@melichiordepoet@fancyfrie You want to claim to be pro-choice while telling people that they can't make that choice if you don't approve of their reasoning. That is anti-choice, pro-life rhetoric.
@melichiordepoet@fancyfrie It isn't the child's fault, but the social model of disability does not apply to every disability. And until the world has changed, forcing people to carry a child they don't want to term is not going to make it better, just force more suffering.
@melichiordepoet@fancyfrie I'm not eradicating anyone. But I think one needs to recognize that forcing people to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term bc of disability doesn't mean that disabled person will have a good life. Instead you might just be creating more suffering.
@melichiordepoet@fancyfrie I'm disabled and have divorced parents where my mom grew up with a disabled sister so understood what supporting a disabled family member meant. Living with my dad on the other hand made me suicidal, so if I lived with only him my whole life I'd rather have been aborted.
@KaleckiWasRight@headintheoffice If anything the reason for Platner's popularity is bc ppl are sick of the moderates with good rhetoric who get nothing done and just rubber stamp the status quo. The Democrats refuse to recognize that their base is unhappy however.
My mom met up with her best friend's widower (she sadly also died of cancer) after a year and she said he still didn't know what to do with himself without her. Finding out how uncommon that he hasn't already moved on is kind of shocking.
My mom messages her late best friend’s ex husband every year on the anniversary of her death, It’s always the same simple text “3 months” Just a little reminder that he married another woman 3 months after she died of cancer n honestly I love that for her
@HamidKolahdouz@nayana317668 Ethnic enclaves in the US has been a thing basically since our founding. Usually by the third or fourth generation they start to dissolve into the wider community and integrate more.
@TimCoop59086596@visceralscenery If anything it would be the opposite, people tend to over buy when they only go once a week bc going back to the store takes so much time.
@d33pBleu71@cslivr There needs to be enough skin to cover it so for extremely large ones a person would need to increase the size over time similar to gauges, tho obviously more invasive.
@BernkeNoBread@LexiconLass Yeah something doesn't have to hurt to be traumatic. Someone holding a loaded gun to your head while threatening to kill you doesn't hurt if they don't pull the trigger yet can still be incredibly traumatizing.
@LeslieRodr47139@dsyfunxtional@hitchups Yeah something like phone anxiety can be one of those "rock in the shoe" things but having dealt with it myself, the only way to improve it is ultimately making phone calls. Does it suck to deal with at first? Absolutely. But it eventually gets better!
@jmwilt21@LiliasAmell I'd say the biggest difference is that they actually listen to the advice from ppl from the states with snow. The equivalent is if they were ignoring all that and choosing to freeze and then getting upset at the ppl who tell them how to not freeze.
@LeslieRodr47139@dsyfunxtional@hitchups Or the recent "asking people to come to the professor's office during office hours for 5 min to clear up if their paper is AI is ableism" topic. Watching ppl try to seriously argue for self-infantilization gets frustrating as a ND person who benefited by learning certain skills.
@lovesfullglory@mcbeardymullet when you use cold cream to take off your makeup it does make you look kinda ghoulish until you wipe it off so maybe to a young kid that's scary?
@GambelerQuail Eh, idk if I agree with this since in high school I had a friend who literally dated a 26 year old yet was also the most popular amongst our friend group with boys and always had guys interested in her. The opinion amongst us on him/his age were mixed. (I was skeeved out myself)