In the 1900s they would just let fucking anyone go to antarctica as long as you had enough wrong with you

i mean probably more recently than that

in the 1990s I was in the autism section of my school’s special ed program and was mostly mainstreamed in regular classes, but had paraprofessionals that accompanied me to try and minimize the trouble i got into. And one of them stayed in touch with me for a long time afterward, because he had me on his email list where he sent updates of what was going on at the South Pole research station where he’d started volunteering

and strangely enough, another one of my paraprofessionals later ended up volunteering the same place?

…come to think of it, I have NO evidence that the restrictions on Who Had Enough Wrong With Them To Go To Antarctica in the 1990s included anything besides “must have worked at least 2 hrs/week as caregiver for 12-year-old Turbo Autist Aster-ling”

…we did live in Minnesota though. probably part of it

October 16th, 2025 11:53am reblogster notron anyvirus userworldproblems oh shit. i just realized OP might have meant “1900's” to INCLUDE the 1990s i keep forgetting people do that these days I was born when decades were decades and centuries were centuries and there were distinctly different ways of referring to them in other words i am fucking old and still probably autistic enough to drive anyone to the south pole