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beetrans · 2 years ago

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I am once again resisting the urge to Disc Horse. However.

I've seen a post floating around with a Conjectured Scenario of getting dx'd for gluten intolerance and then at the end is like Can You Imagine? If physical disabilities were treated Like That? & expressing frustraton with their experience trying to get an adult ADHD dx. Which,

I'm not commenting On The Post Itself bc it reads like someone who's only recently come into an identity as Politically Disabled, and I don't want to @ them, but --

quite apart from the (true) fact that getting pro dx'd for all sorts of disabilities (incl celiac!) Is in fact Like That

-- the problem you're facing is the same as other disabled ppl, and anyone (medically) marked as requesting Special Intervention.

the problem you're facing is that marking (disabled, intersex, survivor, drug-seeking, & many more) means you're no longer an authority on your own body/mind, because you are now the site of medical intervention, and thus the subject of medical expertise, not first person authority.

the problem you're facing is medical training and its institutional power seeing you as either a diagnostic category or invalid. un-credible.

the problem you're facing isn't solved by conforming to that diagnostic category (as informed by racist science & all other kinds of bias). that might improve your particular situation, but not the next patient in that room. it's not solved by Making Doctors Aware. good doctors are valuable, but we don't get them by increasing their basic knowledge.

the problem you're facing is solved only by joining in solidarity with others scrutinized under the medical gaze and pushing back. yes, sure, more awareness is nice, but what next? what actions and restructuring of society & expertise & self-determination are necessary to build a world where everyone gets bodily autonomy, authority to make their own decisions, including to not seek interventions or "cure" at all?

it's not individual rights, that's for sure.

#disability JUSTICE #perhaps MIGHT have some clues for you dear op #disability #transness #medical model #anyways. Not Discoursing. but it's been rattling around my brain since I saw it today #then saw it like three more times.#but it is in fact the same system and trying to carve out exceptions for your own self as the Real Valid Disabled #(and pulling up the ladder behind you to stop the Undesirables from following)#is bad movement building and a bad theory of change because it won't be Sustainable #(also it's shitty)#(also also it won't challenge the system that got you there but that's just assuming you're self centered only)#also I do not want to stray too far from my lane as a dyadic/perisex person but #bodily autonomy #ABSOLUTELY has to include not just #informed consent #but real options to Not consent. Not pursue interventions that seek Normativity #whether that's a more cis-looking body #more Productivity under capitalism #or truly anything You don't want for Yourself.#anywho. shutting up now going to finish my assignment.

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