#intellectually disabled

[wolfertinger666]

don't see that many positivity posts for folks who are intellectually disabled/deal with a learning disability. we are cool. we matter alot and we are definitely worthy of love and attention. it's hard when the world jokes about us at every chance, either through peers, or media itself subtly or not. just remember we are important and loved.

[zebulontheplanet]

People are so quick to defend and criticize and attack people who say “autistic people aren’t dumb” and then someone else will follow it up by saying “but some are! Intellectually disabled people deserve to be talked about” and that quite frankly, gives me the ick.

Intellectually disabled people aren’t dumb unless they say they are. Grouping all of them into the “dumb” category is harmful. You’re further stigmatizing intellectually disabled people. Some intellectually disabled people are very smart, and like to be called smart, and like to be noticed as that. Some are average, and like to be acknowledged as that. Some are below average, and “dumb” and some like to be acknowledged as that. BUT that is their choice. That is no one’s choice but their own.

Grouping intellectually disabled people into “dumb people” is harmful. Yes, some of us embrace the word, but some of us don’t.

Stop further stigmatizing the disorder. Most people see intellectually disabled people as “dumb”. It’s time to start taking intellectually disabled people into consideration. If someone says something like that? Simply correct them on their ableist and ignorant behavior. Don’t drag intellectually disabled people into the “dumb” category. That isn’t needed.

[artoatsblog]

Hey, you can make your favorite characters disabled and I'm not just talking about making them a cane user (although there's nothing wrong with that), you can give them anything give them dwarfism even though they're not short in cannon, make them a amputee, give them brain damage, make them a intellectually disabled person or give them cerebral palsy, you can give them anything.

[meeb-motes]

Intellectual Disability emojis !!!

we have ID ourselves :D !!

requests are open !!

-Vee/☀️

@thecorporatetower sorry for tag but,, I made them :D

note: added basic image ID

[forget-meabh-not]

it frustrating that when we search up mild intellectual disability cuz even tho we have it we don’t know much abt it and everything that comes up is like “mild intellectually disabled are super nice friendly and gullible” that may be true for some but we ARENT gullible or that nice and we are not friendly !! Why is this all we see ?!? Why is there no resource for us ??? Fuck this !!

also most ones are like “acts / thinks like small child” which again may be true for some but not us !! We don’t act or behave small usually unless regressed . We act like a disabled sixteen year old ! And we most likely will be stuck at our sixteen year old level for the rest of our life but that doesn’t mean when we are adult we aren’t an adult ,,,????? It feels so infantilizing ,,

sorry for rant :</gen

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

NPD + intellectually disabled culture is crashing 24/7 because i can never get anything done right. "ahh that's okay not everyone is perfect!" uhhhh no? i didn't say i wasn't perfect? i still am

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[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. ^_^

[sickly-sapphic]

[ID: A background with deep blue in the centre, which fades to a lighter blue. Text reads; background by valerianknows (pinterest). This disability pride month don't forget about...

this disability pride month don't forget about... high & medium support needs autistics.

this disability pride month don't forget about... Full time AAC users.

this disability pride month don't forget about... high & medium support needs autistics. (Full Time) Nonverbal or non-speaking autistics.

this disability pride month don't forget about... autistics with speech delays and/or speech impairments.

this disability pride month don't forget about... autistics who LIKE using functioning, level, support needs, etc. labels.

this disability pride month don't forget about... autistics that cannot type in "complete" sentences.

this disability pride month don't forget about... autistic people of colour and indigenous autistics.

this disability pride month don't forget about... intellectually disabled people.

this disability pride month don't forget about... developmentally disabled people. End ID]

[chamilique]

something that never fails to upset me is that when i ask a question or when i don’t understand something, the person doesn’t actually explain or try to simplify it, they just repeat what they said the first time

[arthyritis]

I have an intellectual disability. Mild bordering on moderate in most areas, according to my diagnosis.

