#and when kids DO get removed from abusive situations they get funneled into a foster/adoption/orphanage system that often is not much better | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ocpdzim · 6 years ago

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i think everyone should stop calling characters “a child in an adult’s body” or variations thereof (unless of course you are referring to like, a freaky friday sort of situation in which the character is literally a child in an adult’s body) and instead consider the long history of that kind of terminology being used to infantilize disabled and neurodivergent people and take away their human rights. i most often say people make that kind of statement about clearly autistic coded characters but even just like, in general, you shouldn’t do that. a nd and/or disabled adult is not a child in an adult’s body, not ever, they’re always an adult and that’s it.

#ableism -#the fact that equating someone w a child can result in them losing their human rights is a whole nother can of worms to open bc like #children SHOULD HAVE more rights than they do. the lack of rights children have is horrific #obvs like. babies dont have the capacity for decision making yet but like.#the fact that under the eyes of the law ur basically ur adult guardians' property until u r 18 is fucked #a teenager should get to refuse abusive medical care and make decisions about their future and so on #i cried my eyes out when i was 15 cause i was given less say in my own medical treatment than my DOG was given in hers #she whined about some ointment so much that my parents just stopped making her take it #but me screaming my voice raw and begging didnt get me the kind of respect that my dog whining got her #dogs dont even know what medical care IS #like all she knew abt the ointment was it didnt feel good so she didnt like it!! i had done RESEARCH and knew why and how i was being hurt #and thats something that also intersects a lot w ableism bc like #if i was neurotypical i would not have been treated like that; despite the fact that i still wouldnt have really had rights as a minor #and like. this is not something that's been done to me but i hear about it and see it near constantly in other families but #when parents or other guardians are physically or emotionally abusive to their kids; even older kids and even young adults; those kids have #no recourse. what's 10 year old little jimmy gonna do if his dad hits him; sue for battery? no. he cant. hes 10 #but then even when he's 17 and has the intellectual development needed to do something about the situation he has no access to resources #bc his parents are in charge of his fucking life #and when kids DO get removed from abusive situations they get funneled into a foster/adoption/orphanage system that often is not much better #i feel like a lot of people forget children are human beings also and not like. dolls? or pets?#but regardless a disabled adult is not equivalent to a child and equating them is super damaging #they've got a whole different set of human rights concerns #child abuse mention -#abuse mention -#swearing -#medical abuse mention -#dogs -#medical -#medicine -#parent mention -

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