I'm treated as non-disabled until I can't cope any more and then I'm considered to be making a problem, over reacting, being dramatic, then there's misogynistic 'hormonal' 'must be on their period' etc (which hurts in a different way when you're non-binary). 1/
My struggles are usually considered my 'fault' too - I should be taking more rest, doing less around the house, doing fewer things I enjoy (that's a good one!?) but noone is ever there to actually *take* the pressure off. 2/
Even when people are well meaning it always boil down to how much time and effort I'm going to *cost* someone.

That's an awful way to go about in life. Awful and bloody exhausting.

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8 Oct
At group yesterday a physically disabled person referred to themselves as a crip and crippled.

A lot of people recoiled in horror at those words and the MH 'specialist' said that would need unpacking another time.

Their reaction is so problematic. 1/
Us disabled folk are continuously abused, ignored and patronised by those around us.

And when we finally own who we are as crips, disabled whatever words *we* choose we are policed. /2
I have this in research, I have to go to a lot of effort to explain why I, an autistic person, want and need to use identity first language.

This person had it at a MH group, it was implied that she was somehow wrong referring to her bodymind in that way.
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