can you believe that ableism is so normalised that despite all the historical evidence of it people still donāt believe itās anything more than a new thing made up by tumblr bloggers
Tag: ableism
Okay unpopular opinion time.
As somebody who knows a blind-from-birth person, itās kinda pissing me off that people are acting like the Doctor going blind is tragic. It might suck for him for awhile because heās not used to living that way, but ffs if heās taught how to do things the blind way as opposed to the sighted way and borrowed other people to be his eyes when vision is necessary then not much would have to change.
If the Doctor can memorize a map in a few seconds, I doubt itād take him long to learn just about every form of Braille or raised reading material for blind people all over the universe.
Imagine if the TARDIS made him a sonic white cane that could do all the cool stuff his sonic screwdriver could do and more. Imagine it having aĀ āhomingā signal where the cane will gently tug him back to the TARDIS if thereās danger or if he gets ālostā on an adventure. (And imagine him having to resist it and be allĀ ābe quiet, you!ā)
Disability doesnāt have to be tragic, yāall.
āposted by an autistic person who headcanons the Doctor as autistic.
Heās already doing this, too. He flew the TARDIS to the stationworkersā corporate office and then home to Earth without anyone (including any viewer who hadnāt been spoiled) realizing he was still sightless.
hi tacking onto this as a real life blind person and not just āi know a guyāāop i do appreciate where ur coming from, but also, like, chillāitās actually gonna be disgustingly easy for dr.who to get used to being blind, because gallifreyansā primary sense is telepathy; hell, theyāre already prosopagnosic (link: x, x). dr.who is and was able to navigate the Tardis in part for the same reason why i dont use my cane in my apartment, but also in part because the Tardis, as a gallifreyan technology, is really fucking highkey telepathic and is/was thus more easily navigable than something designed by a generally psinull, generally sighted species, like, yknow, humans.
of course the problem that weāre probably going to run into is that the writers are either gonna get stuck on āthis is terrible and horrible and awful and 12 will never be able to functionā and itāll be a super ableist pity party thatāll probably feed into some self-hatred of actual blind peopleā¦ (link: x) or theyre gonna overuse gallifreyan telepathy so they can have a blind character, but not, like, a blind character who needs help with things
occassionally, or who needs to use assistive tech, or in any way canāt pass for sighted.or both! thereās always both.
but like, listen, this is a fantastic opportunity for dr.who to be able to raise awareness of some things that actual, real life blind people do ā things like the sonic white cane you mentioned already kind of partially exist (link: x), and oh man thatād be killer. iād have comicon down this year let me fucking tell you. they could show dr.who working with the Tardis on the equivalent of JAWS or VoiceOver. they could also, though, pull a daredevil, and oh my god i am sick to death of daredevil. real people in real life have asked me if i can read a computer screen by touching it and feeling the heat of the pixels. thatās daredevilās fault.
anyway the long and short of it is basically ādr.who could be really cool with this, but probably only if i was the one writing it, and im not, so itās gonna be an ableist disasterā. regardless of how the show decides to take this, though,Ā
@fandom be fucking respectful. going blind is not the end of the world. it doesnāt make you incapable. it definitely doesnāt make humans incapable but-oh-not-dr.who-theyre-fine.
and also, hereās a concept, put fucking image descriptions on your gifsets and fanart.
Friendly reminder that The Doctor needs you to put image descriptions on your gifsets and fanart. Ā #DoItForTheDoctor
oh my fucking god dont do it for the doctor do it for real blind/vi people why the fuck is accessibility only important when it effects a fictional character i hate yāall
I had a friend tell me once that they envy me having a terminal condition because I donāt have to figure out my future.
And like. I get depression and fear, and adulting is fucking hard, and sometimes when Iām really sad I think this too.
But please donāt tell your spoonie friends you envy them being sick, and not going to school, and āsitting at home watching Netflix whole days everydayā. Weāre ILL. Weāre in a lot of pain. This sitting in bed whole days is fun when itās a cool activity to do, but it stops being fun when itās a necessity everyday and you want to do things but you CANT.
And the thing is, weāre having to figure out our future too. Itās just for you figure is college and job and happy relationships.
