#Tw ableism

[wilted-astraea]

Until people understand WHY intrusive thoughts happen, they will never be able to understand what OCD is and why it presents the way it does.

Reminder that most, if not, ALL PEOPLE EXPERIENCE INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS. if you are so quick to point at a person suffering with OCD and call us "psychotic" for having thoughts we quite literally can't control, then look in the mirror. You get the same thoughts. Having one form of intrusive thought doesn't make you any better or worse than someone with other forms of ITs. They're all involuntary thoughts that no person asks for.

But because those suffering with the condition are unable to let these thoughts pass without a reaction, suddenly that means we align with them????

Is it just me, or are people only somewhat empathetic when anxiety-induced thoughts (whether intrusive or not) are more based in reality or socially "acceptable"?? When it comes to those thoughts and worries, people are quick to think "well you know that's not gonna happen, you're just overthinking" but as soon as it's a person with OCD struggling with taboo intrusive thoughts, the conversation switches from "that's not gonna happen!! don't worry" to "EW? YOU SHOULD BE LOCKED UP! YOURE A DANGER TO SOCIETY" so where do we draw the line between acknowledging that someone has an irrational thought and demonizing them/assuming their character based on them??? The form of intrusive thought doesn't change the outcome, which is just the person suffering and trying everything to get rid of the thoughts. That's quite the opposite of aligning with those ITs.

[ghosting-plural-userboxes]

it frustrating that when we search up mild intellectual disability cuz even tho we have it we don’t know much abt it and everything that comes up is like “mild intellectually disabled are super nice friendly and gullible” that may be true for some but we ARENT gullible or that nice and we are not friendly !! Why is this all we see ?!? Why is there no resource for us ??? Fuck this !!

also most ones are like “acts / thinks like small child” which again may be true for some but not us !! We don’t act or behave small usually unless regressed . We act like a disabled sixteen year old ! And we most likely will be stuck at our sixteen year old level for the rest of our life but that doesn’t mean when we are adult we aren’t an adult ,,,????? It feels so infantilizing ,,

sorry for rant :</gen

[syscultureis]

System culture is being told that you're collectively only "some mentally ill girl who makes new identities every other day to cope with her household" by somebody you treasure as a friend

(Apologies for the sort of rant, we're just incredibly hurt and pissed)

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[esoteric-nightmare]

the way people keep an eye out for "fakers" is absolutely awful. you absolute cannot decide if some one is faking anything by looking at them.

not only do disabled people have fluctuating energy and pain levels and other similar factors, that may allow the person to do something like play with their child in their backyard one day, and another day spend the entire day in bed.

different tasks require different things. I personally have learning disorders, and can read novels very quickly. but reading and filling out government forms is so difficult for me I need extra help. different tasks are different.

at the end of the day people need to mind their own business. people who obsess over a disabled person possibly "faking" are not helping anyone. they actively make it so disabled people have to prove they are disabled, which no one should have to prove that. no one is entitled to personal medical info, to make themselves feel like a good person.

Do you have a disabled neighbor who receives benefits because they can't work but you see them playing a sport with their child, doing yardwork, or doing other physical activity?

That doesn't mean they're faking their disability.

If someone can do physical exercise for an hour on a good day, that doesn't mean they can do it on command for eight hours straight then do it again the next day and the next and the next and the next.

Disabled people should not have to perform their disability to your standards.

[some-pers0n]

Saw a thread on Twitter of "gifts to give a person with ADHD and autism" that was full of stereotypical and quite frankly patronizing items, so here's a list of I (autistic individual) want instead as a gift

Money

Fourteen billion dollars

Free coupon to kill somebody with my teeth

Suitcase full of money

Cool looking rock

Scratching post for me to sink my claws into

An albino elephant

The head of Jeff Bezos mounted on my wall

Uncooked rice

A cup full of blood

100k in cash

[zebulontheplanet]

Just a reminder that people who still live with their parents as adults deserve respect and for you to stop being ableist. There are multiple reasons someone could still live with their parents! From invisible to visible disabilities, finance issues, and more!

Stop using the “well they’re gonna turn into a creep living in their parents basement” punchline! It’s disgusting. STOP. BEING. ABLEIST. STOP. FORGETTING. THE. POOR.

[neurospicyyy]

• Fidgeting and stuttering do NOT always indicate that someone is nervous.

• Avoiding eye contact does NOT always mean someone is lying.

• Having a hard time focusing does NOT always mean someone is lazy.

• Carrying around a stuffed animal or blanket does NOT make someone childish.

• Poor motor skills is NOT a direct indication of intelligence.

Not everyone fits into your box. Deal with it.

[schizopositivity]

In case anyone thinks this type of sanism doesn't happen on Tumblr

[mxmorbidmidnight]

So much of what society treats as a joke is just mocking disability. Their idea of lazy is a disabled person trying to survive, whether that be living with their parents as an adult or using pre prepared food. Cringe culture is based entirely around mocking neurodivergent people and their interests. Symptoms and characteristics of disability such as urgency issues, drooling, tremors, tics, strabismus and speech impediments are used as cheap punchlines.

In children’s tv shows disabled characters such as those with speech impediments are treated as a joke, with symptoms of disability being portrayed as synonymous to stupid.

