#unitypunk

[hopegrasping]

Despite popular belief, smelling bad is not actually a crime and should not be used to judge someone's morality or character. Lots of good people smell stank as hell. Real bad. You can acknowledge that bad smells are unpleasant, and how you might not want to be around someone who stinks (I choose to suck it up personally, just acknowledging it as an option!) without perpetuating a sentiment that causes disadvantaged people to face more harm and scrutiny. Stand up for stinky people I'm being so genuine rn.

[yellowyarn]

I need a badge that says "Nothing happened, I'm just disabled" to wear when I use my braces or other disability aids. Maybe abled people would stop asking me about it then.

[stuffieautism]

one of the worst things to come out of internet psychology is the idea that autistic people and others with neurodevelopmental and really any disabilities owe you masking or “pushing through” their disabilities to make you more comfortable

[anomalousmancunt]

this disability pride month i'd like to remind y'all that "visibly disabled" does not imply "mobility aid user" (nor anything else other than "people can see there is something about you that doesn't fit abled hegemony")

OP is autistic and talking about its experiences being autistic (AND multiply disabled). don't fucking touch if you have no solidarity towards autistic people.

[moonpool-system]

Fuck the psychiatric system. if you don't comply with what they think is best they take away what's helping you as punishment. It doesn't matter if something is already helping - if you don't do everything they recommend, they remove all the progress you've made and strand you out in the cold. They're not here to help, they're here to put us through the system and spit us out when we refuse.

[8irdies]

autpunk! (autism punk) 🌈♾️

i’m a medium-high support needs autistic person and it has a huge impact on my day-to-day functioning and ability to stay alive in the most basic sense. i can’t work or take care of myself properly. and i’m still a human being who deserves to exist and reach happiness! like you!

autistic people have value no matter what we are capable of :)

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

so annoying when people put on faux-condescending tones to be all like "do you really align yourself with physically disabled people outside of cripplepunk, or are you just having a widdle sads about not being allowed to use a fun label online?"

bitch. yes i do. that's the entire point. i have ALWAYS been categorized By Society as profoundly disabled in a way that aligns with what you refer to as "real physical disability." i do not even care about the specific word "cripplepunk," i am talking about being gaslit about my own symptoms, harassed with intense amounts of lateral ableism, silenced on my actual literal IRL experiences, and ostracized for correcting dangerous misinformation, all in the name of some bullshit gatekeeping impetus to separate types of disability on an axis that is neither materialist nor scientifically supported.

yes i DO align myself with profoundly disabled people outside of this one specific label, which i don't even care much for outside of as an easy tag to find other radical disabled people. SOCIETY aligns me with other profoundly disabled people. i AM the profoundly disabled autistic, the chronic pain haver, the drug user, the person with dyspraxia and cognitive disability, the person who needs a carer, the person who can't work or attend school, the person you're trying to bring up as a gotcha Against Myself.

and i say trying to argue that my disabilities can be sorted into "mental" and "physical" categories is actively harming me, that this categorization in the medical industry is preventing research into treatments that could revolutionize my life and the lives of my loved ones. that this attitude and ideology among society, especially among doctors, causes us to be prescribed actively harmful mistreatments and the causes of our symptoms to be ignored and unresearched. it's not about "being welcome in cripplepunk," it's about an ideology that is deeply embedded in the medical industry and fucking killing people.

stop trying to silence me and calling it disability activism. people with my disabilities deserve treatment and care and to express our lived realities. stop trying to boil our existence down to "cripplepunk discourse." insensitive as hell.

[lore-gore]

You do realize YOU'RE being ableist right now? And you being disabled doesn't excuse it.

That person you mentioned literally explained "hey, I'm sorry for being mean, I'm autistic so I'm not always aware of it."

You have every right to be mad but I think their apology is valid.

Oh my god! Having a disability affects you in negative ways?!??!

And yes, being autistic makes you disabled you dumb fuck.

[adhbabey]

Imagine saying that mentally disabled people have more privilege than physically disabled people. We're in the same boat, we're just as oppressed as you, just often in different ways.

While y'all won't get locked up in institutions, we're probably both forced to rely on medications and drugs. We're both likely to become addicted or victims of drug advertising.

We both have high rates of suicide, we both probably have severe mental illness along with our disabilities. Depression can be it's own form of chronic illness.

We're both barred from jobs, having children, we lose benefits for marriage, we're incentivized to quit. We both deal with rights being taken away and autonomy issues. Not a lot of protests are accessible on either side.

We're just like you, in the same boat. It's just that disability isn't a monolith and is a spectrum and variety of experiences. Some people will struggle less than others, doesn't mean everyone will. Some mentally disabled people have to rely on mobility aids, aac, carers/people aids, etc. A lot of us have to rely on family and can't move out of abusive situations.

