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There's a mistake I see a lot of people in the mental health community make and in all honesty, it's one I've made myself. But I think we should really work on it. And that's saying "if this were a physical illness, wouldn't you care?"
I've learned that no actually, people wouldn't care. Katelyn Weinstein (theADHDprincess on Twitter) is a neurodiversity acceptance activist who really put this in perspective for me. She said that it's actually more an issue of longevity than physical vs mental health.
If you're having a bad day people will generally be understanding. But when you're experiencing chronic depression and you have many bad days people lose sympathy.
In the same respect people may be understanding when you've broken a bone that will heal properly or when you have a cold that will go away soon in ways they simply won't understand when you have chronic pain or need to use a wheelchair. They may send chicken soup for a temporary situation, but when you need consistent accomodations it's an entirely different story.
I understand that from our perspective it looks like people care more about physical health than mental health, but it's good to remember that our own perspective is also limiting. Facing ableism doesn't mean you can't be ableist. And I know so many people are not ill-intentioned when they say this. I know I wasn't. But we can't discount the lived experiences of physically disabled people. If we want true equality we need to be united and we need to listen to those with physical disabilities and illnesses. And those with physical disabilities and illnesses (some of which are also invisible) have said that they are not given proper accomodations either.
So let's be united and fight for equality and accomodations for everyone, no matter what their illness or disability may be.
#fuck eugenics#ableism#ableism tw#mental health#neurodiversity#neurodivergent#actually adhd#adhd#actually ocd#ocd#mental illness#disabilty#disability rights#disabled rights#equality#allyship
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all of those fucking "we employ disabled people and help them learn the skills to hold a job" businesses always think they're being sly by leaving out "and we're legally allowed to pay below minimum wage because they're disabled" bit. like oh it's super obvious you're exploiting ppl for money and getting public goodwill from doing so because ppl don't think disabled people are employable otherwise.
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right to maim: disability and imperialism in Palestine
also watch this documentary that covers the 2018 great march of return protests
#free palestine#palestine#gaza#long live palestine#death to israel#glory to the martyrs#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#long live the resistance#despite despite despite all their tactics#the spirit of palestinians grows stronger#and the resistance lives on alhumdulillah#disabilty#imperialism
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If you use phrases like "narcissist", "psychopath", "sociopath", "narcissistic abuse", "crazy", "insane" or any similar language to describe asshole behavior, manipulative behavior, or otherwise undesirable behavior.
I'm kicking you out if disability pride month.
We don't support lateral abelism during disability pride month. We're not demonizing real disabled people with real mental health conditions to support your narrative.
It's really easy to say "The dude is an asshole that doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself" without forcing abelist language that hurts real disabled people onto him.
(Especially because the disorders that these conditions attack are often cluster b personality disorders which are often caused by trauma)
-fae
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Disabled Person: I am experiencing [insert debilitating symptoms]. Can you help me, please?
Doctor: Lol no. I don't believe in the existence of the human body.
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Reminder for disabled and sick folks, or anyone with a disabled or sick or elderly person in your home, as seasons change whether it's getting hotter or colder for you:
If your power grid is being overtaxed by too many people in your community using their air conditioners or heat, and your leaders tell you something like it's "your civic duty" to lower your AC to an unbearable and dangerous level for you (or to reduce your heat use to unbearable and dangerous levels for you), ignore them.
That's right, I said ignore your civic duty. Let the ableds who can tolerate too hot or too cold with just mild discomfort take on the burden of society for once. You may feel guilt, but you're not saving the world by courting heat stroke or freezing to death because you're more vulnerable to either.
Eco fash and eugenecists will be blocked on sight
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Ya know, I can understand that some people who are disabled want to keep working. They don't want to apply for SSI or SSDI. And that's fine. More power to them.
What bothers me though is when they say things like "I don't want to live off the system" in a very derogatory manner.
