#disabled is not a bad word

[river-taxbird]

Doing research into disability inclusion can reveal some disturbing truths. In one (fairly major and you have probably heard of it) professional services firm, the HR person I talked to was like "We don't even say Disability, we say Diverse ability."

Girl nooooo!!!!! You're doing the Euphemism Treadmill. It's called the treadmill because by changing language you have the appearance of making social progress when really you're just running in place. If I am discouraged from using the word disability how can I even talk about how my disability affects me negatively? Talking about the negative aspects of your "Diverse ability" makes you sound like a weirdo! How can you claim to foster a culture of belonging when people can't even say what they are?

I am disabled. Please let me call myself what I am, or you'll turn my identity into a slur as so many words for disability have become before. We need to stop the treadmill before "Disabled" becomes a slur too. Gonna lay into that in my final report.

[3moe5me]

being both physically and mentally disabled really allowed me to realise how awful of a term "neurospicy" is. it reminds me of being called "differently abled" in reference to my physical disabilities, like you're beating around the bush trying to find a 'nicer way' to mention something so integral to my being as if the thing in question is bad and needs to be sugar-coated. it's disrespectful.

just tell it like it is. I am disabled. I am physically disabled. I am mentally disabled. you don't need to come up with these bollocks new terms to say that. disabled is not a bad word. stop treating it like it is.

[pebblesblog]

Planned my outfit for pride!!

[monriatitans]

Meet Diversability & Our Allies | Diversability

ANNOUNCEMENT - 06/30/2023: JULY’S CAUSE OF THE MONTH

With June, and Pride Month, coming to an end, a new cause to raise awareness of is in order. If you missed the quotes for June, you can see them here!

July brings Disability Pride Month. So, for July 2023 (and every July, to be frank), I will be sharing quotes pertaining to disabilities and anti-abelism. In addition, I will also be bringing to everyone's attention a resource, Diversability, linked above.

"Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities." - Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

These are all the updates I had for this evening.

Thank you for reading! May every decision you make in the future be in the spirit of fairness and may the rest of your day NOT go to $#!7.

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[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[lady-of-the-lyre]

Really mad at Meta for deciding to make every single post containing the lives and pains of disabled people into a shadowban for being "political" and yet allows people to tell others to delete themselves with no consequences. Do. Better. Meta.

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[yuri-puppies]

deciding that affectionately referring to someone as a grandparent is some sort of ableist slur is one of the wildest takes i've seen in a while and it's genuinely baffling how much hold the idea has in certain sections of the fandom

i have such a positive association with that term as an expression of solidarity between disabled people

my (queer, neurodivergent, disabled) friend group in undergrad (in our 20s!) called ourselves "the grandmas" to express how alienated we felt from other young queers, to reclaim our "old lady bodies" and our "old-fashioned hobbies"

the middle aged and elderly folks saying my sibling and i "went old ahead of time" at low impact exercise and folk dancing classes were welcoming us into the fold and expressing solidarity

i hate the pain and fatigue of my disability, how unreliable it makes it and i occasionally resent the ways it excludes me from mainstream society

but i love elders and i'm glad to have been welcomed prematurely into their ranks

yes i know the linking of youth with ablebodiedness should be challenged, and i know my experiences aren't universal, but we also need to take things in the spirit intended. targeting disabled people expressing self-recognition through a fictional character or young folks poking fun of themselves for how disproportionately they perceive age is just weird and pointless

[uncanny-tranny]

The bourgeois or "exploiting class" doesn't inherently include the person who gets their nails done biweekly, or the disabled person who has a carer, or the guy who got a $70 video game for full-price, or the person who relies on medication (yes even the ones you don't think they "need"), or anything else like this. None of these people will, on average, have the ability to exploit workers by means of ownership or whatever.

While you are busy fighting with fellow workers, you are still being exploited by your boss, by capitalism, by (potentially) not having healthcare, by being overworked and underpaid, and so are they.

[apologyacceptedcaptainneeda]

i HATE person first language. it literally tries to erase my disabilities. i am disabled. i have many disabilities. and they are a significant part of my life. so i like identity first language. because i am my disabilities. they are me. we are interconnected

[rjalker]

There is no sign that says "you must suffer this much to be disabled".

If you cannot function in society to the same level as every single other person around you without an external device or accommodations, you are disabled.

Yes, if you require glasses, you are disabled. It doesn't matter that you think it's not "bad enough" to be considered a disability. There is no required badness level for a disability. You literally require an external manufactured device to be able to function in society. You are disabled.

Yes, even if it's "only" because you're getting older, and you need reading glasses now.

[homosexual-trash]

I love you disabled people who use multiple mobility aids

I love you disabled people who use one, or a few mobility aids

I love you disabled people who use no mobility aids

I love you disabled people who are part time mobility aid users

I love you disabled people who a full time mobility aid users

I love you people with hidden disabilities

I love you visibly disabled people

I love you disabled people with a common condition

I love you disabled people with a rare condition

I love you disabled people with multiple conditions

I love you disabled people with only one condition

I love you disabled people with a diagnosis

I love you disabled people who are undiagnosed

I love you disabled people who are independent

I love you disabled people who are dependent on others

I love you disabled people who are unafraid to speak up for themselves

I love you disabled people who are still learning to find the confidence to speak up for them selves

I love you disabled people who use alternate forms of communication

I love you disabled people who always listen to their body

I love you disabled people who do activities even when it isn't the best for them

I love you people who were born disabled

I love you people who became disabled

I love you old disabled people

I love you young disabled people

I love you disabled people

[lunarharp]

being attached to that moment qifrey held a baby one time and my ideas for the future :)

[crazycatsiren]

"You are not 'disabled' you are" I'm about to be she who throws you into a well.

[444meat]

i would like it if people stopped assuming that all progressions of physical symptoms are due to deconditioning and that if you just worked harder to "push through" your disability and "stay active" you would not have symptom progression. it is Not Always True and it just comes off as you blaming me for aspects of my health that i Cannot Control that are already Actively Distressing to me. this is something that i see a lot in disability spaces. like i'm already struggling with A) my condition itself worsening & B) the mental toll & implications of that. i don't need to see a ton of people who should be understanding make assumptions about my health and tell me that actually it's my fault for not continuing to be active in ways i am physically unable to, especially when this is just not true in my case.

if you are able to recondition yourself and be more healthy through that, that's so cool for you. i mean that genuinely, and i hope that you are able to maintain your lifestyle and be as healthy as you desire. but you are not every disabled person. i have tried that, many, many times, and it has only caused more flare ups that i've never fully recovered from, leading me to end up feeling worse than i felt beforehand. i should not be barred from compassion because of this.

also, even if my condition had worsened due to deconditioning, consider that some disabled people cannot recondition themselves due to other factors in their life. maybe they have other non-physically-active obligations that take up too much time and energy. maybe they have a comorbid condition that gets in the way of reconditioning. maybe they literally just don't think the outcome will be worth the process. and consider that these people have the autonomy to do whatever with their own health & body and that they still deserve compassion and support even if they're "choosing" to be deconditioned. okay thanks

[igotthebees]

Google how to explain to abled people and people with low support needs that "your scenario is my nightmare scenario" even if it's true is not something you should say to someone