When did it just become normal to call wheelchair users "wheelchairs"? e.g. "we dont have a ramp because we dont get wheelchairs here often," and "oh thats stacy, she's a wheelchair" or "this toilet is for wheelchairs only". Genuinely, when did that start because I swear i didnt hear it until recently lol

I've been in a wheelchair since the late 2000's, most of my late 2010's and pre-covid 2020 was spent at a job educating people about disability, I got called all kinds of names in that job and grew up in a small "political correctness is bad" town where I was called everything from a gimp to cripple to r*tard. No one in 20 odd years ever called me a just "wheelchair" though.

But in the last few years I've heard it a bunch! Not just online either, like around town and stuff too. It's bizarre. I'd seen Americans talking about it being annoying before I actually heard someone say it, so is it something that started in the US and has just made its way elsewhere because of the internet? I feel like it can't just be that though, because I hear it from older folks too.

Like its annoying but most people who have used it towards me just seem uneducated more than malicious. I'm just weirded out by the fact it seems to have just... come along so quickly lol.

Every time someone calls me ableist for using the r slur as an autistic creature, a rabbit gains pawpads againist it's will.

did i just see a "you can't criticize ts for using psych ward imagery just bc she's never seen a therapist post" bc genuinely i am about to throw hands

and before anyone calls me crazy for that or stupid for not understanding metaphors, fear not, i know. FROM THAT TIME I WAS A "PSYCHO RETARD" IN THE PSYCH WARD.

like. i don't think she's somehow not allowed to talk about psych wards. but i definitely think the psych ward survivors are allowed to be angry about seeing it used like this -- insensitively, for a billionaire's profit and for an audience of millions?

"she's allowed to struggle" yeah she is. which is why she shouldn't have to co-opt another marginalized group's struggles. hope that helps.

i love being queer

Image description: A halftone black and white design depicting a snarling white dog with text next to it in all caps reading “Enough awareness enough acceptance I’m angry and I want to kill the CEO of Autism Speaks”.

Another halftone black and white design depicting a chuerub statue with black eyes and texts next to it that reads “ One day I’ll stim so hard I break the light barrier become an angel of raw fire and every colour in the multiverse and then I’ll use my godly powers to pull the limbs off everyone who called me a retard like a hurt child torturing flies and then you’ll be sorry then you’ll be sorry “ the phrase “you’ll be sorry” repeats until the border of the design.

Another halftone black and white design depicting a knife with text around it in all caps reading “When will we take revenge for disbled victims of infanticide?” End description.

It’s the last day of April and the last day of Autism “Awareness” month, but (un)fortunately for me every other month of the year is Autism Rage-At-Ableist-Oppression month! You can get these as stickers on my Redbubble

leo and donnie angst for all you fuckers

Outed? By Tumblrs non-existent algorithm? It's more likely than you think.

Yet another zionist pooner

You need to kill yourself now and I do mean die now

big words for someone who hides behind anon

Sorry, I'm Retarded

[Content warning for realistic colloquial use of the r slur.]

So, I just realized/found out through studying conversations with allistics, that MOST of the time, when they say "you don't look autistic", they aren't talking about masking at all, they're saying they did not know that a 'retarded person' could be conventionally attractive.

Most allistics without a good baseline of neurodiversity believe all people with 'neurodevelopmental disorders' are just unattractive due to their genetics. That physical beauty is directly correlated with societal functionality, and the inverse must also be true, to them, due to their strange mental heuristics.

It's not a compliment about your masking, it's eugenics shit that needs shut down. It's not a cute joke. It's genocidal rhetoric.

this is the half-life mod of all time (mod here btw)

A03 antis are something… as if I’m going to stop writing.

I hope you blocked and reported those assholes