#disabiltiy pride

[biestcallisto]

I ended a friendship over this. Was it a friendship? We hadn't seen each other in years and then she moved back in town. So we met by chance and decided to use our bikes to go to the cinema and we talked. The whole ride. At the ride home the conversation turned towards politics. She had a buddy who had the genes for "locked in" Syndrome. His mother already suffered from the sickness, his sister had it and he may also get it.

Her buddy was mad that his mother had kids. She wasn't the first one in the family. He swore that he would not ever have kids because he doesn't want to see his kids suffer from this, or them see their father suffer from this. Fair. That was his choice.

Now what was my *friend*'s (I use the term loosely) take away from this?

Eugenics. Her opinion was that people with genetic diseases should not be allowed to have kids. Should forcibly be castrated. I took offense to this.

See, I was raised on AO3, where it was made clear, once you draw a line into the sand you will always have to re-negotiate where it is. Let's say we do force people w the genes for Locked-In Syndrome to not become parents. (which I already disagree with) What's next? Down Syndrome? (Which ALREADY is sadly done and it is wrong!) People with the wrong skin colour? (You know it IS being done!)

No. This is Nazi shit. This is eugenics.

YOU can decide to not want kids because of a genetic disease. **I** want all people w a genetic disease to have perfect access to health care. But forcing someone to abstain from parenthood because of something in their genes?

This girl was like "You are not allowing for the grey! The world isn't black and white" And yea, there is a lot of nuance in the world. A lot between black and white. But Eugenics is firmly on the evil side. There is no nuance when you discuss medically removing someones ability to have kids against their will.

If you don't want kids with genetic diseases, improve healthcare for all.

Needless to say, I deleted her number out of my phone and she never called me either.

The problem is not this one genetic disease. I can understand her buddy being mad and deciding against kids. It's a valid choice.

If you go down this road, deciding on kids for OTHER people? You draw a line into the sand. This line WILL be re-negotiated all the time. People will decide that this group of people should also be kid-banned, people you never intended to be included in the kid ban.

So just do NOT draw a line in the sand.

[maidfrin]

how parents feel after telling their undiagnosed disabled/chronically ill child "you shouldn't be having [symptom] at your age" and doing nothing to fix or look into the problem

[illegally-blind-and-deaf]

HAPPY DISABILITY MONTH TO

- People with invisible physical difficulties that they're really good at masking

- People with disabilities that are often stereotyped as coming from an unhealthy lifestyle (even if yours did not come from one)

- People who feel isolated in their disability's community because they handle their disabilities differently

- People who are deaf and don't sign

- People who are deaf and do sign

- People who have a degenerative disability that isn't impacting them too much but will impact them greatly in the future

- People with rare disorders and disabilities that currently have no cure or formal medication

- People who don't have access to medication and aids; may you have easy access to them one day

- People who do things that contradict their disability; deaf people doing music, blind people writing stories and creating art, etc

- People who suddenly have a disability (from an accident or genetics or whatnot) and continue to learn how to work with it

- People who were born with their conditions and are proud of who they are and have learnt to accept all the good and bad things abour life

- the parents who love and care for their disabled children

- the children who help their disabled parents if they need

- disabled siblings who support other disabled siblings

- friends who support disabled friends

- the teachers who accomodatebfor their disabled students

-everyone with some form of disability. You're not invisible :)

[prof-hemp420]

Happy Disabiltiy Pride Month everyone

[tomiechu]

ghappy disabiltiy pride month reminder your fave rosemary baker is disabled

[bobcat-pie]

happy pride mognt but disabiltiy awareness month came early f4or me

[lunathewafflelord]

something like this?

Sorry that the intersex flag is so distorted! I used the perspective form tool to make it triangular, but in the process it distorted the circle. I probably could have found a better way to do it. But this isn’t the final design for the flag, it’s a concept

edit: also ideally all of the colors of the rainbow would be visible. Or since the Disabiltiy Pride flag has some colors of the rainbow, some colors of the main rainbow could be omitted so there’s not too many of the same colors. There’s many ways one could go about this!

I saw some people say that they feel like the Progress Flag should also include some way to represent disabled people in it. I totally agree with this, but I’m not sure how they’d fit the disability Pride flag into the existing one without making it seem even more crowded than it already is. The intersex version of the Progress Flag already feels too crowded.

I think the best way to go about it is having a chevron on the other side of the flag to have the disability flag on, rather than adding it to the existing chevron. That could balance out the flag more, having designs on both sides.

And perhaps instead of making the intersex flag be inside of the first chevron, it could be a separate chevron on the bottom of the flag.

I can picture the design in my head, it’s a bit hard to describe it though. I might make a rough concept of what I’m picturing to see how it looks, and someone who is better at flag design could go from there.