#ableism
Andrew Whitehead says,
"For me, a white, middle-class, able-bodied, straight, Protestant man, I need to read books by folks who differ from me on those descriptors. Listening and learning from folks different from us help us to see how American life and the social realities surrounding us operate differently depending on our embodied selves."
Ah yes, getting emails from admin staff at a Higher Ed Institution going: "Please invoice us for the hours you worked on a seminar series which got put on pause because main lecturer has gone off sick for the past three months because they burnt out on admin."
Series ALL ABOUT how institutions and design spaces in the arts are influenced by #ableism, ironically. (And unsurprisingly)
aka "It is now your responsibility to chase us every three months about what we owe you, until we deign to pay."
#Ableism thoughts.
Pontificating about disabilities you don't have usually a way of marginalizing the people who DO experience that disability.
Its quite unpleasant to see people assume that being disabled is a licence to claim experience with something you are abled at.
Ableism is like queer-phobia.
Cis gays and lesbians are quite capable of Transphobia
Being disabled doesn't grant a licence to silence disabled people whose disabilities you don't experience.
Uncomfortable with #ableism in the #prochoice movement today. Still pro-choice, though.
PS. The fact that the New Yorker’ cover drawing and accompanying article were done by older persons is no justification for #ageism. I’d prefer that #OlderPersons stop contributing to the #ageism and #ableism against them.
Calling on the USPSTF to Address Ableism and Structural #Ableism.
"...comprehensive effort to ensure its recommendations systematically consider the effects of ableism and structural ableism, pejorative attitudes against, and discrimination affecting disabled people ..."
BTW: #Mastodon 4.2+ seems broken in #PaleMoon .. intentional? Maybe. #Ableism being still a great part of the #development cycle of most "modern" (and not so modern) pieces of #software.
Saying mentally disabled people should be treated and viewed as children is like saying women should be treated and viewed as housewives. Similar categorization, based on little to no reason. And it's harmful.
And from my experience, as one of my best secondary school teachers did, kids like when they're not treated like kids. So take note please. I'm autistic, but I am not a child. I know what sex is, I know what drugs are. I know loss.
#ableism #autism #neurodivergent #disability
Stop Minimizing People's Problems
This is another one of those moves that can easily end up being ableist as fuck.
#YourAutisticLife #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticWriters #disability #ableism #minimization #problems #dismissal
Take the Week Without Driving challenge Oct. 2-8, anti #ableism #disability rights fam. Find out what it’s like for the chariot set.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/why-you-should-ditch-your-car-for-a-week-in-october/
Superb essay in Time on #ableism and justice. Cannot recommend highly enough. #disability #diversity #nonbinary #trans #queer #LGBTQIA #Jewish #Muslim #ageism #accessibility #chronicIllness This needs more hashtags, it’s for us all. Free article.
God, do I hate inspiration porn videos. Abled father puts up a video titled "Dad teaches his kid never to give up" in which he "teaches" him to roll over the bump in the threshold to their home.
Maybe Dad could teach his disabled son how valued he is by making the front door of the family home accessible? Maybe teach your disabled son how inaccessibility is everyone's problem, not something for disabled people exclusively to "overcome"? #Ableism
@nickcolley They have the same approach to "accommodations" in school - Profs often claim it's unfair to the abled students that a disabled student gets their access needs met. Very unimaginative inflexible mindset that is inculcated into us early. UC Davis Academic Senate (at the covert behest of UC higher administration, I think) even codified it. https://academicsenate.ucdavis.edu/committees/courses-of-instruction/policies-procedures#web #UCAccessNow #Ableism
Hello, supposedly communist / socialist Tooters - how about alt-texting those "revolutionary" pictures you're posting?
Because if you're excluding visually-impaired workers THEN YOU'RE NOT FUCKING COMMUNISTS, ARE YOU?
fuck me, get a grip and stop with the fucking ableism.
#Communism #Socialism #Anarchism #Ableism #EverythingIsPolitical
Oppinions my own and not my employer's and all that bullshit. As always, a blind perspective.
I keep hearing about how return to work is ableist. And I think that, in many cases, it can be, especially if you're coding, or do office work where you could do it anywhere. But honestly, I am an Assistive Technology trainer. My job *could* be remote if we had accessible remote access software, but we're too poor for about $2,999.00 yearly (/s), so we don't. And it's not my boss's fault or anything, the institute just ain't ready for that level of support to blind professionals yet. And why do I work there, you ask? Cause it's all I've got. There's not an AT Trainers guild or anything.
