#social accommodations

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Guide to Accessibility, Adiustments & Accommodations

General:

Reduce sensory overwhelm in spaces/provide safe and quiet space

Providing clear communication / no ambiguity or vagueness

More time to process questions or information

Choice to:

wear noise-cancelling headphones or earbuds

communicate via other methods (AAC: picture/word cards, sign language) . to use stim objects whenever necessary

to be excused /take a break if needed

Social:

Meeting in safe/comfortable settings

Advanced warnings of cancellations

Understanding if needing to cancel or leave early

No pressure to talk/make eye contact/make physical contact

Clear information on what is going to happen/when/with whom

School:

Private room for exams

Extended deadlines

Extra time in exams

Note-taking assistance

I-2-I Support/private tutoring

Nominated safe person/space

Support with technology/AAC

Breaks when needed

Support moving around school

Not to be picked on in class/signalling system to talk

Accompaniment on trips

Accessible fonts and backgrounds for worksheets/presentations

Exemption from assemblies

Safe space to eat with more time

Work:

Quiet(er)/less overwhelming workspace

Extra breaks

Time to think in interviews

Interview questions ahead of time

Bringing in notes for an interview

Clear schedule/routine, with advanced warning of changes

Mentorship/support

Flexible work times

Ability to work from home if able

Exemptions from group activities or meetings

Comfortable work equipment e.g. chairs/keyboards

Autisticality

Slightly edited the picture to make it easier to see

[37q]

"my child is fine" your child is curating their language to be as un-implicating as possible in a future callout post

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Hiii everyone, say, how do your Hawkes go go about sharing their estate? If they do it at all? Is everyone free to come and go or are they more private? Or do they only invite their LI to stay? I'm curious!! :)

[psychoticallytrans]

There are three main models of disability that are in common use. The moral model, the medical model, and the social model.

You may not have heard of the moral model before, but if you are disabled, you have felt the impact of it. The moral model is disability as a failure of character. It sources the problem of disability in the character of the disabled person. It's the people who insist that if you just tried harder, were better, had a better attitude, that you would no longer be disabled. It is a model that is used by ableists in order to conceptualize of disability as a failing of the individual. An extreme example of this mindset are the Christian Scientists, who believe that all illnesses and disabilities should be healed by the grace of their god and that if you are not healed, something is wrong with you. It is the the most cruel of the models, and the least successful at assisting disabled people.

The medical model is the model used by the medical establishment and by those who put their stock in medical authority. It sources the problem of disability in the body. It measures disability against a theoretical average person, and seeks to make disabled people match that average person more closely. This model works very well for disabled people with disabilities that can be measured, have a potential treatment plan, and want their disability gone. It does not work very well for people who do not match all three criteria. If they match the first and second but not the third, then strict adherents of the medical model often fall back on the moral model, stating that they are stupid, lazy, or selfish for not being interested in being cured. This also often happens if treatment fails to improve the condition of the disabled person.

The social model is a newer model, largely designed by disability activists and scholars and often defined in opposition to the medical model. It sources the problem of disability in the interaction between the disabled person and their physical and social environment. It argues that the solution of disability is to change the environment so that impairments are no longer an issue. This model works very well for disabled people who consider their disability not to be an issue when fully accommodated. It does not work well for people who consider their disability an inherent impairment and/or desire a cure. Strict adherents of the social model often fall back on the moral model when considering these people, stating that they are short-sighted or that they worship the medical model. These are the people who state things such as that depression would not exist in a world without capitalism.

When a disabled person fails to behave as expected by the model a person has of disability, the moral model is almost always the fallback position, because many people cannot conceive of why someone would disagree with them other than a lack of good character. This is a problem, because the moral model proposes no solution but to ignore or abuse the disabled person until they behave as expected.

Another notable interaction is that adherents of the medical model can often be persuaded to support the more traditional parts of the social model, such as providing large text resources to people with impaired vision, so long as there is empirical research backing it. However, they rarely support more radical arguments that challenge how we define disability and how society should be structured or restructured.

All three models have major failure points. The moral model fails every disabled person it is applied to. The medical and social models both fail different disabled people when adhered to strictly. The best approach at the moment seems to be hybridizing the social and medical models, so that they cover each other's weak points and fit the needs of the widest spectrum of disabled people. The main barrier to this is that they are often defined in opposition to each other.

