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it's a little complicated but i think physically disabled people have the right to struggle. to struggle visibly. to try and do something like put on their jacket, or climb up the stairs, or get out of their seat by themselves if they want to. the thing is naturally as a social animal we offer help to other people we see that need it. and that's not wrong. and sometimes disabled people who are struggling actually really need the help. so i'm not saying that it's wrong to offer disabled people help. but i think if that person decides they don't want that help and rejects it, you should respect that. even if it's annoying or scary to you to see someone struggle, as long as we have the capacity to fuck around and find out we should be allowed to as much as any other person

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do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

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I think a lot of the misuse of support needs labels comes from people labeling their support needs based on what they need to thrive, not survive.

When I say "I can't live independently," what a lot of people hear is "It would be hard for me to live independently and my quality of life is improved by having a caregiver." But what I actually mean is "I would literally die if I was left on my own."

I don't get the support I need to thrive either. I'm barely holding on. But I need certain things to be able to just survive.

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i've been getting asked about whether specific brain related insults are okay or not. is "stupid" a better insult, is "brain rot" okay? and like. i think genuinely people need to start learning more about ableism and how it works. because without understanding the underlying mechanism, the logic used to devalue disabled people, then you will never actually address ableism. instead of making a list of good or bad insults, you have to interrogate why your insults are demeaning someone based on the premise of their intelligence or cognitive processes. what are you trying to say when you're insulting how their brain works for behaviour or ideas you disagree with? unless you lack the ability to understand these things, it's really your duty to dismantle ableism as an ideology that's rooted within your everyday beliefs instead of asking disabled people to give you a checklist of good and bad behaviour you can uncritically parrot and follow. until the linguistic drift makes the next words disabled people use to describe ourselves into an insult or slur by mere association

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having trauma is a constant battle of trauma dumping and not even intentionally doing it because your entire life is a trauma landfill and sometimes you just be talking about your life and you’re not even venting you’re just yapping!!!

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CDD = Complex Dissociative Disorder. An umbrella term for systems with DID, OSDD-1, P-DID, DDNOS, and UDD

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oh yeah i'm just kinda in a weird mood rn now haha

and by mood i mean

well

heh heh

let's just say

alters

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ai generating my suicide note cause I couldn't think of anything

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Can we please start romanticizing knowing and accommodating your limits instead of romanticizing pushing yourself to the point of burnout and illness? Like being able to stay within the frames of what your brain and body can actually handle isn't laziness, it's a vital skill that more people should practice even as this society makes it hard.

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Shout out to the ten year old who just got diagnosed. Shout out to the housebound fourteen year old. Shout out to the eighteen year old who can’t go to the university they wanted. Shout out to the twenty two year old who can’t get a job. Shout out to the twenty six year old with a caretaker. Shout out to the thirty year old who can’t buy their own house.

Shout out to young disabled people. We exist.

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Criminalizing drug users does not prevent drug use it prevents people from getting help.

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On the topic of scars I'd like to say that yeah, someone else's scars might be triggering to you based on your assumptions about them, however your discomfort does not under any circumstances come before their bodily autonomy. You don't get to decide what other people are allowed to wear for your comfort, you don't get to decide whether someone is allowed to be out in public if they can't hide their scars. How you feel about someone else's body isn't their fault and isn't their problem. You can move away if you really need to.

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Bonding with other mentally unstable people over having multiple suicide notes in our notes app

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Absolutely scolding hot take but I hate when disabled characters have a power but their power is just.. to make themselves not disabled???

Like.. omg I’m a paralyzed character.. and I have water powers.. so now.. I have Water Legs ™

Or I’m a deaf character but with my super amazing sonic bat powers.. I can… HEAR?!?!

I dunno, I’m just sick of our only representation being us but ‘fixed’ so ableists can possibly even start to digest the concept that we are human beings that deserve to live and also have the capacity to be sick as fuck.