#moderate support needs

I genuinely am so socially inept. I cannot make friends, I can barely communicate my needs and wants to family/friends let alone people I don't know.

My social struggle genuinely really upsets me. Sure i'm generally asocial and i'm very happy being in my small circle. But when I do want to make a friend I just can't. Even just initiating that exchange is impossible for me unless someone does it for me.

I've seen people in person who I want to be friends with, and I'll need another friend to physically bring me to and introduce me to that person.

This blog isn’t made to invalidate the experiences of people who aren’t msn but to fight against misinformation about support needs.

FAQ

What Are Support Needs?

Support needs are categories that describe the broad level of support someone with any disability may need in day to day life and ADLs are usually used to determine them. Some think these are solely tied to autism or correlated to autism levels but this is not true. They’re most commonly split into lsn/Low Support Needs, msn/Moderate Support Needs, hsn/High Support Needs though people may fall between these labels or something like that.

What Are ADLs?

ADLs are Activities of Daily Living the things you do to live life. Split into bADLs and iADLs. bADLs are basic ADLs which are;

bathing/showering, cleaning your teeth, taking care of your hair and nails, any sort of personal grooming in general ( ex. applying deodorant ), continence, eating, dressing yourself, picking out appropriate clothing, moving and transferring, etc.

iADLs are instrumental ADLs which are;

managing your money, doing cleaning including dishes and laundry, taking care of your personal belongings, managing maintenance ( this is as simple as knowing when to and being able to call someone else to fix something ), managing your health/medical stuff, managing transport, cooking, shopping, using technology, etc.

What Is MSN Erasure?

To put it simply it is the ignoring and/or minimising of the experiences and existence of moderate support needs people. This can be the treating of support needs as a binary, the invalidation of msn people as not truly msn and ‘actually’ lsn or hsn, etc.

This blog accepts submissions about the above and also about ableism toward msn people, misinformation about support needs in general, and your positive experiences as an msn person.

Anon Signoffs

but some online spaces especially genuinely most utterly disgusting horrible echo chambers pure hatred and misinformation central could ever find. one major online space, or social media regard this is what tiktok is. tiktok has done and continue do awful awful nasty damage reality many disabillities, how serious and significant are and what they actually are or arent in first place.

but what motivate me make this post today apart from deep long term hurt and disgust have towards reality these online spaces and how people behave within them is what been happening tiktok recently.

this person who have many/multiple conditions include ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) who if remember right have been mostly bedbound for months months months now have made video trying explain and showcase reality got with unable do any form labour, work, due have these conditions and explain how unrealistic their needs be accomodate in any job be possible therefore trying achieve disabillity benefit.

and way everyone have receive this persons attempt at share and educate their life been beyond disgusting. from invalidation, laughing, mocking, fake claiming, to continuous death threats and dozens hatred filled uneducated videos and responses. this including people who claim of have some condition this person have but saying "i have this and this and i work" "i have this and that but i dont let my illness stop me" "i am more than my conditions so are you."

im sick and tired these false narratives. it is so prevelant in more mild severity disabillity spaces push out this mindset of pushing thru conditions have, pushing thru symptoms. pushing ideal that just because YOU are able why isnt the other person able just as you. can we all stop be horribly insensitive and ignorant? wether mild disabillity or severe disabillity, you are hurting yourself and others by pushing the support for these attitudes.

and am not talk about more mild disabillity folk who due financial, environment or otherwise factor are legitemately forced be push thru symptoms or push work in inaccessible way, that is not point so please no derail.