My job, as it is, works a lot better in person. If a student has questions, they can simply open their mouth and ask it. They don't have to know how to open Element or Slack or whatever and type it in and send it. This is especially true for people who are just learning to type. We use Typing Club, not Typability, so some login and tabbing around is required to get a student to their lesson. And a student can't do that on their own if they don't know how to type their name, or where the Tab and Space bar keys are. Yes, there's a lot of ableism in the way things are now. TypingClub is even used in K-12 schools, so it should be better. And yes, it mainly only helps instructors, who can see students' typing stats on a nice webpage. But in person, this works, and I teach them where other keys are when they start learning Windows basics.
So, for us, this only works in person. I can write reports at home, which I'll do today cause tomorrow it'll be students calling my name and walking in for help with stuff, and so on, and I'll be way too distracted to focus on reports. But not every workplace is the same. And not every job is the same. And honestly, one blind person may like doing things from home, while another likes to be in office.
I'm in this online course where I'm stuck on just a part of the first lesson because I cannot learn more concepts until I prove I can do this algebra. Even though I understand all the concepts the algebra hoop-jumping is meant to illustrate. I even remember a bit of the algebra, but I can't figure out how to get a cubed variable out of the denominator and looking it up isn't helping.
I've passed algebra multiple times with a lot of sturm und drang. I don't retain it. #Ableism
I could have written a thesis by now. I could have published by now. I could have made the contributions I want to make and am better suited to make. But no. I can't be allowed to do science until I've gone through the math hazing repeatedly. #Ableism
When I think of how much of my life has been wasted jumping over the same goddamned hoops because before I'll be allowed to take anything I actually *want* to take I have to prove again that I know the math you want me to know. If the ability to retain it hadn't been traumatized right out of me by the constant punishment around this disability... #Ableism
I have taken more math courses in my life than art courses despite my vocation having been art. I have dyscalculia. I've gone through the painful & traumatic process of learning certain types of math over and over again. Don't you think if I didn't have a learning disability this would stick? I mean, wouldn't it be less painful for me to simply remember so I could just do it again next time rather than "pretend" to have a learning disability?
Leaving aside for a moment the BS reasoning that abled cyclists wanting to cheap out & not buy a kickstand is reason enough to use taxpayer money to buy cycle racks that are inaccessible to many disabled cyclists, the inaccessible racks don't even prevent the bikes from falling as this nimrod claims. #Ableism #BikeTooter #BikeNite #UCAccessNow
Care cuts threaten Disabled people’s right to independent living | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabled-rights-social-care-independent-living-budget-cuts-campaign/
#Disabled
#Disabilities
#IndependentLiving
#Debt
#Unison
#LegalMinimumOfCare
#Ableism
#AbleistPolicies
#MedicalModel
#Austerity
#BureauOfInvestigativeJournalism
#SocialCare
#HomecareAssociation
#ChargingForHomecare
#Homecare
#ILF
#BristolCityCouncil
#FairAndAffordableCarePolicy
#InclusionBarnet
#SocialModel
#DisabledPeoplesManifesto
@glightly
That's horrible! Both my parents use power chairs and my dad's favorite hobby is fixing/improving them!
#ableism
#AccessibilityMatters
#RightToRepair
I'm making my way through the Cory Doctorow blog on Apple's undermining of Right-to-Repair and that's infuriating enough to make me want to try to learn Linux again, but the fact that wheelchair manufacturers are making it harder to repair wheelchairs is gonna make me go supernova.
Wheelchair users can't just decide to live without their wheelchairs!!
https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/stranded/ #Ableism #Antitrust
Two weeks ago, I did one of the scariest things of my life: I went up on a stage at #IARC and talked about #ableism and discrimination in the #AnimalRights movement. Never before had I talked about something so personal in such a public way. I underestimated how scary it would be, what an emotional toll it would take (my inner ableist was really strong that day).
But it was worth it! For everyone who learned something that day. And for all of you who finally felt seen!
#Proud #DisabilityPride
It's amusing* that Mastodon can do so well** with regards to ableism and accessibility when it comes to alt-text on images, yet is so grossly ableist with regards to mental illnesses.
