#unitypunk

[disabledunitypunk]

I am begging the FDA to require that companies CANNOT just put "spices" as an ingredient but have to label the spices.

"Spices" can mean "this has some oregano and black pepper in it" or it can mean "this has cumin cayenne and paprika and if you eat this you will be sick in bed in pain for a week" for me.

Seriously, this is an allergy issue and a huge oversight on the part of corporations.

Require detailed labeling of spices used in packaged foods NOW.

[the-delta-quadrant]

idk who needs to hear this this month but

legal definitions of disabillty will not be our liberation

diagnoses will not be our liberation

people whose disabilities aren't legally or medically recognised need liberation too and that liberation will not come from doctors & governments.

[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.

[mysidaesm]

Happy disability pride month to both mentally and physically disabled people (that includes neurodivergencies!) Our experiences might not be identical but this month is for all of us.

[slothlifepolitics]

Telling disabled people to use chatGPT to help them understand things is terrifyingly bad advice. It is such bad advice it is hard to believe it is being given with good intent. These language models just make things up that "sound right."

Calling things like chatGPT Artificial Intelligence is just tech bro hype, this "AI" is the current grift like NFTs and crypto. There are no safety checks built into these things. These language models are being released by people who live by the model of "move fast and break things." They release things in a half-assed manner wait for things to go wrong and then fix it after.

Please don't use programs like chatGPT for serious things. I wish what was being said about these language models was true and that they were ethically built because that would be something helpful for disabled people - but as it stands that isn't the case.

[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.

[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.

[gremlinwithakeyboard]

Stuff I use regularly that's technically not a mobility aid but sure help me get places I otherwise wouldn't be able to

Bicycle - Fairly obvious one. Gets me to the shops fast without killing my legs like walking or driving would. I can even lean on it when I'm walking with it to still take weight off my questionable knees!

Noise cancelling headphones - Going out used to be a pain for the whole family because you can only spend so long out when you don't know where the next "safe" toilet is. The world opened up so much more to me when I no longer had to worry about extractor fans and hand dryers.

Long sleeved shirt/jacket - Contamination OCD freaking sucks but fortunately I've got it mild enough that if I cover my hand while touching stuff like buttons and door handles my brain doesn't go too crazy. So it's useful to have something with nice long sleeves I can retreat my hands into. I'd use gloves but they make my hands feel uncomfortable.

Bottle of hand sanitizer - Similar to the above one. Sometimes I'm having a bit of An Episode™ and everything is extra dirty or I dropped something on The Ground and can't just leave it somewhere until my brain forgets it's supposed to be toxic. Squirting a ton of gel onto the offending hand/object is a lot quicker and easier than retreating to the nearest bathroom to go clean it, and most of the time it's enough to keep The Thoughts at bay.

A solid pair of walking/military/safety boots - Combined with my arch supports, I can manage a bit more walking without totally killing my legs. I think it's the ankle support? With black leather military ones I can even wear them with formal wear under a long enough pair of trousers. They're not so fun when it's hot, but while I can function on a pair of trainers, walking boots are my usual everyday shoe. My latest pair even have hooks at the top instead of lace holes so I can either have them as slipon trainers with extra ankle if I'm going cycling or for a long car ride, or I can quickly lace them up all the way if I'm going walking. I was absolutely spoiled by a pair of leather safety boots I got a year or so ago. When they were new, I could walk to the morrisons on the other side of town and back and the only pain I had was from tying the laces too tight. Unfortunately the leather stretched and the boots got too big.

Not sure why I made this post, just wanted to ramble about it for a while. Feel free to add stuff!

[moonpool-system]

Unfriendly reminder that harrassing people for who they are is no less okay when the person in particular is an asshole. Queerphobic remarks aren't suddenly not queerphobic if you're insulting a shithead. Ableist/sanist jabs are still as such if they're directed at an absolute manure-spitter. If you strike back by targeting morally irrelevant characteristics, YOU become the asshole as well.

[xxlovelynovaxx]

I Don't Know How To Explain To People That It's Not Derailing To Talk About Physically Disabling Neurodivergence On A Post About Physically Disabling Conditions

I Don't Know How To Explain To People That It's Not Derailing For Physically Disabled Neurodivergent People To Talk About Similarities Between Their Experiences Being Disabled By Physical Disability And Neurodivergence

I Don't Know How To Explain That When You Discuss Something That Affects All Disabled People In The Exact Same Way But Pretend It's Exclusive To You That It's Not Derailing To Talk About How You're Wrong About It "Not" Affecting Others And Erasing Ableist Violence Against An Already Erased Group (And This Goes Both Ways Because All Disabled People Deal With Erasure)

I Don't Know How To Tell You That Being In A Community Means Opening Doors Not Building Walls

I Don't Know How To Explain "United We Stand, Divided We Fall". We Need Community To Achieve Liberation

Remember Who The Real Enemy Is

[disabledunitypunk]

Happy disability pride month to:

Physically disabled people

Mentally ill people

Mentally disabled people

Neurodivergent people

Psychotic people

Multiply disabled people

Visibly disabled people

Invisibly disabled people

Mobility aid users

People with chronic pain

People with chronic fatigue

People with neurodevelopmental disabilities

People with neurocognitive disabilities

People with intellectual disability

People with neurogenic disability

People with cognitive disability

People with motor disorders

People with rare disabilities

People with common disabilities

People who were born with disability

People who acquired a disability/disorder later in life

People with bodily differences

Nonverbal people

Semiverbal people

People who experience speech lose

AAC users

People with ‘gross’ symptoms

People with sensory disabilities

People who aren’t sure if they are disabled

Disabled people who don’t know they are disabled

Disabled people who want treatment

Disabled people who do not want treatment

Disabled people with disorders that ‘don’t match’ their assigned gender

Zebras

Spoonies

Cripples

Happy Disability Pride Month to all disabled people!

May your tomorrow be kinder than today.

[protectingtulpas]

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

[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?

[yellowyarn]

guess who found a doctor who listened to them!!

[slothlifepolitics]

So I know every social media site likes to pretend it is better then other social media sites. Right now the disability community on tumblr is trying to exclude disabled people from disability spaces, because only select psychical disabilities are "real" disabilities. On tiktok?! Disabled people are calling out EMS workers for their violent ableism and educating people on why some of us are scared to even call 911 if we need help, outside of the bill. (yes this is US centric, I'm American.) What do you think is going to be more helpful for disabled people in the long term?

I barely post on tiktok because making videos isn't really accessible to me and doing so is very stressful so it would be nice if y'all could stop being laterally violent.

[the-delta-quadrant]

disability exclusionists are really giving me geistige Behinderung vibes. fun fact: "geistige Behinderung" is a much used but much disliked by those affected german word for intellectual disability, and seemingly in some cases it used to describe all neurodivergent people (at least in some sources you could find people talking about "körperlich und geistig behindert", seemingly describing "physically disabled" and neurodivergent people as a whole, unless they were just casually erasing non-ID neurodivergent folk).

it literally translates to "spirit disability". that's how you all sound when you say brain disabilities aren't physical disabilities. reducing our brains to some spiritual entity. fuck off.