#ableist tw

[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

[consider-your-potatoes-mashed]

Why do abled people always fucking suggest the most basic things to “fix” disabled people’s problems/disabilities and act like they know better than we do???

If you, a person who does not live with the disability you’re trying to “fix”, can think of a solution off the top of your head without any research, experience, or even trying to actually understand what we have tried and what we’re actually dealing with don’t you think that we might’ve already or are already trying that???

For me this comes most from my mother saying that I need to change my diet (even though I have so many sensory issues surrounding food and have tried and failed so many times), that I need to lose weight (ma’am I am trying), that I should try stretching (you know what I’ve tried that for years and guess what it just stretches my ligaments because I’m fucking hypermobile and it ends up causes me more pain), that I need to exercise more (I’m trying but I’m also limited by pain. Pain that keeps me from being able to exercise most of the time. Pain that usually gets worse when I try to exercise), that I should try to not use my mobility aids because I’ll become reliant on them (ma’am they help me. They are not hurting me. They are what keeps me able to do stuff you want me to be able to do. Why should I try to not use them???), and so much fucking more

Like seriously abled people stop pretending you know our bodies better than we do I promise you you don’t. Even doctors (as shit as they might be) are supposed to listen to us before they even start to make recommendations (yeah many don’t but they’re supposed to)

#disabled #chronic pain #disability #actually disabled #chronic illness #physical disability #hypermobility #pots #pots syndrome #invisible disability #disabilities #chronic disability #ableism #ableist #ableist tw #stop being ableist #tw ableist language #ableist language cw #ableist bullshit #ableist people #fuck ableists #I know you’re just trying to help but kindly stop you’re not helping

[samijami]

Make👏things👏 more👏wheelchair👏accessible

#wheelchair accessible #disabilties #disability #disability positivity #disabled positivity #wheelchair #make things more wheelchair accessible #ableist nonsense #tw ableism #ableism #ableist tw #ableists dni #ableist people #ableist society #fuck society #capitalist society #society #disabled people #disability pride #disability pride month #positivity #disabled #physically disabled #anti discrimination #discrimination #no discrimination #stop discriminating #discriminatory #disability awareness #disclusion

[brettdoesdiscourse]

If you want to see a good example of how little people care for disabled people, just look at people talking about service dogs.

People with service dogs: Please don't distract service dogs as they're medical equipment. The handler could literally die if the dog is distracted by you and cannot do their job properly.

Ableists in the replies: Omg why are you all so entitled???? I just want to talk to/pet the dog!!! It's not that big of a deal, shut the fuck up.

Like the way people will not do the simplest things that barely inconvenience them at all for disabled people is wild. At that point, it has to just be blatant ableism (in the way that they're actively trying to make disabled people's lives harder) or extreme entitlement. Like off the charts entitlement.

#ableism tw #ableism #ableism mention #ableist tw #ableist mention #ableist #service dogs #discourse #social discourse #brett does discourse

[strangenscary]

AUTHORS AND WRITERS OF TUMBLR

! this font is not accessible !

i’ve seen a lot of fics posted on this site using this tiny font.

within settings on your phone and tumblr you can change the font size in the app, which makes it more accessible for disabled folks who have a hard time reading (like myself) however, the settings do not work on mobile for this tiny font

i sincerely BEG of you please do not post your ENTIRE fic in this font. you are alienating readers and actively making your art inaccessible.

#if anyone knows any tricks please share them with me #it is HEARTBREAKING to find a fic i want to read only to see the entire thing written like that #knowing i cannot read it bc of an aesthetic choice by the author #writing #writing print #tumblr authors #fanfic #fanfic tips #tw ableism #ableist tw #accessibility

[aacalienz]

My support needs are not being met living with my parents. I’m not homeless anymore and they took me back. But they still treat me as non disabled for the most part, which just sets me up to fail. They expect me to be fully speaking and I just can’t measure up.

#actually autistic #low support needs #medium support needs #autism #ableism #ableist tw #developmentalal disability #parents #tw parents #semispeaking #semiverbal #aac user

[im-enoch]

Loving a chronically ill person only when they're feeling good/ not experiencing symptoms is ableist and fucking horrible because we *do* notice.

