March 2012
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Dear people who think autism should be cured.
inflateablefilth:
I don’t want to be ‘cured’. Ever. I am fine as I am. Yes, my autism causes me a fuckton of problems. It really does. I am bullied, I am taken advantage of, people try and hug me if I go non-verbal, I am stared at if I don’t suppress the urge to stim and walk on tiptoes… it makes my life incredibly hard. Actually, that’s not right. It’s not really the autism that causes the bulk...
February 2012
128 posts
just-cut-the-wire asked: Fictional characters you remind me of? I have a few. Is wrong she is also disabled? Barbara Gordon as Oracle because you are both good with computers and don't take anyone's shit.
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Conversations I wish I didn't have to ever have...
youneedacat:
I’ve been feeding disability-related books to a guy who works with me. He reads if there’s nothing else to do. He’s quite an avid reader in general. So I figured since he’s sometimes getting paid to sit around and read I might as well make it educational.
But I had no idea the kind of ideas that lurk inside him. That seem to require un-educating.
“Reading this woman’s work was so…...
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This actually happened
littlemissmutant:
allies-person:
Non-disabled parent: We should have a conversation in the disability community where no one would be allowed to get offended or call anyone else ableist or privileged.
After some comments…
Closes thread for comments because he got offended.
Accurate summary
It wasn’t actually him who closed the threat, it was the staff at Support For Special Needs...
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Feel completely powerless to ever discuss eugenic...
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“For the chronically ill, details are all. To cope with chronic illness means to...”
– Arthur Kleinman, The Illness Narratives (via shanghailil)
You can say that again.
(via youneedacat)
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disabledproblems:
11.When People Aren’t Paying Attention In Public, You Ask Them Nicely To Move, and They Yell at You When You Accidentally Run over Their Feet
And then people think you’re an “angry cripple” when you yell at them to move after you’ve asked them nicely ten times.
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Tomorrow is Rare Disease Awareness Day! Click the... →
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“People with disabilities are made “extremely vulnerable in a society that...”
– Catherine Frazee, a former chairwoman of the Ontario Human Rights Commission
The kid was a lot of trouble. By: Tuns, Paul, Report / Newsmagazine (Alberta Edition), 14888092, 02/07/2000, Vol. 26, Issue 47
(via cpmatters)
Catherine Frazee = made of awesome. Go watch Shameless: The Art of...
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On Beling Alive by Sondra Diamond
cpmatters:
If anyone would like a copy of the article let me know!
I’m in love with this woman.
ME. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Mild disabilities"
cpmeanscrazyperson:
I don’t know what the “medical definition” or the “educational definition” of a mild disability is, but I bet I could come up with the “real life” definition.
Having a mild disability means:
People telling you that you need help when you’re trying to be independent.
People telling you to be independent when you need help.
People saying “you can do anything you put your...
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It's always the goddamned disabled people and...
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“Due to severe brain damage incurred at birth, I am unable to dress myself,...”
– Sondra Diamond - On Being Alive (1977)
Who is this woman and where can I read more of her stuff???
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“Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from...”
– The Boy Who Lived Forever | Time Magazine (via lesliecrusher)
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Reblog this if you want someone to put a fictional...
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I was getting off the train and...
sanssavoirpourquoi:
There was this older woman in front of me making her way down the steps with a little difficulty and so the nearby train employee (is that what you call them?) offered to help her and take her luggage. When my turn came I asked the same employee to carry my luggage, and he gave me the ‘who’s this princess?’ look but accepted anyway.
Look I know I look young and fit (wait...
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“I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group...”
– Barack Obama
(via damourdepaixetdespoir)
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“What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now....”
– Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism (via hythe)
@fairyfly1, you’ll be interested in this.
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Things that are butts: Supermarket Courtesy...
nothingbutsurrender:
IDK how much this is a thing elsewhere, but UK supermarkets often have a number of wheelchairs available for people to use while onsite.
Thing is, they’re the flimsiest, shonkiest, badly abused crap imaginable a lot of the time. About the only thing I can say for them is that they’re lighter and therefore easier to self propel than the standard issue Red NHS Tank chair.
...
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disabledproblems:
9.when the elevator is out of order
submitted by: anon
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“Emerald’s City’s gone to hell, since the wizard blew his command!”
– 30/90, Tick Tick Boom (via theatreisforloserslikeme)
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“We are uncomfortable with disabled bodies that question or trouble our accepted,...”
– Disabled Bodies and Ableist Acceptance (via hamuu)
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So....does anyone out there like Star Trek?
deeply-spaced:
deesarrachi:
idkmybffspock:
crowdog66:
sexsocialismandscifi:
imafangirlnotadoctor:
mrpicard:
vulcanears:
I don’t just mean the 2009 reboot (but that’s fine too!). But any Orginial Series, Next Gen, DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise fans out there?
Anyone?
Am I alone?
*a wild TNG fan appears*
TOS/XI fan reporting iiiiin
TOS & DS9, primarily. Although I have my...
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“When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you...”
– Adrienne Rich
I know nothing of the context, I just saw it in a friend’s blog. I’m about to post a response to it in my next post.
(via youneedacat) and the Junot Diaz quote about vampires? And the TED talk about existing in stories. All go together! TO THE ATTENTION OF: Julia.