* by "amusing", I mean "fucking awful"
** by "so well", I mean "the bare fucking minimum
And let your friends know to follow us! Student-led coalitions are always at risk of leaders graduating out or being turfed out, getting burned out, ec. Having a large social media community is a tool to help make sure we can keep riding UC's ass and hold them accountable for what they owe us - the public. #UCAccessNow #Ableism #Disability
Did you know you can also follow UC Access Now toots using your RSS reader? Keep up on news about University of California's systemic ableism and the disabled UC community's fight to dismantle it.
Just use: https://sfba.social/@ucaccessnow.rss
@disability @academicchatter #UCAccessNow #Ableism #Disability
I really want people to understand connection between #ageism and #ableism. Sort out what you're ACTUALLY against instead, and speak out about that
"Proud of everyone I see out here criticizing the politics or behaviors of public figures without resorting to #misgendering, #racism, ableism, or #fatphobia ❤" - (me)
10:32 PM-May 19, 2021
But as always, @ImaniBarbarin says it best:
"The majority of you are one Covid-induced blood clot away from the exact same situation."
https://nitter.net/Imani_Barbarin/status/1704990258184573369
Were you planning on actually using that path after you parked legally in the disabled parking space? Not anymore. Did UC Davis give mobility aid users notice? No, because it hasn't followed the Demandifesto Action Steps, which called for an accessible website with construction, detour, and elevator updates for accessibility.
Big Fall welcome to UC Davis for new students...unless you've got a mobility and/or vision disability.
This food vendor's "right" to make a profit is way more important to UC Davis than keeping the path here clear for mobility aid users or predictably car-free for those with vision loss.
That *is* a path, usually, not a parking lot. @disability @academicchatter
#UCAccessNow #Ableism #CarCentrism
From 22 Sep: The Sneakiness Of Embedded Allistic Ableism - Insisting that the subtext you get from a conversation is intentional is not just a bad strategy, it’s also kinda ableist. https://ideatrash.net/2023/09/the-sneakiness-of-embedded-allistic-ableism.html #neurospicy #prejudice #psychology #ableism #allistic #autism #business #neurodivergence
Benevolent #ableism in the workplace and its impact on #autistic individuals
#autism https://ca.specialisterne.com/but-its-for-your-benefit-benevolent-ableism-in-the-workplace-and-its-impact-on-autistic-individuals/
Professional autonomy and expertise become threatened by bias and by others’ push for paternalistic control.
#DisabilityPolicy #DisabilityInclusion #DisabledAndCapable #WomenWithDisabilities #neurodiversity
Benevolent #ableism in the workplace and its impact on #autistic individuals
#autism https://ca.specialisterne.com/but-its-for-your-benefit-benevolent-ableism-in-the-workplace-and-its-impact-on-autistic-individuals/
Professional autonomy and expertise become threatened by bias and by others’ push for paternalistic control.
#DisabilityPolicy #DisabilityInclusion #DisabledAndCapable #WomenWithDisabilities #neurodiversity
Update, just creating the poll and seeing like 2 votes activated my hyperfocus lmao. I wrote and wrote, and now here we are: https://mersontheperson.micro.blog/2023/09/20/sick-vs-well.html
And of course, tags: #disability #chronicIllness #ChronicPain #wellness #pwme #mecfs #disabled #LongCovid #chronicpain #accessibility #pwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #mentalhealth #adhd #ableism #depression #chronicfatigue #autism #neisvoid #dynamicDisability #medicalGaslighting #internalizedAbleism #burnout #autisticBurnout #bias
#ableism in art
I only recently heard about the art installation "1000 White Flags" in Koli, Finland in the year 2000. It criticised the cutting down of an ancient forest and got an award 10 years ago.
What sounds pretty damn insensitive and ableist to me is that the "flags", which were sheets from a psychiatric hospital, were intended to symbolise the madness of the businessmen who cut down the forest.
Imagine if the artists had used the likeness to any other disadvantaged minority as an insult.
Streets Are For Everyone
Walk San Francisco
These are groups that work for increased street and sidewalk safety yet post their information inaccessibly.
Blind & low-vision folks need street safety too. If you're concerned about activating people, you should want your mssg to be accessible to as many as possible. #Urbanism #BikeTooter #Ableism
@ElBeeToots @fixatedpersonsunit
1) Are you sure they're not affecting you? Being hyperaware of ads might make you less likely to be influenced by them, because you associate their message with disgust.
2) Not everyone can control their focus that way—cf #ADHD—which makes advertising an issue of #ableism.
