#Tw ableism

[1m-l1v1ng-1n-h3ll]

The killing someone with my teeth is a bit too real i fear (its on my camhs report that i want to eat human skin/flesh 😃👍)

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

[luxiomahariel]

this argument that terfs dont hate trans men/mascs just as much as trans women/fems has been pissing me off for a while and i wanted to collect a bunch of vile shit that terfs have said about trans men/mascs to show just how much terfs hate us in a very distinct way

but i really did not want to actually look through terf blogs and posts and subject myself to all that hatred because i will just end up feeling fucking miserable

LUCKILY i remembered caelan conrad did three entire movie length videos discussing the gender critical movement and they showed a SHIT TON of screenshots of the stuff these women would say behind closed doors, so here is the screenshot amalgamation of how terfs REALLY feel about trans men/mascs that they "pretend" to care about:

i have linked caelan conrads videos under the readmore as well as included content warnings

and here is my disclaimer: i am NOT CLAIMING that terfs hate trans men/mascs more than trans women/fems. i am showing you how they hate our two groups in vastly different ways that sometimes overlap and sometimes dont. but they DO target ALL OF US MORE OR LESS EQUALLY. STOP DOWNPLAYING THE OPPRESSION OF TRANS MEN/MASCS AND LISTEN TO US WHEN WE SPEAK OUT ABOUT THIS SHIT AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE WANT TO FIGHT AGAINST OUR OPPRESSORS TOGETHER. WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO THAT IF YOU KEEP DOWNPLAYING OUR EQUALLY VALID STRUGGLES IN ORDER TO CLAIM THAT YOURE THE MORE OPPRESSED GROUP OF TRANS PEOPLE. WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER. AND THAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN WE ACKNOWLEDGE EACH OTHERS PROBLEMS AS EQUALLY SIGNIFICANT.

content warnings for: transphobia, exorsexism, homophobia, misgendering, slurs, conversion therapy, dehumanization, mentions and depictions and mocking of suicide, mentions of sexual assault, mentions of physical assault, internalized queerphobia, discussion of cults, misogyny, racism, misogynoir, white supremacy, islamophobia, antisemitism

[vivziepopcriticalconfessions]

"As an autistic person, mammon seem autistic coded in mastermind and watching Bee and Ozzy scold him kinda pisses me off, even if he's "in the wrong""

Submitted by anonymous

[antivivziepopparade]

It feels like the "normal pills" from Dream.

Except even more disrespectful. Like-

Literally being depressed isnt just "sad". Vivziepop even thinks that its "JUST SAD!:" irl and that people who are trans arent "legit"" if they dont have dysphoria (which isnt true btw, you do NOT need dysphoria to be trans.) and that being depressed while having any happiness in your life makes you "nongenuine."

So she's transphobic, along with being ableist as hell.

These are Viv's recent discord messages btw. Proof here:

i dislike the fact that stolas’ antidepressants are called “happy pills”. it just seems so unserious to me? helluva boss is an adult cartoon, and you’d think that adult cartoons would touch on serious topics like depression. but instead of straight up writing “antidepressants” on the can, they go with “happy pills” which is on the same level as literally some gacha mini movies.

[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.

[bonefall]

Moonpaw discourse summary

[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.

[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!

[everythingwasnormalhere]

There's so much wrong with "everyone is a little bit autistic"

Yes, allistic people might know a lot of facts about the things they like. Yes, allistic people might get a bit overwhelmed or underwhelmed sometimes. Yes, allistic people might not get an expression sometimes, mostly if it's the first time they hear it.

That doesn't make them autistic.

Those traits only make someone autistic when they become disabling. Because, big shock, autism is a disability. Yeah, even if someone is low support needs, because that doesn't mean they don't need any support at all.

Saying "everyone is a little bit autistic" is like saying "everyone struggles with this, so suck it up, you have no right to need help". Which is just pure ableist bullshit. It denies the fact that autistic people have higher support needs than NTs, no matter where in the autistic spectrum they are. We're not "neurospicy", we're disabled, and denying this fact is denying us the right to get the help we need, we deserve, to have a good life.

(yes, this rant is just because I made the awful decision of listening to "neurospicy (interlude)" by Jax. honestly I'd rather be called a slur than listen to that shit again.)

[schizopositivity]

It's so frustrating that I'm only seeing more and more lobotomy jokes. Especially "live, laugh, lobotomy" merch.

You are making fun of the torture of disabled people. People with intellectual disability and severe mental illness brutally had parts of their brain severed or killed. Many people died from this. We can never know the true impact because the people who endured this were not the same after.

We shouldn't be bringing this up in any lighthearted way. This was a tragedy, and we should be showing basic human respect to the victims. I don't think anyone can "reclaim" it and no one should want to. Please treat it with the severity and respect you would to any other mass tragedy from history.