Hullo!

Every time I point out that disabled people are chill and that presuming we are violent monster maniacs is a bit ridiculous, at least one fuckwit has to be like, "oh yeah? What about [condition]?"

"Oh yeah? Well my sister works at a special school and she gets bitten by autistic kids all the time!" Okay. I was an autistic kid who went to special school. Didn't bite anybody, didn't see anybody bitten. I also worked in SPED for a while as an adult. Never saw an incident. Hm.

Oh look, studies show that violence is common in pretty much all schools because exploring and experimenting with violence is actually really common for kids aged three to nine. But oh, we notice it more when the retards do it. Why is that. Could it be ableism. We discuss it as an especially common and problemaitc thing when the retards do it. Why is that. Could it be ableism.

"Oh yeah? Well I'm a psychiatric nurse and my schizophrenic patient punched me!" I am a diagnosed schizophrenic. The whole reason I'm not working any more is that I lost years of my life in psychosis. Now, follow me here, I never assaulted anybody, but I have been assaulted a number of times since I became ill, always with the excuse of "well he could've become violent." Hm.

Every single major study on violence and schizophrenia finds schizophrenics are not more violent than the general population but experience violence at massively, massively disproportionate rates. In fact, they usually find the majority of violence in these contexts is perpetrated by support workers, family members, and police. Hm.

Sometimes it is going to stop you from doing things, and that’s okay. Sometimes it’s going to get in your way or make you struggle or cause problems in your life. But that’s okay, that’s why it’s called a disability.

But I need all of you to remember that this is WORLD Autism Awareness Day. And although your country might be in a place where we need to start pushing for more acceptance, for accommodations, for letting us be, there are so many more countries out there who have such a lack of awareness of what autism is.

So many places that still have no idea what autism even is, who it affects, how it affects us. Places that may only know autism from a place of incredibly high support needs autism as well.

Psychiatrically disabled people deserve access to gender affirming care.

Physically disabled people deserve access to gender affirming care.

Not many cognitive disability intellectual disability developmental disability trans people are also so lucky .

Oh, are we finally learning that autism causes social communication impairments and that it actually impacts everyone around us?

Are we finally understanding what autism symptoms can look like?

Did we just figure out that autism causes a lot of rigid thinking patterns?

Or are we only just learning that autistics have many clashing needs with eachother?

Is it only now that we're realising that a lot of the traits like cognitive empathy, compromise, accommodation, patience, cooperation, active listening, and more, don't inherently come naturally to many autistic people?

I do! I miss the social cues! I have to learn the rules over and over. And I have to consciously apply them. And then learn them again for new situations! Or I have such a learned and unconscious fear of missing the social cues that I am hyperaware of everyone's minute movements and intonations and even then I get it wrong. And not abiding by the social rules in the Right Way makes me feel like I'm going to be beaten with sticks.

not being able to cook or do laundry at all without external support will make living alone extremely difficult. (both are iADLs) not being able to pay bills is like a one way ticket to not living by yourself unless you have someone to do it for you who doesn’t live with you (another iADL) not being able to clean your living space (iADL) can put you in real danger of injury or sickness after a long enough time. not being able to schedule appointments for your health can put you in life-threatening danger because you cant go to the doctor (yet another iADL)

these are things that you can need someone else to do for you entirely and you can still be squarely in the LSN category.

lateral ableism exist punch down ableism exist but sometimes it not even lateral it just ableism

disabled person who not high support needs not severely disabled be ableist to high support needs severely disabled ppl still be ableism

disabled person who not need carers who be ableist toward ppl who do not cannot be without. that still ableism

disabled person who not physically disabled be ableist to physically disabled ppl that still ableism

verbal disabled person be ableist to nonverbal person that still ableism

disabled person without intellectual disability be ableist to person who do. that still ableism

hearing disabled person be ableist to d/Deaf/HOH disabled person still ableism (and audism)

sighted disabled person be ableist to blind or visually impaired person still ableism

etc can go on forever

in fact like if you put two disabled person who Exactly The Same Way Of Disabled together n no power imbalance no ability imbalance. one can still be ableist to another!

yes disabled people should be allow exist n not be treat as Spokesperson Representer Of All Things Disability disabled ppl allow fuck up n not have to worry how that reflect on Everyone Disabled People but also. sometimes some situations your actions have impact wider than you that you responsible for - you can’t generalize to “disabled people” n when someone say hey that fucked up, backpedal n say well it just abt self so that okay

I can’t do that without negative consequences

I can’t do that unless I have support for it

I can’t do that