#abled

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

I really don't care if accessibility helps abled people. You should care about us even when there is no direct benefit to you personably.

[consider-your-potatoes-mashed]

Fuck abled people and their opinions on disabled bodies

My mother literally said to me that she “believes that I am choosing to be disabled and that she believes that I am healthier than I feel” like ma’am you are not in the same body as me you do not know it better than I do. Do you not think that I wasn’t to be healthier? Do you not think I’d rather not be in pain? You really think I’m choosing this? After saying that bull shit she goes on to say that she only wants the best for me and for me to “get well soon” and arugh I stg she really feels like one of those people who are like “don’t say disabled say differently abled” like gah no there are things I simply cannot do anymore I don’t do them differently I just can’t do them

[acecontroversy]

Cute inter-abled lesbian couple!

Here we have a handsome paraplegic butch, with her beautiful abled femme girlfriend! As a bisexual man myself, I support it! These two are so cute together, I hope they get married!

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

If you're not Disabled...

please keep the following in mind.

Telling someone who's Disabled that "they're so brave" is a fucking insult.

Saying you would rather kill yourself helps no one.

Many of us have committed suicide because we couldn't or wouldn't accept living with our disability/disabilities.

Many of us failed and required help to no longer feel the need to commit suicide.

Many more question whether or not it's worth living as Disabled because of the fuckery ableds, namely you, say to about and about us.

We are not brave for living.

You are an asshole for telling us you would rather be dead.

When you say you would rather kill yourself, you are telling us our lives aren't worth living.

You're fucking wrong and need to reflect on why you feel it's acceptable to say these things.

You are one bad day from becoming Disabled.

You are one bad illness from becoming Disabled.

Long covid is virtually guaranteed, and the risk of developing it goes up every time you become sick with covid.

It will be years, decades even, before we fully understand the long-term effects of having had covid19.

That includes those who were pregnant while sick.

We don't have names for the fuckery covid19 has on the body.

Covid19 weakens the immune system every time you contract it, aka your immune system is left trashed and not with antibodies illnesses like influenza or chicken pox develops.

When you catch covid19, you are making it much easier to become Disabled.

You are one bad day from becoming Disabled.

You are one bad illness from becoming Disabled.

If you live long enough, you will become Disabled.

[iammadelinepod]

I was really struggling today with working to do advocacy while also trying to navigate issues with my landlords and trying to figure out how to get a human rights case started and how to have enough time to see that through all with so many things asking energy and money of me that I don't have.

So to decompress and collect myself to get rolling I did a podcast episode. In it I talk not just about the pain and exhaustion of pushing through to get ready for the second fire inspection, but individual and collective ableism creating a situation that sends the message, in no uncertain terms, whether overt or covert, my country wants me dead. But I also talk about how for most people it's really a lack of understanding and totally unconscious. And how each person working to understand means we begin to address that larger conscious or unconscious collective ableism infecting bureaucracies, medicine, journalism, politics and the larger society

Also I just realized I passed my 44th anniversary of being post viral epstein-barr😟. Sadly still no improvements to supports or research yet. But I haven't finished fighting and with your help I will continue to as long as I can!

Links for you to have handy

RICHOCHET article, (please share💗)

And here is a tweet thread by the journalist who wrote the Ricochet article so that you can share it on Facebook or Instagram as Canadian news links are still not permitted there

Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: Crush https://anchor.fm/i-am-madeline/episodes/Crush-e2c5131

[enbycrip]

When even “do it with the confidence of a mediocre white man” won’t cut it, do it with the confidence of a perisex cis man telling you his views on abortion, or an abled person with a disabled family member talking about disability.

[moonestrus]

I am constantly re-traumatized by the fact that disabled people are discarded and disregarded. Because they cannot grind away as a cog in the capitalist machine like their abled peers, they are allowed to suffer and die. What, you need accommodations? To toil and slave away? No, go die, is what the capitalists wish they could say.

The fact that "sick days" are a thing disgusts me. You're sick more than your allowed number of hours? Fired. You're fired.

