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genderqueerdykes · 5 months
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the solution for taking care of "unsightly" homeless people is to house us. that is the only solution. if you can't stand the look of someone living on the sidewalk, you shouldn't stand for them being put into that situation to begin with. housing us is the only answer.
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madpunks · 1 year
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it's okay if you get confused easily. it's okay if you forget things easily. it's okay if you lose track during conversation easily. it's okay if you have to ask for clarification often. it's okay if you struggle to parse information or sensory unit. you're not "playing dumb" or "doing it on purpose". it's okay to be disabled, some people just refuse to be accommodating.
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schizobit · 6 months
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pro tip if you see someone acting 'weird' or 'crazy' in public mind your own fucking business
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neuroticboyfriend · 1 year
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If you struggle with substance abuse but not addiction, you still deserve support. If you struggle with suicidality/self harm urges but don't act on it, you still deserve support. If you struggle with psychosis and paranoia but have insight, you still deserve support. If you struggle with anything but are "coping with it," you still deserve support.
You dont need to be in imminent crisis to get help - safety planning, harm reduction, resources, and accommodations. You're still struggling. You're still suffering, You're still at risk/in danger. You deserve better - you need better. Your health and wellbeing matters.
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nonbinary-bxby · 11 months
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sex should be accessible and abundant for those who want it. disabled people are sexy and deserve to feel good too!! whether it's solo or partnered or something in between, we deserve orgasms just like everyone else does
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transsexualfiend · 18 days
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If you want to call yourself "madpunk", "cripplepunk", "neuropunk", etc, your activism better not stop at the things you find "bad". People with no empathy. People with personality disorders. People who need their aids in daily life. People who have extreme fluctuating emotions. People with paraphilias. People with dissociative disorders. Psychotic people. People who have different modes of eating, excreting, having sex, etc. Homeless people. People who wear diapers. People who have violent urges/thoughts. People who you think are "dangerous". People who use drugs. People who need medication to survive and live. People with physical deformities. People who have delusions. People who struggle with feeding themselves, cleaning, working, etc.
If you think any of these factors make someone "abusive", you are ableist. Abusers are abusive. None of the above things make someone an abuser.
Madpunk and cripplepunk aren't just "adhd and autism punk". Or "mobility aid user punk". Keep that in mind.
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cistematicchaos · 10 months
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If you don't know anything about eugenics beyond forced sterilization, or only define eugenics by forced sterilization, or by any one version of it, you're not only never going to understand eugenics, but you'll never be able to fight that ideology or keep it out of your spaces or unlearn it yourself. Saying you think disabled people just shouldn't exist in an "ideal" society is eugenics too, just like genetic engineering us out of existence, just like saying you wouldn't have a disabled child, or promoting the idea of us being completely separated from "abled society" in some sort of "separate but equal" supposed compromise.
Eugenics can be born simply out of believing our lives are nothing but suffering and that makes them less worth living, thus we shouldn't exist. But that's not true. I do suffer horribly in this ableist society, and I also suffer solely from certain aspects of my disabilities, but that doesn't mean disabled people shouldn't exist. Suffering doesn't mean I shouldn't exist. It means you should be working to eradicate ableism and people should continue working on science to help disabled people live with our disabilities. It means you should listen to us, ask us "how can we help", not eradicate us and the fact people move so quickly to that idea is scary as fuck.
And yet, today I had to talk with a trans person who told me people like me shouldn't be born, that mental illness' were "diversities" but cripples were disabled and lived their lives in suffering, so they should be engineered out of existence. This was all very leftist, mind you-No forced anything, just a dream of a mass program to genetically engineer cripples away until no disabilities were left at all, for "the better of our species".
It just makes me sad, things like that. I wish it made me angrier but no, people who should be my community telling me my people shouldn't exist is just sad, especially when it comes with the determined stance that it's not, in fact, eugenics. I mean, if you're going to be a dick, at least call your bullshit what it is. At least know what eugenics are! That's basic as hell!