[dreamdropsystem]

Autistics deserve time to recharge from social situations

Spoonies deserve time to recharge from social situations

Anxious people deserve time to recharge from social situations

Does anyone need time to recharge from social situations? Give them their time. We need it

[foursaints]

i know you mentioned evan's terrible eating habits, but why does he only live off digestive biscuits? i know for a FACT generational wealth grants him leeway to hire a personal chef, so why is his diet the way it is?

autism & food sensitivity! i see evan as having a lot of sensory/textural preferences in general, and it affects things like the clothes he wears and the food he eats. it's the combination of generational wealth and magic and parental neglect that lets him just eat porridge & digestive biscuits for weeks straight unimpeded. he doesn't like strong flavors or mixed textures.

but it's important to me that the other skittles don't, like, judge him for these things?? perhaps it's not the healthiest thing but the attitude is mostly: that's just Evan! and barty especially really pays attention to his preferences. he's the one supplying the biscuits

[channelworldbluez]

Yall do any of you have like that one teacher that you will forever hold a place in your heart? Okay maybe not that deep lol but like a teacher who just idk was so kind and so cool and just had a positive effect on you while you were a student?

[a-sketchy]

a persona inspired ttrpg would fuck so hard

[toddtakefive]

btw todd’s reluctance to join the dps because he doesn’t want to read (which is then accommodated for) and is scared to put himself out there (which is also worked through) being read as todd not wanting to go AT ALL, and thus neil making the proper accommodations (“todd anderson, who prefers not to read, will keep the minutes of the meetings”) and encouraging him to step out of the box that stifles him being seen as ‘forceful’ or like he can’t take no for an answer makes me insane with rage

[obstinatecondolement]

It feels like every day I read attempts to debunk the social model of disability that fundamentally misunderstand what the social model of disability is and who the people who developed that model were, including what the nature of their disabilities was, and I want to scream.

But I don't, because yelling at people on the internet is basically pointless. Instead I check to see that I'm not mutuals with whoever reblogged said misunderstanding and vague about it.

[autocatastrophophile]

Accomplished: adjust my sexuality so I can get off on second-order masochism, i.e. "I know you like pain but you don't deserve to come, do something productive instead" To do: find a way to make a living off this

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[chthonicillness]

so many people on that post about wishing to be rich so i could be insane in peace like "omg literally me" yes my loves it is all of us. thats sort of the point

[selectivechaos]

alt. communication in relation to situational mutism.

🌹🌹there is a reason that all thoughout school i never used any of these forms of communication. i just Struggled.

partly because:

was never offered to me,

did not know it existed, (can we talk about that? this shit i needed, and didn’t know it existed.)

saw speech as the only option; as a test i had failed, and therefore was doomed just to either keep yelling at myself in my head to speak (something i did for several years), or just give up

was led to believe that my inability was a defiance or rudeness, or that i secretly didn’t want to speak.

and that if i tried enough i would be able to speak.

low self worth and internalised ableism: didn’t see it as worth anyone’s time or attention.

social anxiety meant couldn’t communicate at all; couldn’t be seen as Attempting to communicate, because it would mean more pressure to speak.

so by ‘scared’ i don’t mean i chose not to use things that were available to me; i mean i was never offered them, and it would have been impossible to use them.

(am out of school now and can use tts sometimes around people i live with!)🌹🌹

long post

wanted to talk about this. lot of people just assume that because can’t speak, will automatically be able to communicate in other ways. that i will have found an alternative. but my sm makes these hard or impossible too a lot of the time.

🌹text to speech

pros: alleviates voice dysphoria. helps with fear of how voice will sound (especially with anxiety making it harder to control: my voice is hard to go above certain volume, often inaudible, and can come out higher pitched or in squeaks). with standardised ways of pronouncing a given word, i can learn what to expect and control how my voice sounds.

cons: the vocality. can’t fucking make sounds. still My voice making my words heard. scared it will come out too loud or too quiet. scared i will accidentally up the volume. embarrassed when it reads out typos. hard to control.

there is a reason i never used text to speech throughout school. would Not have been able to. all vocality was difficult or impossible. coughed, sneezed, laughed Silently.

also: did not even know it existed.

🌹 communication cards

pros: pre-written messages. words from outside the context of the social situation. sure they are taken and applied to the situation, but it feels more indirect.

cons: anxious so can’t hold them up, can’t make the physical movement. get embarrassed by them (even though i shouldn’t; my anxiety is irrational).

🌹 notes app.

pros: more flexibility than communication cards. give more specific replies to clarify my intentions. in my area, use of notes app is more normative than comm cards, so less social anxiety.

cons: typos, small text. have to choose the specific words i want to say. and that means that it is very direct, almost like a conversation. and because people can see me typing, they ask more follow-up questions, clarifications, and more specific things which = pressure to speak. makes it harder to type anything.

also: this is inspired by this post, which has notes with a lot of ppl talking about how their sm affects communication.

[ryderdire]

I am going to go evil mode over this fucking math question

[clare-with-no-i]

I was thinking earlier about squibs and JKR’s flawed rendering of disability in the HP books — and how, sort of in spite of her, exposition about the anti-squib nature of the magical world might actually serve as a sound allegory for social modeling of disability irl — so I perused the internet and found this really interesting academic article about Filch, Arabella Figg, and the quiet pervasiveness of abeism which underlies the series. 

I particularly enjoyed this passage at the end, which I think really drives home what can be so radically good about fanfiction. highly recommend reading