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What is Neuro Punk?

Neuro Punk is a subculture among disabled people, specifically ones was neurological divergence. It's for those who are mentally ill and unapologetic for it. For those NDs who are clinically or personally diagnosed. Those in treatment and out of it.Those who reject society as inhumane just as society has rejected them from humanity. Those who prioritize the intersectional members of their community and don't consider one condition more "important" than any other.

If you have a neurological divergence it is your decision whether you are Neuro Punk or not. It is a philosophy, no one is born into it out of privilege. Mutants (those with congenital disabilities) and mutates (those who have developed their disability from exterior conditions) have equal standing, the same as those in, specifically physically disabled communities.

Neuro Punk's shortened "tag" name is nupunk, pronounced as "new punk."

Those who have intersections between Cripple Punk and Neuro Punk are referred to as Nuc Punk, pronounced "nuke punk."

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Could anyone tell me why my doctors wont diagnose me? Like they won’t do tests, and when they do it’s essentially “Are you dying? No? Perfect no further information needed”. Like I’ve been having chronic headaches and migraines since I was probably 12 years old and they have not done a single test on why they happen even though they’ve put me in the hospital with how painful they are and I have headache days almost everyday. My psychiatrists have all been the same way. They’ll give me a half assed answer when I ask them what’s wrong with me and then they never do the tests. The only things I’ve been diagnosed with mental health wise is generalized anxiety disorder and depression. They told me I miiiight have bipolar disorder and i miiiiight have adhd and miiiight has this that and the fucking other but they never do the testing. They never diagnose me. They never want to medicate me. Wtaf

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Yeah. Fuck me for having chronic incurable conditions.

person: i want to be able to afford my healthcare, food and other basic necessities. 

you fuckers: nO WHAT YOU MEAN TO SAY IS THAT YOU WANT FREE SHIT. WELL GUESS WHAT. NOTHING IS FREE™ YOU GOTTA WORK FOR YOUR SHIT. THE WORLD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS- -insert more ableist and classist shit here-

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Disabled cheat sheet

NTABs okay and encourage to reblog

Subcommunities 

None of these groups are mutually exclusive and so you can fall into the category of one or more (or all) communities it's just a matter of whether you agree with the philosophy or not.

Cripple Punk #cpunk: specifically for people with physical disabilities and the aesthetic tends toward traditional punk fashion

Coined and defined by Tai as: cripple punk rejects the “good cripple” mythos. cripple punk is here for the bitter cripple, the uninspirational cripple, the smoking cripple, the drinking cripple, the addict cripple, the cripple who hasn’t “tried everything”

Spoonies: specifically for people with chronic illness who use the spoon theory created by Christine Miserandino. The philosophy is much less problematic™ and tends to be motivational.

Neuro Punk #nupunk: specifically for people who have neurological divergences

Coined and defined by me as: "Neuro Punk is a subculture among disabled people, specifically ones was neurological divergence. It’s for those who are mentally ill and unapologetic for it. For those NDs who are clinically or personally diagnosed. Those in treatment and out of it.Those who reject society as inhumane just as society has rejected them from humanity. Those who prioritize the intersectional members of their community and don’t consider one condition more “important” than any other."

Slang

Ableism: bigotry toward disabled people

Ableist: adjective for ableism

AB or able-bodied: someone who is not physically disabled

NT or neurologically typical: someone who does not have a mental disability

ND or neurologically divergent: someone who has a mental disability

NTAB: someone with no disabilities

YD: young disabled (person)   

#nucpunk: those that consider themselves part of both the Cripple Punk community and the Neuro Punk community

Mutant: someone who is born disabled and/or has a congenital disease (inspired by X-Men)

Mutate: NTAB who becomes disabled (inspired by X-Men, used to refer to superheroes who aren’t mutants like the Avengers)

Inspirational porn: memes or commercial use of disabled people/aesthetic to inspire NTABs

Crip face: when an able-bodied actor plays a disabled character

Accessibles: items used to improve ability like wheelchairs, crutches, etc.

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Facebook is a cesspool

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Do you think you'll ever come across a good caretaker in your lifetime?

Two of the three that come to the house for my mother or myself are amazing and I didn’t think that was possible. I consider myself very lucky but it’s also given me a lot of encouragement. It’s been about a year since I’ve had them to varying degrees and it won’t obviously last forever, they are going to go on to different paths in the medical field.

Both of them are millennial’s. One is a little bit older than me and one is a little bit younger. It’s the first time in my life that the people I’m working with for my own welfare are my own age and have the same points of references. They both grew up in the 90s after the disabled civil rights movement started (the ADA was passed in 1990) so they’ve always lived in a world where disabled people are partially integrated. They both went to public school and saw the segregation of disabled children, even if from a distance.

They listen to me when I tell them what I need despite what training or past experiences they’ve had.

They both made it a point to ask me specifically about my personal disability and needs.

Despite what they’ve seen or experienced they always believe me when I talk about our issues, even the ones that it seems all able-bodied people can’t seem to believe like our marriage inequality.

They both value my opinion about ableism, even over their own.

They are both eager to learn and speak my language when it comes to things like spoons or simply the appropriate ways to refer to someone disabled.

They take their jobs seriously and with the goal of using their privilege to help me physically but also socially.

As unexpected as all of that was, they also both consider this a job. What they do is come here to help me and that is their priority. They demand to be paid fairly by IHSS and in these issues they consider me more of a coworker because they believe IHSS should “pay” me in a fair amount of hours.