It's not fair to insinuate and assume that we have less oppression just because we don't have the same experiences or disabilities.

We are in the same boat. Stop erasing our experiences. It's okay to focus on cpunk alone, I'm mainly focusing on madpunk in my blog. But we are just as disabled as you. Not more or less.

[hopegrasping]

Disability within the scene

Dancing doesn't have to look Cool or Interesting or Even Good!

Dancing doesn't need to be this high energy performance of being Part Of The Crowd™, especially if you're disabled physically or otherwise! The point is to move around and have fun-- plus, ask yourself, genuinely: What are people gonna do if they don't like it? Make fun of the way you, a disabled person dances?? At a punk show??? Yeah that's one way to totally not get your shit rocked by half the people there lol get out there and have fun and stop worrying about matching people's energy, dancing should be a fun and joyful activity and should have little to no consequences. Dance at YOUR comfort level, Not at the level people want to see! <3

(outfit is composed of thrifted, hand me downs, and gifted clothing!)

[protectingtulpas]

they should make "fight something" a valid way to deal with chronic illness

[yellowyarn]

guess who found a doctor who listened to them!!

[anomalousmancunt]

if your punk relies on being mean and angry* more than it relies on building a community, then it's meaningless.

*specially if it's towards other marginalized people. the fuck you're doing?

[moonpool-system]

Your disability is real even if it's not causing you suffering 100% of the time. Your disability is real even if you don't bare your suffering constantly to the masses to gain acceptance. Your disability is real even if you wouldn't trade it for being abled. People on the outside cannot see you, and cannot see how the intricacies of your disabilities affect your daily life. They can't see all the details of what makes your disability real because, quite frankly, they don't want to. You needn't debase yourself at the altar of public opinion in order to treat your disability as real. You know your body and your mind best, and your experiences are real. You are allowed to understand and accommodate your bodies and minds for yourselves.

We don't need to be their suffering idol in order to be disabled.

[cosmossystem]

Why don't you like cripplepunk?? /genq

hooooo ok so im going to assume you dont follow us because we have spoken about this at least twenty times by now (mostly me because i used to call myself crippunk and then stopped after seeing that it was an even more toxic environment than the aro community is, which is an incredible feat, but that is a rant for another time)

heres a quick summary

cripplepunk, just like most other subgenres of punk, is a circlejerk-"fuck yall, im better"-brand of punk that 'physically disabled' gatekeepers latch onto, because i guess they have nothing better to be doing other than wasting everyones time. the concept was created with the idea that 'physically disabled people need their own resources' which, while a nice thought on the surface, comes at the expense of literally anyone they dont deem 'disabled enough' and they advocate for the separation of 'physical' and 'mental' disabilities. couple that with the fact that disability is not an easily defined state and it's easy to see why this doesn't work.

this isnt some flaw or mistake. crippunk was coined this way by design, and its creator admitted to that. its an inherently flawed way of thinking and only leads to more infighting. it was never meant to peacefully coexist with mentally or neurologically disabled people, it doesnt take into consideration someone who is disabled by their mental illness, and it inherently believes that if you arent in some physical external form of disability, you are not disabled enough or in this specific way. and despite what crippunks would like for you to believe, they do not advocate for you, do not care, and will only tell you to "make your own spaces" as if you dont belong in the conversation surrounding disability rights.

we do not believe there is any feasible nor functional difference in what disables you aside from what kinds of accommodations and treatment you need. we are all freaks under the eyes of capitalism. the brain is a part of the body, and if your brain is disabled, you are disabled. for that reason, we strongly oppose the concept of cripplepunk. we believe they will not get rights by whining about how theyre More Oppressed than people with mental/neurological disabilities.

if youd like more on why someone might dislike crippunk or not feel included by it, theres a few movements in the wake of it, such as our personal favorite unitypunk. and if you want better explanations from us: heres the unitypunk tag on our blog, scroll through it.

and INB4 they find this post and throw a temper tantrum like they do with everything else: yes, we are crippled. a quick scroll of this blog should tell you as much. lmao. lol, even.

red

[abomnibus]

The Magnetic Resonance Imagining Angel

1.

She kisses with her Halo gently. . . ravenous for mercy like a scalpel.

2.

As if she could cleave skull from brain, and fracture from lesion with her mighty voice of one hundred thousand icy, metal insects that speak only in languages of prayer.

3.

Hold very still, Breathe; Synchronize with her.

4.

G-d [G-d] which is You, Us, & Everything Harmonizes.

5.

With Contrast: The dye injected into blood [blood] which is holy oil ignites under Their gaze.

6.

to find to aid to see to warn to begin

7.

To Love.

To Love,

To Love.