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binders-and-beanies · 2 years ago

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Idk why people get sooo mad when a word applies to something they think it doesn’t. Like. I’m diagnosed as being mildly intellectually disabled (because I am severely dyspraxic), it is medically and legally in black and white and there is Thorough ass paperwork that goes into detail as to how. (I won’t get too specific here but I’m categorized as “severely impaired” in the areas of motor speed and coordination, rapid mental flexibility, and spatial perception and orientation.)

Quantitatively and qualitatively doctors have tested and retested to figure out that objectively i fit the criteria, and therefore am officially categorized as such. That’s not a political statement or something I *want* to be true or false, it’s just fact. Not as in my ✨lived experience✨ but as in science. There’s not a secret other definition that doesn’t apply to me, just because an acquaintance is uncomfortable with it for whatever reason. You don’t know more about intellectual disability than neurologists do just because you have a tumblr account

#was reading abt the problems w IQ for school and remembered when I got diagnosed and everyone was like BUT YOUR IQ #first of all my IQ is also in the mildly intellectually disabled range but also that’s irrelevant bc IQ is bullshit #people love to double down about this and for WHAT what threatens you about my diagnosis #if you don’t know Anything abt the systems intellectually disabled ppl interact w you don’t get to act like an authority #people think they know the MOST and then the most basic aspects of me being categorized this way are like. breaking news to them #if ur the expert on me and my condition why is everything abt it such a shocker #i just. dunno what it is abt this term that bothers people so much #is it that it sounds too severe to apply to me? have u just only heard it applied to a few things so new info is hard to adjust to?#is it bc the one time you’ve heard of (mild) dyspraxia it was talked abt in different words? (which don’t have to contradict)#I just. genuinely don’t understand why this is an argument ppl want to win lol #it’s not even an argument bc it’s not even My viewpoint it’s just true #i shouldnt have to pull out my 10 page document full of numbers u won’t understand just bc You decided several doctors used a word wrong #and like. idk why it irks me so much bc it’s not smth i view as positive or negative to me. it just is #it’s not like for example when ppl tell me I’m not bi and ur denying smth I feel proud of #if u disagree about what medical terminology applies to me it’s not like I’m attached to the words themselves bc they’re just. true #i think it has more to do w ppl like. openly knowing nothing abt certain kinds of disabilities n still thinking they know more ..#.. than the ppl who have them or their doctors. like do u think ppl with these disabilities can’t be trusted or can’t understand #bc that’s. how you say. ableist #mine #txt #dyspraxia

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