level 1 autistic and ND people be like “omg ew brush your teeth make eye contact stop stimming stop using your disability as an excuse to be lazy and weird! thank god I’m a Normal Autistic” meanwhile able bodied people are looking at you and thinking the exact same awful things.
Ableism is everywhere.
Disabled students can’t find schools to educate them.
Disabled adults can’t find jobs that will accommodate them.
Disabled patients can’t find healthcare that will actually help them.
Disabled people are always left behind.
“children are oppressed and are seen more as objects than humans” is one of those convos that nobody is ready for because of that second point, people don’t *really* see kids as people, just accessories to people.
I see people on here saying some of the most vile things. And when I look at their bio. They're always some form of mental health advocate, speaking about being kind or religious person. The hypocrisy isn't lost on me.
Some of the meanest and most evil people I've ever seen were so called mental health advocates or positive vibes people. They often ended being very ableist. They felt since they were such "nice people". They were allowed to lie and abuse others who are "bad" in their eyes.
Hating disabled people is one of the few things that unites people across the political spectrum. Makes ableist posts a surefire way to rack up Internet points.
Luigi and Aaron Bushnell did not need their physical fitness to hit back on fascism. They needed courage and a willingness to sacrifice.
Something none of these cowards laughing at disability activists have. No matter how many reps they do at the gym. It won’t matter.
Ableism is also a kind of self-blackmail. Living in fear of disability makes you susceptible to every form of manipulation this system carries out. People will be brought into fascism from the left precisely through that fear of being seen as weak.
As an autistic person I spend way too much of my time trying to understand how someone heard one set of words but reacted to others that weren’t said.
I’m not doing that for this. She clearly said an anti eugenics thing and it pissed all the left side eugenicists off. Everyone mad is telling on themselves.
Disabled leftists aren't telling you not to work out. They are saying that working out doesn't make you better than them. If you DO think that working out makes you better than disabled people, you have embraced the supremacist logic of fascism. It's really that simple.
Healing is trusting yourself to take accountability when needed but to also advocate for yourself when someone is projecting their feelings or trauma onto you.
It’s not other’s responsibility to heal wounds or quell insecurities. They need to do the work themselves.
Disability is a site of class struggle because it exposes the lie of meritocracy. We show that survival isn’t earned—it’s organized, or it doesn’t happen at all.