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can current events stop happening its literally disability pride month

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Happy Birthday baby girl! 🎂🎉

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moodboard for when you are fatigued, tired, sick or not doing well and you are dead

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happy disability pride month

im so tired

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I see a lot of "smooth brain" memes, or people calling other people "smooth brained" to call them stupid.

But do people know that having a smooth brain is a real condition called Lissencephaly.

Lissencephaly is a rare congenital condition that causes a developing brain to appear smooth instead of having normal bumps and folds.

The symptoms may include: seizures, difficulty swallowing and eating, developmental delays and learning differences, muscle spasms, issues with psychomotor functions, slow physical development in a baby or child, a smaller than normal head size and congenital limb differences.

Also the life expectancy of someone with Lissencephaly is generally short. Many children with the condition do not live past the age of 10.

You can read more about it here:

I cant help but feel that all these memes and jokes are at the expence of disabled children. By substituting the word "stupid" for "smooth brained" you are literally calling children with Lissencephaly stupid. By making or sharing memes implying that a smoothe brain is ideal because it lacks pain and sadness you are erasing the very real pain and sadness of children with Lissencephaly. Theres even "smooth brain" merch, and Im gonna guess none of that money goes to the children with Lissencephaly or their families. Maybe reconsider thinking about smooth brain as an idealic abstract concept to feul your memes, and understand the dibilitating and difficult reality of it.

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