Not much work was done today, but I have been doing a bit of reading recently. Including some great work on #participatory #autism research by @krysiawally & Nathan Keates, and on academic #ableism & (independent) disabled scholars by Armineh Soorenian (a little too close to home & very important). Plus Sara Ahmed's 'Living a Feminist Life,' which *everyone* should read. Links: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003056577-28/autistic-voices-autistic-research-krysia-emily-waldock-nathan-keates - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351165082-25/margins-academia-outside-looking-armineh-soorenian - https://www.dukeupress.edu/living-a-feminist-life #AmReading #AcademicChatter
If UC had actually embraced UC Access Now's critique and worked with us instead of cherry-picking ideas to implement and acting as if they'd independently done this all along, they'd know that LinkedIn has its own alt text field and they'd know how to fill that in.
#UCAccessNow #Accessibility #Ableism
https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands/mode/2up
“The company could have made different choices. If it is known that accessibility is problematic, maybe the product could have come with a checklist that helps people avoid some of the most common issues? Or some kind of warning or banner that explains nuances the ‘production ready’ line? These are choices to be made, to balance between what makes the product look less good and what harms end users.”
How ableist is this, OC Transpo?
Para Transpo riders frustrated by what's offered to them compared to new on-demand bus service
"The conventional OC Transpo bus and train service that everyone likes to complain about? Para Transpo still holds its own at being worse."
#Ottawa #OCTranspo #ParaTranspo #Ableism https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/para-transpo-riders-frustrated-by-whats-offered-to-them-compared-to-new-on-demand-bus-service
Any #BookRecommendations for me?
I haven't read a lot of #books in my life. It was always hard for me to get the motivation, but the last 4 years, because of my depression, it was often impossible.
But now I'm able to read again, and want to read up on some important issues.
Here are some of my favorite books I read so far:
📖 #Platonic by #MarisaGFranco.
It's a great book about the importance of #friendship and how to get and maintain one. It helped me learn a lot about myself and is a big part of how I started getting out of my depression.
📖 #Ace by #AngelaChen.
A book about #asexuality that everybody should read, not just ace people.
📖 "The time to act is now" (original title: #HandelnStattHoffen) by @carorackete
A moving book about #ClimateJustice and lots of related issues.
Right now I'm reading:
📖 "War das jetzt rassistisch? 22 Antirassismus-Tipps für den Alltag" written by the people behind the #BlackVoices referendum.
A book about #racism in Austria and Germany.
Some books I have at home, that are just waiting for me to read are:
📖 #ClimateBook by @gretathunberg
📖 #ThreeAgesOfWater by @petergleick
📖 "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" by #NaomiKlein
📚 and many more (most on climate justice & racism, some on feminism & socialism).
I'd love to read other works like "Ace" but themed around other #queer identities.
Another issue that interest me is e.g. #ableism (especially, but not limited to psychological disability).
But feel free to also recommend great books on other issues.
I can only read German and English, so please keep that in mind.
Thanks. 🙂
So fucking ironic, ODDS (Oregon office of Developmental Disability Services), held a large unmasked event, the keynote speaker presented about Disability Justice. This organization “supports” disabled children who have chronic, complex, medical conditions. Yet refuses to provide the most basic access needs and Covid precautions. After this super spreader event, case managers likely did inhome visits, as they refuse to provide remote appointments. #structuralableism #ableism #covid #disabled
Being neutoatypical among ableist neurotypicals sucks.
They are never going to accept you (or perhaps even see you) for who you really are.
They are never going to understand how much effort it takes for you to be "normal", and therefore how exhausting it is for you to be in social situations (especially if the effort is unconscious).
They are going to keep claiming that you are being "difficult" on a whim and demand that you start behaving "like a normal person".
Currently being treated to replies to a high profile acct here as they're RT'd .
Almost every insult they've chosen to use is ableist. Think about what it means that instead of addressing the bad behavior per se as the work of an abled person making a choice, what's considered to be the deepest wound you can give someone abled is to liken them to a disabled person.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-sinister-history-of-the-word-moron-explained
One thing about 56Up is that disability, whether using the 'd' word or not, comes up frequently.
Some were disabled before this age. Others are newly disabled. Others aren't yet, but are dealing with their ableism because they work with disabled people (one works for DWP!)
Abled folks, the time to dismantle ableism was long past, but the next best time is now.
