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#AbleismTellsMe ppl think it is actually okay to /envy/ disabled ppl for "not having to work" - dude u're aware we /do/ have to work, only we don't get paid for spending like 24573thousand hrs chasing appointments, going to appts, fighting 4 treatment, going to treatments, >>
CN meds, pain
>> getting prescriptions, getting prescriptions, taking meds, being /sick/in pain/, having side effects, sleeping way more or way less than we would like? Having 2 spend way more money on /living/ than ableds? Having way /less/ money 4 living than ableds? >>
>> getting prescriptions, getting prescriptions, taking meds, being /sick/in pain/, having side effects, sleeping way more or way less than we would like? Having 2 spend way more money on /living/ than ableds? Having way /less/ money 4 living than ableds? >>
>> do y'all realize that it's really really shitty to have all that internalized#ableism feeling shitty as fck 4 /not.being.ABLE./ 2 "work" as in being useful in a capitalist PAID work system? Do you really think we need YOU from all ppl on earth to tell us this ON TOP of that??
One of the most frustrating things about #ADHD is how it disrupts your sense of time and how that impacts hourly work. I genuinely care about being a good employee and about doing my work well, but doing it between prescribed hours is immensely difficult for me.
I (try not to) wonder about how much more employable I would be or where I would be in my career right now if I had been able to do my courses and/or work asynchronously. The few courses (and bit of work) I have been able to do that way returned stunningly improved results for me
I really wish I experienced linear time bc the world (and especially the workforce) is constructed with the assumption that everyone experiences time the same way and I’m so tired of worrying that I look like I don’t care bc my brain doesn’t work the same way.
My GP has phoned three times trying to make me sign a DNR due to covid because I "wouldn't be a priority"
Health is a privilege. Use it. You'll lose it in your lifetime. Disabled lives aren't worth less. Help us. Don't look away. Lives depend on it.
#MakeAbleistsUncomfortable
Health is a privilege. Use it. You'll lose it in your lifetime. Disabled lives aren't worth less. Help us. Don't look away. Lives depend on it.
#MakeAbleistsUncomfortable
He definitely needs retraining on these conversations. I have a life limiting illness, but am by no means at deaths door (have at least another decade in me yet according to experts). My worry is that the pandemic has stripped nuance - I also have a
disabled neighbour who has had the same conversation with the same doctor. It appears the policy is - is this person ill? Yes? Well they need a DNR, when actually a living will would be more appropriate. I talk about my experiences with a living will here:
The academy's ableist practices, especially expectations of neurotypicality, are ensuring futures of higher education without disabled scholars. #MakeAbleistsUncomfortable
As Mel Y. Chen has put it, you either comply with being a "disciplined cognator," or you are the "unthinkable" in academia's ableist cultures of hyperproductivity to be left behind or kept out.
Disabled faculty, staff, and students all have to navigate academic spaces and environments never made for them even despite legislation that is meant to ensure those spaces be accessible. Their presence means they have survived repeated forms of ableist cruelty. Not all do.
An open message to parents with autistic children:
You do not “suffer”.
Your child is not a burden.
You are not a good person for raising an autistic kid, it’s your duty as their parent, and you do not deserve praise for doing the bare minimum.
#MakeAbleistsUncomfortable
You do not “suffer”.
Your child is not a burden.
You are not a good person for raising an autistic kid, it’s your duty as their parent, and you do not deserve praise for doing the bare minimum.
#MakeAbleistsUncomfortable
If you have ever supported or worked with Autism $peaks, you are supporting a hate group that wishes your child never existed.
And importantly: if you spend all your time speaking over and for your child, instead of communicating with and uplifting them, you are ableist.
And importantly: if you spend all your time speaking over and for your child, instead of communicating with and uplifting them, you are ableist.
Signed: an autistic adult who’s nonverbal periods and sensory processing issues does not in any way prevent me from speaking for my god damn self.
Communication is a human right. Your child is a human. Knowing how to meet them at their level is your duty and not optional.
Communication is a human right. Your child is a human. Knowing how to meet them at their level is your duty and not optional.