What this means for me is that all sorts of communication gets lost in my brain. I process things slower, social interactions get jumbled, and tasks that I should know how to do sometimes require a little extra help, like eating, cooking, hygiene, etc, but especially things I'm unfamiliar with.

Setting and having non-stagnant reminders handy helps with my scheduling, as in not doing the same things at the same time but instead with a more specific cause, like telling my partner at bedtime that I need to brush my teeth, which is more likely to make me do it, or having food already prepared that I can just heat up instead of cooking a full meal.

With things I'm unfamiliar with (like cooking a new meal, or doing something at someone else's place) it means walking me through it step-by-step. My family friend is blind and has a more specific way of doing things that I'm unequipped for, but that my mom knows, so she tells me what I need to do/where to put things that he'll be able to find them again.

I'm also independent, so sometimes I will struggle to ask for the help I need and will have a freeze response. Comorbid with my AD(H)D and anxiety, this can lead to panic attacks and meltdowns, so it's oftentimes important to pay closer attention to things I'm doing that I am not aware of until after the panic has started.

All this to say, even a "milder" diagnosis requires a lot of help sometimes. MID is my diagnosis but this honestly works for autism and adhd peeps, too. For me, there's an overlap between how my symptoms of MID work with how autism works (something I'm also suspected of having), but with the added bonus of being learning disabled, which autism doesn't guarantee, because that's specifically a developmental disability, while intellectual disability is a learning disability and a developmental disability.

I'm two years diagnosed as of June 30th, I'm learning how to cope with this still. But it remains a disability! Happy disability pride month to my fellow intellectually disabled peeps :)

[zebulontheplanet]

Why are people so quick to distance themselves from intellectually disabled people? Why are people so quick to be like “ew no, not one of those”.

Why? Why distant yourself from a whole harmless group of people? Why don’t you just accept us? Why don’t you just celebrate us?

Answer why.

[system32sys-hub]

See posts talking about; "kids can't write now, need use annoying tablet. No muscle in hand, too weak for paper. No learning fast, too dumb for letter. This is so sad!"

No. NOT SAD. Different.

How DARE you judge us for our problems? You talk about disability, and frame it as SAD? FUCK YOU!!!

Bothers me so much when people think new experiences are sad. If new generation struggling then help them!!! Not berate!!!

[meeb-motes]

Borderline , Mild, Moderate, and Severe ID(intellectual disorder) emojis !!

we were diagnosed with mild ID but we most likely have borderline ID instead. so we wanted to make some more specific ID emojis !!

requests are open !!

-F2/🍁

[disabledtranshellagay]

Intellectually disabled people are allowed to have relationships

My partner is intellectually disabled. She doesn't have the highest support needs, but they are still there. I am both her partner and a kind of parental figure. She is kinky and she wants to kind of mix the two together and that is her active choice, but for the most part I am platonically her parental figure. She is 27 i am 30. She has a history of csa. I am one of the only people she's had that has helped her to genuinely improve her mental health. She is a person. She is allowed to have relationships. I am not inherently predatory for dating her. And I am not a predator. She just has support needs that I can fill. Don't tell me she can only be helped by a therapist, and I shouldn't support her. She is going to therapy. When you see an intellectually disabled person dating someone, don't assume that they are being preyed upon. Actually see if they are and then act. To assume because someone is mentally disabled that that means they cannot have relationships is just abelism. To assume intellectually disabled people are puritan and cannot have kinks, INCLUDING THOSE THAT INVOLVE THEIR DISABILITY is abelism and infantilizing. Intellectually disabled people who have a younger mental age ARE NOT CHILDREN. Look out for them, protect them, care for them, stop them from being preyed upon, but do not overwrite their decisions unless you actually see someone prey upon them.

[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.

[c4l1]

happy disability pride month to all my fellow intellectually disabled people who’re tired of being told by random strangers that they’ll never be independent or get anywhere in life just because they’re intellectually disabled