OMFG, the person who wrote that has a Masters in Transportation Studies. W. T. F. #Ableism #BikeTooter #BikeNite #UCAccessNow
Came home, checked email, and found - I'm shitting you not - someone on a UC Davis list saying their right not to buy a kickstand and carry "all that weight" was more important than the right of disabled cyclists (including Californians like me who've been paying into this place all along) to have accessible cycle infrastructure.
ABLEISM IS A HELLUVA DRUG
Apparently, I'm that Karen, however, omissions often lead to misinformation, such as in this post. They can also be very damaging. So, I felt it necessary to respond.
First, one should have a look at the screenshot of the actual post (below). Second, I did not "come at" this person, I messaged him privately wondering if he realized how that statement may alienate an entire community and offend others with invisible disabilities. I was actually shocked at the reaction I received. To avoid confusion, the original post was by someone else and this individual boosted it into my timeline. It seems like they subscribe to the notion that "mentally ill" (as opposed below puts it) are like criminals and abusers.
This is the problem within the disabled community and seemingly the reason why there's been no progress in disability rights for everyone – lack of solidarity and cross disability support along with the willingness to slam someone secretly with half-truths and misinformation. Then comes the name-calling and profanity as the "right" likes to do.
While I was being slammed secretly online, I quietly reached out to others with invisible disabilities and mental health challenges to see what they though of the original post, not this user. The consensus is that this statement is extremely insulting and ablest. Now, I'm called a Karen and told "fuck off" by someone I once enjoyed interactions with regularly. Just another example of inequality and #stigmatude within the disabled community affecting people with ID and MH challenges. This is exactly why I focus on IDR.
The statement from the post in question:
"The second amendment right wing wants every criminal, MENTALLY ILL, drug addict, wife abuser to have access to AR 15s except Hunter Biden".
Sounds more like a blue vs. red post, rather then an anti-gun post. So apparently this poster feels that humans that live with mental illness are the same as criminals, wife abuser's, and drug addicts. Sounds like a right-wing ideology to me. The person calling me "Karen" in this thread, doesn't seem to see there's an issue with that which, is his prerogative but, lashes out in public with incomplete inaccurate information, like a right-winger.
I'm still curious to have my question answered by the original poster: "Mentally ill" what, or is that accepted terminology for "those people" with mental health challenges. The consensus among that community is that, this is offensive and ablest. Unfortunately when it comes to invisible disability, many within the disability community are the worst offenders. Insert any other health condition or marginalized group in the space where it says "mentally ill". See what kind of reaction you get from all the "Karen police" out there.
If you're going to come at someone and post about what they have to say, provide all the facts in the future. I will not stoop to your level and call you names or use profanity to refer to you. Apparently it depends on which health condition one lives with if they are accepted and defended by the disabled community. I would suggest revisiting your definition of Ableism.
There's a big difference between advocacy and "ablest police Karens". Advocates fight for inequality for EVERYONE in the disabled community where Karens complain for the sake of complaining. Giving half of the story while spreading misinformation about others, not giving them an opportunity to defend themselves. After the initial conversation I reached out and thanked this person and told him I appreciated him. The response was name-calling and profanity. That's class.
#disability #ableism #MentalHealth #MentalIllnness #InvisibleDisabilityRights @disability @disabilityjustice @MadMovementMastodon
My public response while being slammed👇
https://kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_IDR_Voice/111066726441297342
Apparently, I'm that Karen, however, omissions often lead to misinformation, such as in this post. They can also be very damaging. So, I felt it necessary to respond.
First, one should have a look at the screenshot of the actual post (below). Second, I did not "come at" this person, I messaged him privately wondering if he realized how that statement may alienate an entire community and offend others with invisible disabilities. I was actually shocked at the reaction I received. To avoid confusion, the original post was by someone else and this individual boosted it into my timeline. It seems like they subscribe to the notion that "mentally ill" (as opposed below puts it) are like criminals and abusers.
This is the problem within the disabled community and seemingly the reason why there's been no progress in disability rights for everyone – lack of solidarity and cross disability support along with the willingness to slam someone secretly with half-truths and misinformation. Then comes the name-calling and profanity as the "right" likes to do.
While I was being slammed secretly online, I quietly reached out to others with invisible disabilities and mental health challenges to see what they though of the original post, not this user. The consensus is that this statement is extremely insulting and ablest. Now, I'm called a Karen and told "fuck off" by someone I once enjoyed interactions with regularly. Just another example of inequality and #stigmatude within the disabled community affecting people with ID and MH challenges. This is exactly why I focus on IDR.
