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13 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
In case there was any doubt, DNR orders are still being imposed on disabled people. Someone just tweeted at me saying that 'it's hardly an immoral choice to make.' The fact that disabled deaths have been seen as acceptable or inevitable by so many is disgusting beyond words.
I repeat:

I genuinely don't have the energy to begin to unpack the many profound things wrong with this tweet

Also lol at being told that pointing out that 60% of the UK's Covid deaths being disabled people is 'hysterical chat.'

Everything about this is mortifying, but there's something especially grim about the fact that this headline didn't come as a surprise, as I and many other disabled people have been talking for weeks about how our GPs are still insisting on DNRs.

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12 Feb
Yesterday, it was revealed that 60% of Covid deaths in the UK were disabled people. The same day, Tory MP Charles Walker was on Channel 4 News, arguing that disabled people like me are acceptable losses. Disabled people in the UK are not fine. Check in on your disabled friends.
Meanwhile, almost everything in this earlier tweet of mine is still true. I repeat, disabled people are not okay.

Last month, Lord Sumption said on the BBC that disabled lives were 'less valuable' than others. I can't stress enough how normalised the narrative that disabled people are 'acceptable losses' has become.
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11 Feb
In 2008, Scope asked disabled children for their views on books. Here's what they had to say. To quote the kids, 'we think there should be more disabled people in books.'

youtube.com/v/x_7zLhaUoNI&…
Subtitles are in the video, but they're a bit difficult to read, as the video is 240p!
'I like this book because it shows a girl wearing splints, like me!'

'This boy has a wheelchair like me.'

'I like this book because there's a girl that has a hand splint in it.'

'This is like me in my wheelchair.'
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9 Feb
In 2006, nondisabled school children (in Years Two to Six) were asked for their thoughts on whether disability appeared enough in the books they read. Here's what they said. These quotes are from a 2006 Booktrust Report.
The schoolchildren noticed disability wasn't in the books they read. They commented,

'The world is portrayed in a different way than it is.'

'If I was disabled, I would feel that books are made for the rest of society and not for disabled people.'
'I would feel that books are avoiding the subject and not acknowledging that people like me exist.'
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9 Feb
I am so excited to read @BooksandChokers's second novel!! I read A Kind of Spark on Christmas Day in one sitting. Elle's one of the most thrilling literary voices to emerge in a long, long time. If you haven't had the pleasure of reading her work, go read her essential words! A white hand holding a book in front of a bookcase. The book
ID: A white hand holding a book in front of a bookcase. The book is Show Us Who You Are, by Elle McNicoll. The cover shows two girls with a backpack. One side of the cover (and one girl) is blue, and the other purple.
Also some deep part of my soul is satisfied when an author's books are the same size. Two books stacked on top of each other which are the same si
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7 Feb
You know those books where they're so good you're furious at yourself for not knowing the book before, not reading it sooner? Reading one of those at the mo
And this line! 'All at once, a door slammed. Everyone jumped, but Sal, partly because she'd been lost in a world of her own and partly because of her cerebral palsy, leaped a good two inches higher than everyone else.' There's that startle reflex, being written about in 1962!
I can't imagine how mindblowing it would have been for disabled kids to not only see themselves in a book in 1962, but in the illustrations, too!

ID: An illustration by Lewis Parker, which shows a child called Sally Copeland standing on crutches and looking down at a small dog. An illustration by Lewis Pa...
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One of the clearest childhood memories I have is getting out of a car in a disabled space. As I got in my wheelchair, an old man started spitting, 'you're too young to be in that parking spot, too young to be in that wheelchair.' Well, guess what, #DisabilityHasNoAgeRequirement
If I had a penny for every time someone's said I'm too young to be disabled, I would be richer than my wildest dreams. As an adult and a child, people always tell me I'm too young, or that I must be faking. #DisabilityHasNoAgeRequirement
I've been informed that after the person said this, I rammed my wheelchair's leg rests straight into his shins lmao
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