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stingray-blast · 3 months
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ok so you support the disabled, disordered, and mentally ill. but are you normal when someone takes long to respond to you? or if they have a hard time listening to you? when someone has a hard time giving you their attention? or when their manners aren’t perfect? or when someone makes mistakes that may be obvious or simple to you? or when someone talks loudly or “causes a scene?” are you normal when people have to think really hard to explain things? or when they have a hard time putting their thoughts into words?
are you normal when people’s hair is unkempt or oily or visibly unbrushed? or when their face might be full of acne? or when they don’t have deodorant on for one reason or another? how about if their clothes are dirty? 
are you normal about disabled/disordered/mentally ill people when they make you a little uncomfortable?
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martabak-man · 1 year
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crazycatsiren · 5 months
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I honestly can't think of where some of y'all are getting this idea from, that people faking being disabled is a huge problem. In my close to 37 years of life now I've yet to run into a single case of an actual person faking a disability.
I can come up with at least a dozen reasons off the top of my head at any given moment for why disabled people are so often not believed, and disability fakers ain't one of them.
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yeehawtist · 5 months
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i think a lot of people miss out on this but spending time with diverse groups of disabled people makes you realize that people's needs will constantly contradict each other. if one person stims, tics, speaks, breathes, etc. loudly, then there will be at least one other person who can’t stand the sound of it. they need to be able to leave if they need it. the loud person cannot be forced to stop being loud but the one who is sensitive to loudness cannot be forced to tolerate something they can’t either. maybe there’s a person who needs aromatherapy to cope with or reduce problems that their disability causes them. but there may also be a person who gets seizures or migraines from strong scents. you cannot deny that coping skill but you cannot let it trigger someone either. someone who struggles to sit might need a standing desk, someone who needs to sit will need a chair, some people might need alternative seating or flexible seating, and all of those options need to be available. one standing desk in the corner isn’t going to cut it most of the time and people need to be able to accept that and do better.
i could give endless examples of times when people's needs will contradict each other. most of which i’ve seen happen in real life spaces. physical, processing, communicating, everything can be contradictory to someone else's need. everything. a truly accessible space will try to accommodate to all those who exist within it.
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cosmiccripple · 3 months
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good morning!!! this is a PSA that yes, ambulatory mobility aid users exist!! no, they are not faking their disability because you saw their leg move and no that doesn't give you the right to then harass them over it. and actually, you never have the right to comment on someone else's disability. leave off, it's nothing to do with you!
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leafsheadhurts · 8 months
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Im so upset about how able bodied people call disabled people “fire hazards”.
Like it pissed me off. SO MUCH. SO SO much. Which like, as it should. It should piss EVERYONE off.
Like right now I was watching a short little video about Judy Heumann (if you don’t know who Judy Heumann is, look her up!! Find out!! She is so fucking incredible. Known as “the mother of the disability rights movement”. She’s so fucking awesome. Anywho) and in that video it talks about how when she was a child before the ADA, she wasn’t allowed into school because she had a wheelchair, and they said she’d be a fire hazard. Then when she grew up, also before the ADA, they said she couldn’t be a teacher, again, “because she was a fire hazard”.
Which is. Fucking. Horrible on so many levels. Like. One: she’s a Fucking human being. No one is a “fire hazard”, they’re just real human beings. Human beings who, Two: deserve and education just like anyone else. And three: that’s also just such bullshit. Like she, or any disabled person, is not the issue. YOU are. YOU need to fix YOUR schools and YOUR buildings so that disabled people can get in and out. Accommodate us instead of excluding us!! Don’t even just ‘accommodate’ your buildings, make them inherently accesible!
It’s such fucking bullshit and so dehumanizing and so. Like. Dismissive.
A few months ago I spoke to my learning specialist at my school (who is literally one of the best people on the planet and a great disabled ally and advocate for me at that school (which, side note: I had to leave due to its inaccessibility)) and I told her that waiting for the elevators takes years at my school and having chronic pain, it was horrible having to stand and wait and exert myself just to be able to get around. So I told her about an idea to put some chairs around the elevators, and to put a little sign on them saying, “for people who need them” or something like that so that it would be prioritized seating. And, being the wonderful person she is, she thought that was a great idea and contacted some Upper School People or whatever and they responded saying, “I don’t know… we don’t really want people to be ‘hanging out there’ …. Also it’s a fire hazard to put something in front of the elevators so I don’t know.” Like, bitch what!! How is it a fire hazard to put chairs like ten feet away from the elevators?? Like on some floors they have literally bookshelves ten feet away from the elevators?? We are not fire hazards, our accessibility is not a fire hazard, you just don’t see disabled inclusivity as a necessity. WHICH. IT. IS.
