#abledsareweird

[pumpkinspicedmochi]

Am I missing something? do abled people just love physical labor?

Because too many abled people seem to think that you must do physical labor or you're lazy

also because my mom like "aren't you excited to do yard work!?" and its like..no..I am physically disabled , doing physical labor causes me even more pain besides just having chronic pain and hurting because scoliosis ..no I'm not excited to hurt myself more

thats how I see it at least..especially when you're not allowed to say no because its 'laziness' ..regardless of pain ..

#do yall crave physical labor or? #physical disability #abledsareweird #scoliosis #wonky spine #physically disabled #disability #disabled #chronic pain #disabled person #disabilities #disability advocacy #ableists #internalized ableism #ableism #ableist #ableist parents #ableist mother

[yrfemmehusband]

People rly don't get that you can think you're being nice and still be incredibly ableist. You can repost the article about the girl with cerebral palsy getting asked to prom thinking it's so sweet that someone invited her without realizing how ableist you're being. You can make friends with the boy who has autism at school and joke with him that he's your boyfriend with the best of intentions- you are still incredibly ableist. You can push a person's wheelchair without asking because you want to help to be nice and you are still being ableist. You can grab the person who uses a cane to help them up without asking for permission to touch them only wanting to make things easier and still. Be. Ableist.

Polite ableism is just harder to talk about, you can't describe how it makes you feel enough, how it rips away your autonomy and makes you feel lesser than, and it's especially hard for those with intellectual disabilities to talk about and speak against, because it's so covert and it's EVERYWHERE.

Just like. Treat people normally??? Thanks

#disability #ableism #mobility aids #abledsareweird

[painfordays]

Being the only disabled person in a friend group is like. Argues against mental age for 30 minutes without achieving anything because they will die if they cant call developmentally disabled adults 6 year olds. Feel guilty for cancelling plans for disability reasons and making up a lie so you dont have to tell the truth. Get called a cripple after explaining your symptoms. Get told nothing is ever the doctors fault because they work soooo hard and you're just not persistent enough. Realize the only way theyd ever do even minor caregiving tasks for you is if they were paid. Spend an hour arguing against eugenics. Listen to someone talk about a group of disabled people and with every sentence it gets more obvious they never interacted with anyone from this group personally. Get compared to peoples elderly relatives. Get -

#i want to burn it all down ♡-♡ [head explodes] #actually disabled #chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #ableism #casual ableism #abledsareweird #also whatever you do dont tell me to just get better friends im a rural mf this is the best i managed to find in this village:)) #and somewhat frequent socializing is sadly required for my mental health to not go fully off the rails so pls. shut up

[chronicallycouchbound]

The narrative that “you should care about disabled people because one day that’ll be you” is ableist in and of itself.

You should care about disabled people’s rights because you should care about the disenfranchisement of a marginalized community.

Becoming disabled is not a punishment. Becoming disabled is not a threat. Becoming disabled is not cosmic retaliation for being ableist. Becoming disabled is morally neutral.

#disability #disabled #cripple punk #cripplepunk #disabled pride #disabled pride month #chronically couchbound #disability pride #disability pride month #disabled joy #disabled liberation #disabilties #becoming disabled #accessibility #anti ableism #ableist bullshit #ableism #fuck ableists #abledsareweird #ableist tw #ableist people #ableism cw #ableist nonsense #ableist society #ableist tropes #stop being ableist #ableists dni #disability theory #disability studies #social model of disability

[cy-cyborg]

Wheelchair users:

Hey, the main entrance to your business is up some stairs, is there a wheelchair accessible entrance with a ramp or something available?

non-disabled business owners:

No, we don't get any customers in wheelchairs so there's no point

Wheelchair users:

...do...do you think there might be a reason for that?

Non-disabled business owners:

Because disabled people don't need [whatever product or service we provide], obviously.