The statement from the post in question:
"The second amendment right wing wants every criminal, MENTALLY ILL, drug addict, wife abuser to have access to AR 15s except Hunter Biden".
Sounds more like a blue vs. red post, rather then an anti-gun post. So apparently this poster feels that humans that live with mental illness are the same as criminals, wife abuser's, and drug addicts. Sounds like a right-wing ideology to me. The person calling me "Karen" in this thread, doesn't seem to see there's an issue with that which, is his prerogative but, lashes out in public with incomplete inaccurate information, like a right-winger.
I'm still curious to have my question answered by the original poster: "Mentally ill" what, or is that accepted terminology for "those people" with mental health challenges. The consensus among that community is that, this is offensive and ablest. Unfortunately when it comes to invisible disability, many within the disability community are the worst offenders. Insert any other health condition or marginalized group in the space where it says "mentally ill". See what kind of reaction you get from all the "Karen police" out there.
If you're going to come at someone and post about what they have to say, provide all the facts in the future. I will not stoop to your level and call you names or use profanity to refer to you. Apparently it depends on which health condition one lives with if they are accepted and defended by the disabled community. I would suggest revisiting your definition of Ableism.
There's a big difference between advocacy and "ablest police Karens". Advocates fight for inequality for EVERYONE in the disabled community where Karens complain for the sake of complaining. Giving half of the story while spreading misinformation about others, not giving them an opportunity to defend themselves. After the initial conversation I reached out and thanked this person and told him I appreciated him. The response was name-calling and profanity. That's class.
#disability #ableism #MentalHealth #MentalIllnness #InvisibleDisabilityRights @disability @disabilityjustice @MadMovementMastodon
My public response while being slammed👇
https://oldfriends.live/@paul/111068436827492006
@paul
Apparently, I'm that Karen, however, omissions often lead to misinformation, such as in this post. They can also be very damaging. So, I felt it necessary to respond.
First, one should have a look at the screenshot of the actual post (below). Second, I did not "come at" this person, I messaged him privately wondering if he realized how that statement may alienate an entire community and offend others with invisible disabilities. I was actually shocked at the reaction I received. To avoid confusion, the original post was by someone else and this individual boosted it into my timeline. It seems like they subscribe to the notion that "mentally ill" (as opposed below puts it) are like criminals and abusers.
This is the problem within the disabled community and seemingly the reason why there's been no progress in disability rights for everyone – lack of solidarity and cross disability support along with the willingness to slam someone secretly with half-truths and misinformation. Then comes the name-calling and profanity as the "right" likes to do.
While I was being slammed secretly online, I quietly reached out to others with invisible disabilities and mental health challenges to see what they though of the original post, not this user. The consensus is that this statement is extremely insulting and ablest. Now, I'm called a Karen and told "fuck off" by someone I once enjoyed interactions with regularly. Just another example of inequality and #stigmatude within the disabled community affecting people with ID and MH challenges. This is exactly why I focus on IDR.
The statement from the post in question:
"The second amendment right wing wants every criminal, MENTALLY ILL, drug addict, wife abuser to have access to AR 15s except Hunter Biden".
Sounds more like a blue vs. red post, rather then an anti-gun post. So apparently this poster feels that humans that live with mental illness are the same as criminals, wife abuser's, and drug addicts. Sounds like a right-wing ideology to me. The person calling me "Karen" in this thread, doesn't seem to see there's an issue with that which, is his prerogative but, lashes out in public with incomplete inaccurate information, like a right-winger.
I'm still curious to have my question answered by the original poster: "Mentally ill" what, or is that accepted terminology for "those people" with mental health challenges. The consensus among that community is that, this is offensive and ablest. Unfortunately when it comes to invisible disability, many within the disability community are the worst offenders. Insert any other health condition or marginalized group in the space where it says "mentally ill". See what kind of reaction you get from all the "Karen police" out there.
If you're going to come at someone and post about what they have to say, provide all the facts in the future. I will not stoop to your level and call you names or use profanity to refer to you. Apparently it depends on which health condition one lives with if they are accepted and defended by the disabled community. I would suggest revisiting your definition of Ableism.
There's a big difference between advocacy and "ablest police Karens". Advocates fight for inequality for EVERYONE in the disabled community where Karens complain for the sake of complaining. Giving half of the story while spreading misinformation about others, not giving them an opportunity to defend themselves. After the initial conversation I reached out and thanked this person and told him I appreciated him. The response was name-calling and profanity. That's class.
