#ableist language cw

[where-our-stories-start]

So yeah, I have some feelings about Ed's reaction to being tortured himself versus his reaction to Stede being tortured.

[strawberry-crocodile]

Vicky Holmes writing a side character named Crippleface into her little contract cat story

the ghostwriter 10 years later who has to write the naming ceremony in the prequel book Crippleface's Winter Vacation

[pucksandpower]

It is so disappointing when people you truly wanted to succeed reveal themselves to be prejudiced and ableist. Why is autism still being used as an insult? There is no excuse for this — PR training should not be necessary for the bare minimum of at least pretending to be a good person on social media and most teenagers know that ableism is bad

I know she has had to face obstacles as a woman of color that most of her male counterparts have not but, if anything, that should have showed her that there is absolutely no reason to tear down another driver who has never done anything to her other than exist — especially doing so in such a disgusting way

Note: she did not unlike the tweet, it was deleted by the person who posted it

[fictionkinfessions]

To be clear, if you dumbfucks make a habit of faking other people's custom tags I am going to turn anon off permanently and every ask message confesssion will be posted as an anonymized text post instead of ask post.

Do not fuck around with this or I will make you find out.

[neuroticboyfriend]

i know us schizos can be relatively lax about the word schizo... but for people who aren't on the schizophrenia spectrum, please remember... it is a slur, or at the very least, a derogatory term. maybe don't say it (unless we're okay with you calling us it), especially not to separate yourselves from us.

context: i just saw someone say "i'm not a fucking schizo" when talking about their misdiagnosis and resulting trauma. this could have been done without using a slur, especially given how much we also face misdiagnosis and medical/psychiatric trauma. we're in this together, not apart.

[theloudestwriter]

TW: Ableist language

In my school, my classmates call each other autistic as an insult. the dialog goes like this: Classmate 1: *Does a silly mistake*

Classmate 2: Are you autistic or what?

They also call each other r*t*rd*d and other crap like that.

And I'm just like:

[mommy-dust]

This. Isnt. Fucking. Cringe.

If you’ve ever judged someone for using a pacifier, aac device, their special interests, the way they talk, using fidgets when they’re “not trendy”, using noise canceling headphones, stimming, making “random” noises, if you’ve ever called them cringe, used autism as in insult, bullied an autistic person, made fun of someone for struggling socially or being nonverbal, even having verbal shutdowns, FUCK YOU! Ableism towards neurodivergent people (and ableism in general) is only getting worse, because these fucking middle school boys think that its funny, you can’t call someone or something sped, retarded, cringe, etc. (keep in mind that it’s completely okay to reclaim these words AS A NEURODIVERGENT/DISABLED PERSON)

And a friendly reminder that nonverbal autistic people have said that they don’t like people saying they “went nonverbal” because it invalidates their experience as a nonverbal person. There are many other things you can say instead of this, and these people need to be taken seriously.

Fellow autistics, feel free to add to this in the reblogs :) I LOVE YOU

[nando161mando]

[argumntativantitheticldreamgirl]

I have to get off the internet now that I’ve seen people defending a minor CELEBRITY calling people retarded. How is that in any way defendable? I don’t know who needs to hear this, but in the year 2023 calling people retarded because you don’t like their opinion is not okay.

[vulto-cor-de-rosa]

Update on the whole Deram vs Gumball thing, Dream just tweeted this video

Because yes, this guy saying slurs and just being an asshole while drunk is the true crime here compared to the hole, you know, Grooming allegations that Dream is facing rn

[shitswiftiessay]

so travis kelce (or rather, his team) has been frantically deleting old tweets that have resurfaced, in which he bodyshames people (but especially women), uses the r-slur, makes fun of autistic children, says it’s funny to watch fat people fall, and appears to be offended that they allow such “ugly”cheerleaders and female basketball players to exist.

and swifties, predictably, are going out of their way to DEFEND this man. because he’s taylor’s future husband in their eyes, and anyone who is good in taylor’s eyes is good in their eyes. swifties have proven time and time again that they ONLY care about misogyny when it happens to taylor. and they are even willing to defend brittany and jackson mahomes because if they hang out with taylor, then they MUST be good people! 🙄 (and we all know taylor swift is an infallible judge of character!)

the excuses they make for this man are absolutely pathetic. what makes you so damn sure that travis has “changed”? he was calling women breeders on his podcast earlier this year and before that, talked about how it’s a dealbreaker if a woman won’t give him oral sex before the 4th date.

he has a PR team to help clean up his image since he joined the NFL, but that doesn’t mean he’s a genuinely better person or changed man.

and, i’m sorry, but swifties are the LAST fucking people on earth who should be telling people “it was 13 years ago get over it!”

they are STILL harassing all of Taylor’s exes from more than a decade ago, when All too well the short film came out they were demanding jake gyllenhaal’s head on a plate because *checks notes* “he stole taylor’s scarf” and “he made taylor wash the dishes!” 😡

they also accused jake of being a pedo and a groomer because of the 9 year age difference between two adults but have nothing to say about taylor dating teenage boys well into her 20s.

hell, they are STILL mad at joe jonas for breaking up with taylor over the phone back in 2008 and giving him shit for that. but when the bigoted tweets of taylor’s new boyfriend resurface we’re all supposed to just get over it and move on because people grow and change?? 🙄 what a fucking JOKE!

