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Here's to the disabled people who aren't "succeeding despite their disability." The ones who aren't able to study or work. The ones without impressive skills. The ones who need a lot of support, treatment and accommodations just to manage basic self care. The ones who need economic support from loved ones and/or welfare and disability benefits. The ones who can't live independently. The ones who aren't "inspiring" anyone but are instead looked at with judgment and pity. I hope you know that you don't have to do or achieve anything whatsoever to be a worthy, valuable, good person.

Giving nonspeaking kids and kids with difficulty using oral speech access to AAC as soon as possible needs to be normalized.

Of course you want your child to communicate, that's fine, that's GOOD. But oral speech isn't the only way to do that, and refusing to give your child a way to communicate because it isnt the form of communication you favor isn't okay.

Its OKAY if your kid never learns (or relearns) to use oral speech. ITS OKAY.

"But I put them in speech therapy to learn to talk! I don't want them to use that tablet all their life. They need to learn to talk using their mouthparts." Why??

First of all, AAC is proven to actually help people develop language skills and oftentimes oral speech. So any concern about AAC hindering development of oral speech is uncalled for and irrational. But along with that, ORAL SPEECH ISNT THE ONLY GOOD FORM OF COMMUNICATION!! AAC is good. Sign is good. Etc.

Saying otherwise and/or preferring your child to use oral speech IS ableist, and yes, it IS harmful to everyone.

“high support need” not synonym (mean same/similar thing) as “hard”

yes, high support need often hard be.

but hard no mean high support need.

medium support need can be hard

low support need can be hard.

level 3 hard.

level 2 hard.

level 1 can also be hard. level 1 without enough support or level 1 in burnout can be extra hard.

be autistic in ableist society can be hard no matter how much or little support need or how much struggle compare to other autistic.

don’t need call self “high support need” to have past trauma valid or to have support or be valid.

please leave us high support need alone please stop use us to make self feel more valid.

happy disability pride month to disabled people who were scared to call themselves disabled

happy disability pride month to disabled people that don’t prioritize a cure or diagnosis

happy disability pride month to ambulatory aid users/people with invisible disabilities who have had the validity of their conditions questioned

happy disability pride month to disabled people with medical trauma

happy disability pride month to disabled people who have struggled loving a body that doesn’t always support them

happy disability pride month to people with chronic illness who felt they had to hide or minimize their pain in order to be liked

happy disability pride month to disabled people who were bullied or harassed for their disability

happy disability pride month to disabled people who have been criticized for speaking about their disability “too much” or “making it your whole personality”

happy disability pride month to disabled people whose disabilities are messy, chaotic, and difficult for abled people to understand

happy disability pride month to disabled people who thought they could never live a happy, fulfilled life and are doing so anyway.

Thinking about ableism

Thinking about how ambulatory wheelchair users get accused of being fakers and people are surprised when we can walk

and yet non-ambulatory wheelchair users also face "can't you just walk a few steps?? well, why not?!?"

It's a perfect example of how there is no group of disabled that doesn't experience ableism.

Invisible or visible, physical or psychiatric, fluctuating symptoms or consistent, late diagnosed or early, disabled from birth or later in life, high or low support needs... we all face ableism. The amount and type can vary, but with ableism so baked into the very foundation of our society, we all face SIGNIFICANT ableism.

Remember, the real enemy is abled hegemony.

Interesting read. I had to lose over 100lbs for top surgery but that was before the study was published. Fucked they didn't tell this guy sooner. I was warned by Denver Health before I even got my consultation.

shoutout to autistic people who were never told they "don't look autistic". the people who are instantly spotted & treated differently. people who can't "pass" as neurotypical even if that would be life saving in that moment. we're so cool<3

As a neurodivergent person, I feel like my reaction to music is often way stronger than reactions I see from nt people. When I listen to music, I routinely cry, scream, dance, sing at the top of my lungs, happy stim and feel like I’m going to internally combust, it’s just what music does to me. And I’ve noticed that other nd people also seem to have strong reactions to music. So

Please reblog :)

something that rly creeps me out…..occasionally ill see videos or articles for christians or christian missionaries that say something like “what you need to do is make friends with non christians and really get them to trust you and THEN you start preaching to them and bringing them to jesus” and that is….man how much would it hurt to know that the only reason someone’s hanging out with you is to convert you to a religion you were never interested in. maybe this is a real friend, someone you really really feel like you connect to, and all of a sudden you cant hang out with them without being scared they’ll bring out the jesus stuff.

charlie youre blowing my third eye WIDE open

hahahaha like a year ago I tweeted “Christianity’s attitude toward Jews resembles nothing so much as the attitude of a man toward a woman who won’t fuck him” and people got SO MAD at me

Tumblr is so funny because you can make a post like "hey do not mix bleach and vinegar in your cleaning, you'll make chlorine gas and you do not want to make chlorine gas. It is dangerous to mix these two specific chemicals together", and the comments are like

"Um vinegar isn't dangerous?? My mom cleans things with vinegar all the time and we have never had lung issues. White people are insane." (<- does not use bleach, missing the point)

"OH MY GOD BLEACH IS CHLORINE GAS? NOBODY EVER TOLD ME I'VE BEEN CLEANING WITH BLEACH MY WHOLE LIFE, I WILL DIE." (<- has literally never used vinegar in cleaning, and never mixed the two, missing the point)

"This is just stupid fearmongering, we use bleach and vinegar to wash the floors all the time, OP is lying." (<- does not actually know what "vinegar" is, and is confusing the word for something else)

"Yeah this is true enough but also keep in mind that this kind of household cleaning product chlorine gas is too weak and unreliable to use for domestic terrorism purposes." (<- raises concerns, but potentially has a point)

Christ this is so fucking cool

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. There's so much going on here. I genuinely love the conception of gender as mystic autodeism. Gender as divine microcosm. Gender as Great Work. It's gnostic, it's alchemical, it's got notes of bacchanalian worship of the body and the inherent magic of self-discovery. This but unironically.

Shoutout to transphobes for thinking gender is this fucking badass

The moment you come to terms with the fact that everything is temporary/fluctuates/changes, you will experience an unimaginable amount of peace.

You want some serious old fart advice? Never, ever lend your friends more money than you think you can lose permanently. I don't fucking care if they say they'll pay you back. I don't care how small the amount is. Write that shit off as gone in your mind. It will eat at you forever if you don't.

Some people say the same thing about family, but I think it applies more to friends. Family is (usually) held together by obligations the way friends aren't. And money is a huge stressor in all kinds of relationships, not just romantic.

I'm not saying this to bum you out. I'm telling you because this is not something you want to learn on your own. Because it fucking sucks to realize it's one reason you're no longer friends, whether you were necessarily aware of it or not.

I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme

Hobie 🎸