Some of us can't work. And SSI and SSDI don't really give us enough to live on. So we need food stamps. Some of us rely on subsidized housing. We struggle to get through each month. And we don't need people being derogatory to us because of our disabilities. We don't need people acting like we're "less than" because of our disabilities. And we especially don't need this coming from other disabled people.
#disabled#disabilty#ssi#ssdi#food stamps#housing#wheelchair#chronic illness#chronic pain#fibromyalgia#heart disease#chronic degenerative disc disease#mental health
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I love you disabled people who use multiple mobility aids
I love you disabled people who use one, or a few mobility aids
I love you disabled people who use no mobility aids
I love you disabled people who are part time mobility aid users
I love you disabled people who a full time mobility aid users
I love you people with hidden disabilities
I love you visibly disabled people
I love you disabled people with a common condition
I love you disabled people with a rare condition
I love you disabled people with multiple conditions
I love you disabled people with only one condition
I love you disabled people with a diagnosis
I love you disabled people who are undiagnosed
I love you disabled people who are independent
I love you disabled people who are dependent on others
I love you disabled people who are unafraid to speak up for themselves
I love you disabled people who are still learning to find the confidence to speak up for them selves
I love you disabled people who use alternate forms of communication
I love you disabled people who always listen to their body
I love you disabled people who do activities even when it isn't the best for them
I love you people who were born disabled
I love you people who became disabled
I love you old disabled people
I love you young disabled people
I love you disabled people
#disabled#disabilty#disabledpride#disability pride#chronic illness#mobilityaids#disabled people are hot#cripple posting#chronically ill#disabled teen#accessibility is a human right#disabled isnt a bad word#disability rights are human rights
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hey. I dunno who needs to hear this today. but
you are not wrong for getting better. You are not betraying our community. you are not a bad person for trying to prevent others from falling into it. you are not hurting anyone by easing the pain for yourself.
disability is a hard, hard thing. being able to climb up to feeling better, tooth and nail, is an incredibly difficult process. but abled people tend to forget that there is a community here. there is a home to this pain. it has shaped us and our lives. our identities might be forever impacted by that.
you are not forgoing that by healing. it’s okay to get better. it’s okay to work towards being better. you are not betraying, forgetting, or abandoning us. it can be hard not to target yourself or others about this ‘crime,’ but I want you to know that it’s okay.
I believe in you.
#messages to myself#physical disability#disability#disabilities#disability pride month#disabled#disabled life#disabilties#being disabled#disabilty#disability pride#disability progress#actually disabled#physically disabled#physical health#cripplepunk#crip punk#crippunk#cripple punk#disabled pride month#disabled pride#disabled community#disabled rights#disabled positivity
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Having access to a shower chair has literally made me so unbelievably happy. Like, I could barely stand 5 minute showers before this. Everything was done for expediency sake. If I did it longer, I'd regret it. And now I get to just sit there and relax and feel the water soothe my mind and muscles. I missed this. I had no idea how much I missed this.
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FAINTING 101
As someone who faints pretty regularly I’m writing this so people have some accurate information and know what to do if someone faints.
First off: there are many reasons a person may faint.
It can be due to a medical condition or as an emotional response to something distressing like seeing blood.
Fainting usually does not look as pretty or romantic as it does in the movies and TV shows.
I’ve had my parents explain that when I faint it looks like a rag doll falling to the ground or me slumping over.
Usually when someone faints, they lose control of their muscles causing them to fall to the ground, unconscious.
This can result from not having enough blood flow to the brain, so the body is trying to fix this by getting you to be horizontal.
Some people might only be unconscious long enough to lose control of their muscles and gain consciousness as they’re falling.
Someone who has fainted should “wake up” within about 30 seconds. They may be confused and it may take a bit for them to orient themselves in the space.
The important thing is to remain calm and assure them that they are safe.
If someone takes longer than about a minute to two minutes to rouse from being unconscious you should call local emergency medical services. Especially if you believe this person has hit their head or they are having seizure like symptoms.