Maybe most importantly they actually see me as another millennial, not a patient or simply a human needing advocacy. We all have intersecting marginalities, which matters just as much if not more than similar age.

We have the same goal of equality, and privilege is talked about openly and often; not in comparison of who has it worse but as a type of ability. Literally and metaphorically.

We also interact off the job, so to speak.

We actually like each other and have fun together so we do things as friends and are familiar with each other’s families/friends as you would with any friend. The caretaker I call Beauty had to come in for a shift to help mom through lunch and she brought her mother along so we swapped moms. Her mother and I spent the time hanging out in the living room critically watching romantic comedies. The other day I made the other caretaker, whom I call Savage, play Mystery Date with me and she face timed with her husband so he could be included in the argument of which one of us was a bigger slut.

AB friends of mine that I have had since before I had any caretakers asked me about what it’s like and with my current caretakers I tell them my house has become a sorority of lazy queer sociology majors.

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Due to a question yesterday someone had a fabulous idea and so now I'm making tabs for Neuro Punk on post on neurologically divergent disability. I had been adding them under Cripple Punk because of intersectionality but hopefully it will be helpful for you guys looking for specific things.

Neuro Punk and for short or on twitter #NuPunk (pronounced "new punk")

Nuc Punk (pronounced "nuke punk") specifically for things that are both about physical disabilities and neurological disabilities. 

If you guys like the term and you want to use it that's great, but it's not like I'm intending to start a movement or sell merchandise. Most people with physical disabilities develop mental illness the same as everyone else, but also at a much higher risk to develop depression, anxiety, and PTSD. 

So I'm certainly not trying to take anything away from Cripple Punk, to me it's just an extension of an overall "Disabled Punk" philosophy/aesthetic and hopefully it'll solve some problems with misappropriation of terms.

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My mom was NTAB and my dad was a paranoid schizophrenic with PTSD. Guess which one was abusive?

Taking children from disabled parents is not for the sake of the children.

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Someone on Facebook asked for opinions over the concern they have about someone they called out for being ableist responded by accusing them of being racist. This was my answer, but. I'd obviously like to know what you guys think,

I am the whitest person you will ever meet. I'm so white that white people come up to me to tell me how white I am.

I subscribe to the philosophy that it's impossible for white people from North America to not be racist. Globally the issue gets more complicated although still not untrue. It's the same reason that all NTABs are ableist.

Our culture conditions people from birth to perceive and treat white people as superior and extraordinarily successful POC as considered outliers. POC have a shorter time in history of actually being considered human in a very literal sense so the foundation of the status quo is racist.  And whether or not someone white is bigoted to POC or not. Actually being a white bigot and fetishizng fetishizing POC issues to be a "woke" is equally objectifying. Sociopolitical institutions both philosophical and literal have been built to favor white races and no amount of amendments can change that. Everyone is raised by parents from "a different time" regardless of whether they were a good white person or not. Every aspect of media caters to white people and the inclusion of POC never comes from equality, it comes from the insistence of the white audience. Whether they want to or not, every white person benefits from the legal slavery of POC in prisons.

Just like all able-bodied people benefit from the legal slavery of disabled people in prisons or in the workplace as with Goodwill and their wage of $0.22 an hour for disabled employees.

There are an infinite number of equivalent examples and this doesn't mean someone should feel ashamed for being white to be an ally; feeling shame is self-indulgent and a detriment to one's good intentions. It's not about hating your ancestry, your culture, or your genetics. It's about admitting to privilege you have that you have no control over and can't help but benefiting from. It's about acknowledging that privilege and instead of using it to oppress POC or to oppress that privilege out of solidarity white privilege should be used as much as possible to subvert that privilege in and of itself. To do things like create and maintain platforms for POC to get visibility and to speak about issues for themselves.

It's the same as being able-bodied. There is literally no way to get around that privilege and no matter how they educate themselves they always have to consciously fight conditioning to not oppress us. No matter what they do they can't pay back all of the privilege they benefit from or all the past and current atrocities toward our people. No matter who they know, what relationships they have, or what they've done they need to be open and interested in listening to disabled people so they can do better for us. Not because they feel guilty or because they are trying to atone, but because they are including us and our quality in the future they are creating.

This is why POC members of the disabled community should be prioritized and disabled people of the POC community should be prioritized. That's not even factoring in all of the other intersectionalities amongst all marginalized groups.

If someone accuses you of being racist because you accuse them of ableism you are equally correct. Don't argue that, agree that no one is free from bigotry on either side and actually have a conversation about what issue there is between you.

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Not wanting to pay taxes is something people talk about constantly and growing up as a disabled kid I knew I was one of those leeches on society that they were referring to

It's one of the huge reasons I and people like me have so much internalized ableism, it's impossible to do enough to make up for "free" health insurance

Now I'm an adult and go fund me is technically the second largest insurance provider and that doesn't count all the disabled people who use websites like this for donations so we don't get caught

More of us are dying every day but the amount of people living on sort of self-imposed taxes is really astonishing considering everyone is still paying actual taxes that just go to millionaires

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Some mom: I don't vaccinate my children

Me:

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asshole: it's offensive to say gay when you mean stupid

same asshole: saying stupid isn't ableist, stop being so sensitive

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LGBT™: Gay Pride is over, what do we do in July?

Disabled com: Disability Pride

LGBT™: Gay Pride part 2!

LGBT™: as inaccessible as part 1