Tag: ableism

crpl-pnk:

crpl-pnk:

a culture fixated on sniffing out “fakers” to protect “real disabled people” inevitably harms every single disabled person within that culture & only maybe a relative handful of “fakers”, who are usually mentally ill or economically disadvantaged to the point of having no alternative. stop saying your skepticism is for my benefit. stop saying my oppression is for my benefit. yes the idea of people with no grasp of my struggle claiming it is infuriating & insulting beyond belief. yes that is also oppressive. but in practice, i’d rather a dozen able bodied people successfully pass themselves off as disabled than one disabled person die in poverty because they couldn’t “prove it” to an abled person’s content

setting aside the fact that People Die From This, just the impact of faker witchunting on the emotional wellbeing of disabled people is enough to make it inexcusable
i’ve heard someone crying, literally sobbing & vomiting from pain frantically promise me that they’re not exaggerating when i never indicated for a moment that i disbelieved them, because they’re so used to the accusation. i’ve heard someone in the aftermath of a seizure quietly mumble as they regained lucidity, “are you sure i’m not faking?”
i don’t know a single chronically ill person who hasn’t at one point or another seriously questioned if they were ever really that sick at all because we’ve been so brainwashed to challenge the validity of disability that we begin to doubt the reality of our own definitive lived experiences

suaimhneascroi:

oh-glasgow:

laughy-saphy:

runofthemillsocialist:

God forbid.

It’s almost as if they want poor people to have a decent quality of life or something

Oh no, how awful that us on the left prefer that our taxes are spent on ensuring a better quality of life for people than funding a military industrial complex or lining the pockets of people that are already wealthy beyond imagination.

Imagine wanting to keep yer granny warm in the winter what a selfish cunt.

[image caption: The left in Scotland displays what can only be described as a lust for free stuff: free prescriptions, free eye tests, free school meals, free university education, free winter fuel allowance for the elderly, free bus passes for the elderly, free care for the elderly.]

Source: runofthemillsocialist

clitcheese:

heyyyyyy ummmmmmm i needed a trigger warning for life is strange how the fuck have you people been talking about this game for fucking years and failed to mention THAT SMALL FUCKING DETAIL

like i checked. all the trigger warnings I’ve ever seen for this game mention suicide. i was absolutely fine with that, i got through that scene with Kate pretty well. i’m fine to talk about and think about and play a game about suicide.

but euthenasia was the word you were looking for. the opening card for the game warns you that it deals with suicide, but doesn’t refer to it as euthenasia either. and that’s a whole different ballpark. writing a character to be disabled who only exists to feel sorry about, whose only dialogue is feeling sorry for herself, that needed explicit mentioning too. and I don’t see people mentioning this when i fucking google “trigger warnings for life in strange” like did seriously nobody think?

and a character begging for you to kill her bc she can’t do it herself. that needs a whole damn trigger warning for itself. i don’t care if it’s a spoiler i’m probably going to feel gross and shaky for the next week

you need to be clear and specific about your trigger warnings if it involves some “small detail” that makes it like a thousand times more fucking triggering holy shit thanks

smolqueerkitty:

tiredhort:

when will people realize that not every lesbian is a white blonde girl with super long hair who has a “nice” body with tattoos and resides in california

black lesbians exist (incl. dark skins)
brown lesbians exist
east asian lesbians exist
indigenous lesbians exist
islander lesbians exist
latinx lesbians exist
jewish lesbians exist
muslim lesbians exist
fat lesbians exist
nb lesbians exist
lesbians who aren’t able bodied exist
trans lesbians exist
mentally ill lesbians exist
lesbians who don’t fit eurocentric beauty standards exist

and we’re not just here to be a token post on your blog. we exist and we’re real and we’re just as valid.

you can say disabled lesbians. Disabled is NOT a bad word. 

sincerely,

a disabled genderqueer lesbian.

timetravelrabbit:

When I say, “My anxiety is acting up,” I’m really saying, “There’s no reason to be afraid. It’s just my disorder talking, and I can do something to calm down.” It’s positive.

When I say, “My depression is bad today,” I’m really saying, “I’m not worthless and I don’t deserve to die or give up. It’s just my disorder talking, and I should get up and look for what’s good about today.” It’s positive.

When I say, “My ADHD means my brain is wired differently,” I’m really saying, “I’m not a stupid piece of shit who will amount to nothing. It’s just that my brain needs help making certain connections and chemicals, and with certain processes, and there are lots of things I can try to work with it instead of against it.” It’s positive.

Talking about and accepting my disorders is the most radically positive thing I can do. It isn’t pessimism; it’s optimism. It isn’t defeatism; it’s hope. It’s direction, and action, and learning to regain control of my life.

So I don’t give a fuck if it annoys you or makes you uncomfortable. I don’t care if you think I need to think of myself as “more than my disorders”. Because I don’t think that having disorders makes me lesser. And I’m not going to silence myself because you disagree.

You’re fucking wrong, and I won’t let my own silence be the death of me.

taptrial2:

the reason why some autistic people have big talents is because we study what we love with a passion, and we practice what we love with a passion. it isn’t a gift, it’s information found and retained and discovered yourself or by learning from others. it’s a dedicated relationship between you and your “talent”, your “gift”, and when you push, it pushes back.

it’s also anxiety about being inadequate as an autistic person. am i talented enough to be allowed to be autistic? if i show people that i’m gifted like the people in articles and on tv, then will people be able to say autism without looking as though they just licked a raw lemon for the first time but are trying their best to keep their composure?

there’s a pressure on us to have talents and be so talented that neurotypical people gape. but then when we do work hard and learn and study and practice and develop skills with intense love and passion, sometimes for years, people assume that it wasn’t us, it was a gift from god. it wasn’t work or dedication, it was a miracle that came out of thin air, because autistic people don’t learn or work, we are gifted.

(neurotypicals and allistics can reblog, but please don’t add commentary.)

hey i don’t talk about being chronically ill on this blog much anymore and. i’m not going to start lmao this is the part of my life that i’m the absolute fucking furthest from accepting. self love is fucking miles away. i struggle to talk to other disabled people about this a lot and a lot of it is that i have no way to reconcile things like the social model of disability and other positivity stuff with the fact that my body and mind are both fucking prisons

my disability is on my dating profiles and i keep getting absolutely gorgeous queer disabled people messaging me and being sweet but they say shit like, “hey we should get together and talk about being sick sometime!” and i want to say Thanks! You’re gorgeous and wonderful but i’d rather be shot in the tits than talk about this with another human being! but thanks!

zemyatta:

ok, suffice it to say, I think the concept of “anti recovery” is bad. I really just don’t see why we can’t address issues of young teens rejecting help or people on tumblr being rude over health advice without labelling people and vilifying them in a way that causes division, infighting, and abuses people incapable of recovery. 

anti “anti-recovery” rhetoric is further aligned with neurotypical ableists than it is with the needs of the overall community in the way its presented and “cares” for everyone in the mentally ill community. it’s not healthy, it’s not in everyone’s interests, and if you can’t address the real issues without creating a villain to talk about and attack (~anti recovery tumblr~) you really don’t have the benefit of anyone but yourself in mind.

i mean is it really so hard to understand that the best way to get teenagers to realize they’re being unhealthy and convince them to get help ISN’T to label them and treat them like antagonists, right? who is that supposed to actually help other than you by making you feel superior to them???