[ssaalexblake]

I mean, to be fair to Van Helsing being all reticent and tight lipped, you Really don't shoot your shot about somebody being repeatedly snacked on by a vampire as the cause for their mysterious illness in front of your friend who owns an Immense Lunatic Asylum.

Not unless you are 100% sure about it. And preferably have outside proof at hand.

[book-of-my-dreams]

STOP USING DISABLED PEOPLE AS EXCUSE FOR AI

BEING AGAINST AI IS NOT ABLEISM, IT'S ACTUALLY THE ONLY OPINION THAT MAKES FUCKING SENSE

SAYING THAT AI IS SO GREAT BECAUSE DISABLED PEOPLE CAN MAKE ART WITH IT IS FUCKING NONSENSE

DISABLED PEOPLE CAN MAKE ART JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. WITHOUT AI. JUST BY USING THEIR HUMAN CREATIVITY.

BECAUSE THE ABILITY TO CREATE ART CAME WITH OUR HUMANITY. NOT WITH AI

[melodymorningdew]

Ableist language content warning:

Just a PSA: Many people believe they aren't ableist but as soon as someone's disability inconveniences them in the slightest, they're immediately up in arms about how horrible this person is for being disabled.

So tired of hearing "you have to help yourself"

"Have you tried [insert completely unhelpful tip]"

"You can't expect the world to bend to your will." (When asking for accommodations)

"You don't LOOK disabled."

"Well you did ___ yesterday why can't you do it today?"

"You need to stop making excuses."

"You complain too much."

"You can do anything if you put your mind to it."

"You just have to force yourself to work you have no choice."

"Just go home if you're going to act like that [my legs collapsing beneath me/fainting/saying I'm having a panic attack]" (same people who tell me I just need to push through)

"Oh that person is being so rude" (when they are overwhelmed and unable to carry on a normal masked conversation bc they are overwhelmed)

"ADHD isn't an excuse to be late or forget things you can set alarms and have planners"

I and many others are rightfully pissed off at being dismissed and condescended to and belittled and stomped into the dirt EVERY OTHER DAY. (Not exaggerating.)

[gaymurdersalad]

David, why do you let him treat you like that?! He’s horrible!

>…

>… You— You all…

>… You all… Don’t know what the FUCK you’re talking about.

>What in your deluded, goddamned minds thinks ANY of this is okay to say to me— you superficial, you fake plastic bloodsuckers— I thought you cared about me! I thought you were fucking different, I thought you fucking liked me! I thought— Stupid fucking me, right? Thinking with my fuck-rotting brain like I have the goddamn right, yeah, serves me— I thought you would be nice to me!

>Nothing fucking nice lasts, does it? Henry tosses me out like garbage, like I fuckin’ meant nothing to him— and I bet I didn’t, I bet I shoulda blown my motherfuckin’ brains out for him, fuck, maybe then he’d actually like my sorry ass— Now you! You stupid lot, with your stupid fucking glasses and your self righteousness?! Comin’ into MY house and telling me who I should fuckin’ trust, meanwhile you hide behind those shitty shades and chastise ME for being a coward! Fuck you! Fuck the lot of you! Do me one favor— oh, if I may ask, given my obvious un-superiority!— and go fuck off to whatever world you came from and make whoever the hell is miserable enough to have you deal with this bullshit.

>Fuck, you all know I’m grown, right? You know I’m an adult who makes his own goddamn choices? Do you— no, of course you do! You think I’m some shit-for-brains autistic kid who can’t make a goddamn decision for himself, you think— think that Jack here is taking advantage of the slow kid, huh? You think I didn’t make this choice? You think if I actually knew he hated me, I wouldn’t fuck off and paint my brains all over the walls of whatever fucking alleyway I’d find myself in, boozin’ and bingin’, because really, what would be the fucking point of life anymore— no! No! I know what the fuck I’m doing! You think you know better than me?! You’re fucking pathetic! You are a goddamn disease on me!

>Get out— Get the FUCK out of our house, you goddamned pests, you blood-sucking leeches! Don’t you EVER show those fuckin’ mugs around here again, you hear me? Next time you ever dare LOOK at me or Jack, I will reach down into yer gullet and peel your supposed-organs out one by one, every rip and tear being slow and worth it. I’ll make you and all your shitty friends WATCH, GOD-DAMMIT!

>NOW GET THE FUCK OUT!

>…

>…

>… Leave the way you came in…

>… Askers.

[ THE GAYMURDERDAVID EVENT CONCLUDES.

DAVID IS NO LONGER OPEN FOR ASKS. ]

[fictionkinfessions]

I understand that every fictive/kinnie is gonna have ships they aren't okay with and they have the right to vent their discomfort, but sometimes I would also like people to remember that for every fictive/kinnie uncomfortable with a reasonably popular ship, there is also almost always at least ONE fictive/kinnie out there for whom that ship was a reality, and they probably already feel uncomfortable enough in that situation without doubles calling all its shippers sick freaks or w/e

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