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[blackmail4u]

Haben Girma:  First Deafblind Person To Graduate From Harvard Law School

Disability rights advocate, attorney, and author Haben Girma is the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School. Click the link to learn more or listen via podcast. #Blackmail4u #BlackHistory #HabenGirma #DisabilityRightsAdvocate #ADA

Welcome To Black Mail! Where we bring you Black History, Special Delivery. Haben Girma was born in Oakland, California, on July 28, 1988. She was born deafblind. Her mother is originally from Eritrea and came to the United States as a refugee in 1983 to escape the Eritrea War of Independence against Ethiopia. Girma’s father is of Ethiopian descent. Her early education took place in Oakland…

[zylomarshall]

Zylo Marshall - Disabled Rights Advocacy & Awareness

Website: https://www.zylomarshall.com

Zylo Marshall's website is a platform dedicated to addressing the challenges and injustices faced by individuals with disabilities. With over forty years of personal experience in traumatic brain injury and neurological brain damage, Zylo Marshall provides a unique perspective on the struggles of disabled individuals. The site emphasizes the importance of treating disabled people with respect and equality, and aims to raise awareness about the exploitation and discrimination they often face.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zylomarshallstory

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[glitchdollmemoria]

please can we stop describing bigots as delusional. please. im so fucking tired. someone being sucked into a hate group surrounded by others who believe minorities should be oppressed and encouraging them to believe in conspiracy theories that the rest of the group believes, is fundamentally different from someone having a mental illness that causes delusions.

delusions, by definition, cannot be explained by things like cultural background - such as having a belief constantly reinforced by intentional attempts to rationalize it for the sake of maintaining power over minorities. yes, someone can be both delusional and a bigot, and yes conspiracy theories can feed into delusions, but the two are not fucking synonymous.

i did not spend my teen years convinced that i was being stalked by demons just to hear so many of you people equate my disability with incel behavior and genocidal propaganda. stop reinforcing harmful connotations about mental health struggles.

[tam--lin]

The thing is, you don’t have to have a diagnoses to make simple “unmasking” changes that make your life easier. You don’t even have to self-diagnose! You are not appropriating anyone’s culture or struggles or hijacking anyone’s movement by allowing yourself to sway in line at the grocery store or buying a weighted blanket or using study or household hacks intended for people with ADHD. If you start favoring the needs that make your brain and body unique over the arbitrary norms of society, you’ll be better off, and you’ll be expanding the norms. It’s a win/win.

[starfishinthedistance]

Friendly reminder that if you support reproductive rights and bodily autonomy but say that disabled people shouldn't have children because they'll pass down their genes which is "cruel" or "abusive", you do not support reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. Reproductive rights do not only concern abortion for cis white abled women.

[mandiweirdmore]

Guess who cried seeing this in target 😭 I swear all my posts are about me crying. This one was a good cry though! It’s such good representation childhood me was freaking out. I kind of want to buy in the future and paint it to look like my service dog 🥹

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

Clinical misdiagnosis is more common than self misdiagnosis. Just for the record, in case anyone is still skeptical of self diagnosis :) it’s not up for debate btw

[neuroticboyfriend]

psych survival tips for ppl in the US, not sure if it varies by hospital. but if an ER doc is adamant you go to the ward, going voluntarily puts you on a 3 day hold - i.e, you can discharge yourself after 3 days.

meanwhile, if you're an involuntary admit, you're stuck for at least 2 weeks. after that, they might give you an application for voluntary status - you cannot leave unless you're on voluntary.

but please note, i said "application." you can ask to apply for voluntary before those 2 weeks. you do NOT have to wait for them to give it to you. my application form also said if they want to put me back on involuntary, they have 3 days to appeal.

each unit also has a lawyer assigned to it. you can contact them for other things too (like malpractice), but if you apply for voluntary status or get put back on involuntary, a lawyer can help. you can also contact Project LETS, an antipsych org that works with people surviving the system.

so TL;DR, if you know you're high risk of being sent involuntarily (ex: suicide attempt, complications from drug use, etc.)... you can play along with them and get out in 3 days. and even if you're an involuntary admit, there are still options!

[the-beam-order]

seriously flight rising players check yourself. when someone says "i wish the site was more accessible for disabled players." "i wish the game's maintenances weren't planned like only americans play." if you disagree just say nothing and scroll past, no one asked you to turn into fucking pheonix wright in the notes

[crippledpunks]

if a doctor or other medical professional says something to you that sounds and feels wrong, please tell another professional about it, and ask for second, third, fourth and so on opinions. my psychiatric medications nurse told me she refused to prescribe my clonazepam/klonopin because i hadn't been to her office since july (it's late october), which to her meant that "i'm coping well enough to not need it." despite having just told her that i am escaping being domestically abused physically + mentally, as well as coping with my mother passing away just recently.

what i didn't get to tell her is the reason why i hadn't been to her office since july is because she was rude about my clonazepam prescription that i got from a doctor in a psychiatric hospital. i was afraid she wouldn't prescribe it to me again, because she denied prescribing it to me after i got out of the hospital for an asinine reason. the reason that time? "you shouldn't have this, doctors 'never' give out prescriptions like this outside of the hospital." this is literally a blatant lie, which was confirmed by every single other medical professional i have. the doctor in the hospital explicitly explained to me how i was going to continue taking the clonazepam once out of the hospital and on my own.

i waited it out to see if she would have a different reaction, but she confirmed my fears, and let me down. i'm going to be returning to the same psychiatric hospital where i got treated properly and put on appropriate medications for the level of crisis i'm in. the only thing that motivated me to actually take that step and take care of myself was telling my therapist about it. she confirmed to me that this is blatant mistreatment and she's refusing to do her job.

if something your doctor says sounds and smells like bullshit, it is, and you do NOT have to put up with it. be aggressive with your care. tell professionals who pull these kinds of things how you actually feel about them, and get other professionals on your side to help you report them for malpractice and mistreatment. i will be.

[crazycatsiren]

Disabled people got places to go and things to do, too, you know.

[mars-ipan]

interesting disability mindset development: i think my gaining a “proper” physical disability is making me realize that my anxiety is also very much a real disability that should be taken more seriously

[cr-pplepunx]

mental health, physical disability, and youth advocacy are so closely intertwined due to a shared social status but the moment our disabled and mentally ill youth start that conversation they are flooded with accusations of infantilization. most notably, from lower support needs folks or non-disableds!

[brittlebutch]

finally found a place to read With the Light online and i'm thrilled; if you haven't read this manga i do Legitimately recommend it

[daisylovesrumble]

petition: One of the US's Largest Psychiatric Hospital Chains Traps Patients Against Their Will to Maximize Profits

Damn we might need to reanimate Dorothea Dix for this one.

[toadlyturtle]

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