#intellectually disabled

[zebulontheplanet]

IQ tests are horrible.

And

People with ID are real and valid.

Are both statements that can coexist. Stop invalidating people with ID by your discussions about IQ. Stop. Invalidating. Them. ID exists.

[a-knight-in-shining-rainbows]

had an interaction a few days ago that i’m still thinking about. I was talking to two students about the Day of Silence protest coming up that friday, and both of them seemed interested but needed more information. Both of these students were disabled with relatively high support needs for communication, processing, and learning. At least one was intellectually disabled.

I explained the basic premise of Day of Silence, and one of the students asked me to repeat myself, explain again. I did this several times, and she was engaged with me, even if she wasn’t processing yet she clearly wanted to know more and was interested in what i was saying. Her para-educator then came over and said it wasn’t worth trying to explain anything to her because she wouldn’t understand.

The para-educator’s intentions were good, she wanted to save me time and believed i may not have known this student was disabled. But to say that, in front of the student, as though she couldn’t hear the comment, is rude at best and downright hostile at worst. Furthermore, to be in a position in which you are the one in charge of helping this person navigate the world, and to believe they only deserve information that you think they can digest, is such an awful way to view someone you are supposed to help. This student was asking me questions, she was listening, and honestly - who cares if in the end she didn’t understand? just because we don’t end up understanding something doesn’t mean we can’t engage with it.

Intellectually disabled individuals and disabled individuals in general are not infants, they’re not incapable of learning or connecting with others. Yes, they may need extra help, and yes, some topics may be too complex for them to tackle, but let the individual decide that for themselves.

TLDR: The person who was supposed to be helping an intellectually disabled student navigate the world decided for that student what they could understand. In doing so, she projected her beliefs about the students abilities and overshadowed the student’s ability to define her own boundaries. Intellectually disabled people deserve the autonomy to decide for themselves what they want to engage with at a given time, not told they are too dumb to understand.

[s1yeye]

people seem forget nonverbal semiverbal speech unreliable speech loss all can be caused by things not autism outside of autism. kuru i me is not nonverbal semiverbal self, but body have somewhat frequent speech loss, and many alters (like self) speak weird funny or not speak at all. is mostly part of us our schizophrenia and brain damage and ID. we autism autistic too, but autism tend cause more words speak hyperverbal lot lot lots words spill out ramble off, rather than hard to speak hard make sentence hard words or no at all.

this post, want say hello and i see you to others with schizospec or brain damage or ID who not speak or struggle speak some way because of it. you welcome here, is your community too. ^_^

[buildabettermeme]

No Blackout for Disability Pride Month

Come on now. This is stupid.

If you want Tumblr to feel the sting of your disagreements, withhold money from them. That has worked in the past.

I am a Reddit migrator and I don't think you guys understand how important the difference between Tumblr and Reddit is.

Reddit doesnt have staff. They have volunteer moderators. These people donate free time to making the site function well. Without them Reddit wouldnt work at all.

Tumblr has staff, to everyone's chagrin. Unfortunately implementing the very stupidest ideas and pissing off their entire user base is what they get payed to do.

This means Tumblr needs money. So weaponize that, not disabled people's one time of year they get treated like kind of human. The disabled will always need us more than Tumblr ever will.

If you don't care about disabled people, sorry not sorry, I have better people to care about than you.

Just use your brain. We got Pride Month; it's the disabled/chronically ill community's turn now. Do not take this from them.

Do not take the disabled's community away.

[tortiefrancis]

shoutout to people with intellectual disabilities, you guys deserve the world

[pixierainbows]

Hello. If someone were to create a series about an autistic adult with high support needs and an intellectual disability, what would you want to see in it? As in, are there any specific situations, internal conflicts, beliefs, etc., that you’d like to see?

Regardless of whether or not you decide to answer this ask, I hope you know you’re an awesome, talented person and that you have an equally awesome day.

Want to see People with assistive technology and AAC devices. People what need caregivers . People making bad choices . and . not understanding all the consequences .

Want to see People have friends and Community accepting of disabled People . but . not all being only caregivers . being real friends , not taking place of working job of caregiver . hope that makes sense .

[vsrobotjulie]

disabled people who care about gaza but dont have the capacity to do anything but reblog posts in support i see you and love you. if you dont even have the ability to do that i see you and love you. if you dont even have the ability to learn about these conflicts without causing yourself immense confusion or distress i see you and love you.

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

Npd culture + mental and intellectual disabilities is having npd but the symptoms portraying vastly different from most others with npd and feeling lonely because of it

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[nicxxx5]

it's been a couple days but happy disability pride month!

whether you're disabilities are physical or mental. common or rare. chronic to temporary. genetic or environmental. visible or invisible. high support needs or low support needs. "disabled enough" or "not disabled enough".

you matter. you're struggles matter. you deserve respect. you deserve decency. you deserve accommodations. you deserve the rights of everyone else.