#id in alt text #disability #disabled #disabled problems #I've had this conversation too many times #abledsareweird #able bodied people are weird #disability rights #ableism #accessibility #wheelchair user #wheelchair problems #cripple punk #cripple problems #physical disability #physically disabled #crip punk #cpunk

[crowpunkcognitivedecline]

anyone can interact with this post; able-bodied people should take a deep breath and count to ten before adding commentary

hey little language PSA for neurodivergent folks:

“abled” is a term derived from the term “able-bodied,” not “nondisabled.”

while “abled” may often be used as a synonym for nondisabled, it originates as and is also used to refer to able-bodied people.

when a disabled-bodied person refers to abled neurodivergent people, they are not saying those people are nondisabled. they’re saying they’re able-bodied.

this is also the origin of the #AbledsAreWeird tag—it’s meant to refer to ableism against the bodily disabled. i’m not here to gatekeep the tag, and i couldn’t if i tried.

but i am saying if you go in that tag and complain that neurodivergent people are mentioned, you’re encroaching on a disabled-bodied safer space to whine about their problems, and that’s not cool.

cripples started the [american] disability rights movement. a lot of terms around disabled people & rights are our terms, and might not make sense for disabled non-crips.

that’s fine. i’m not saying you have to call yourself abled, or that using abled to mean non-disabled is wrong.

i’m just saying that when cripples (who, for the record, are almost if not always neurodivergent too) use “abled” in a way that includes ND folks, it’s not a personal or ableist attack on you. it’s quite literally the language of our liberation, and attacking cripples over it is ableist.

#DO NOT TAG AS C SLUR #crip punk #cripplepunk #cripple punk #crippunk #cpunk #abledsareweird #disabled #physically disabled #all the neurodivergent tags are things i personally am if you bitch about it i will stomp you to death with my hooves -> #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autistic #actually autistic #adhd #actually adhd #kinetic #nd #actually dissociative

[consider-your-potatoes-mashed]

Fuck abled people and their opinions on disabled bodies

My mother literally said to me that she “believes that I am choosing to be disabled and that she believes that I am healthier than I feel” like ma’am you are not in the same body as me you do not know it better than I do. Do you not think that I wasn’t to be healthier? Do you not think I’d rather not be in pain? You really think I’m choosing this? After saying that bull shit she goes on to say that she only wants the best for me and for me to “get well soon” and arugh I stg she really feels like one of those people who are like “don’t say disabled say differently abled” like gah no there are things I simply cannot do anymore I don’t do them differently I just can’t do them

#disabled #chronic pain #disability #actually disabled #chronic illness #physical disability #hypermobility #pots syndrome #pots #autistic #abledsareweird #ableism #I am in pain #abled #differently abled #fuck ableists #chronic disability

[chamomile-coated-cat]

Y'know people became INSTANTLY less curious and invasive about my disability as soon as I had my crutches painted.

Once there was no more medical stickers all over them and the crutches were now a matte pink instead of hospital metallic, there were no more questions about "what happened???" Or "I hope you feel better soon". And I think I know why...

When people see crutches that look metallic and have stickers on them, they think you've just gotten out of the hospital and that this is some new development (maybe a sport™️ injury or something) but with customized or non standard medical aides, it looks like something more permanent...

And that makes them uncomfortable.

The permanence of a disability, something that won't go away, weakness that won't go away, and knowing that it could happen to them as well. Not to mention that no one is taught how to interact with people with disabilities that are permanent (I might talk about non permanent disabilities at another point, but that's not important here) there only people that they're taught to interact with who have permanent disabilities are the elderly or children who are terminal, and they are extra nice to them and expect them to die at any time. But they don't know how to handle someone who has a permanent disability and aren't going to die any time soon.

People still stare at me. But people aren't willing to interact with me about my disability. Which is actually sort of sad. When I got them painted, I was so proud of my matte pink crutches, I was wanting to hear compliments from people who know me, or even strangers! This whole time, I've only received one compliment on my crutches, and I believe it's because the other person also has a disability.

If you're not disabled, yeah, we don't want you all up in our business about our disabilities, but it's totally okay to compliment us on our medical equipment and aides and stuff. Don't just ignore us

#actually disabled #disability problems #disabled problems #ableism #pots syndrome #fibromyalgia #mobility aid #forearm crutches #crutches #long post #ableds #abledsareweird

[justsomerandomgay]

when an abled stranger thinks they know what’s best for me and now i’m in a paralysis episode 🤩😃👍🔥 (emojis are sarcastic)

#cripple punk #cripple posting #cripplepunk #queer cripple #angry cripple #cripple life #cpunk #cripple shit #cripple problems #disabled #abledsareweird #functional neurological disorder #fnd #me when my chronic illness makes me ill :0 #my illness is chronic but this ass is iconic #the chronicles of illness #chronically ill #chronic illness #chronic pain #fibromyalgia #disabled problems #paralyzed #paralysis #paralysis episode #crip punk #♿️ #🦽 #actually disabled #disability #physically disabled

