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hey so original post is awesome, love to see people reblogging it, 100% true. but i think if your goal here is to care about people with intrusive thoughts, namely people with ocd, then reblogging it with the comment is counterproductive and potentially actively harmful. if people are struggling to think their a good person because of intrusive thoughts they don’t need to be reminded that some people think they’re not. they don’t need to be told to their thoughts become words, even if it’s being refuted. that shit will still stick with you and be super fucking upsetting.the dunk here is not worth spreading around priveetru’s harmful rhetoric.

its midnight here so ill reiterate for myself that you can literally think whatever you want and it will have no tangible effect anywhere outside of your own head. you can hold your baby, think about throwing her against the wall, and your baby will still be alive. you can think about heinous sex crimes around your friends and it literally won't ever matter. many thoughts head at capacity

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while i know the cripplepunk movement started with the best of intentions, now literally the only thing that gets recommended to me from the tag is “physically” disabled being ableist towards “mentally” disabled people

the line between physical and mental disability is so much fucking thinner than you think. even what you think of as the most “basic” mental disorders have physical symptoms. what’s the difference, to our oppressors, between someone who’s hands won’t stop shaking because of anxiety vs tremors? between someone who can’t get out of bed because of cfs vs depression? between me, who can’t walk right because of my joint problems, and my cousin, who can’t walk rught because their autism makes them walk pigeon toed? why do i have more of a right to call myself a cripple when they’ve been called it their entire life? and they’ve definitely been called it more than i have!

this idea that mentally disabled people cannot possibly know what it’s like to be physically affected by their disability is ridiculous. the idea that physically and mentally disabled people are so separate that they cannot possibly relate to each other is just factually untrue. i have more in common with someone bedridden because of depression than i do with someone who is blind. i don’t know what it’s like to be blind!

when someone with a mental disability tries to speak over someone with a physical disability, that fucking sucks. i’m not denying that. but the struggle there is not between “physical” and “mental” disabilities, it’s between two people with different disabilities who are unable to understand where the other’s coming from. that isn’t a divide between mental and physical. trust me, i have had so many physically disabled people in my life who have no fucking idea what it’s like to be bedridden. and again, i have no idea what it’s like to be visually impaired. i could not use my experience being physically disabled to understand someone with a completely different physical disability than me

this idea that the community needs to be divided into “physically” disabled people and “mentally” disabled people is fucking nonsense. it fucking sucks. and it’s basically impossible with how much overlap there is between mental and physical symptoms

if you do not support both physically AND mentally disabled people, you are not my ally. we’re all disabled, let’s get you some solidarity.

obligatory standpoint epistemology so people will actually listen to me: i am a bed ridden cripple who uses mobility aids and has chronic pain in basically all of my joints. id love to tell you specific disabilities but right now all they know is “autonomic failure”. i also have autism, dissociative identity disorder and ocd with psychotic features. hopefully that’s sufficiently disabled for you