#tell me that autistic people killed by the police for meltdowns and shutdowns and 'acting weird' aren't allowed to be part of this movement | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

thespacesay · 11 months

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i find it fascinating (/negative) how people think there's some clear and present divide between physical and mental disabilities, and treat it as if the only overlap is when you have both.

like... for one, can we acknowledge that there is not, in fact, a binary of types of disabilities? how do you describe cognitive disabilities that affect both physical and mental function? what of disorders that originate in exclusively physical ways (ie, post concusive syndrome) but present with strong mental symptoms (anger, change in personality?)

how can you claim to support neurological disabilities and claim that ADHD is not, in any way, a physical disability? why is it different only if the presentation of a disability is seen as mental?

like... genuinely speaking, when I see posts insisting that movements around disabilities are meant for only the physically disabled, all I can believe is that you too have fallen victim to ableism. You are using a baseless categorization to separate and divide when the border is always going to be fuzzy, and always going to be used to hurt rather than help on a systemic level.

#disability #disabled pride month #disability pride month #like maybe it's growing up with a strong connection to the cognitively disabled community in my area #but like. cool tell me more about how mentally ill folks are invading our spaces for physical disability #while i chat with an adult on my brother's disabled sports team who is relatively physically abled #but whose disabilities are cognitive and both impair his fine motor skills and give him a nasty temper #who i genuinely fear will one day have an unprepared person put in charge of his group home and will be hurt by the police #for having a disability that makes it hard for him to express his thoughts and quick to anger #tell me that you don't understand disabled pride to also be about the mentally disabled folks who were sterilized in eugenics movements -#because i've fucking met them!#tell me that autistic people killed by the police for meltdowns and shutdowns and 'acting weird' aren't allowed to be part of this movement #because you can't consider that you've been taught by an asshole society that there's always 'invaders' taking advantage of social movements #when often those are closely related groups with such significant overlap that it's so foolish to insist we are not one group in solidarity #one group in spirit!#just!!! ugh!!!#disabled pride is for all disabled folks #there is no one disability that can be separated from our activism without harming us all

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