While you’re waiting for help to arrive and the person is unconscious:
Check their pulse
Check to make sure they’re breathing and their airways are not obstructed
Don’t leave them alone, and make sure they are protected until help arrives.
Note: You should take someone to emergency room if fainting is not a regular occurrence. I would exercise caution because some people faint frequently because of a medical condition (like me!) so I’d wait before immediately rushing them to the hospital.
(this is important: I am not a medical professional but I do faint pretty regularly.)
#fainting#what to do if someone faints#fainting 101#potsie#pots syndrome#postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome#actually disabled#disabilty#things to know#fainting is not normal#this could be useful for writing reference too!#writingtips
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(cw: spoilers for the beginning of Tears of the Kingdom, discussion of disability and impairment)
In TOTK, I see Link as disabled.
Sure, his prosthesis is a transplanted arm from another person, able to do all kinds of basically magical powers, but... it's still not his arm.
He's still going to get itchy along the reattachment scar.
There will be dysphoria associated with seeing someone else's hand attached to his body.
The pain, the trauma, of losing something like that will never go away, most likely. Link is a survivor, sure. A goofball, definitely. Unflappably assured in his own ability to overcome difficulty. But I imagine his dreams are still unsettled, and every once in a while, when he comes into contact with the Gloom, he'll be reminded of just what it felt like to have his body wracked with pain from his encounter with Ganondorf. How the life was sapped from him. How hopeless he felt after being unable to catch Zelda as she fell.
He's never going to be seen as fully human, because he's not, not anymore. There's always going to be a part of him that's always going to be different from other Hylians, and that's not easily overcome, either.
It's a cool arm. But he's going to have days where he's going to look down and see something that the dark corners of his mind won't recognize completely, and might tell him subconsciously that it doesn't belong.
Link is impaired, but also disabled, if only in how he encounters the world differently from everyone else. There will be people who exclude him because of his difference, thus disabling him. There will be times when others won't be able to relate to him because of his trauma. There will be times when his near-muteness will render him unable to convey his experiences. He bears the weight of the world on his shoulders--this much we know from Zelda's diaries-- and in a way, his very role as the Princess's champion disables him from ever living a normal, average life.
Mentally, physically, and socially, his trauma has rendered him unable to access a normal life.
This may just be me reading into it too much. I'm disabled too. But I find so much of how Link has had to compensate for his life in the game relevant to my own disability struggles.
I think Link is disabled, and I think this makes his story that much richer.
#disabilty#legend of zelda#totk#tears of the kingdom#disability theory#blog#theory#legend of zelda tears of the kingdom#link#zelda#tloz
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Hey ableds, if a disabled person writes/talks about something please don't add phrases such as
-isn't that common knowledge?
-who wouldn't/would do that?
-that's just common decency
-that can't be real/I don't think someone would do that
-actually losing weight does help with [condition/experience/symptom]
-when I broke my foot.../any temporary injury
-everyone experiences that
-i'm a good person for doing this or am I a good person for doing this?
-but a person I know who is disabled is okay with this
-have you tried...?
-I know a disabled person so I feel I can speak on their behalf
-I'm not disabled but...
-why can't you just push through the pain?
-But you were able to do that at [time]
-Do you really need that aid?
-If you are too sick/disabled to do [something] than you are too sick/disabled to do [something you enjoy]
#disabilty#spoonie#cripple punk#disabled#chronic illness#disabled life#spoonie life#wheelchair user#cane user#walker user#mobility aid user#cane#walker#mobility aid#wheelchair#rosethorn
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Survey recruitment; I gave feedback as a later consultant & Tuttle is another Autistic AAC user who was involved in the project from the start. Shares are Definitely Helpful :)
Are you an autistic adult who uses speech and other tools (such as augmentative and alternative communication [AAC]) to communicate?
