Thread by @k_tastrof

Who are the disabled?
Our loved ones, our friends and colleagues, us today or in the future.
So what’s the point of ableism?
1 day
1 word
1 story : science fiction🚀
fantastic👻
or fantasy 🗡️
In one thread to be part of the moment
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1/ Disabled
Joy is now compulsory for disabled people.
That's the only way to be appreciated and let free.
The only way to stay alive.
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2/Diagnose
This dog's name is Diagnose, because of its special nose. It smells people and is able to detect cancer and Alzheimer that we cannot even cure.
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3/Wheelchair
Bob saw the wheelchair alone, and imagined that its owner had decided to jump from the bridge, and drown their despair into the river.
"Hello! Are you okay?", the bather asked.
Bob smiled. He was the one who felt desperate.
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4/Spectrum
Everything seems to be on a spectrum, the colors, our gender, my mental illness…
So, I don’t understand why so many people are afraid of dying. Each day, we experiment a little bit of it, then we die when arriving to the other end of the continuum.
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6/Cognitive
Most of the brain enhancement devices are not really cognitive.
They generally consist in external memory supports that you must learn to use instead of your own. Nobody knows their long time effects.
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6/Sign
We spend our time interpreting signs.
What you call a perception is often a conclusion.
This apple appears red, not ripe.
It's seems that you could pick it, just by raising your hand. This is a whole story!
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7/White stick
For blindness day, each citizen wears a mask with no hole for the eyes, and is invited to try to live as usual.
This awareness action has accelerated the progress in adapting public places for blind people.
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8/Cripple
"Cripple", the new astronaut thought, watching his unfortunate competitor leaving the room.
"Cripple", he thought, one year later, when he got off the ship and his own weak legs failed to carry him.
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9/Stigmatized
Of course, mental disorders are stigmatized. But among them all, some succeed in appearing smart. Many people would prefer to have high functioning autism than schizophrenia.
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10/Miserabilism
I'd like you to make a documentary about biological humans, but something honest, with no miserabilism. I believe that some flesh creatures are able to be happy in their own way.
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11/Oppression
Oppression isn't just an impression.
It's a compression of your everyday life which can lead to persistent depression.
What we need is more means of expression. Not repression.
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12/Discrimination
If sleeping is a right, then some of us suffer discrimination.
The ones who need to sleep a lot are being badly treated by our modern society.
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13/Essentialism
They will ask you what you are. Be careful of the answer you choose. They have an essentialist tendency to allow you to be nothing but the chosen characteristic. This is supposed to make interactions simpler. I don't understand how.
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14/Ablesism
When the algorithms started to organize our work and everyday life, they often forgot our meals and some hours of sleeping.
People blamed them for a kind of ableism, but they answered that they were kind, and that errors could happen.
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15/Subway
They were called "shooting stars", the mother said, trying to explain the sky to her child, born in the subway.
The kid said yes, just to please his mom.
Her nostalgia wasn't his and he was happy without knowing the outside.
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16/Stairway
— You don't sing it right. It's Highway to hell.
— I know, but I prefer to imagine this as a stairway.
— So you think that arriving in hell is difficult?
— As hard as falling down the stairs on your buttock.
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17/Procedures
As a robot, I know that I can't live without procedures. They are what gives my existence a meaning. You are human, you could just listen to your desires, but you don't. I can't understand why.
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18/Community
Building a community is a long and slow process.
Especially if there's shared suffering and the need to learn to trust others.
But everybody is in a hurry, and we're just pretending to be a united group.
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19/Pride
They're so arrogant, people said, talking about the way the robots acted with humans.
But they were wrong. The fact that the robots had large and high shoulders wasn't a proof of excessive pride. It was just the way they were made.
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20/With disabled access
If you believe that anybody can find anything they need in the town, try to add «with disabled access» to your requests.
Restaurants, buses, concert rooms, schools, shops...
Your town will appear quite empty.
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21/Independence
There is no independence for the little humans.
Childhood is a terrible situation in which your happiness (or not) depends on the will of adults and on chance.
How is it possible to be a balanced adult after that?
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22/Rights
The alien starships often land in rich countries.
This way, they obtain more rights, like the right to circulate freely over the planet.
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23/Political
They're angry at me since I've said that eating was political.
Of course, they knew it, but they hoped to keep that area of pleasure away from any question.
I said this hope too was a privilege.
They left.
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24/Inclusive
I've won an all inclusive world trip, but In fact, not many things were included.
No choice for the duration of my stays in the different countries or my favourite activities. I couldn't even have my friends with me.
I declined.
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25/Strength
The humans got prepared for an alien invasion with massive starships and strength démonstrations.
They didn't even notice the tiny pollen invasion and the increase of allergy. We're about to take the control of the entire species.
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26/Struggle
When you struggle to understand how the world works and how to get your own place, there is no rest for you.
Either you keep struggling, or you get lost into nonexistence.
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27/Solidarity
The principle of solidarity, my mother said, is to help other people in your own group.
When I asked which group, she said : the neighbours, those who live in the same country, but not all humans, because solidarity isn't infinitely expandable.
I cried.
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28/Beautiful
They said there's nothing beautiful as a road, the long ribbon that goes from somewhere to somewhere else.
I answered, what about a bridge, also going from somewhere to somewhere, but over the nowhere?
They said it's beautiful too.
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29/ Disabled parenting
Disabled parenting is not the same thing as parenting incapacity. But the authorities act just as if it was the same and they make all procedures difficult, if not impossible, for disabled persons.
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30/Desire
Time and desire are both able to run, but not in the same way. That's why they rarely dance together.
When time is slow, desire increases, grows fat and incandescent.
When desire is fast, time just stops, too thin and absurd to even show up.
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31/Happiness
When the clients of Happiness® accepted to stay asleep in the dreaming machines, they hoped to dream of various kinds of joy and fulfilment. Nobody told them they would live the same movie, again and again, without exit doors.
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