(via...
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cute boy: i used to know a girl with spina bifida. she liked giraffes.
me: liking giraffes is a symptom of spina bifida.
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Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
Woman: Well, why can't I have birth control?
Government: Because. Sex isn't for recreation.
Woman: It can help regulate my period and benefit me in other ways.
Government: Too bad.
Man: For no reason other than for recreational sex, may I have birth control?
Government: Do you have a penis?
Man: YES, YES I DO!!
Government: WELL HOWDY, VALID CITIZEN. You can buy condoms by the dozens. Here, here's a pack of special condom for "His Pleasure." Oooh, these come in different colours and flavours. Here, try these. They have ribs on them. And this one glows in the dark!! LOL OMG DICK LIGHTSABER!!
Government: But seriously, you're a man. You can do what ever you want.
Woman: But-
Government: Shut up, you sinning, freeloading hussy.
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The Paper Plane of Existence: I watch a lot of TV... →
thepaperplaneofexistence:
I blame Netflix, mostly. It’s like having cake in the fridge. Endless cake.
Right now I’m watching Deep Space Nine for the first time in ages it’s AMAZING and I forgot how goddamn beautiful the theme song is…but I’m still glad I didn’t write my paper on Star Trek.
I’m watching what I remember…
That whole episode is made of win. I love Odo as the ump.
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Rule of Acquisition #17: A contract is a contract...
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fictionalred:
Sheldon mentions DS9 in The Rothman Disintegration!
#reasonswhyiloveTBBT
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I heard a bit of news on the radio today and felt...
sanssavoirpourquoi:
There’s a new prenatal test in the U.S. called Maternity 21, used to determine whether or not your child will be born with Down Syndrome. It’s more accurate and poses much less risk to the fetus and mother than previous tests, which probably means the recent (abortion-induced) drop in births of children with Down Syndrome will keep increasing if mothers who tested positive...
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“Sometimes, loving your body is not an option. Sometimes, the best we can do is...”
– Lesley Kinzel (via lavender-labia)
Some days I have a feeling of love for my body, and other days I don’t want to “know” or “see”.
(via cpmatters)
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Living with the less obvious
invisabled:
Another example of discrimination that I have encountered a great deal is people’s response after explaining to them why you have extra time and rest breaks during exams. There are two types of response, either “you’re so lucky I wish I had extra time” or “Oh your ‘joint pain’, that’s a good excuse do you think it’ll work for me?”, and they assume that the chance of my hand joints...
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Reblog if you love to write.
Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.
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abrocado:
If you can’t think back to a time where you were overly passionate about something, then you haven’t lived your life.
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I'm brushing my teeth quick someone take a picture...
bahahahahaha
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Meloukhia.net On bodies and beaches →
summersaysso:
Excerpt:
And I say balls to that, because, you know what? You belong. Everyone with a body belongs, no matter what that body looks like and how it behaves. And don’t you ever forget that, not for a minute. Not when someone is giving you the eyebrow for wearing short-shorts, not when someone is sighing impatiently because your hands are shaking as you reach for your debit card to...
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“I am a non-white person with light colouring, and I am physically disabled, but...”
– Invisible Identities, Part 1: Invisible to Whom? by Chally
This is just more amazing stuff.
(via stogucheme)
*ALL THE APPLAUSE*
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Please Understand...
paradoxxed:
Please understand that being disabled/sick doesn’t mean I’m not still a human being. I have to spend most of my day being very careful what I do, and if you visit I might not seem like much fun to be with, but I’m still me stuck inside this body. I still worry about school and work and my family and friends, and most of the time I’d still like to hear you talk about yours too.
...
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Things that may make you an asshole (TW: ableist...
fairy1234:
- Saying that “derp” and “herp derp” isn’t ableist in anyway despite there being evidence that it fucking is.
- Mocking the use of trigger warnings and telling us to stop being so “sensitive” on the Internet.
- Telling people with disabilities what and what not to be offended by.
- Saying that there is no such thing as ableism and calling people “retarded” for knowing it is real.
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yesterday i went to get a haircut. i DROVE myself...
girl-in-a-wheelchair:
holycripitsacrapple:
same-old-converse:
sorry for the rant guys
No need to be sorry. I would have run the lady over then demand my money back.
What is it about people and doors with wheelchairs?
The doors you can get, they fall over themselves, and you, rushing to open. The ones that you can’t get, they just stand there and gawp at you struggling or ignore you.
...
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The pro-choice campaign:
stogucheme:
Abortion is a woman’s CAF’s choice! They should be able to abort any baby!
-is good (aside from the trans issues)
Prenatal screening should be free!
-is good
Doctor: The prenatal screening test is back. Your child will be disabled.
Pro-choice movement: Abort! Abort!
-is bad
Let’s remember that pro-choice means giving women a choice and not pressuring them to abort, please.
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(TW: Ableist slur) Being racist is not being...
stogucheme:
secretsofthedisabled:
thetaylordetroye:
iamabutchsolo:
In class today we were talking about all of these cases of race-infused violence in the south during the Civil Rights Movement, and Emmett Till came up. And of course we talked about how brutal his murder was - he was beaten, shot in the head, drowned, one of his eyes was gouged out. There was a quiet in the room as we all...
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