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chronicallycouchbound · 9 months

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The narrative that “you should care about disabled people because one day that’ll be you” is ableist in and of itself.

You should care about disabled people’s rights because you should care about the disenfranchisement of a marginalized community.

Becoming disabled is not a punishment. Becoming disabled is not a threat. Becoming disabled is not cosmic retaliation for being ableist. Becoming disabled is morally neutral.

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trans-axolotl · 10 months

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this disability pride month, remember our loved ones who are locked up, institutionalized, and incarcerated. Remember our loved ones who are in carceral group homes that wouldn't pass the burrito test. Remember our loved ones who are cut off from disability community and forcibly isolated through the violent ableism of these institutions. Disability solidarity means that we must create these community connections that transgress these barriers and lets our loved ones know that they are valued, important, and that we are fighting for their freedom.

This disability pride month, send a care package to your local psych ward or residential treatment facility.

Find a program to write letters to people incarcerated in your local prisons and jails.

Support patient organizing, prison protests, and advocacy for independent living.

This disability pride month, commit to fighting for abolition of all forms of incarceration, from psych wards to residential treatment to prisons.

#personal #disability pride month #mad pride #psych abolition #cripple punk #prison abolition #mad liberation #disabled liberation

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lifeonkylesfarm · 6 months

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disabled is not a dirty word

#disabled rights #disabled #actually disabled #disabled pride #disabled liberation #disabled people #disabled and proud #disability #disability pride #disabled is not a dirty word #disabled person #disability advocacy #physical disability #disabled access

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neuroticboyfriend · 8 months

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i want those reading this post to take a moment think about those still imprisoned and institutionalized in psych wards - the ones who are involuntarily* hospitalized, the ones who are at state wards, the ones who have been there for years, and the ones who have died/are dying there. these are some of the most isolated and disenfranchised people in society. we need to remember them, regardless of why they're there. regardless of what they've done. there is no justification for keeping someone locked up, neglected, and abused.

we need to speak up when people try to justify the institutions that are keeping them hostage. we need to believe in and fight for a better world, in any way we can. even just changing our frame of mind, it informs how we interact with the world, and we can do much good without even noticing it. and those of us who have survived... our voices matter, and are more significant than we could ever know. no one deserves to be in these environments, and we all need to exist in a safer world. mad liberation needs to come, someday.

*IMO, it is impossible to voluntarily admit yourself to a ward (i.e impossible to consent), but you get what i mean.

#softspoonie #psych survivor #psych abolition #prison abolition #abolition #psychiatry #antipsychiatry #psych ward #psych hospital #antipsych #mad liberation #mentally ill #neurodivergent #disabled #disabled liberation

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this-world-of-beautiful-monsters · 2 months

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I know the Disability Day of Mourning traditionally commemorates disabled people murdered by their parents and/or caregivers, but I wanted to take a moment to also commemorate the disabled lives lost during the genocides taking place in Palestine, the DRC, Sudan, and across the globe (including in the US). There are many ways for a system to perpetuate ableist violence and we must struggle as a community against all of them.

May the disabled souls taken from us rest in peace, every single one, and may the members of the disabled community currently fighting for their lives and the lives of their loved ones receive the support and safety they deserve.

If you have a bit to spare, please consider donating to Crips for eSims for Gaza and supporting their vital work.

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satansfavoritedyke · 1 year

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Not to disability post on main or anything but I'm just about sick and fucking tired of so-called "medical professionals" who are supposedly "specialists" (i.e. rheumatologists, for example), thinking they can slap me with a myofascial pain syndrome/fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue/hypermobility diagnosis, tell me to stop eating gluten, and call that a done and dusted day on the job when those diagnoses don't even BEGIN to explain the majority of my symptoms.

What about the fact that I randomly run low-grade fevers with no evidence of other infections (flu/COVID/RSV), what about my positive ANA factor, what about my low igA levels, what about my chronic iron deficiency anemia, what about my MULTIPLE documented activated EBV infections that have damaged my spleen, what about the fact that I have no reflexes in my knees, I could literally keep fucking going.

I'm so fucking sorry that I'm a fat AFAB trans person with the kind of disabilities that land me in medical appointments multiple times a week, but a doctor who hasn't cracked a fucking textbook since 1997 does not know more about my condition than me, the person living with my symptoms 24/7. And quite frankly I'm not going to be jammed into a diagnosis like fibromyalgia which is the clinical equivalent of "fuck off and die" disorder and a classic excuse to just categorize and disregard patients with complex symptoms when doctors don't want to do their JOBS to figure out what's actually wrong. There is something wrong with my immune system and I need TREATMENT, not a convenient label to send me to my grave with. I refuse to be a docile "ideal patient" and I am not afraid to be a "doctor shopper" either, because what I think medical professionals forget is that Y'ALL work for ME and I CAN and WILL fire you if you're fucking useless.

