The moment I hear someone accuse a disabled person of faking it, I lose all respect I previously had for them. I have absolutely zero tolerance for fakeclaimers.

People have passed out on buses after being denied seats, because people thought they were faking it. People in excruciating pain have been turned away from hospitals, because people thought they were faking it. People have been publicly shamed both online and in person for their disabilities, because people thought they were faking it. People have lost their jobs after being denied accomodations, because people thought they were faking it. And I'm partially talking from my own personal experiences. I've been yelled at for having meltdowns at school after being told I wasn't allowed to wear ear plugs, because people thought I was faking it. These aren't hypothetical situations. Lots and lots of real disabled people have suffered for the entertainment of fakeclaimers.

The harm from fakeclaiming real disabled people is much, much worse than the harm from taking the few fakers there are seriously. I would rather help a hundred disabled people when one person among them is actually faking it than fakeclaim a hundred fakers when one person among them is actually disabled.

Yes, there are people who fake disabilities, and yes, that's awful and harmful. But accusing people of faking it has never done anything good for anyone, while it has harmed a lot of disabled people who needed support but were ridiculed instead. There is no net positive to fakeclaiming. All it does is serve to stigmatize, mock, and encourage the neglect of disabled people. It's sickening.

I mean this all the time. Even if they do something you assumed they shouldn't be able to do (part-time AAC users, ambulatory wheelchair users, and other people whose disabilities aren't constantly visible exist). Even if you think their accommodations are excessive or unnecessary. Even if you think they have "too many" conditions. Even if it's DID or schizophrenia or any other disability that you're uncomfy acknowledging. Even if they have dyed hair or neopronouns or anything else you've decided is "attention-seeking behavior."

The moment I hear the phrase, "they're probably faking it," leave your lips, I know not to trust you. Because you want disabled people to earn their rights, their support, their ability to live, by first meeting your arbitrary standards for what disabled people must look like.

what kind of practical steps would you suggest to make a mixed-sex locker room or bathroom safe for women? asking with genuine curiosity

i pretty regularly work in a building that has unisex restrooms and a unisex locker room for the fitness center. the bathrooms have full length doors that lock instead of stalls. the locker room has the actual lockers in a central public area but the showers are also individual and private and have full length doors that lock. people are instructed to change clothes only in one of the shower rooms with the door locked. everyone in public areas is fully clothed at all times.

this is obviously an across the board improvement compared to a traditional gender-segregated locker room with communal showers, since it meets the needs of people who are uncomfortable undressing in front of the "opposite" gender and people who are uncomfortable undressing in front of their own gender, and of course it also doesn't force trans or nonbinary or intersex people to make a painful and potentially dangerous decision about which bathroom or locker room they should use.

i don't think this is the only way for unisex locker rooms or bathrooms to be set up, but it's certainly the best locker room experience i've ever had.

imagine being an animal without a tail i'd be livid

Mutuals I want you to know that if you are feeling down I am handing you little heart stickers through the computer

Oh Damn forgot that I scheduled this reblog lol.

someone remind me that I need to start my writing blog back up

with the way this show progressed, we'd have seen Ed's bare ass as the first scene of s3

with the way this show progressed, we'd have seen Ed's bare ass as the first scene of s3

"came back wrong" but no one besides the resurrected person has noticed, and they're doing everything they can to keep it that way. everyone cares about them so damn much and is so damn happy to have them back that they'd rather die all over again than reveal the truth. these people don't deserve to lose their loved one twice.

This is so cute😭

Mice straight up go on missions and no body talks about it

learning that apparently several hundred people have been pronouncing 'miette' as 'mighty' has actively worsened my day

learning that apparently several hundred people have been pronouncing 'miette' as 'mighty' has actively worsened my day

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hey Ray you should start your writing blog back up :3

someone remind me that I need to start my writing blog back up