For us itās our condition getting worse, our parents aging and so us having to find caretakers for us when theyāre gone, and ultimately a lot of sadness and then dying.Weāre both scared and Iām not playing pain Olympics here. Iām just here to tell you that sometimes itās good to shut up.
the reason abled people are praised for being kind to the disabled is because it is not normalized to be kind to the disabled.
it is seen as an achievement for an abled person to ālook beyondā the disability and treat the disabled person like a person, because it is not normalized to treat the disabled like people.
Ableism is so bad in our society that we dont even see the disabled as people or as equals and thus put the abled on a pedestal for even acknowledging the disabled as people.
and yet people still tryna tell me that Ableism isnt real, or it isnt as bad as another form of discrimination, or that its just some tumblr fad.
and people do this because the ableism is so bad in our society that not being able to see the disabled as people who suffer and have struggles, as people who have emotions and feelings, as anything other than ānot abledā, is seen as normal.
dehumanization of the disabled is by far, more normalized than the humanization of the disabled.
and thats just so fucking upsetting.
Quick PSA
So, after my last post went viral I got a lot of messages and some of them were really lovely but the rest seemed to suffer from ānot all abled peopleā syndrome. So Iād like to say something.
Yes. Yes all abled people. All abled people are like that. Youāre like that and I was like that before I got on wheelchair. Weāre taught to be ableist from birth and we donāt realize that so ALL OF US are inherently ableist.
The point is not to say youāre not like that but to listen to disabled people and challenge yourself to think despite what you were conditioned to! Do you think I donāt have a moment of hesitation before talking to a Deaf or blind person? Or anyone who has different disability than me? Sure I do! Cause I donāt know jack shit about their struggles and if what I do is not ableist to them! But the point is to go out there, and listen! Just apologize if you accidentally did something bad and go! We know youāre not a Bad Evil Person bro.And if your first reaction is to say weāre wrong and Not All abled People Are Like Thatā¢ then maybe you should think for a second why do you do that
aggressive reminder that black women with disabilities are the lowest earning and least likely to be aided group of people in america and you should defend and protect them at all costs
Something Iāve noticed.
if you ever need to quickly get a list of autism symptoms and examples of neurodivergent behaviors, just go ask an acephobe whatās mostĀ ācringeyā about the subculture of inclusionism.
āthey get so obsessed and make really weird jokes about cake and dragons, making flags and acting really embarrassing.ā
like. criticizing abnormal humor or aĀ āchildishā demeanor, criticizing individuals for being extremely passionate and involved in their interests to the point where neurotypicals can find it disconsertingā¦
half the posts mocking inclusionist humor and behavior are mocking neurodivergent behaviors. itās a rerun of seventh grade for me tbh, people mocking my autism constantly without even realizing that my autism is what theyāre making fun of. theyāre just mocking how weird i talk! how strange my humor is and how unrelatable the jokes are! Ā mocking my lack of social tact and difficulty adhering to social etiquette!
itās a form of subtle ableism, finding any young person who gleefully and passionately says something innocent yet embarrassing (likeĀ āWHAT IF WE HAD A CAKE PROM FOR ASEXUALS ON THE MOON!ā or something of that caliber) and then humiliating them on a public platform for sadistic enjoyment.
itās a demonization of neurodivergent behaviors, a well-oiled machine designed to publically humiliate the opposition by targeting our high percentage of autistic (or otherwise neurodivergent) individuals.
itās ableism. it isnāt overt, the wordsĀ āautismā arenāt said, but itās functionally identical to targeted abelism.
The microlabels thing is also common to autism and other neurodivergencies in my experience. Like, wanting a separate word for every tiny discreet concept, wanting to qualify and quantify some experiences as distinct from others, is a thing with autism for me.Ā
Another thing Iāve seen them making fun of is notĀ āgettingā sarcasm, or mocking people for ānot knowing itās a joke.ā (Usually after telling a shitty bigoted joke)
The crytyping jokes and in general mocking people for getting upset easily are also major ableism
exhibit B: āyouāre so gullible lmaoā
exhibit C: a group of exclusionists literally came into my a-spec discord server and created a fake profile whoās entire purpose was to mock my autistic traits and special interests.
Why do you need the wheelchair?