DO. FUCKING. BETTER.

#cripplepunk #cripple punk #cripple problems #disabled vent #disability vent #disabled dyke #medical malpractice #medical maltreatment #ableism #medical ableism #medical fatphobia #medical rant #disabled liberation #immunocompromised #physically disabled #chronic illness #spoonie #you can call me al

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wormonastringtheory · 6 months

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Grocery funds for a chronically ill Black mom of three

As you all know, we managed to get both Courtney's remainder of october and november rent paid, so now she is able to save up for December. However she is caring and providing for three kids as a single mom, working a low paying job, so she still needs some assistance. She needs some funds for groceries and Laundry detergent/supplies.

Courtney:

Paypal.me/stillcreece85

Cash.me/browni3mom

Venmo @courtney-reece-85

#crowd funding #mutual aid #chronically ill #cripplepunk #donations #please boost #share #crowfunding #crowdfund #disabled liberation #disability justice

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aronarchy · 1 year

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https://twitter.com/jayuubee69/status/1621888394560262144

A weak point for a lot of leftists/Marxists is disability/ableism. They care only for labour justice and not disability justice. They seek only liberation for workers and not restructuring society away from meritocratic goals.

People are more than tools to be used or discarded when not deemed useful. This doesn’t just apply to workers deserving freedom from exploitation. Your “leftism” must care for those deemed to not have labour value, not just those who do and are getting used rather than valued.

Your better society must be understanding and caring of people’s differences. It must be accommodating. It must value disabled people.

Everyone should be cared for and seen as equal/valued equally. Society should not be ordered by “worth” or “value.” Value interdependence over enforcing independence.

Eugenics isn’t just a process but an ideology. An ideology of superiority among human variation. By this logic, I deem meritocracy inherently eugenicist.

Another big weak spot for a lot of them is sex work, But that’s another topic.

I feel the need to add this: I want to be very clear: I am NOT saying capitalism is a meritocracy. I am saying society needs to be restructured away from meritocratic (or supposedly meritocratic, since the illusion of meritocracy is what gives people faith in capitalism) goals.

Seek not to create the meritocracy capitalism claims to be but isn’t. Care not only for giving power to “contributors.” Society must take care of everyone and value everyone, beyond ordering them by “worth.”

I understand people critique “those who don’t contribute” aimed at capitalists who have power over workers and exploit them and use them for their own profit and that’s obviously not what I’m defending. I’m anti-capitalist. I’m also disabled, and I’m concerned with some Marxists’ views/rhetoric and lack of disability justice.

It is absolutely absurd the amount of leftists who seem to have absorbed capitalist propaganda and see disabled people as leeches on society. See disabled people needing care and support as the same as rich people having servants just because they can.

We have less labour value to exploit, and are thus more exploitable because “we should be grateful for being offered any job” and they can get away with paying us less and treating us worse.

It also means we are among of the LEAST value to capitalism—those who can’t be used to create profit are useless. they want to kill us—this isn’t hyperbole, we recognise the ways they subtlety (or sometimes not so much) enact eugenics. we NEED your solidarity and support.

Anti-capitalism is inherent to disability justice but disability justice clearly isn’t inherent to a lot of leftists’ ideologies.

#repost of someone else’s content #twitter repost #101 #disability #disabled #actually disabled #ableism #disabled rights #disability justice #disabled liberation #anti capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism

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astrangerthatlovesyou · 1 year

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Reminder that ableism and fatphobia exist due to the same hatful beliefs, and we can’t fight against one without fighting against the other.

As a disabled person, I will always support fat people and fat liberation. You are our siblings and we love you and need you.

#disability #disabled #fat #fat liberation #fat and disabled allyship #equal rights #personality disorder #mental health #mental disability #physical disability #disabled liberation

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ostronat · 2 months

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epsom salt should be free

#epsom salt #disability #disabled liberation #ehlers danlos syndrome #hypermobile ehlers danlos #hypermobility #joint pain #chronic illness #chronic pain

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flango87 · 10 days

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I highly recommend reading essays by Ismatu Gwendolyn. They have so many important insights on revolution and liberation. Their most recent essay is about the role of the artist in revolution. Pls go check out their work and support them!!!

#free palestine #activism #social justice #human rights #climate change #revolution #collective liberation #disabled liberation #liberation #ceasefire now #climate crisis

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chronicallycouchbound · 9 months

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A dopamine-friendly version of this post for my fellow neurodivergent people who might need it!

