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firefly-fez · 2 years ago

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Any other ADHDers out there really identify with being disabled/disability but get scared to call yourself disabled around other people because you feel like yours ‘doesn’t count’ and it’s ‘not as bad’, and like, maybe you’re not disabled enough to have the right to talk about disability?

haha its fine

#in my experience being open and honest about adhd as a disability #is beneficial to more severely and or visibly disabled ppl around me #because like if someone with ADHD who can reasonably achieve all the normal sociocultural milestones with working supports #who can probably learn to manage their disability mostly independently #if society won’t even help someone like me; if this common and highly treatable disability #can’t get access to help #then like #damn #if we can’t even do this for ADHD #how can we hope to provide lifelong instensive support for someone who might be more severely disabled #maybe if i call myself disabled its not taking anything away from ppl more severely disabled #but rather setting a standard #saying ‘no. you have to support this. this disability is allowed to take up space and need support.’#and every disabled person who stands up and says that #gives our ableist culture one less excuse #stigma affects different disabilities in different ways #but that doesn’t mean we can’t help each other #like there’s no stigma around taking insulin for diabetes (there are other issues that need solving yes)#but we don’t treat needing insulin for diabetes as wrong the way we treat taking meds for depression and or anxiety as wrong #for every person with insulin that says ‘this is the same. we need meds to live we deserve those meds and i stand with you.’#doesn’t that help?#okay clunky analogy but i hope you know what i mean #if we say ‘i am allowed to need support and i don’t deserve to have to compensate for my disability because it’s not a flaw to be overcome’#than that’s helpful right #because even if im right in the belief that others are more severely disabled for valid reasons #as opposed to continuing to underestimate the impacts of my own disability - realising you have a disability all along and didnt know it is #a helluva TRIP yall #but anyway even if genuinely someone has a more severe disability and requires more intensive support #a world that doesnt help me certainly isnt going to help them #but if i stand up and say i deserve help and so do they…..maybe we change the standard. maybe we get a little bit better

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