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I hate it so much.

They just approved the Bill to legalise it here and I'm so. Angry.

It's all ABLED PEOPLE lobbying to be allowed to kill their relatives because they don't like to see them in pain.

But yeah, sure, I'm sure the government can be trusted NOT to use that Bill to start cutting actual assistance for disabled and terminally ill people and replace it with 'it's easier and cheaper if we kill you' instead.

They offered a Paralympian euthanasia when all she'd asked for was a ramp to be put in at her front door so she could fucking get into her own fucking home.

If you support MAiD you're an ableist dick.

concerning amount of people on this video are pro assisted suicide. i feel like a lot of them think it's just for people suffering in hospice care and don't understand the realities of what happens when this is in practice. how many disabled people talk about how they are told by doctors and nurses they should explore assisted suicide.

people talk about us like we are sad dogs that need to be put down (literally), but honestly, if we put this in practice in america, what do you expect?

the same country who gladly denies people the medication that will save their lives for money. do you think your disabled neighbor living hardly off of a disability check every month is gunna get given much of a choice between treatment or death? you're backing the 99% of chronically ill people who are far too poor to even afford shit in the first place into a financial corner to CHOOSE to end their lives.

its a fucking culling of human beings. who live the same valuable lives as anyone else. though of course they don't see it like that, they've never considered disabled people as living beings a day in their lives, much less talked to one.

i am so sick of abled bodied people telling ME that i don't know what i'm talking about when they're supporting assisted suicide. all this is doing is purging the undesirables and if you don't see that you haven't been LISTENING.

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Assigned Harpoon At Birth

Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

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Yay, yet another way for the physically abled to get around recreationally with none of that technology being put in to actually helping actual physically disabled people using actual wheelchairs, but at least the fucking ableds are having fucking fun, everyday I understand less and less how the UH CEO shooter resisted the urge to defile that dicks body when physabled people constantly act like this.

Gonna slap the word 'wheelchair' out of their dirty ableist fucking mouths.

Unbelievable, they've even made fucking wheelchairs ableist.

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If you can read slang, text speak, algo-speak, historical books etc

Then you can read what a higher level autistic has written. Or a person with ID (Intellectual Disability). A person with a learning disorder etc. or any of the other reasons a person may struggle with clear communication.

You just don't want to because you think they should translate for you.

Your ableism is showing.

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"i am agab" ❌

"i was agab" ✅

"agab" (assigned gender at birth) describes a past event where you were merely assigned a label by a doctor

not biological sex,

and not an identity label.

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'All you ever do is talk about being disabled'

Yeah, because you don't acknowledge that we exist!

Im never gonna shut up about it.

I hate when physically disabled people (like myself) mention things they struggle with and/or cannot do - only for able-bodied people, who take these things for granted, to react with shock/disgust/disdain/disbelief etc.

You'd think they'd try to be compassionate and understanding that we, as *physically disabled people*, have difficulties/inabilities that they don't because we are *physically disabled* and they are *not* -

but they (regularly, not necessarily always, I'm not saying this is all able-bodied people) will *not* try to be compassionate and understanding towards us.

This shock/disgust/disdain/disbelief/whatever the fuck will not change the fact that our disabilities exist. It won't stop our struggles with hygiene, diet, transport, movement, speech etc.

But it might stop us *telling* able-bodied people about them. Because we're tired of reactions like these. And it's not fair. We should be able to talk about how our disabilities affect us without being shamed and put down for doing so.

We are still people, and we deserve to be treated as such. We deserve to be able to talk about our struggles without able-bodied people cramming themselves into our spaces and a) talking about how we don't really struggle with those things, b) if we do struggle with those things, that we're disgusting failures/freaks, and c) just generally talking over us.

We struggle. We should be able to talk about that.

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🔥🔥🔥

The absolute separation and dissonance american people have from the concept of illness is insane to me. American culture (I know it's not the only one) is so hung up on preserving youth, health, ability status, privilege, etc to the degree that they moralize uncontrollable (and sometimes harmless) biological occurrences to the point of actual delusion.

You can't have wrinkles, you can't have grey hair, you need to look 24, you need to fit in the prom dress you bought when you were 16. And the way this extends into healthism and ableism is detrimental to the collective conscious, I think. People act like you're a "bad person" if you get covid. They act like if you get sick, it's because you did something wrong. They say you should get into health and fitness not to make yourself happy or to have something to do, but to "prepare our bodies to age gracefully."