[spoonful116]

Able bodied people writing disabled characters:

She took an inspirational roll in her wheelchair as she disabledly bought food for her disabled body. I couldn't help but feel inspired by her bravery for disablitying in public and realized how great it is to walk and laid hands on her and prayed. She moved her legs and walked and everyone clapped

#spoonie #disability #chronic disability #disabilities #satire #parody #abledsareweird

[yxlenas]

new worst disability euphemism just dropped: "Differently bodied"

Bruh just say disabled

#disability #abledsareweird

[no-demons-in-wonderland]

Ableist garbage rant

I’m literally so fucking sick and tired of able bodied people disregarding a disability because “they’re a person first”. Like no fucking shit they’re a person but being a *disabled* person doesn’t make you any less of a human being.

I am an autistic adult.

Not an adult with autism.

It’s not that hard to maintain even the smallest bit of respect towards how we as disabled individuals prefer to be treated, perceived, referred to, etc.

And here’s an idea if you don’t know, ask. If they’re your friends/family you should have asked a long time ago.

#crps #chronic illness #chronic pain #audhd #disabled #abledsareweird #dont be gross #ask #we deserve better #respect #its not hard #rant over

[veryferaldistributions]

Hey, TSA agent in the disability line, maybe it’s not a good idea to try and mess with a disabled person just trying to get through her day and THEN get miffed when she lashes out. I was trying to make you understand that I couldn’t take my shoes off, then get irritated when I try to make you understand and then you say “oh my god, I am messing with you girl! I don’t have time for this today!” 🙄🙄🙄

Um…you started it?!

GO. FUCK. YOURSELF.

I am autistic. It is loud. I can barely hear you. And come to find out you’re just trying to irritate me? You are in the wrong job, you dickless wonder!

(Not the first time someone at Atlanta TSA was a prick. One asshat put his foot on my footrest and pushed my chair back without consent or warning. I am sorry if you are crippled and going to ATL. It’s a nightmare.)

#abledsareweird #abledsareawful #i hate tsa #ableist assholes #atlanta airport #bite me #disabled #autistic #apd #asd #swearing #do not tag as slur #cripple punk

[cy-cyborg]

Looking back, people were so weird about my non-physical disabilities.

Oh no, we can't tell the obviously queer kid with no legs that they're also autistic with an intellectual disability due to a brain injury, then they might know they're different!

#disability #disabled #id in alt text #physically disabled #physical disability #intelectual disability #ID #brain injury #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autism #autistic #actually autistic #actually disabled #abledsareweird #able bodied people are weird #non disabled people are weird #amputee #leg amputee #visibly disabled #visible disability

[crowpunkcognitivedecline]

anyone can interact with this post, ableds should think before they add comments and must tag reblogs as #i'm able bodied

hey uh hot tip: don't fucking do this lmao?

like, don't react to needing to tag a post "i'm able bodied" by adding a little "but i wont be forever," that's just. for lack of a better word. pretty fucking rude?

seriously, how hard is it to include the required disclaimer without adding your personal commentary as an able-bodied person on how disability can happen at any time. are people fucking allergic to doing the bare minimum

#DO NOT TAG AS “C SLUR”/“TW SLUR” #cripple punk #abledsareweird #literally what do you gain from this

[consider-your-potatoes-mashed]

So as y’all know Ive started using crutches because of my chronic pain (and also my pots) but my mom is very dismissive of both my pain and all the other shit up with my body so I’m honestly kinda scared to go home for a couple weeks because I don’t know if I’ll feel comfortable enough to bring and actually use my mobility aids even if I just use my cane. I just really wish my parents took my pain and fatigue and etc seriously instead of just saying “you just need to workout more” or “you just need to eat better” when I know that neither of those nor the THOUSANDS of other things they suggest won’t take away the pain I’ve been in my entire life.

I just want my parents to actually care that I’m in constant pain and not make me feel guilty for using things that actually help

Also wtf is up with abled people and thinking that using mobility aids will make those of us who use them worse??? Like I’m pretty sure me being able to walk more because of my crutches is better than me barely being able to walk a couple blocks without them. (Technically I can walk further than that but it starts to get really painful at that point)

#chronic pain #disabled #chronic illness #disability #actually disabled #physical disability #hypermobility #pots #pots syndrome #autistic #abledsareweird #ableism #crutches #forearm crutches #cane user #cane #crutch user #mobility aids #babe with a mobility aid #mobility aid