#disability #ableism #MentalHealth #MentalIllnness #InvisibleDisabilityRights @disability @disabilityjustice @MadMovementMastodon
My public response while being slammed👇
https://kolektiva.social/@OutOfhttps://kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_IDR_Voice/111066726441297342
Question: is the phrase "riding the struggle bus" ableist? Like a variation on "short bus?"
I spotted a cute decal capturing Pittsburgh's epic bus woes that uses the phrase. But I don't want to perpetuate a harmful phrase unknowingly.
HEY THERE FEDI — especially YOU, other white people
Remember when we defederated Babka for transmisia and I said "when I want a world free of transmisia, that includes Jews who are transmisic, and that doesn't make me a fascist/antisemite??"
Well, when I say I want a world free of racism — that includes a world free of racist white trans people. I don't believe racist white trans people deserve safe spaces, offline or online. And that doesn't make me transmisic. Don't care what you have to say.
Same goes for antisemitic trans people, ableist trans people — you get the idea.
#meta #transmisia #transphobia #trans #racism #ableism #antisemitism #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
Last thing:
- #ableism made me bitter. Even as a #disabled person I was #ableist. Learn to undo this. Fighting society is exhausting and it's okay if you can't. Making safe place for #neurodivergent folks thrive and being kind to each other is something that will help other NA people finding happiness and that's important to. Just be yourself, and take care of you. Be indulgent when you can't. Please reach out if you need. Even if it's just to anonymous people, we care about you.
Nice day 🌼
- you will be very intense and dynamic but also tired all the time. You will be judged for talking too much or not enough. It's just how it is. Be yourself and don't let #ableism bring you down. If you can afford to get a diagnosis, know your rights. Ask for the accommodations you need. Don't burn yourself out by making work your hyperfixation. You need other hyperfixation or you will be drained to the core for minimal pay until you have to take a sick leave
- If people belittle you, leave them
We missed out on seeing family in #BC this summer due to #covid, #ableism and #exclusion.
Just days after arriving from England they all came down with covid, cancelling our imminent trip up north to see them.
The caravan then came to town a week later, led by my #ableist sister and #RightWing father fresh off #paxlovid.
My #immunocompromised wife and I were asked how we felt about spending two entire days at the PNE. My sister already knew we were opposed, this query was simply to demonstrate to visiting family how difficult we were due to our covid concerns.
We again respectfully declined, explaining this excursion was well beyond our daily risk level. We suggested a covid safe meetup outside the fair instead.
The group of 8, who had shared covid just ten days prior, then told us that this “would be difficult”.
It was explained by my sister that “unfortunately they only had 1.5 days” to spend at a crowded, wildfire smoke filled fair for what she called “A once in a lifetime experience for the kids”.
In response, she offered us a mere hour long breakfast at 8am on Sunday morning before they all returned to the fair for another 12 hours without masks.
I turned down this awkward meetup as we would have ended up driving longer than we would have seen them, and I was quite upset at being treated like we were being difficult simply because we wanted a family only visit outdoors in an unmitigated pandemic.
I suggested lunch, dinner or evening drinks on a porch; we would meet them anywhere in the city. I received no further response.
Family members I hadn’t seen in over five years chose to exclude and ignore us for their 2 days in the city due to our “paranoid” covid conscious mentality.
They came and left. No apologies or acknowledgement of what had happened, just silence and exclusion. We both felt beyond insulted and angry.
Weeks later (days ago) the phone rings. It’s my ableist right wing father who has only called me twice this whole pandemic.
He insinuates that it was disrespectful and selfish for us to miss their city visit, he’s let down that we didn’t join them at a pricey two day event with thousands of screaming strangers.
I am told that I can make it up to them by going out to the airport tomorrow morning at 8am to “spend a couple hours and see them off”.
I point out that the only reason we missed seeing everyone is because THEY all refused to put aside a moment for a covid safe visit with us.
I then explain that sitting on a covid skytrain tube for an hour to briefly meet family at an busy international airport terminal for a 2 hour long visit is once again, a risk that far exceeds my comfort level.
Dad scoffs, laughs at me and hands off the phone. “They never do anything anymore, a bunch of lazy disrespectful idiots.”
So ultimately, we the #vulnerable, not wanting to take unwarranted risks became the issue, rather than the ever-present virus itself.
All but two of the eight (including the kids who have had covid multiple times now) contracted covid on their extended vacation from reality.
