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High supports needs people, please just know, you abandoning your lower support needs brethren will only hinder all of our liberation.

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disabled people who do not directly "contribute" to society and need large amounts of care and resources to survive deserve not only to survive but to have comfort, stability, and fun within their lives while they do. no compromises.

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I think all the RFK Jr. bullshit we're seeing is a really important reminder that solidarity is not about being a Good Person™, but rather because we are all connected and our fates are intertwined.

The denial of bodily autonomy to trans people is also very helpful to misogynists who want to police bodies with uteruses and deny agency to Disabled people. The dream of a white ethnostate is realized in a denial of bodily autonomy to women of color (denial of healthcare, forced sterilization) and white women (denial of abortion access, refusal of requested sterilization) alike. It polices Black bodies and incarcerates them for having the audacity to show humanity in the face of oppression. It tells you anyone Disabled "enough" to receive support cannot handle self-determination. It tells you that being divergent (trans, queer, ND, and more) is a mental illness that renders you incompetent. It tells you poor bodies are for war, not dignity.

Do not allow yourself to participate in oppression Olympics or jockey for your group over others. Pull the threads wherever you can and understand that people working in different corners are part of the same project.

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okay I thought I'd give a little bit of information about antipsychiatry because I want to dispel some myths

What antipsychiatry is:

The assertion that psychiatry is an inherently abusive framework and institution that must be abolished.

What antipsychiatry questions

The way psychiatric medications are used

The way madness is categorized

The defining of madness as an illness at all

The defining of madness as "unnatural" and sanity as "natural"

The medicalization of behaviors that are perceived as inconvenient but cause no harm

The medicalization of behaviors, beliefs, and experiences that do not cause suffering

The use of mental health related diagnoses as a tool for the state

What antipsychiatry is not*

The belief that no one should take medication

The belief that mental illness is "fake"

The belief that mental illness does not cause suffering

The belief that seeking help for madness is "stupid" or wrong

The belief that no one has been helped by psychiatry

The belief that no one would benefit from help (generally, not from psychiatry specifically) for their madness

The belief that after psychiatry there should be no support for mad folks

*some antipsychiatrists may believe these things but they are not inherent to the ideology

What antipsychiatrists want

An end to psychiatry as an institution

An end to psychiatric abuse including involuntary institutionalization

Autonomy for mad folks

What antipsychiatrists don't want

People to kill themselves or otherwise hurt themselves

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Two people undressing each other seductively but having to remove an increasingly ridiculous number of disability aids.

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I hate how strongly able bodied people feel entitled to my personal medical information because I’m visibly disabled.

I was once interviewed over the phone by a journalist about my job and the organisation I work for and after the interview when I sent a picture of myself for the article I got a phone call back asking what my condition was because the journalist felt my picture “wouldn’t make sense” if I didn’t publicly disclose my medical history. The journalist was completely baffled when I said I wouldn’t share that information and it wasn’t necessary in the article he was writing.

Some disabled people are happy talking to anyone about their condition(s)/ injuries, and all the power to them. But it shouldn’t be socially compulsory to disclose those things every time I exist in front of other people just because I’m visibly disabled.

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[ID: a mock caution sign. The illustration, done in bold black, shows a set of hyper mobile hands stretching the thumb to reach their forearm, and lightning bolts float above the writ. The text on the sign reads “Warning Just because you can bend that way doesn’t mean you should.” /end ID]

Happy EDS awareness month.

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Anti-vaxxer extremist RFK Jr, the US Health Secretary, is now actively trying to collect medical records of folks on the autism spectrum. First, he used dehumanizing and infantilizating language to insist people with autism won't 'pay taxes and live a 'normal life' which we all know is ableist bullshit and is literally a precursor to genocide. This man is a monster.

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I honestly don't care if any disabled person is able to do anything or not.

Human lives have values for being human lives, and disabled people are humans.

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Look, I'm not a political blog at all. But what RFK Jr is trying to do goes to show how much we've thrown high support needs autistics under the bus.

Because he's not talking about the autistics posting online about how they work and pay taxes.

He's talking about the non-speaking ones who have been posting on this app for years that they're in danger and LSN autistics bullied into either leaving or until only a few remain who still face backlash.

He's talking about the ones we aren't on here screaming into a void because they can't write or speak. And LSN autistics rallied louder until autism awareness came to look like we're all just LSN.

He's talking about the ones with carers who want them to be put through experiments to see if they can be cured because autistics bullied carers into their own part of the internet until they were stuck in an echo room of hate.

No, not all autistics. But it's what we've become known for.

It's about time we fucking stopped trying to say "But I can work!" And instead ask "why do those who can't matter less to these people?"

And don't think that if you're not in America this won't affect us. This ideology is everywhere and they're frothing at the mouth to join.

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bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

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I was vibing on Tumblr doing my usual shit and was in the cripple punk tag as I am sometimes and I saw a bunch of people talking about "transabled" people in the tag.

As a trans and disabled person. Fuck you.

You do not want this. You do not want to be in pain in every second of your life and if you think you do you've clearly got some problems.

Get out of our community

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Unpopular opinion

I don’t want a self driving wheelchair that can go up stairs. I want ramps elevators, and curb cuts.

I don’t want a solution in 20 years, I want it now. I wanna be able to go to the mall with my friends and not have to worry about stairs. I want to go the movies and actually chose where I sit. I want to go to a park without having to parkour my way through cracked pavement and curb drops.

I want accessibility and I want it today.

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It's crazy how no one's seen me yet! I mean, I've been with you for eleven years. Eleven years of on again off again romance hot an' heavy pain You love running your mouth about me Your boo-thang stuck to you You love talking about how hard I hurt But my dear, That ache is just another sign of my love No one believes that you are mine On account of being too fat an’ ugly to be love I’ve been with you through fat and thin I love you On account of your rotting joints Stuck to you by the knee

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"Actually many disabled people do contribute to society" is not a great argument against eugenics, by the way.