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9 Famous Faces On The Struggles and Beauty of Being Afro-Latino

Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black AND Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences.

The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every color and race imaginable – and explaining the difference between race and ethnicity can be quite a cumbersome task to take on on a daily basis. And yet, many Afro-Latinos are often forced to do so after being told they’re not “Latino enough” or being asked to choose between being Black and Latino.

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Luna was diagnosed with early onset schizoaffective disorder, depressive type, after her mother passed away and she had her first psychotic episode, and then a little after fell into a depressive spell.
 
Many of her ‘odd’ behaviors are actually magical treatments for hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thinking, as well as little tricks to lessen the symptoms of her depression. 

For example, dirigible plums help lessen the effects of disorganized thinking, and wearing them in her ears helps even more than eating them, and her butterbeer cork necklace is a lucky charm to help reduce anxiety around hallucinations and delusions. 

She also keeps her wand tucked behind her ear because of a belief that she could die from a backfiring curse, like her mother, without her holding it, thus keeping it tucked where it can’t hit her, unlike most the wizarding population, who keep it in their pockets.

Submitted by Anonymous (via hiddenhogwarts)

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Wands that can sense the difference between hand tics and spell movements for students with Tourette Syndrome.

Spells that make coprolalia (swearing/offensive language) tics inaudible to everyone but the speaker.

Students with TS starting new clubs to accomodate the activities that make their tics stop (eg performing arts groups).

Portable cushioning spells for when a student has a tic that involves hitting their head or hand against something.