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@ShutUpDanni
Apr 23, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
#WhyDisabledPeopleDropout because when I was in 11th grade, I had several bad flare ups of a disease I had gone through most of my school life with. I missed a lot of class and despite my willingness to stay after every day, work during lunch, and constant requests for help- 1/5
-my teachers decided it would be too much work to help me along and set me up to fail. Denying me my work and test retakes from when I was hospitalized, my new school nurse (my old one was a former ER nurse and was familiar with my illness, this one was not) telling me- 2/5
-“not to make a habit of going home early because I don’t feel good”, the list goes on. Only my math teacher was willing to help me. One teacher. I then asked a trusted study hall teacher if a GED would really ruin my life and when she said no, I dropped out. 3/5
It wasn’t fair that I was denied my full education because disabled people are seen as burdens to society rather than students that deserve to learn just as much as anyone else.

As a matter of fact, it’s a miracle I hadn’t dropped out sooner, considering the- 4/5
-TORTUROUS bullying I suffered when I had an ileostomy, and again when I had a PICC line.

Ableism in education is real, and it needs to be addressed, because I deserved my diploma. I deserved to be safe at school. I deserved my teachers to fight for me.
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Sep 25, 2020
As we battle the ever present “what about personal responsibility?!” healthcare argument, I’m here to tell you: it doesn’t matter.

I’m disabled. I didn’t become that way by my own hand - it was entirely an accident, and I was a child doing child things. But here’s the thing: 1/7
That does not make me more worthy of accessible care.

Whether an illness or injury was caused by genetics, accidents, heroism, alcoholism, drug abuse, poor eating habits, lack of exercise, it literally does not matter.

Human beings deserve to get care when they are ill. 2/7
EVERYONE deserves care when they are ill, and I do not care if they are someone working 80 hours a week to make ends-meet, someone living under the poverty line on disability benefits, or rich enough to take care of it even at its current ridiculous price - EVERYONE. 3/7
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Jul 11, 2020
Okay, I’m gonna give a quick story time.
I feel that some of you are still operating under the pretense that “I’ll probably survive COVID, so I don’t have to worry.”
You do.
Because the fact that fully healthy, abled, young individuals have died as well aside, you are 1/7
forgetting the fact that illnesses don’t leave without leaving things behind.

I know this firsthand.

I had pertussis 8 years ago, when I was 18. My immune system was very poor at the time (and remains so).

Prior to getting pertussis, my lungs were VERY strong. 2/7
I was a choir student from when I began school until I finished. A soprano who trained and competed whose preference was opera. I was also in a band and sang acoustic pop punk covers, almost every weekend. I had also been an avid swimmer most of my life. Once the weather 3/7
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May 4, 2020
Friends, propaganda has sprung to using misleading statistics as per usual, so as an ex-sales associate, let me put it in perspective for you.

My mother in law’s conservative radio show is trying to downplay COVID by stating that the death rate in NYC is ONLY .01% 1/4
Sounds small, right?

NYC has a population of 8,398,748 people.

.01% of that number?

About 840.

That is 840 people, dead. 840 people with families, friends, memories, dreams, futures that were torn from them.

If you hear statistical propaganda, please do the math. 2/4
It’s a common trick to try to present percentages in a dismissive fashion because it seems smaller.

In sales, we’re taught to talk in money, because $100 off $1000 sounds a lot sweeter than 10%.

Don’t be fooled - these numbers are NOT small.

And even if they were? 3/4
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Apr 20, 2020
CN //// drugs
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I live in an area that is pretty much a heroin hot spot. We’ve had 4 (if not more since I last saw reported) overdose deaths during this time. And every single comment from locals on the matter has been nothing short of heartless. 1/6
As a disabled person, I’m not new to the cruelty of human beings. I know exactly how shitty people can and will be to each other in any given circumstance. But this is just too obscene for me to deal with. This is HARD. Quarantine, COVID, this situation is hard for EVERYONE. 2/6
Imagine how hard it is for those who were already battling such terrible demons. Imagine losing your support lines and being forced to be alone with nothing but your pained mind. This is one of the worst things that could’ve happened to those in recovery 3/6
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Jan 21, 2020
From reading @coffeespoonie’s saga on the inaccessibility of Uber drivers refusing to follow the law, one of the hottest takes I’ve seen so far is “you should have to identify yourself as disabled before using any service.”

No. We are not doing this. Here’s why. 1/6
Abled people enjoy ignorant bliss in the form of “nobody would willingly discriminate against disabled people”, but it happens. Every. Single. Day. This is our lives. Why would you suggest that disabled people sign themselves up to be discriminated against ahead of time? 2/6
This is why:

Whether it’s conscious or subconscious, you do not see disabled people as people. You would rather we not exist in society with other people. You’re “fine with us being disabled” (as though we had a choice) but you want that kept far away from you. 3/6
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Oct 3, 2019
CN // Medical Abuse

Just read an extremely disturbing and triggering article about hospital staff creating a miniature “Wall of Shame” based on patients CONFIDENTIAL MEDICAL RECORDS, making fun of disabilities that they found funny for some reason. 1/5
This was triggering because I have an “embarrassing” disability. I’m one of those people. And I already have an extreme aversion to hospitals and medical facilities (to the point where I have almost died because I refused to go in for care due to such extreme anxiety). 2/5
To read something like that reminds me how little people think of disabled people, like me. Reminds me that no matter where I go, I will always be mocked, even by those I am entrusting my care to. People who do not have to wake up every day facing the hell that I face. 3/5
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