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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

27 Nov

"Why are you only criticising liberals/leftists when the right are even nastier to disabled people?"

Because liberal/leftist spaces have a very specific brand of ableism that they hide behind a mask of progressivism and anti-capitalism.

And because the left should be better.

When you will throw disabled people under the bus in your environmental activism.

When you will side with workers who break the law and abandon disabled people at the side of the road.

I make a noise about it in leftist spaces because you are the ones who need to learn.

You don't consider us a part of your movement, when we are fundamentally entrenched in the very foundations of your ideology.

We are the ones who suffer under capitalism, we are the ones who will suffer in climate crises. You say you are progressive, yet you advocate eugenics.

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

23 Nov

The drive-in COVID test centres are totally inaccessible for disabled people, and NO alternatives are offered for people who need more support to do the test. With one in six COVID deaths being of disabled people, not accommodating us to get tested is a travesty.

My friend had to take her niece (4) to get them both tested today. She called ahead and was told there would be support if they couldn't do it. There wasn't. My friend is hard of hearing, so someone talking at her through a closed car window whilst wearing a mask? Not gonna work.

When I had my test a few months back, it virtually ended in me having a meltdown in the car because I didn't understand what I was supposed to do. And I had my family there to support me. The staff were not accommodating and gave me awful looks as I broke down in the car.

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

22 Nov

Imagine if people with lots of influence and money funded people from marginalised groups to make films about their own marginalised experience, rather than funding their own vanity projects and then getting upset when those marginalised people don't hail them as a saviour.

All I'm saying is that it would save a lot of stress and heartache in all directions.

We need less 'Music', and more wealthy, influential people doing the kind of work that Brad Pitt is doing with his production company:

"Pitt leverages his star power, access and reputation to get you the ball, and then he gets the hell out of the way."

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

22 Nov

People can care about and work on more than one thing at once, so if they're responding to something that's currently happening and trending, that doesn't mean they aren't also working on the very things you are criticising them for not talking about at this exact second.

Talking about things like media representation ARE important. Talking about things that are trending is important to ensure the narrative doesn't get overtaken by non-autistics. All these things matter, and also tie into other bigger issues.

There's such a pressure on people who talk about certain topics, or advocate on certain things, to ONLY talk about the things that specific people want them to talk about (which is also impossible because if you don't talk about the trending thing, others criticise you for not).

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

22 Nov

https://twitter.com/awesomebrandi/status/1330547924514779137

I think it's important that non-speaking methods of communication are not seen as a 'last resort' after all attempts at speech are exhausted. We should be trying to find ways for people to communicate, not fighting for speech at all costs.

https://twitter.com/awesomebrandi/status/1330547924514779137

That's not saying don't try speech therapy, but also try different methods of AAC at the same time. See which works. I can't imagine the pressure that intense speech therapy could put on a child, especially when AAC is available and could be world changing for them.

If there are methods of communication that a child may connect with, gel with, be able to use happily without stress, then I am unsure whether it's ethical, kind or moral to continue with intensive speech therapy programmes under the notion that spoken communication is superior.

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

22 Nov

Last week, they basically hung a massive sign around Callum's neck that said 'this storyline has never been about me choosing between Ben and the police, so please stop acting like that's what it is'.

He doesn't care about Ben doing crime, he cares about Ben being safe #Ballum

Callum has never once been torn between the two, never once shown a moral dilemma between 'love or duty', and never once demonstrated that his loyalty was to anyone other than Ben.

Every time he's done what DIDH has told him to do, it's been done to protect Ben from his wrath.

He's never once wavered from that. It wasn't even a question that Callum would tip Ben off about the police knowing, that he would refuse to grass to DIDH on what he knew, because it's never been about 'damn, my duty as a cop or my love for my boyfriend'.

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