To go places :0
actually. truscum, thereās already a cure. itās conversion therapy. stop pretending cis people will ever care enough about our dysphoria to make a magical anti-dysphoria injection or whatever you imagine the Cure is going to look like. torturing us to get us to stop transitioning is always going to be less effort for them. just get it through your heads that there will be no cure other than electric shocks and psychological reprogramming
āpsychiatry wouldnāt do that to usā they already do it to autistic kids to get rid of autism symptoms. after decades of looking for an autism cure itās still only electroshock therapy and aborting autistic kids before birth. promises of autism cures have led to actual deaths. more times than i like to think about, when a parent is promised a cure for long enough and realise there isnāt one, the next ācureā they try is murdering their child.
thatās why acceptance is the only way to go. acceptance will get less of us tortured and killed, no matter which group weāre talking about. stop giving cis people the idea that itās okay to āfixā us because it will never be a good option for us, especially the children that canāt fight back.
[here are some blacklist keywords in case anyone doesnāt tag this right: conversion therapy, torture, eugenics, child abuse, electroshock therapy, trans deaths, autistic deaths, disabled deaths, trans murders, autistic murders, disabled murders, death of trans people, death of autistic people, death of disabled people, ableism, transphobia, truscum discourse. tell me if i missed any possible trigger because This Is Not a Fun Post]
“gay party bottom twink hooker” –> “homo-frayromantic homo-ampheto-fraysexual demi-binary non-boy”
i mean, right? this checks out? btw āamphetosexualā is a neuro-sexuality i just coined, where oneās sense of sexuality is inextricably tied with being a crystal meth addict. iāve stopped going to AA because itās conversion therapy for me as an amphetosexual. i hope i can count on your support as i journey into mogai micro-identities.
What the actual hell is wrong with you fucks. Why the *hell* do you think conversion therapy jokes are funny in ANY context? Like. What the actual hell. -mod karkles
ummmmm itās not a joke? twelve step recovery is conversion therapy for ampheto-sexuals like myself. why do you hate neuro-sexualities? why are you being so ableist toward neurodivergent people? do you hate addicts or what???
Dude. Youāre existence is a joke. You literally exist on this blog to mock people. I donāt hate neurodivergent people. I donāt hate neuro-sexualities. Iām not the one fucking mocking them.
@diskhorsedudes gem im dyin. I got called ableist for callin out someone for mocking the idea of conversion therapy
hey gay mentally ill alcoholic here, what the actual fuck you demon? just donāt talk about mental illness ever again if this is the shit thatās going to fall out of your mouth
hey, tweaker faggot here, and no. iām not the one tacitly admitting that āampheto-sexualā is a valid āneuro-sexualityā lmao
yeah no? no one gives a shit about your bad joke, but youāre attacking the very fucking basic idea that someoneās mental illness can affect their sexuality. and your awful conversion therapy joke? itās bad. you have no reason to joke about that, andā you laughing at someone bringing up ableism? do you honest to god think youāre funny,relevant, interesting? let people call their sexuality whatever they fucking want, you donāt need to become the living embodiment of family guy humour over it
so hold up, am i allowed to call myself an ampheto-sexual or not
and, if i am, if itās perfectly fine to define my sexuality as āmeth addict,ā then how is calling Crystal Meth Anonymous āconversion therapyā out of line? because, if we go by the ace communityās (wrong) definition of āconversion therapy,ā then 12 step recovery is literally ableist conversion therapy for anyone who falls on the addict-sexual spectrum!
if you think iām making fun of the idea that mental illness can inform a personās experience of sexuality, allow me to clarify: being a meth addict, an alcoholic, (and also HIV+) are all inextricably tied to my self-conception as a gay man. but that doesnāt make me āampheto-sexualā lmao, iām still just gay. iām making fun of your politics, not your experiences.
did u just say the conversion therapy joke again? that’s your response when people tell you to stop making fun of people’s sexualities? thanks south park this has been real fun
and, my politics not my experiences? do you think my politics is making microlabels because they’re cool? or do you think maybe my politics is letting people define themselvesā however they like without deserving ridicule? because no one decides how to define them but themselves? people are making microlabels when they feel they need to describe something that there isn’t a word for yet, and I don’t see what’s wrong with people fucking describing themselves. do you really think people are coming up with microlabels to piss you off or somethingā? i still remember how it feels to come out and hear someone tell me i must be fucking delusional, how do you forget that? how do you keep making these jokes to make people doubt their own damn sexuality and gender and still think you’re fucking revolutionary
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