Ellie🎭

thank you @chaoticsweetheart for letting me post this!

I know I need to hear this often ESPECIALLY during mental and physical flare ups so I figured I'd share this message here

Being disabled does NOT mean you are UNLOVABLE.

Being disabled does NOT make you UNWANTED.

Being disabled does NOT make you UNDESIRABLE.

Being disabled does NOT make you UNDESERVING.

Being disabled does NOT make you a BURDEN.

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Video Transcript

[The song “Repeat Until Death” by Novo Amor plays in the background throughout the video.]

I’m in so much physical pain right now, but I felt like I really needed to say this for myself and for other people: your disability DOES NOT make you unlovable.

And the people that hurt you, that get to go on with their lives and be happy and joyful, is NOT EVER a reflection on your worth.

And I know it’s SO hard to keep that in mind, and I know it’s so not fucking fair.

But, your disability does NOT make you unlovable.

It does NOT make you UNWANTED.

It does NOT make you UNDESIRABLE.

Yeah, the system agrees and the system is built on eugenics where they don't want certain groups of people (ie: people of color, disabled people, queer people, etc.) to be here anymore. So, they weaken systems like foster care and accessibility and they create systems that target Black people and Indigenous people and they don't protect children disowned by their family for being queer because then those people will fall into poverty and either die before they have kids or their kids will fall into that same cycle so as not to take food off the plates of straight cis upper class white abled people who have too many plates to even keep track of.

If you genuinely whole-heartedly believe that people in poverty shouldn't have children then you start attacking the systems that create poverty in the first place. If your care is for the well-being of children, then you start attacking systems that actively harm children. If the problem is poverty, attack what creates poverty and not the people who can't do anything about the circumstances CAUSING the property.

I want em back (the minds we had)