Tag: ableism

qjusttheletter:

outsider-my-ass:

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[ID: a series of tweets from Laura (@painandcats_): 

  • if i see one more person sharing that “you know it’s bad when ppl in wheelchairs are protesting” meme i’m gonna lose my shit. 
  • 1. us protesting is not some metric for how fucked up things are 
  • 2. sorry that you haven’t noticed us literally every other time wtf 
  • 3. the disabled ppl iknow are the most politically minded ppl i’ve ever met and if you don’t see that, that’s yr own fault 
  • 4. we protest as much as we’re able so if you dont see disabled ppl in your events, it’s likely your fault tbh 
  • 5. super adorbs that abled people will consider us for memes but not when our actual humanity is at stake

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Source: outsider-my-ass

cenkrett:

If you endorse policies that would eventually lead to the deaths of huge swathes of disabled and chronically ill people, your own motives for doing so might be perfectly reasonable, but some of the results of those policies are functionally indistinguishable from large-scale forcible eugenics, and your support makes you at least partially complicit. It’s mass murder of disabled and chronically ill people via legalized medical neglect, and it doesn’t belong in any society that claims to protect its own citizens.

theauspolchronicles:

Pauline Hanson’s most recent “which group can I attack now” comment has been directed at children with autism and disabilities, saying that they should be separated from mainstream classes so as to not hurt the other childrens’ education.

In classic One Nation fashion, Hanson has continued her crusade to ensure anyone who is remotely different doesn’t mingle with people like her. This crusade has been aided by how few people could stand to mingle with her.

“Now I’m not going to say we should segregate them… but we should definitely segregate them,” she said, spewing words from her foul mouth. “Are people with disabilities a burden? Well I’m no expert… but that’s never stopped me from implying something before!”

She then got out her check list of people to discriminate against. She ticked off “the disabled” – which was situated a few checkboxes below “Muslims”, “Gays and whatever the other letters stand for”, “Asians”, “Indigenous Australians” and then also “Muslims” written again as a reminder in case she ever relaxed her rampant islamophobia for even a second. 

“Note to self: Do Muslims catch autism? How can I use this for a fear campaign?” she wrote down under her other notes “where does the sun go at night?” and “is listening to the radio halal?”

She is now taking suggestions for further marginalised groups to attack and discriminate against as she is steadily running out.

g4yr4t:

can we pls celebrate the achievements of autistic people without calling them like precious perfect baby angels or generalizing about all autistic people or comparing adults to children or insinuating that their talents and achievements make up somehow for their autism or generally fucking gawking at us like we’re museum exhibits

thechronicchillpill:

parents not believing their disabled child is actually disabled and forcing them to go beyond their limits is abuse.

parents calling their disabled kid a burden or a problem to them is abuse

parents using the disabled kids story to their advantage and making it more about themselves is abuse.

stop excusing abuse just because the victim is disabled.

sjw-haruna:

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demiiboy:

perhapsless:

like i get the Joke or whatever but i’m here to be that annoying reminder that autism exists and all of you are complicit in ableism re: the babadook 

the movie is… pretty…clearly about ableism? her son is autistic- that’s why he’s bullied, that’s why he has meltdowns and sensory issues and doesn’t pick up on social cues, that’s why he’s ‘annoying’, that’s why her sister just Hates him- and she’s your typical autism mom. she takes it all out on her son, she hates that she gave birth to a child that was fucked up and Wrong and lost her husband in the process, she doesn’t have enough ‘support’, nobody understands, etc. he’s annoying and loud and complicated and she hates him the way some of you in the audience did. 

the babadook is her hatred of him, her inability to accept his autism, etc. that’s why she tries to kill him(the way so many autism moms do, the way autism speaks tries defend), that’s why she tries to physically abuse it out of him, that’s why she has to ‘feed the monster’ every so often (the way autism moms™ have their ‘mom days’ to complain about how much they can’t stand their kid, how sometimes they wish they’d never been born, how they consider drowning them in kiddie pools bc it’d be ‘kinder’, the way that famous anti-vaxxers report having to go stand in rooms and throw shit at walls to avoid hitting their kid)

it’s…really apparent to me as an autistic person and it is so many others, too? sam has to protect his mother from the babadook. he’s terrified of it (her)- the movie even makes clear that she was the one that wrote the book. she tries to kill both herself and sam (glass in the food). she becomes more and more unstable, aggressive, and violent, and sam’s response as an autistic child is to mirror what he sees. his meltdowns increase, he has less support, he spends all his time latching on to the remnants of the only person he has. 

like it’s…idk, really uncomfortable for me to see all these allistic people first making fun of how annoying the (autistic) kid was, and misinterpreting the movie to a frankly astounding degree, and then the Joke is that straight people don’t get how he’s a ~gay icon~ (which… many of the people in the first few posts from which the meme comes were autistic…. )

idk. it’s really weird for me to see allistics carry on with this elaborate lgbt icon joke by laughing in the faces of people that don’t understand why, when half of us are autistic… being mocked for not understanding a movie…about ableism…by allistic people. the mind boggles. 

i mean whatever its a joke gay babadook etc but y’all didn’t even get it the first time and you’re joyfully, self-assuredly ableist all the time so it’s really weird that this is just kind of drowning out all of the #actuallyautistic posts i was enjoying reading in the tag but i mean, allistics will be allistics, i guess 

P L E A S E stop with the babbadook is a gay icon stuff. Good alternatives:
-Bigfoot
-mothman
-any cryptid cryptids are gay

the Babadook is cancelled

WAIT WHAT

benepla:

ok y’all it’s time to stop using the word “neurotypical” to mean “someone who told me to do yoga when i said i was sad”. that was not it’s original context (it was, in fact, coined by autistic people and yoinked by mentally ill allistics lmao), and the idea that “non-mentally ill people” is a coherent class of people is BONKERS. ANYONE can be susceptible to mental illness, you do NOT know everyone’s history with mental illness, and even though people who are vocally against mental healthcare are obviously shitheads and dangers to themselves/their loved ones, to claim that their views are because they have a squeaky clean bill of sanity is just fuckin……wild.

anyway op isn’t autistic, and while neurotypical did originally mean not autistic, the definition has since expanded to include anyone without a mental illness or disability, basically because there are more mental and developmental disorders than just autism. this change happened about a decade ago more or less. the current word for non-autistic is allistic. neurotypical really does mean someone without a history of mental illness or disability. whether or not that’s a “coherent class”, whatever that means?

and if this is implying ableism somehow doesn’t affect mentally ill people then. idk that’s pretty fucking wild

clitcheese:

as much as i don’t want to get into depression vs autism discourse but yeah people don’t debate whether or not depressed people are even human beings wtf

there’s ‘oh have you tried yoga’ and then there’s ‘oh have you tried electrocuting your child?’