[zebulontheplanet]

I’m really hesitant to say this, and I’m really hesitant to even talk about this because I know I’m going to get a lot of hate for this.

I don’t vote at the moment. Now before you unfollow me or come up with some reason in your head about why I don’t vote, I’d like to say that I have a pretty good reason for not voting.

I am intellectually disabled and higher support needs. I am not able to understand even basic politics most of the time. I cannot study and research things that will influence me to vote responsibly and not be influenced by others and social media. It is hard to not be able to understand politics. I WANT to understand politics. I want to be able to vote for someone who I believe in and agree with and understand their true intentions, but I can’t at this moment. Do I believe that I may gain the ability to understand in the future? Yes. I do believe that I’ll vote in the future. However, at the moment, I don’t vote because I don’t have the cognitive and intellectual ability too.

I am not at the same political standpoints as my family either. I understand some very basic things. And the things I DO understand, my family doesn’t agree with. A lot of people in my family are not the same politically as me, so I cannot trust them to help me vote for someone that I agree will make a difference. That my vote will matter and add to what I believe in.

There are a LOT of higher support needs and intellectually disabled people who vote and are able to make the right decisions for them, but I’m not one of them at the moment. I will try each year to understand and research and do my best to get to where I want to be so I can confidently vote on someone, but I’m not there yet. The last thing I want to do is just vote on someone Willy nilly and not agree with them and just do it because someone told me so. I want to know who I’m voting for.

Currently the world isn’t set up politically for intellectually disabled and higher support needs people to understand. It is just not accessible at the moment. Do I believe it will be one day? I sure hope so. I’d love for it to be more accessible so I and so many others could understand.

Each vote matters, and until I can make a responsible vote, I will keep it to myself.

[nonspeakers-r-us]

About Me

Hello! My name is Biehtár, and I am a fully Nonspeaking Autistic person from birth. My Instagram is @nonspeakers.r.us and that's where I mainly post! I am new to Tumblr, I'm still learning my way around. About me (Autism Related): -Nonspeaking, full time AAC user -Level 3, High Support Needs -Borderline Intellectual Disability -Diagnosed at age 3 -Visibly Autistic

About me (non-Autism related): -I am Indigenous (mixed Sámi and Inupiaq) and grew up with both of my cultures -I am Visually Impaired -I love Star Wars, exotic pet care (animals that aren't dogs and cats), and jazz theory!! -I love love reptiles and birds -I am a jazz and sometimes classical contrabassist and pianist -I speak Swedish, Finnish, Northern Sámi, Inupiaq, and English! Things to Know: -I use support needs terms, and occasionally the term "low functioning" to describe myself ONLY and nobody else. -I prefer "Nonspeaking" rather than "Nonverbal" when referring to me -I do NOT reclaim the r-slur, but I do not take place in slur discourse either. -I am very new to Tumblr. I am still figuring my way around.

Happy to meet everyone!

[post-clarifier]

Reading comprehension. Constantly people are accused of bad reading comprehension.

it's always said that the reader is at fault. There's no way OP was unclear.

But why make it so difficult?

I'm here, offering up clarification for posts.

I can

add paragraphs to long text blocks

make summaries of posts or paragraphs

make lists of arguments or points made

translate typing quirks

this list may be expanded or shortened depending on what people actually need.

please ask for help if you need it! I'll try my best to help

[s1yeye]

any other trans person with ID or brain damage or other disorder impair ability think struggle with accident misgender self after transition? kuru struggle sometimes keep call self him he his when not a him not a boy not man male. kuru it/its kuru thing only but is issue keep use him sometimes especially when symptom act up

is uncomfortablr make kuru frustrate upset sometime

[ilovetobiko]

btw Grade 13 is a real thing but only in canadas most populated province (Ontario). it’s a ‘lap year’ (or at least that’s what i remember them rebranding it to) for students like myself w learning disabilities to get one more shot at the classes i failed in, all while attending like a regular student. did i even consider taking the offer? fuck no! grade 13 is a scam, likely designed to make you feel worse about yourself. i didn’t do it but i know it is a scam based on the way they were trying to sell it to ME— a student they purposefully left to rot w 0 disability related accommodations (after four years of constant requests and a professional diagnosis)

[chinese-lotus]

Being intellectually disabled is hard. We want to learn Mandarin, but our intellectual disability makes it hard. The most we have learned is our own names and some greetings. Remembering and processing the language is very difficult for us because our learning struggles.

We wish there was more resources for intellectually disabled people to learn languages. Just because we’re intellectually disabled, doesn’t mean we don’t want to learn. It just means learning is harder and we can’t learn some things. We still deserve a chance to learn, just like everyone else. Even if we struggle with it or can’t learn everything.

It’s frustrating that learning languages and learning in general is hard.

[merriadoc-brandyfuck]

Wish I was joking