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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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“Pride is for everyone!1!1!”

*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. it’s not a privilege to be stuck with them and you don’t 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, don’t forget or ignore us. can’t say “that not true just stereotypes” 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 I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”

but if you’re 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 I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t 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 I’m 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, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?

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Explained presyncope to my best friend.

“It’s kinda like. The symptoms of passing out but without passing out.”

“Ahh. So passing in.”

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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 I’ve already explained the reason.

I hate when people act surprised that I don’t feel good when I’ve already explained that I never feel good.

I hate being told “I hope you feel better soon” when I’ve already explained that I won’t.

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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 I’d 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 y’all need to be less concerned about whether the people on tumblr dot com think you’re disabled and more concerned about what can be done to treat and/or accomodate your symptoms.

This is made in reference to those “do I count as disabled?” / “does this count as chronic pain” posts I keep seeing.

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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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Disability? More like dis-sucks

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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 shouldn’t have to “maybe they’re autistic” your way into respecting other people when they do things you don’t understand. maybe they’re a human who is acting based on their environment and circumstances, a set of factors I can’t entirely comprehend as someone who isn’t close to them. maybe that’s enough to remind me to think of others generously