#enoch speaks #ableist nonsense #ableism #ableist tw #ableist people #fuck ableists #chronic illness #chronically ill #actually psychotic #schizoaffective #actually schizospec #mental illness #schizo spectrum #psychosis #schizophrenic disorder #actually schizophrenic #schizospec #mentally disabled #mental health

[crippledwithrage]

Anti aging culture is abelist

I don't get to grow old.

I can't afford that bullshit anyway.

I won't get to see my smile lines that prove I was a happy person.

I won't experience the gift of age.

I'll never get to look in the mirror in 70 years and see that I am alive and thriving.

I'd be beyond grateful to grow old.

Because it's more than some wrinkles. It's proof I survived.

#anti anti aging #anti aging #anti aging is bullshit #aging is beautiful #aging is a gift #aging #anti aging is abelist #cripplepunk #cpunk #disabled #cripple punk #disability #ableist tw #tw death

[frnkieroismydaddy]

Some bitches are so insanely ableist about Izzy Hands, it makes me insane.

I don't care if you don't like Izzy or if you think he's God's chosen but we should all be able to agree that mutilation resulting in disability is not a deserved punishment for ANYONE. It is ableist as fuck to see the toe scene and think "yeah, that's deserved" or "well Izzy doesn't deserve that but it makes sense"

I don't care what your excuse is, that shit is heinous and ableist

#izzy ofmd #izzy hands #ofmd izzy hands #ableist tw #tw ableism #ableism tw #disability #disabled #disabilties

[artsykerfufflespam]

Ableist Story Time!

Sooo it was my final day of driver ed, stopped at a red light, all going fine, humming n tapping my fingers, just stimming a bit, only some very minor and infrequent facial tics... I wasnt hardly doing anything "odd", merely not masking. And then the driving instructor asks me "Did you take your medicine today?".

ō_ō

Bitch? What?

1. Thats not something you ask a stranger

2. Her tone was,, idk how to describe but it didnt help make what she said less-ableist-feeling/ less offensive

3. In asking that she was essentially saying "i think youre acting crazy" and/or "you seem unfit to drive because of this behavior" (the behavior was extremely mild and its not her job to decide if my illnesses prevent me from driving or not)

4. I don't take medicine for tourettes or for ASD, so idek what "medicine" she was referring to. She doesn't know me. If I wasn't on any medicine she would essentially be telling a stranger that she thinks they need to be medicated.

In summation, the rest of the drive was not particularly great. As we drove faster and my anxiety worsened my tics too slightly, and knowing that she was judging me for it certainly didn't help me relax. Simply stimming is enough for someone to think someone should be medicated. I spend most of my time with accepting, and usually also ND, people, so this was my first encounter with someone like this in a while. It was a shock to say the least, a shock that people are still so un-understanding.

Feel free to comment or rb your opinions, if I'm overreacting or if you have similar experiences. Personally i think this exchange was ridiculous and embarassing and incasive and abelist.

#tourettes #asd #ASD #actually neurodivergent #actually autistic #actually autism #autism spectrum #stimming #tourette's syndrome #actually tourettic #tourettes experience #fuck ableists #ableism #ableist tw #stop being ableist #ableist bullshit #ableist people #being my autistic self

[they-them-that]

TW: ableism

Proud Family: Louder And Prouder had an episode around Bebe and the family learning he's autistic. I really appreciate how it was educational and accepting but I was rubbed the wrong way with the tone of the episode that treated Bebe's autism like a sickness.

I understand that The Proud Family usually have the characters start out ignorant about something that they learn to overcome by the end of the episode. My dad was ableist and my mom still doesn't fully understand the depths of neurodivergence (despite probably having ADHD herself) which affected how me and my siblings grew up undiagnosed. This is a necessary episode! But like a lot of Proud Family Louder And Prouder episodes that try to tackle nuanced subjects, there is a lack of tact in my opinion. I found it triggering how the family seemed devastated by the news and the doctor in particular did not seem to relieve their stigmas. It came off as "yes your son is sadly autistic, but we'll get through this" rather than "your son could have autism but this is nothing to be afraid of".

