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I'm March. I'm multiply physically and psychiatrically disabled. not gonna list all my shit here. i use xe/they/fae/he/she pronouns. i'm queer. treat me like a decent person.
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Can we talk about how sometimes aspects or symptoms of physical disability can be traumatic just by themselves? I always see things that imply that all the trauma of disability is socially imposed, but, I mean.
I lost the ability to eat solid foods and any liquid more viscous than whole milk (safely, comfortably, enough to survive and maintain a healthy weight) about a year ago. Eating is so viscerally unpleasant, and has been for so long, that I have no interest in eating whatsoever. The thought of eating makes me upset and anxious. I have no desire to eat, even when I'm physically hungry. Looking at food I used to like makes me feel sick at worst and at best I'm just disinterested. I used to love food. I used to beg my mother for chocolate or cereal every time we went for groceries, and now I have zero interest in eating anything at all, and at times am actively scared of eating for fear of The Symptoms I have every time I eat. I would consider that some kind of trauma, when I used to love eating and now am actively opposed to it due to the severe physical discomfort it causes. This doesn't have anything to do with ableism. It's not anything to do with doctors or other people. The symptom itself is the cause.
Has anyone else had a similar experience, where the symptom itself caused trauma without any medical or interpersonal aspects to it?
ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat
this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on
Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer
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"Why are young women using walking sticks?"
Because we need them. And it's frankly none of your fucking business, Kathy.
i feel like people still think accessibility and accommodation are favours bestowed upon others and not like a collective responsibility of everyone in society
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need a hat that says I WONT SPEAK UNLESS SPOKEN TO AND ITS NOT BECAUSE IM DISINTERESTED AND DONT LIKE YOU I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND SOCIAL INTERACTION AS WELL AS MOST PEOPLE AND ASSUME BY DEFAULT MY PRESENCE IS UNWELCOME AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE SO I KEEP TO MYSELF BUT I DONT MIND IF YOU INITIATE so i can wear it to work
I’ve ranted about this before, but if I hear one more person tell me as a disabled, chronically ill person that I “need reset my vagus nerve” and they suggest a magnesium bath soak and what is essentially chamomile tea mixed with a laxative to fix it, I refuse to be held responsible for my actions.
I have to reassuringly tell my primary doctor that I am massaging my vagus nerve every appointment. She then prescribes me the medications that actually treat my condition. But first we must establish I am performing the magic ritual. Only one of these things is keeping me alive, susan.
"erm actually this thing you said you experienced, where doctors treated you wrong, is illegal!!" Do you understand that medical malpractice is a real thing and not just a plot device from House MD. You get that, right. Right??
happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility
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It can be easy to confuse the two, but you don't actually "wish you were more disabled", you wish your disability was taken seriously and was properly accommodated and that you had access to the support and resources you need - and that desire is so valid. You deserve more. But the sad truth is that no level of disability actually guarantees a sufficient level of support. So you have to work to separate your very understandable desire for more support from the incorrect assumption that other disabled people are consistently receiving what you aren't. All of us are getting fucked over in this society, and no group of disabled people actually has it easy.
always a dread omen seeing the comments on a post saying "I love when the alt text is part of the joke!" bc nine times out of ten the alt text is not part of the joke, nor does it accurately translate a visual joke into language while maintaining the humor, but instead it is tangential to or a digression from the image being described and is only funny if you can both see the image and read the alt text, and therefore is actually a joke at the expense of everyone relying on alt text because they can't see the image.
Thinking about this deep underlying frustration that I have in conversations about ableism, disability advocacy etc, and part of it is that soooo many nondisabled people see my statements or opinions or anecdotes and think that I am looking to have a debate or argument. And it's like..
My credentials on this topic are that I have decades of lived experience as a chronically ill disabled psychiatrized person, and also that I have read hundreds of thousands (maybe millions?) of words of medical studies, research articles, legal frameworks, human rights initiatives, essay by activists, advocacy organization platforms, and histories of disability rights.
Your credentials are that you are a Person Who Thinks They Knows Stuff.
We are not the same. Your opinion is irrelevant to me, because the degree to which you possess less information than I do makes it laughable that you would have anything new or of value to add to this conversation.
The degree to which this is my area of expertise makes any discussion we have about it which does not first acknowledge the disparity in our levels of expertise inherently disrespectful to me as a person.
And you can't even tell, because you are so ableist that you don't see my experience as expertise to begin with.
In fucking credible
Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don't need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.
Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.
Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.
When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?
Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?
Every time I express that I think it's shitty to say that genAI "hallucinates," people get weirdly pissy and combative with me.
But until real human beings who experience hallucinations are treated like human beings worthy of respect and dignity...I think perhaps it's shitty to keep associating hallucinations with being non-human, dangerous, and a liar.
It actually really fucking sucks that hallucinating is seen as monster-movie-scary, dangerous, inhuman, and worthy of scorn and/or mockery. It actually really fucking sucks that people who hallucinate or experience delusions can't get compassionate help or understanding, because everyone thinks it's an automatic sign of being dangerous, violent, and a liar. It's a massive problem that people look at hallucinations as "dangerous crazy person shit" that should be gotten rid of or locked away.
I find it crass, at best, to flippantly use the term "AI hallucinations" when real-life people get abused, imprisoned, and killed because they experience hallucinations.
But what do I know, I'm just a crazy person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
People in the notes keep proposing alternatives or asking me what they should say instead, and I really think y'all are overthinking it. You don't need to coin an entire new term. You can just say "AI generates misinformation." If you need it as a noun, "AI misinformation."
If you want to be provocative, "AI spits out garbled bullshit" works, too.
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people dont get how exhausting it is to have so many different conditions. especially when theyre so heavily misunderstood and demonized in media. because even when people have heard of your conditions you still have to explain it to them & constantly correct them on shit the media gets wrong. & then you have to do it over again with the next condition. and the next. forever and ever until you die
I love informed consent, I love dignity of risk, I love the thought of having someone willing to tell me why the thing that I'm about to do is a bad idea, telling me in detail exactly what the consequences are, what's going to happen and why, and what's the worst that can happen, and then having no power to stop me when I decide to do it anyway because I'm an adult and I'm allowed to get my shit kicked in so fucking bad while doing something stupid if I so choose.