As someone who was chronically ill and disabled since childhood, I've always had a bit of a disconnect with this culture?? Like, having to LIVE with a facial difference for 15 years before "cosmetic reparation" was an option for me taught me that the way you look and how healthy you are really has nothing to do with you at all. But the main reason people aren't "unlearning" these issues is that americans refuse to accept that they coexist with disease at all.

Cancer treatment only happens in movies or to people you don't talk to anymore. Covid isn't real. Covid is over. Everyone with lung cancer got it because they smoked and they knew the risks. If you're on a chemo drug, you must have cancer. If you have cancer or a spinal condition, you MUST be dying. If you're in a wheelchair, you can walk if you really wanted to. Don't be visibly sick or disabled around me; it makes me uncomfortable. Don't talk about your health; it reminds me of my own mortality. Deny, dissociate, don't think about it.

When the reality is that new illnesses and outbreaks happen all the time. "Chemo" drug units and dialysis centers actually encompass a range of drugs and disease treatments. Some people have to get a year's supply of iron infused into their blood once a year. Does that scare you? If you've had cancer, you have cancer forever. You're in REMISSION because the root cause of the problem is still in your body. You're cancer free now, but maintenance diagnostics will be a permanent part of your life.

But we can't talk about that. Because the concept of BEING ill is so deeply dysphoric for the generally healthy, abled public. Getting sick is TRAUMATIZING to the point where if you can fully recover, you tend to not dig deep into your feelings about the situation ever again. And you're doing it to yourself, but it's also kind of being done to you by everyone. Honestly, just normalizing illness and coping with our close proximity to it would do wonders for society.

And that's why I get pissed off whenever Healthies find my post about Mushi-shi lmao

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Hard agree

If YOU don't have to rely on another person to go upstairs, then I shouldn't have to either.

If I can't do it independently, it's not accessible.

Hot take it’s not actually accessible if I have to ask an abled body person for help or assistance

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They're FINALLY giving them training on how to behave like a human being.

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Cocodamol, save me.

Save me, cocodamol.

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Dear whoever came up with the concept of indoor baths, running hot water and bath bombs, I will never love another

Yours truly, me, trying to prepare for the oncoming migraine.

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I'm gonna start a 'this idiot spams in our tags' wall of shame.

Every time some complete twat makes a post in the tags that's got nothing to do with being physically disabled, I'm gonna screenshot it and post it so that we can all point and laugh.

Maybe with a rating system with points for

- how divorced from cripplepunk the post us

- if they answered with a 'stock answer' ("I'm physically disabled", "it's about punk") with extra points for originality

- if they double down

People who genuinely didn't know don't get posted, unless they don't remove the tags

I can't do anything about the disrespect we get out there, but I can do it here.

We deserve just ONE space.

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I hear you, man.

Pygmy Spiny-tailed Skink (Egernia depressa), family Scincidae, Mid-west, Western Australia

photographs by Andrea Ruggeri

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I mean, yeah, a lot of these are very cool and clever and stuff, but I still can't get into a shop with a step in the front, like-

How about stuff that could help people now? That isn't priced out of the range of anyone who could benefit from them.

It's just so depressing.

A lightweight, collapsible wheelchair that can go upstairs, or 100 million ways to build your own supervillian lair when you aren't a supervillian and never will be.

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I feel kicked I was shot in the eye.

I feel like that hedgehog that had no face.

I crave morphine.

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"If I could do anything if I wanted it enough, you wouldn't be talking."

"You can do anything if you want it enough" actually I can't. Because of the disability. My abilities are dissed. I am the opposite of able.

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Nah, screw changing the word. The word is fine. Nonbinary, self-explanatory.

The word isn't the problem.

Look at transmisandry. All that crying about how its not a good word, so they tried transandrophobia and that's bad too, and the myriad other words they came up with to try and talk about the specific flavour of bigotry transmen experience, but it doesn't matter.

They don't want you to use a better word, they want you to stop talking.

Any word would be a bad word, because they don't want to hear us, and you can't talk about it properly if you don't have a word for it.

No more moving goalposts, no more obliging people who have fuck all to do with this conversation at best and actively hate you at worst.

Nonbinary. They can deal with it.

Man it really, really fucking sucks being nonbinary right now.