Disabled Inclusivity Is A Necessity. It is needed and it is not optional. Our Lives are not optional for you, nor are they an inconvenience or a hazard, something in your way.
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1863-project · 7 months
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Please reblog for a bigger sample size - this is part of the same project as my earlier polls! (For extra data, please feel free to mention the character(s) in question in the tags if you've experienced this!)
PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER THE POLL IF YOU ARE NOT AUTISTIC. This is specifically for autistic people's testimonials.
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flowercrowncrip · 11 months
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Accepting that I’m disabled and won’t have the life I would if I wasn’t isn’t giving up, it’s the starting point for actually improving the life I have.
If all I do is wait for a miracle cure so I can be able bodied then I’m not doing the small things that will make my time on earth more tolerable and even enjoyable.
Advocating for better disabled access, more changing places toilets, a benefits system that actually supports disabled people makes my life better in ways that wishing for a cure doesn’t.
Learning to use technology like voice control gives me access to hobbies I can do in bed when I can barely move. Finding small moments of beauty in the everyday does more for my mental health than wishing I was someone else.
Don’t pray for me to recover, act to improve the life I’ve been given.
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purpleperidot18 · 2 months
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I can’t believe I just now learned that February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month! Like seriously how I have I not heard of this before!?
Love this so much as a physically disabled and autistic Jew :) Happy JDAIM!
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monarch-of-jack · 9 months
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[Image ID: A crude drawing of the autism creature holding a disability pride flag. The text above it reads: "happy disability pride month". /.End ID]
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flappyhappystim · 1 year
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You know what? It’s okay if your disability stops you. It’s okay if you can’t do things because of it. It’s okay if it interferes with things you wish you could do and others wish you could do.
I know it might feel bad and your feelings are valid. But please don’t take the narrative that society pushes on us as fact. Their whole “you shouldn’t let your disability hold you back” message they push.
My disability does hold me back sometimes. A lot of the time actually. And pressuring me just leaves me feeling guilty and I burn out pushing myself beyond my limits.
I can’t do some things. I can’t do a lot of things. And it’s okay. I’m still worthy and valuable.
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gayaest · 1 year
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Some simple coloring for cherries and star!
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autistic-artistech · 3 months
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Echo in a Peacoat
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Here is the first of The Bad Batch in peacoats pieces (1 of 5)!
Echo in his peacoat with prosthetic and hearing aids is available on my Redbubble in various forms. If an art print is too large or expensive, get a postcard!
Reblog if you think Echo looks handsome in his peacoat. 😘
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If you've seen my "FYI with Tech" about digraphs, the downloadable Aurebesh font does not take those into account (and I didn't feel like going through the trouble of recreating vector art to duplicate the digraph to match).
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crazycatsiren · 11 months
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You should care about disabled people because you should care about people.
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yeehawtist · 3 months
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if you’re REALLY committed to not being ableist, then you need to put real effort into managing your annoyance and frustration with others. yes, this goes for fellow disabled people as well. it’s not your fault that you might be annoyed, but it’s not that person’s fault that they’re being annoying to you either, and all we owe to each other is to do our best. no, it’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility.
things that are ok to do for managing your annoyance:
asking for your needs to be met (ex: “could you please try to talk slower for me? i don’t understand when it’s too fast.” “could you please stop tapping so loudly? it’s hurting my ears.”)
setting a boundary (ex: “i won’t sit right in front of you, that makes me uncomfortable.”)
taking breaks
using sensory tools
feel free to add any other tactics you use in comments/reblogs
things that are not ok to do to manage your annoyance:
taking out your frustrations on the person (ex: yelling at them, touching or moving them without consent, being passive aggressive, berating and blaming them)
talking shit about them behind their back (this includes taking videos and photos of the person and posting them online to ridicule them)
please please please try to practice acceptance. it’s hard. i know it’s hard. i’m not going to sit here and tell you it’s easy. but it’s so damn necessary to learn if you want to be around disabled people. many disabled people might talk too loudly, softly, quickly, or slowly; they might not have good hygiene; might not have good spatial awareness; might not know what is socially appropriate to talk about; might look different than you; and many more things. and you can’t fix those things about someone. it’s imperative that you be able to either accept or cope with people’s harmless but irritating imperfections and oddness to be able to comfortably coexist in community. it’s imperative for you as much as it is for them.
it’s a normal, human emotion to be annoyed. you’re not in the wrong for that by any means! but you still need to learn how to deal with that.
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cosmiccripple · 8 months
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if there's one thing i ask all parents to do, it's to teach their children about disability from an early age. i cannot leave my house without every child i come across staring at me and/or my mobility aid. as much as i understand children are curious, it's extremely humiliating to feel as though i'm an exhibition for able-bodied people to gawk at.
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