If you answered yes, please consider participating in this survey at this link:
We are interested in learning about the speech, AAC, and assessment experiences of autistic people who use speech and AAC. We are curious if a modified version of the Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB) can be a reliable tool for clinicians to utilize in measuring the internal experiences of speaking autistic people. Regarding assessment, we are interested in understanding how their speech efficacy, or the extent to which one can use speech to completely communicate their intended meaning, was measured and considered in the evaluation process and if the evaluation resulted in a recommendation of an AAC tool.
The survey includes a mix of multiple choice, slider, and written response questions and is estimated to take between 10-20 minutes.
No identifying information will be collected in this survey.
Please reach out with any questions or concerns via email.
We thank you in advance for contributing your insight on this important topic!
Karina Rayl, B.S. (Lead Investigator)
Graduate Student
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Portland State University
Email: [email protected]
Pang Lee Herr, B.S. (Lead Investigator)
Graduate Student
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Portland State University
Email: [email protected]
Brandon Eddy, M.A., CCC-SLP (Co-investigator and Faculty Advisor)
Associate Clinical Professor
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Amy Donaldson, Ph.D. CCC-SLP (Co-investigator and Faculty Advisor)
Associate Professor
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Tuttle (External Collaborator)
Email: [email protected]
Alyssa Zisk, Ph.D. (External Collaborator)
Email: [email protected]
#aac#actuallyautistic#disabilty#autism#aac user#actuallydisabled#disabled researchers#autistic researchers#yes it's a research post and yes the two 'external collaborators' are both autistic aac users#please only use our emails for things related to the research but that is what they're for
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The way we punish kids for having big emotions instead of teaching them healthy emotional regulation techniques makes it harder for children to be diagnosed with mental illness and other neurodivergencies because we're teaching these kids that it is not safe to talk about their emotions with adults. Which makes it really hard for kids to talk to adults when they feel like they're having abnormal emotional responses.
And while yes. A lot of kids can't hide these emotional responses despite being punished because big emotions are bad.
I think we need to also be aware of the kids that are able to hide their big emotions because just because they can pretend to be "normal" doesn't mean that they aren't struggling and it's extremely unhealthy to be having these big emotions with no emotional outlet.
-fae
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Kay so the tags of this post started me in a thought tangent that lowkey got me hopping mad.
Disabilities.
Umbrella Academy character have none and if they do they get reversed/healed/“fixed” somehow.
Examples:
Diego’s adaption doesn’t have an eyepatch/has both eyes
Five’s arm came back in the reset (literally minutes after he lost it!)
Allison got her voice back (in the comics it took Commission magic surgery and was for plot but in the show it just heals, and not for any real reason except so she can use her power again ig? The story could’ve been reworked :/)
Vanya/Viktor straight up doesn’t get shot at all and he does lose his memory but again, he just gets it back
The only exceptions I can think of are Harold (who’s a villain and fucking dies btw) and Harlan (who also fucking dies!) who’s not a positive or even neutral representation of non-verbal autistic characters by any means (I’ll get into that in a later post).
What the actual hell is up with that?! They’re superheroes, literally? Even after the reset they have training and that would almost render most disabilities unnoticeable from a writing standpoint, the only difficulty being actually fucking properly representing what limitations they would have.
And? Eyepatch Diego would be flipping awesome. Mute Allison finding some other way to channel her powers equally fucking so! I DON’T THINK I EVEN NEED TO MENTION PROSTHETIC ARM FIVE.
This show already seems like it’s never going to properly explore these characters’ trauma, PTSD, and other various mental health issues and disorders (example Five never fricking crying, all PTSD symptoms somehow erased after s1, Klaus’ flashbacks only maybe twice despite being trapped in time in a war for nearly a year, all of them remarkably keeping from breaking down [except Allison of course, you know how women are!] in s3), but it also seems like they’ve been purposefully cutting out their physical disabilities, and since day one.
#tua#umbrella academy#disabilty#disabled character#the rep is bad your honor#number five#five hargreeves#diego hargreeves#tua comics#allison hargreeves#viktor hargreeves#klaus hargreeves#I'm nearly certain there’s more instances I’m forgetting#tua netflix#netflix
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