My wife and I are still covid free but this time it came at a real cost. Anger, sadness, exclusion and disrespect.
We are now the black sheep of the family. Deemed selfish for not sacrificing ourselves. This is our new #covid19bc reality. Alienated, discriminated against, sacrificed and forgotten.
Can’t help but think how all this could’ve been avoided if my family had selflessly worn #masks and taken preventative measures to ensure a safe visit rather than doubling down on lies spun by #BonnieHenry and this soulless #BCndp govt.
@jackhutton
Every "mentally ill"?! I'm not part of the red gang or the blue gang but, this is an absolutely archaic ablest attitude and statement. Every "mental ill"? Every mentally ill what? Health conditions are not what killed people.
#disability #ableism #MentalHealth #MentalIllnness #InvisibleDisabilityRights @disability @disabilityjustice @MadMovementMastodon
https://kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_IDR_Voice/110798086621517029
Dear #Fediverse #Mastodon:
Take a look at this absolute piece of shit. Using the word #autistic (which I’m not) like a #slur.
#Report his fucking bigoted ass.
I know at least one person who needs to hear this: being autistic and/or ADHD isn't a "mental health condition". It's a neurotype. Nothing is wrong with us. We are normal, we are fine, we are just as awesome as people of other neurotypes.
Its a mental health condition only in so much as being a woman, trans, queer, ect are mental health conditions. That is to say, the bigotry against us causes mental health problems. The systems that aren't designed to include us make the world harder to exist in.
And please never tell us that we're being toxic and off-putting, or that you hope we get [mental] help when we mention being autistic and/or ADHD and talk about facing ableism for it. It's no different than telling any other marginalized group the same stuff.
And since I'm mentioning being autistic, I think I'm obligated to add a few vocalization stims.
Aaaaaaarffff :neofox_mug:
Grrrrrrarfff
Mew :ablobcatwave: #actuallyautisic #autisticpride #ableism
@BrianHarrod
Oh how I wish that people would stop using invisible disability and mental health issues when referencing people like Mr. My pillow, and other right wing zealots. It's insulting to an entire community and extremely stereotypical. Just ask Olympic gold winner Simone Biles actress, Emma Stone or millions of others.
The fact that Mike Lindell is a combative right-wing asshole into conspiracy theories, has nothing to do with the rest of that community or with health conditions. It has everything to do with the fact that he's a combative right-wing asshole into conspiracy theories, that who supports fascists. It's also extremely ablest.
#disability #ableism #InvisibleDisabilityRights @disability @disabilityjustice @MadMovementMastodon
As of 9/6/2023, there have been at least 1.13 million U.S. deaths due to #Covid19, with an excess death total of approximately 1.27 million additional fatalities.
In terms of 9/11s, COVID19 represents 377 to 801 9/11s occurring.
And I see nobody acknowledging those deaths in the "mainstream."
This isnt coping. Its denying & erasure.
#SocialDarwinism #AbleistFascism #NormalIsGross #Ableism #fascism #CovidIsNotOver
Data from OurWorldInData.org
Controversial rules governing voter identification led to racial and disability discrimination at this year’s local elections in England, according to a damning report co-written by one of the former ministers responsible for introducing them #VoterID #Discrimination #Elections #Racism #Ableism
Had another shitty ableist argument with a family in town who referenced “post covid” BS. I gave them a lecture about exclusion, masking, and ableism. They are an abled family who all work within “disability support services”. Meanwhile their children stared at my child with the obvious ableist gaze. The Dad is a sped teacher. These folx are told to let disabled folx die. If someone challenges them, they try to argue their way our of eugenics. Fuck the #MedicalIndustrialComplex #covid #ableism
It’s starting to feel like ableism is a catch phrase ableds throw around to pretend “they get it”. Fuck the ableist gaze. My visibly disabled child is not entertainment. Self stemming is natural. Vocalizations and body gestures must be respected as communication. There is an extensive amount of ableism within the Covid cautious and disability community towards folx who have intellectual disabilities. I’m exhausted with the questions, advice, and demeaning language. #ableism #disabled #MaskUp
THAT latter bit is what the problem is, in my opinion, with certain politicians hanging onto power for decades, not the mere fact they're old. Governing bodies should have some old ppl in them, as well as middle-aged, and young people... with diversity - with the various marginalizations that people experience.
But the editorial cartoonist went with ableist, ageist tropes. #Ableism #USPol