Never mind when disabled people try to protect themselves from deadly diseases. Would it kill you to cover your mouth when you cough? Because it will kill us when you do not.

I think that it's really important for people to realize that being disabled is traumatic. genuinely. your body and brain feel like they are breaking down and wrong. you are in constant heavy stress from stuff like chronic pain. most disabled people i know have a somewhat regular emotional break down from the trauma of it all. and we are expected to just smile through it by society, to not be in the way, to not be an issue.

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

Using disabilities and their symptoms as insults is ableist.

Yes, a lot of ableism is nominalized and will go over people's heads. But the remedy to this is education and not throwing a fit when someone tells you that the ableist thing you are doing makes you ableist.

You can't degrade disability and care about disabled people.

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[lilsmunky]

A space can be inaccessible to me if the temperature is too hot and the same is true for abled people. Their "too hot" is just hotter than mine.

Similarly, a movie with the audio track removed may be hard to follow for an abled person, just as a movie without cc is hard to follow for someone with an auditory processing disorder.

If you are able-bodied, try to imagine infrastructure that would make spaces inaccessible for you. Sidewalks with random five foot drops. Chairs that force you to sit in a painful position. Maybe the bus you take to work reeks of acetone? Maybe your sister's birthday party is being held at the top of a 200-floor skyscraper with no elevator. What if your school of 1000 kids held all classes in the gymnasium, at the same time, and your teacher only spoke Corsican? All eating utensils hurt to touch. Every light is blinding and you aren't allowed sunglasses. Maybe your boss tells you that you'll be fired if you can't bench press 800 lbs and run a marathon tomorrow.

That is how being disabled feels in an inaccessible world.

Accessibility is talked about like it’s only something disabled people need, like it’s an inconvenience or it’s something that goes above and beyond what the average person would expect. But abled people get their accessibility needs met without a thought. They get lights bright enough to see by, stairs, doors wide enough to fit through, chairs at the level they like, and all sorts of other things that are tailor-made just for them.

Abled people do have accessibility needs. The only difference is that abled people are granted access automatically and disabled people have to fight for that same privilege.

[animentality]

[blorbocedes]

if 3000+ devices exploded simultaneously and thousands got injured, 37+ ppl died in usa or london or france anywhere in the imperial core this website would be talking about it nonstop. my coworkers' relatives are lebanese and he hasn't been able to contact them because everyone's nervous of using anything with a lithium battery. the kids from diaspora are teaching their parents how to turn off find my phone and airdrop and other geolocating options. it's absurd to me people are carrying on like its normal, or just don't care cause c'mon ppl blow up in the middle east all the time, right?

[dkpsyhog]

Just found out apparently Terraria has optional integration with RGB keyboards where the key lights will animate thematically to the gameplay and I'm gonna be honest if I saw this shit on my keyboard during the final boss countdown I think I would shit myself

[moonestrus]

listen the only way we're going to get disabled people the rights they deserve is to just force it on people. The only reason we have the majority of accommodations is because of federal laws that force them to exist.

The same way fed contractors are required to only accept the lowest bid, we should build certain codes in and update the ADA.

No more ugly cement ramps of shame (that don't even work). More beautiful gentle slopes. No more slick, dangerous stairs either for the ableds.

No more broken handicap door buttons or push/pull doors that weight 100 lbs? How about just more automatic doors?

How about some even fucking sidewalks? Why is there always money for potholes, but our sidewalks always look like an earthquake just happened?

How about better public transportation with kneeling buses and those cool tripod bikes? Because yes, I can drive, but I'm exhuasted all the time and probably shouldn't most of the time.

i think if people are to become actually accepting of disability they need to radically rework what they consider to be tenants of a fulfilling life. independence and self sufficiency can be nice but they're not required for a fulfilling life. neither is having a partner and children, having a job, or getting out of bed every single day. sure they can be enriching but so can other things. we need to stop considering the lives that disabled people live to be inherently subpar. inability and struggle is also a part of life, it doesn't devalue it. and acknowledging the difficulties of disabled people doesn't make their lives inherently unfulfilled either. we're here living life too.

[official-lucifers-child]