#cr slur

[batmanshole]

the ableism on this website is insane “idiot and crazy are slurs” and “my crippling anxiety could never” from the same person. well!

[gayseyjones]

every day theres a new guy with like exclusively ADHD or anxiety or whatever who comes on here and says shit like "ummm telling people to touch grass is ableist" or "ummm expecting someone to make small talk with their server is ableist" meanwhile I had kids calling me a cripple to my face in middle school like I've gotta be honest with you guys It's really goddamn annoying to see ablebodied neurodivergents throw the word "ableism" around like its nothing because of some deep-seated need to be Morally Correct about their discomfort with something or because they wanna get more points in an internet argument. And b4 anyone comes in2 my askbox saying "ummm you're being ableist against ppl w/ ADHD and anxiety" I have both of those so ✌️

[sonicunleash]

i just want everyone to know what our vc is like right now. btw

[skeletalsepulchre]

so glad the disco elysium man won so now i can finally stop seeing the "girl famous for calling a boy a cr*pple after disabling him" character on my dash

[ylfva-remade]

sorry for being an angry cripple on main do you forgive me

[hollowslantern]

you can't be saying that edgy baby.

[pocketgalaxies]

waylon: could i just pick your brain?

chet: of course!

laudna: LITERALLY?!?!?!?!

[grechsblog]

I love when wangji is allowed to be an evil brat (15) and a rude bitch (adult) because we all know hed be mud-ridden bite-happy uncontrollable gremlin if he were raised anywhere other than Cloud Recess.

Although that gives it extra petty edge to all of it

[sunshiney-day]

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY TERFS ON MY FUCKING DASH

GO AWAY

IM A TRANNY

FUCK OFF

PLEASE

GOD TUMBLR WHY

[batmanshole]

also, i'd like to remind people who use the argument that "oh it just means broken!" when describing physical objects / systems (ie. crippled infrastructure, crippling debt, etc.) that this argument is by very origin of the word, false.

as a noun, cripple stems from the old english crypel, which means "one who creeps, halts, or limps, one partly or wholly deprived of the use of one or more limbs," (source)

("creeps" in this case meaning to walk closer to the ground, crawl, or otherwise move in an odd way. not the modern usage of the word which you may be thinking of.)

the use of cripple(d) as a verb began in the 13th-14th centuries, where it explicitly was used to describe physically disabled people. (source is the same as above.)

when using the word cripple to describe something or someone, you are not saying "this [person or thing] is broken / doesn't work properly.", you are explicitly saying "this [person or thing] reminds me of how disabled people walk / move / exist in general."

it is ableist to use the word regardless, but i find this explanation to be useful for abled people who don't fully understand why the word being used to describe something other than a person is offensive.

tl;dr: the word cripple stems from descriptions of physically disabled people, using it in any context while abled is offensive. full stop.

anyways it's 2023 and disability pride month.

The word "cripple" "crippling" and any other variations are for physical disabilities, not mental illnesses or other things like dysphoria.

Instead of "crippling anxiety" you can say "Debilitating anxiety" or "Disabling anxiety" ect.

It's not "Crippling dysphoria", it's "debilitating dysphoria".

To say something is crippling is to directly compare it to being physically disabled. And too many people in 2023, who proudly call themselves progressive, and leftists, and communists, refuse to listen to and actually respect physically disabled people in even the most bare minimum way.

No, you are not crippled by your depression, or your dysphoria, or your anxiety, or whatever it is, unless it's a physical disability.

And no, you cannot nitpick and pretend that "Well, actually, all neurodivergences are actually physical disabilities because they come from the brain, so they're the exact same thing!"

No they're not.

Physically disabled people are literally physically barred from society. Physically disabled people get left behind in buildings in fires and other emergencies.

Having social anxiety does not make it literally physically impossible for you to get in and out of your front door.

Having depression does not make it literally physically impossible for you to go up and down the stairs to get out of a burning building.

Having dysphoria does not literally physically make it impossible for you to go out literally anywhere in public.

If you think you have to compare your mental illness / whatever to being physically disabled for people to take it seriously, then you need to work on your own internalized ableism, and realize that equating, and this is a real example, having agoraphobia to being housebound due to the fact that you can't even get in or out of your house, let alone anywhere else, in a wheelchair...

you are just ableist.

Systemic inaccessibility literally physically prevents many disabled people from leaving their homes. T

here are real physical barriers stopping physically disabled people from existing in our society and no amount of therapy, medication, self-care, positive thinking, or whatever it is you do to help manage the symptoms of your mental illness, is going to make those physical barriers go away.

If you refuse to do the bare minimum of changing the language you use to be less ableist, then you will never be able to combat larger forms of ableism. Removing ableism from your vocabulary is step 0 to fighting systemic inequality.

Language shapes the way we view and interact with the world.

Mental illnesses are not crippling. Physical disabilities are crippling. And if you won't even do this basic thing to be less ableist then there's no way you will ever be able to fight other forms of ableism.

It's 2023. Remove "crippling" from your vocabulary unless you're using it to describe a physical disability or condition.

[the-acid-pear]

Little Billy is the Cuno of Dialtown

[batmanshole]

okay sorry to go back to Slur Discourse again but ablebodied nd people being like "well we can say cripple because the term 'mental cripple' exists" okay well 1. go to hell 2. if it described you you wouldnt need the 'mental' modifier now would you.

[gayseyjones]

last post is so true bc ppl w/ ADHD and low support needs autistic ppl loveeee talking over disabled ppl while still acting like they can get involved in cripplepunk LMAOOOO that or they straight up hate psychotics. Maybe both if you're lucky. I literally do not care about your quirky adhd pride flags if you can't even do bare minimum research into how delusions work or even realize that physical ableism often presents itself differently from mental ableism. I'd genuinely rather spend my time w/ a neurotypical phys disabled person than an able-bodied neurodivergent

[volfoss]

just a thought but maybe abled people should not be using the words a disabled character is using for themselves. maybe they are slurs/derogatory for a reason

[antmimicry]

really love all the posts like "you retar- I mean socially maladjusted degenerate braindamaged idiots are so fucking sensitive calling everything 'ableism' lmfao.. goo goo ga ga unable to form a coherent thought drool rolling down your chin how does anyone in your life tolerate you you literal infant whiny baby waste of space you call yourself 'disabled' but actually you're just a pathetic lazy loser who doesn't know how to be normal because you've never put an ounce of thought or effort into anything in your life you just want to be coddled so you whine 'ableism' about everything throwing a tantrum because you have the mental age of a particularly stupid toddler but actually not everything in the world exists for you some things just aren't meant for you you don't need to 'access' everything and if you can't 'access' something it's actually just your own fault so stop complaining and demanding people coddle and cater to you shut the fuck up about 'accessibility' or 'image descriptions' or 'trigger warnings' or whatever you're so fucking braindead how are you even still breathing I hope you overreact to something so hard it fries the single struggling brain cell you have left and spares everyone else from having to deal with you"

very cool keep up the great work everyone

[saschazkraus]

Good day.

big FUCK YOU to anyone who drops AUDIBLE slurs in posts and doesnt trigger warn them. looking at you That one Welcome Home instagrammer