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maaaahri · 1 year ago

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I think the worst thing about the perception of health, both mental and physical, and being disabled in either regard, is that the need for extra support is often viewed, institutionally and therefore culturally, as a dehumanizing element rather than a simple fact of the human experience. No man is an island, and yet, when it comes to needing anything from an IEP to a caretaker, these things are used to subvert one's rights and create the expectation of failure and that's a little ableist innit.

#text #screaming into the void #thinking about that time a teacher #after an IEP meeting #told me that I was “incredibly articulate” for someone diagnosed with ASD #Maybe don't simply assume that I am somehow lesser due to a need for assistance beyond the norm #The simple fact is we need to acknowledge that some individuals are not suited to some things #that the world is actively hostile to how some bodies and minds function and therefore extra consideration needs to be exercised when #approaching these issues #Without that consideration serving to exacerbate pre-existing conditions and further alienate a community #already well-aware that the world is anathema to their productivity and joy #this is intersectional and goes for all vertices of oppression #to be frank #but ableism is what I'm thinking about right now and the one I can actually speak on with personal veracity.#I have encountered numerous individuals clueless to the protections the scholastic system affords them in terms of the United States #Unaware through no fault of their own of section 504 and the concept of FAPE #Experiences that anger me because I -did- get that assistance and I happen to know that it is a federal requirement that all public schools #provide that assistance #cases that made scholastic endeavors joyless #near impossible #It is a failing not of those individuals #but of the individuals around them

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