This idea is being taught from a young age in the media and it’s engrained into our language and culture. This goes beyond jokes, it contributes to the alienation of people with disabilities.

Once you start noticing these things you realise how constant and normalised it is.

Reducing an entire person to a punchline is wrong. Using a disability symptom as an insult is wrong. It’s disturbing how normalised it is to not treat people with basic decency and respect.

[a-sip-of-milo]

Was watching a documentary type thing with my parents today and one of the scenes showed an athlete visiting some school thing specifically for autistic children.

The entire time, they were shedding light on how hard it was for the parents living with an autistic child, how exhausting and how shameful it is.

Not ONCE did they acknowledge what it must be like for the child to live with autism. They were offering all this support to the people around them and none for the child whatsoever.

Fuck “autism mums”. Fuck parents who make their child’s diagnoses and issues all about them.

[ghosting-plural-userboxes]

OH FUCK OFF ?!?!? trying to give resources to friend about mild ID and all of them are like “those with mild ID have mental age of 9-12 year old” FUCK OFF NO I DONT . We are 16 and we are MENTALLY 16!!! We are just a DISBLED 16 YEAR OLD. Who functions like a DISABLED 16 YEAR OLD!?!? Is just us or is the “mental age” stuff used as excuse to infantilize and act like all folks with ID are children .

my functioning level / capacity does NOT EQUAL MY MENTAL AGE OR PHYSICAL AGE AHHSHWHWHWHWGHHW

atleast that how I feel.

again very much starting to suspect we were misdiagnosed cuz all of the “3-6 grade math and reading skill” stuff does not apply to us. (Does apply to science and spelling and grammar and writing we are at a 4 grade level at that I think)(:( it just struggle cuz we just want to feel like we are intellectually disabled “correctly” instead of being weird)

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[love-me-love-my-weirdness]

“Don’t let your disorder define you”

Okay but do you support the people whose disorders do define them?

Do you support people with the chronic illnesses who have had to develop whole lives around their conditions? Do you support the intellectually disabled people whose whole way of thinking is defined by their disorder? Do you support the people with personality disorders who literally have a disorder as a personality? Do you support the autism/ADHD people whose disorder you can’t separate from who they are? Do you support the DIDOSDD people who have multiple definitions of themselves because of their disorder?

Or are you just saying that because a disorder defining someone means you can’t ignore it.

[identitty-dickruption]

there is a difference between a disabled person saying “in my perfect world, I wouldn’t be disabled”, and someone saying “in my perfect world, disability doesn’t exist”

the first is understandable. being disabled can be really fucking hard. pain is not fun. fatigue is not fun. meltdowns aren’t fun. relying on constant medical intervention is not always great, either. there’s nothing that says a disabled person HAS to love themselves, and it’s not inherently ableist for a disabled person to wish that they were different

the second is eugenics. that’s the long and short of it. you wish disabled people didn’t exist? well we do exist. oh but you wish they didn’t? how do you plan to achieve that, bud? it’s just straight-up eugenics

[hussyknee]

People seem to think this is fake because it's written in English. Apart from the racism in believing that Arab doctors and nurses aren't fluent in English (a second or official language for half of Asia), Palestinians have deliberately been addressing their audience in English on every social media, from journalists to children, because they know speaking English to Westerners immediately makes people more human in their eyes. Because language is one of the ways the imperial cultural hegemony conditions us (yes, everyone in the world) to see who qualifies as "people" and who are simply a mass of bodies who were always made to suffer and die. Gazans know this deeply, which is why they have been using English to beg and plead through social media, "We're not numbers! We're not numbers! We're people like you, we speak your language, we deserve to live!" all the while they're systematically slaughtered.

Israeli forces also encircled Al Shifa Hospital yesterday and bombed it for several hours while shooting dead anyone trying to flee including medical staff moving between buildings. Not sure whether it's still continuing because WHO lost all communications with its staff there a few hours after. The last new report said that thirty-nine babies had been removed from the incubators before the power went out. It's extremely unlikely they will survive.

Please understand that these atrocities depend on the war of attrition between governments and public attention. The momentum of public outcry is difficult to sustain through repeated stonewalling and bureaucratic intractability. When we're flooded with these reports and a sense of futility and despair replaces the anger, it allows compassion fatigue to set in and the violence to become normalized. Massacring hospitals, killing sick children and openly targeting humanitarian aid workers (Netanyahu just declared the UNRWA is in league with Hamas) will become simply more news articles that fade into the background, and open genocides will soon become part of the "lesser evil".

Take care of yourselves how you can, take distance where needed, but please never tune out and give up on the two million people for whom we are the only witness and hope. Never stop boosting and sharing the news and posts you find, never stop getting out there and joining every protest you can, however small. Anger burns out, which is why activism must depend on an immovable sense of justice and uncompromising value for human life. It's not just about Gaza, it's about the kind of evil our generation will be coerced into accepting as unchangeable and inevitable hereafter.

[sunlitmcgee]

the concept of a freakshow never fully went away. nowadays people collect posts/screenshots of disabled/mentally ill people literally just Existing Online and put them on their accounts with the intention of displaying them for people to hurl abuse towards. And they think that this is a Normal and Moral way to behave and carry themselves.

[autiebiographical]

I hate how often someone suddenly changes how they act towards me the second they find out I'm autistic. I'm still the same person you were talking to before you found out!