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[ID: three photos, all in a coral and white color scheme, text reads: “You should care about disabled people’s rights because you should care disenfranchisement of a marginalized community.” The next reads: “The narrative that you should care about disabled people because one day that’ll be you is ableist in and of itself” the last photo reads: “Becoming disabled is not a punishment. Becoming disabled is not a threat. Becoming disabled is not cosmic retaliation for being ableist. Becoming disabled is morally neutral” My blog name, ‘Chronically Couchbound’ is at the bottom of each photo. End ID]

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the-firefly-jar-system · 6 months

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Ableist words/phrases & some alternatives

[PT: Words/phrases to try not to say & some alternatives /end PT]

CW for colloquial use of ableist language

[PT: CW for colloquial use of ableist language /end PT]

“Insanely” or “crazily” as an adverb (ie: “that’s insanely ___”)

Obnoxiously

Overly

Unnecessarily

Incredibly

Exceptionally

“I’m blind” as a figure of speech (when not actually blind)

I missed that

I overlooked that

Oh! I see now

My eyes did a silly (more silly ver)

Thank you for pointing that out

“I’m deaf” as a figure of speech (when not actually D/deaf)

Sorry, can you repeat that?

I didn’t hear you

I spaced out and missed what you said

Oh! I understand now

I misheard that

“Stupid” as an insult to describe someone who is bigoted and/or misinformed

Ignorant

Closed-minded

Unaware

Oblivious

Stepping out of their lane

“Narcissist(ic)” as an insult or personality type

Self-centered

Vain

Selfish

Apathetic

Uncaring

“Psychopath(is)/psycho”, “sociopath(ic)”, “crazy”, or “nuts” as an insult or type of person

Bizzare

Unconventional

Unexpected

Intense

Overwhelming

Wild

“OCD” as a description or personality type (ie: “I’m so OCD”)

Particular

Perfectionist(ic)

Orderly

Selective

Tidy

“I’m stupid” as an expression of misunderstanding

I’m silly

I don’t understand/Can you explain?

Oops!

“Lame” as an adjective (ie: “That’s so lame”)

Boring

Dull

Bland

Unoriginal

Tedious

“Bipolar” as an insult or type of person

Unpredictable

Inconsistent

Fluctuating

All over the place

Unreliable

“Crippling” as an adverb when not reclaimed (ie: “Crippling depression”)

Debilitating

Profound

Severe

Impairing

Disabling

This is not at all a comprehensive list! Feel free to add on

[PT: This is not at all a comprehensive list! Feel free to add on /end PT]

#informative #info #casual ableism #disabled liberation #language #anti ableism #disabled #disabled community #firefly flickers

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lifeonkylesfarm · 5 months

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I still maintain that what really causes me to struggle with being disabled is abled people and abled centered society.

Yes, being disabled inherently impairs my functioning in certain ways, regardless of what abled people do.

Yes, I'd be in pain no matter what.

But that's just a part of being me. I resent it sometimes, sure. But goddamn it, I just can't take abled people bullshit.

Truly, I just want to live my life, and inaccessibility and ableism are a massive barrier to doing that.

Some problems I've encountered just recently:

Being told I can't bring my mobility aid into a building and that the front desk "might call the cops." I had to leave the building.

Being told I can't bring my mobility aid on a bus. I couldn't ride the bus.

My insurance claim for a mobility aid being denied.

Constantly having to get on my professors so that they follow my accommodations.

Having to do extra work just to get and maintain my accommodations, because apparently they must go through a ridiculously thorough process to prove I'm not faking it.

Being stared at in public when I use my mobility aids. This one isn't the worst but it makes me very uncomfortable.

Some problems I've encountered over my life:

Being called slurs.

Having proof of my disabilities and still not being believed.

Being constantly asked "what happened" and people getting very uncomfortable when I tell them it is permanent and lifelong (somehow they very often think it's a sports accident, as if I look like I can do sports ha.)

People not waiting for me because I'm "too slow" (including so-called "friends.")

Not being able to enter buildings because they are inaccessible.

People smearing piss and shit all over the disabled toilet.

Fighting tooth and nail to get a diagnosis because doctors apparently don't know how to do their job and also don't believe you when you say you're in pain (except my psychiatrist, he's a real one fr.)

Being harassed.

A lot more lmao.

#disabled rights #disabled #actually disabled #disabled pride #disabled people #disabled liberation #disabled and proud #disability #disabled community #disabled person #disability advocacy #physical disability #disabilities #invisible illness #invisible disability #physically disabled #disabled representation #disabled access

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neuroticboyfriend · 8 months

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why do you hate psychology /gen

The reasons are the mostly the same to why I hate psychiatry:

lack of autonomy for patients, general power imbalance between patient and provider

separation of the mind from the body

excessive focus on the individual to the point of blaming them

neglect of material/sociopolitical conditions

pathologization + stigmatization of human functioning/suffering and marginalized peoples existence (ex: turning things like gayness and an enslaved person's drive to be free into a disorder)

the subjectivity of diagnostic categories and how they're heavily biased to the view point of abled people

structurally works to control and oppress people under the guise of "helping them," works in tandem with the carceral system to insitutionalize and imprison people

relies on the belief that a provider can know a patients needs and wants better than the patient themself

the development of these practices have been founded on egregious human rights violations that continue to this day

none of these things are like a "bad apple" situation, none of it is a side effect. it's inherently built into psychiatry and psychology. it can't be reformed. similar situation to the police and criminal justice system. it requires abolishing, and any needed services it did provide need to be provided under a liberatory framework.