I don't have an issue with depicting ableism in the Proud Family as long as it's for the sake of debunking it but it also felt like the show itself was unsure how to feel. They seemed to have felt bad for the family for having an autistic son and not even Bebe for having to navigate a neurotypical world. This unconscious bias is a regular issue in The Proud Family, like how it tries to push feminist messages but is littered with sexist and patriarchal jokes or how it humanizes Oscar as a conservative father but never lets him actually grow from it. It's a well meaning show that connects to black families without sugar coating its family dynamic but still struggles in overcoming its own dated ideas of feminism, queer identities, fatphobia and neurodivergence. Still, I'd rather see a show tackle these subjects even if they make mistakes than not try at all.

#proud family #proud family louder and prouder #ableist tw #neurodiverse

[leontremblunt]

i remember one time seeing a post saying that cripplepunk is ableist for not including mentally disabled people. Girl.

#it was on tumblr too #it was a couple months ago though #has anyone else seen it. i was so flabbergasted because i found it in the cripplepunk tag #anyways #cpunk #cripple punk #cripplepunk #c punk #ableism #ableist tw #fuck ableists

[theragnarokd]

Oh god

Getting in an argument with my mom about whether getting my kid diagnosed to check if they're autistic will scar them for life

Pls pray for me

#i post #ableist tw

[samijami]

How are you not lesbephobic when your saying that men can just wear a damn dress and say he's a lesbian you fucking retard

I think you should try this ^

#tw r slur #ableist tw #tw ableism #tw ableist language #tw transphobes #im autistic #bruh.. #fuck you #lesbian #we love our teansfem lesbians

[miaulogy]

cw: ableism

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support all mentally ill people

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with ppd, schizoid, and stpd

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with npd, aspd, hpd, and bpd

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with avpd, dpd, and ocpd

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, and paraphrenia

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with bipolar disorder, major depression, and dysthymia

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with did, osdd, and udd

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with anorexia, bulimia, dysmorphia, bed, osfed, coe, pws, or diabulimia

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with paraphillic disorders

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with phobias

you don't support mentally ill people if you don't support people with any mental condition i haven't mentioned

you don't support mentally ill people if you constantly make jokes about mental illnesses you don't have, "i was sad and i saw a funny meme so i laughed, i'm so bipolar!" – that's called finding something funny

you don't support mentally ill people if you think mental illnesses and their symptoms are insulting, "that's not true, you're just delusional!" – that's not a delusion, that's a lie, a misunderstanding, or an error

you don't support mentally ill people if you relate regular emotions to serious disorders, "the maths test is making me have anxiety!" – it's not making you have a mental condition, you're just nervous

you don't support mentally ill people if you use think our conditions make us abusive, terrible people, "narcissistic abuse is real, my abuser had npd and everyone who does is potentially harmful" – you didn't deserve to be abused but having a label for when a mentally ill person specifically abuses you is incredibly ableist, not to mention npd can stem from abuse itself

you don't support mentally ill people if you think we're scary, crazy, or psychos, "people with did are scary! what if their other personality kills me?" – you probably hurt them more than they could ever hurt you

you don't support mentally ill people if you glamorize our suffering to then make fun of us for having common symptoms of our disease, "i'm sad because of a bad mark, i have depression. what do you mean you can't get out of bed to take a bath? that's disgusting!" – you only cherry-pick the symptoms you can easily romanticize and exagerate them in order for them to apply to you? that's disgusting!

#can you tell i had to deal with ableism lately? kjsjdk /rh /neg #ableism #ableism cw #ableism tw #cw ableism #tw ableism #mentally ill #mentally unhealthy #mentally disordered #cluster a #cluster b #cluster c #psychotic #mood disorder #dissociative disorder #ed #paraphilic disorder #phobia #ableist tw #colored text

[aacalienz]

Being homeless and not fully speaking is rough. Literally everything involves a phone call and I literally can’t do that. I can’t use text relay either because I don’t have an area code for the state I moved to. And then people think that I’m just not working at getting housing. Even though I literally can’t and I just want to cry because of how inaccessible it is.

#actually autistic #low support needs #medium support needs #autism #aac #aac user #ableism #ableist tw #unhoused #homeless #disabled #semispeaking