So lesson of the day: learn your eugenics, listen to disabled folks, fuck ableism and never tell disabled people you don't believe people with their disabilities should exist.
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yellowyarn · 6 months
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i love you autistics who don't have special interests
I love you autistics without sensory issues
i love you autistics who are hyposenstive
i love you autistics who are both hypo- and hypersensitive
I love you autistics who hate routine
i love you low empathy autistics
i love you high empathy autistics
I love you autistics with lots of freinds
I love you autistics who are hyper verbal
i love you autistics who make lots of eye contact
i love you autistics who can't mask
i love you autistics who dont know who they aren't behind their mask
i love autistics who are "childish"
i love autistics that have never had a meltdown
i love autistics with catatonia
i love autistics with intellectual disabilities
i love autistics with Anxiety and/or Depression
i love autistics with Psychotic Disorders
i love autistics with Bipolar Disorders
i love autistics with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
i love autistics with truma Disorders
i love autistics with Dissociative Disorders
i love autistics with Eating Disorders
i love autistics with Somatic symptoms Disorders
i love autistics with Sleep Disorders
i love autistics with addictions
i love autistics with Personality Disorders
i loved autistic systems
i love autistics with multiple disabilities
i love autistics that can't work
i love autistics that cant leave their house
I love autistics who can't live alone
i love autistics who use AAC
i love poc autistics
i love people with autism who prefer person first language
i love autistics who use function labels
i love autistics with outdated diagnoses
i love autistics who were/are misdignosied
i love self diagnosed autistics
i love all autistic people
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crazycatsiren · 7 months
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September is:
Pain Awareness Month
National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
Bisexuality Visibility Month
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wishful-seeker · 7 months
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Ableds get real pissy and upset when you say "only physically disabled are cripple punks." Because it "excludes" them but neuro punk and mad punk excludes the physically disabled but you don't see us bitching about it.
Its almost like this whole drama is just an excuse to silence the physically disabled wooahhh.
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crippledpunks · 6 months
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shoutout to disabled people who are too sick to take care of their teeth. here's to you if you have to get frequent fillings, root canals, teeth extracted, implants, or dentures because taking care of your teeth is to difficult or impossible with your disabilities. here's to you if you forget to brush, can't afford tooth brushes, toothpaste, mouth wash, etc., if you are or have been homeless and struggled to access dental care, if you're too poor or don't have insurance to see the dentist, if you dissociate, if you are psychotic and don't trust dentists, if your chronic fatigue prevents you from daily maintenance, or whatever it is that holds you back, shoutout to you.
dental care is a nightmare to keep up with given the amount of sugars, acids and harmful additives that are put into just about everything in our modern diet. many of the sugars and acids alone damage our teeth in substantial ways that are difficult to keep up with even if you are abled, let alone the cost, time and transportation it takes to get access to dentistry. if you have to get teeth extracted or replaced, you are not failing. that is also part of your care. you are still doing your best.
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trans-axolotl · 9 months
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Image description: [ a photo of the Psych Survivor zine in a bush of ivy. The cover is a collage made out of medical records, vintage flower drawings, and magazine letters spelling “psych survivor zine".]
Hello everyone! I am so thrilled to announce the launch of the psych survivor zine, now available to download on www.psychsurvivorarchive.com.
A little bit about this project:
The Psych Survivor Archive is an abolitionist organization deeply invested in mad liberation and cross-movement organizing.
We host two projects: the Psych Survivor Zine and the Digital Story Archive. The Psych Survivor Zine celebrates Mad art in volumes released twice a year, with thematic prompts for each edition. The Digital Story Archive is a more informal forum for psych survivors to write about our lives and share as much as we want, when we want, how we want. 
Through this archive, I hope to create a platform where psych survivors are believed and the psych system is held accountable for the ways it has harmed us. Our pain, resistance, knowledge, and grief are worth listening to, and I offer up this archive as a communal method of bearing witness. 
