmasking/How to Start Over - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/i-want-to-start-over
My Music:
Fearlessly Different (Single) - https://ditto.fm/fearlessly-different
Bold (EP) - https://youtu.be/6pGSdJWO7Bs
Rewrite History (Album) - https://ditto.fm/rewrite_history_0d14daa964
Alive (Single) - https://li.sten.to/alive
Start Over (Album) - https://li.sten.to/start-over
The Confused Linguist (Album) - https://li.sten.to/the-confused-linguist
Check out my #ActuallyAutistic playlist made of entirely autistic artists!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gIiA3ZPsZlx8lZXWdJv6U?si=0mU6TSvXRcmDpn-ff6aq9Q
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![Disabled People Still Dont Have Marriage Equality [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XRr-ploQb78/hqdefault.jpg "Disabled People Still Dont Have Marriage Equality [CC]
Omg hey! Let’s talk about marriage equality, how disabled people Don’t Have It, and the beautiful adventure that is the US Social Security benefits program…
Also upon editing I discovered that I fixed half of the camera focus issue and not the other half, I think I know what I did wrong, but I’m not filming this again to fix it. Thanks for bearing with me :)
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Sources & Resources (further autism resources below!):
SSDI information from the US gov - https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/
SSI information from the US gov - https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/?tl=0
What is income via the SSI - https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-income-ussi.htm
What are resources via the SSI - https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-resources-ussi.htm
SSDI - https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/
How Much Can You Receive in SSI/Disability? - https://www.disabilitysecrets.com/how-much-ssi-disability.html
ABLE accounts - https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-able.html
More about ABLE accounts - https://www.ablenrc.org/what-is-able/what-are-able-acounts/
Marriage & Benefits - https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-02172#:~:text=If%20you%20get%20Social%20Security,Childs%20benefits%20may%20be%20affected.
DAC - https://soarworks.samhsa.gov/article/overview-of-social-security-disability-programs-ssi-and-ssdi
SSI vs. SSDI: The Differences, Benefits, and How to Apply - https://ncoa.org/article/ssi-vs-ssdi-what-are-these-benefits-how-they-differ
SGA (Substantial Gainful Activity) limits while on SSDI - https://www.ssa.gov/redbook/newfor2023.htm#:~:text=For%202023%2C%20the%20Supplemental%20Security,month%20for%20an%20eligible%20couple.&text=For%202023%2C%20the%20amount%20of,22%20is%20%248%2C950%20a%20year.
Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/27/social-security-job-titles-disabled-applicants-obsolete/
Labor Bureau Survey - https://www.bls.gov/ors/factsheet/orsprofiles.htm
How Marriage Puts Disabled People at Risk of Losing Their Health Care Benefits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbs9mGP9GCg&ab_channel=NowThisNews
Seeking Marriage Equality for People With Disabilities - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/style/marriage-equality-disabled-people.html
Report: Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/26/disabled-parents-custody-adoption/1726465/
Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children (National Council on Disability) - https://ncd.gov/sites/default/files/Documents/NCD_Parenting_508_0.pdf
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If you want to support me financially - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sydneyzarlengo
Check out my work! - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/curious-incident
Autism Resources:
Ultimate resource guide - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/resource-guide
How to support an autistic person - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/im-the-parent-of-an-autistic-kid
Help! I think I’m autistic - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/help-i-think-im-autistic
Unmasking/How to Start Over - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.com/i-want-to-start-over
My Music:
Fearlessly Different (Single) - https://ditto.fm/fearlessly-different
Bold (EP) - https://youtu.be/6pGSdJWO7Bs
Rewrite History (Album) - https://ditto.fm/rewrite_history_0d14daa964
Alive (Single) - https://li.sten.to/alive
Start Over (Album) - https://li.sten.to/start-over
The Confused Linguist (Album) - https://li.sten.to/the-confused-linguist
Check out my #ActuallyAutistic playlist made of entirely autistic artists!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gIiA3ZPsZlx8lZXWdJv6U?si=0mU6TSvXRcmDpn-ff6aq9Q
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