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Hi, so, if your post isn't about physical disability, it doesn't get cripplepunk tags.
Cripplepunk isn't disabled people who are punk
Cripplepunk is physically disabled people who agree with the tenets of cripplepunk, regardless of what subculture you belong to
Unrelated posts about generally being punk,
or protest shit that isn't geared towards disabled protestors,
or bitching about the dangerous shit our governments are doing that for once doesn't involve disabled people shouldn't be in the tag
And because this is the piss on the poor website, I'm not saying I don't think those posts are useful/important/concerning to disabled people
I'm only saying that if you tag your post cripplepunk, it needs to be about cripples
We're on everyone's periphery, everywhere but here.
On that note, if you're going to use the tags, please remember to keep your posts readable.
Coloured text is hard to read, as is tiny text, as is enormous text, especially for people scrolling on mobile.
With the weird influx of people who don't even know what cripplepunk is, or why we have it, and the (really bad) trolls we've been suffering, I think it's important to just reiterate what and who these tags are for.
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Fucking cripples is praxis. send post.
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âPride is for everyone!1!1!â
*no curb cuts*
*up a hill*
*no sensory safe zones*
*no ASL interpreters*
*no masks provided*
*grassy, uneven terrain*
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Anyone talking shit about this flag-
-needs to shut the fuck up.
I do not care if it's "ugly", I don't care if it's "cluttered", being pretty isn't the point of a flag. It's a symbol of our community and it serves the purpose of representing us.
Yes, I know we are included in the original flag. I prefer the Gilbert Baker flag myself for its history and aesthetics and I feel it represents me as an intersex person. But this isn't about personal preference.
You do NOT know how many people know what intersex means because they asked why that flag was put there. That's people who might've never asked that question. That direct representation of us DOES matter. It DOES help us. And your aesthetic preferences are not a good reason to get rid of a direct refrence to intersexuality in one of our broadly used queer community symbols.
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no disabled person should have their parents be their only choice for support/caregivers. itâs not a privilege to be stuck with them and you donât have to be grateful.
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many autistic people need people use simpler words when talking to them
many autistic people need tasks broken into tiny steps to understand how do something
many autistic people need positive feedback in way that other think condescending
many autistic people childish and have childish interests
many autistic people have to always be supervised never alone because of risk of hurt self or get in dangerous situations
many autistic people have violent messy big meltdown, even in public
many autistic people struggle with speech always will maybe rest of life (non verbal, semi verbal, demi verbal etc.)
AND most of these autistic people higher support needs + level 2 & 3 autism, donât forget or ignore us. canât say âthat not true just stereotypesâ when it just symptom and sign of higher support needs higher level autism.
you want to raise awareness for lower support needs level 1 autism and yes good ok!!!! but not this way where throw HrSN level 2+3 autistic under bus.
- winnie
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so when straight people ask me why I say Iâm âqueerâ or âgayâ instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them âok look, when youâre talking to someone who isnât local and they ask you where youâre from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or âtown name, suburb of large nearby cityâ so they can get some geographical context of where youâre located right, bc theyâre probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.â
but if youâre talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.
ok well when Iâm talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they arenât as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.
if Iâm talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, theyâd probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?
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Explained presyncope to my best friend.
âItâs kinda like. The symptoms of passing out but without passing out.â
âAhh. So passing in.â
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It is so fucking annoying to have to re-explain my disability everytime I mention it.
I hate being asked why I am in pain or why I am tired when Iâve already explained the reason.
I hate when people act surprised that I donât feel good when Iâve already explained that I never feel good.
I hate being told âI hope you feel better soonâ when Iâve already explained that I wonât.
#i am being annoyed into silence about my chronic illness lmao#vent post#physically disabled#cripplepunk#chronic pain#chronic fatigue#chronically ill
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you know i think a lot of people will get a better grasp of disability activism and theory if they realise that "disabled" isn't an identity. it's a class
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I would make a terrible counselor because Iâd tell my physically disabled clients they deserve to get meaner and meaner and meaner and
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it is always really palpable to me that like, when we discuss mental illness and advocacy, there's a large percentage of people who conceptualize the "real crazies" -- people with psychosis or schizophrenia, people with dissociative disorders that significantly impact their memory or day to day functions, people with recurrent suicidal episodes, people with actionable and severe self harm impulses, so on -- as an Other category that can't possibly be presently engaging in the conversation. you'll see this a lot especially when discussing things like mandatory reporting and institutionalization with people whose relatively mild and manageable mental illness have crafted them into self-declared experts; they'll tell you very confidently "hey, the institutionalization thing is actually overblown -- i've always been totally honest with my therapist and there's never been an issue! those laws are just there in case you say something really crazy to them." it betrays this real confidence on their part that there's no way they're talking to one of those frightening and unpredictable mentally ill people, the ones those laws are really there to punish save from themselves, because they'd of course be able to tell right away if somebody was the sort of irrational actor who needs and deserves to have their autonomy stripped at a moment's notice
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Some of yâall need to be less concerned about whether the people on tumblr dot com think youâre disabled and more concerned about what can be done to treat and/or accomodate your symptoms.
This is made in reference to those âdo I count as disabled?â / âdoes this count as chronic painâ posts I keep seeing.
#i am sure they are simply young and unsure of themselves#so this isnt any hate to the people who make those posts#moreso#i hope to empower you to stop giving a shit what these strangers think of you#cripplepunk#physically disabled#actually disabled#chronic pain
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It really is wild that some politicians can stand there and say "yeah we're getting rid of a program that keeps quite literally millions of people alive specifically so we can cut taxes for people who are already richer than god" as if it's a normal political stance and not so cartoonishly evil I'm legit shocked perry the platypus doesn't break through the nearest wall the minute the words leave their mouth.
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you can't be a disabled ally without also supporting homeless people and addicts like it's just not possible
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part of being anti-psych is pushing back against the idea that a particular diagnosis as applied by the psychiatric system should change the way we imagine the traits or symptoms someone has. yes, this means not demonising someone for having a particular diagnosis. but it also means not carving out diagnosis-exceptionalisms in my mind. you shouldnât have to âmaybe theyâre autisticâ your way into respecting other people when they do things you donât understand. maybe theyâre a human who is acting based on their environment and circumstances, a set of factors I canât entirely comprehend as someone who isnât close to them. maybe thatâs enough to remind me to think of others generously
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