also if anyone is reading this and about to tack on with how their psych provider was wonderful actually blah blah blah consider: you are the exception, not the rule, and you likely have that due to some kind of privilege. you are not the focus here. be quiet, please. also that provider is still operating under an oppressive framework, and you have no idea how they've treated other clients.

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queercoded-antagonist · 2 years

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Any other autistics have the experience of masking by default (even if not masking well enough to seem NT) around people until you’ve known them for a long time/well and the mask starts to drop bc you trust them enough to know the Real You but then they lose interest/drop you? It’s really fucked with my self esteem having befriended so many people that seemed to like me and realizing (sometimes after months/years) that they don’t like me when I’m not actively performing and pretending to be someone I’m not. I’m scared of getting close to anyone now. And a lot of people are like “just stop masking and be your authentic self!” which sounds ideal, but for a lot of autistic folks, especially multiply marginalized, masking can be a shield from being treated with immediate hostility/judgement, having your autonomy rejected, etc. I don’t like pretending to be someone I’m not and I want people to get to know the real me. But I also don’t have the mental strength to deal with the social (and other) consequences of unmasking. I feel caught in a lose/lose situation.

I wonder about how the people on the other side of this feel too. When I stop masking around someone, maybe to them it seems like *I’ve* lost interest or *I’m* being rude because of the difference in my speech and mannerisms. Or maybe they don’t like people who act “fake”, idk.

A lot of folks think they don’t have a problem with autistic people. But the moment their friend needs something “obvious” explained, is seen struggling to do “basic tasks” independently, gets too overstimulated to speak, otherwise appears/acts unpalatable- they feel resentment. A lot of this applies to physical chronic illness as well. I’ve had friends lose interest in me when I actually set boundaries and stop pushing myself to do things that will put me in pain. The message I get from that is “I liked you until I realized you were an inconvenience”. So many people, including some NDs, only support autistic people when we are palatable enough. They like autistic people as long as the autism is something they can write off as a personality quirk and not something they have to acknowledge as a developmental disability. Even without the words “high and low functioning”, a lot of people (probably unconsciously) still view autistics in a dichotomy due to their level of support needs. Palatable vs unpalatable. Independent vs burdensome. Eccentric vs off putting. Worthwhile vs worthless. A lot of people, esp but not limited to NTs, seem to struggle with understanding that autism isn’t a dichotomy, that it’s more complex than “high and low functioning”. When they meet an autistic person who exists in the grey area, they mentally categorize us as one or the other. Lots of autistics have been told things like “if you’re capable enough to speak, why can’t you drive?” or “if you struggle so much that you can’t live alone, why expect to be treated like a real adult?” Many cannot conceive of autistics existing outside of this dichotomy. Autism isn’t a spectrum from capable to incapable, autism is a spectrum of many traits. An autistic can be capable of speaking eloquently while being far from able to understand unspoken social rules. An autistic can be a tech genius and struggle with disabling sensory issues. I am *incapable* of masking for more than a few hours at a time before shutting down, and even in the most ideal situations my masking skills aren’t good. So I’m caught in a situation where sometimes I can hide my disability at first but I quickly become unable to hide it. I feel like when people who don’t know me well learn I’m autistic, they’re fine with it at surface level because they think I’m “not that kind of autistic”. But then they find out I am in fact the unpalatable kind of autistic. And they get uncomfortable. Even a lot of well intended (including ND) folks seem to feel the need to neatly fit me into one category. I’m either infantilized, or held to expectations that I am too disabled to meet.

It’s all “I hate fake people” and “just be yourself!!” until the person in question is autistic. If I stopped being “fake”, everyone would think I was rude- even though I try my best to be considerate and thoughtful of others, I do so autistically, so it’s seen as incorrect. It’s very important for allistics to understand that an autistic person who loves being around you is not going to express it in the same way that an allistic person would. We tend to express our emotions differently. It doesn’t mean we don’t like you. And it hurts more than I know how to express when someone you thought liked you only wants to be your friend if you’re performing, and stops seeing your value as soon as you start expressing yourself authentically.

#autistic #actually autistic #autism #autism acceptance #autistic pride #asd #autistic masking #neurodivergent #autism things #autistic community #autistic experiences #autistic problems #chronic illness #neurodiversity #disability #disabled #disabled liberation #cowritten by cat #cowritten by mars

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