This space is for the imperfect crazy person, the noncompliant patient, those of us who trash our rooms in the psych ward and yell to ourselves on the street. This space is for our comrades still incarcerated in all kinds of institutions and prisons. This space is for anyone who has been harmed by the psychiatric system and wants to rage about it–and this space is for anyone who doesn’t have the words to talk about it. 
This space is for you.
You can download a pdf and an image described pdf for free on the website, or order a physical copy! This zine is incredible-featuring artwork by 13 different Mad artists, the 55 page zine includes collages, poems, harm reduction toolkits, and more!!
Artists include @kihnindewa, @bioethicists, @gothhabiba and @librarycards, among many more!
This project has been really vulnerable and cathartic with me, and I am so excited to share it with you. Feel free to explore the website, submit your story, and check out our resource guide.
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madpunks · 1 year
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shoutout to slow learners. shoutout to people who take a very long time to parse and grasp new concepts. shoutout to people who struggle to follow directions. shoutout to people who can't perform a task just after watching someone else do it. shoutout to everyone who needs learning aids, needs to take notes, needs to try multiple times, and needs to be told the explanation repeatedly.
you're not dumb. you're not lesser. you're not doing it on purpose. everyone learns at their own pace, and people forcing you to learn faster than you can are the ones causing a disruption in your ability to learn. it's not your fault.
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whereserpentswalk · 2 months
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Professors, bosses and parents will see you having a panic attack and really just be like "Could we maybe not do this on a weekday? It's really easier for everyone if you save your mental breakdowns for the weekend."
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neuroticboyfriend · 1 year
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This post is for the mentally ill and ND people who do harmful things. Those who struggle with anger, aggression, and violence. Those who are manipulative, who do and say things that hurt people. Those who do all these things and more - who don't get why it's harmful due to havig no empathy, sympathy, compassion, remorse, etc.
Doing things that are wrong doesn't make you any less deserving of a good, safe, and fulfilling life. It doesn't make you a monster. It doesn't mean you deserve pain or discrimination. It doesn't mean you deserve to be alone, ostracized, and discarded. It doesn't make your existence wrong.
You're still here with the rest of us. You still have needs, wants, and rights. Some of the things you do may not be good or excusable, but you are a whole person. You are a whole person, and you deserve better. And I hope you get that someday, whatever it means to you.
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punkstylerecovery · 1 year
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Something I've learned about triggers is that's they really vary so much depending on the person. Not just as in what triggers you but how you're triggered as well. Yes, some people experience visual flashbacks. But some of us only FEEL as if we are back in an extremely traumatic moment, which can make it harder to recognise as a flashback. Some of us experience hallucinations, like hearing parts of the event/s, or smelling something that you smelled when it occurred. Some of us will get headaches or stomach aches when we're triggered. They're a lot of different reactions you can have to triggers and a lot of them aren't even recognized as flashbacks or a result of being triggered, even when they are.
Which is why, as someone with PTSD who has a bucketload of different responses to being triggered, I have to ask myself "when did x symptom start? was I triggered?" a LOT because I usually don't immediately recognize I've been triggered. Sometimes I merely find myself feeling ill with no idea why at all until I realize I've stumbled upon a trigger. A lot of us do because the way that triggers are talked about is extremely watered down and simplified for the convenience of others, despite how difficult it can make it for some of us with triggers to recognize them.
But in case any of y'all are wondering: hallucinations (visual, auditory, tactile and more) can be a sign you've been triggered, same as nausea, headaches, seemingly random waves of emotion (that don't seem to match your current activity) and a lot of other things as well. And plenty of times you're not going to realize you've been triggered, which is why it's a good thing to ask yourself questions when things like these "randomly" pop up.
Ask yourself when the symptom started, what were you doing, who was around, until you can get a feel for the situation. Sometimes it can take several times before you recognize what's causing it and sometimes you don't figure it out at all but it's always better to ask yourself these questions than not because even if you don't figure it out, it helps make you more aware of yourself and your surroundings and how they interact with your mind and body.
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