what on earth? and in the description they say they work with disabled kids for a highschool class 😬 you do realize mentally and physically disabled people can live on to have happy lives that don't fit the able bodied definition of "normal and happy"??? oh my god....
(also sorry I tried to censor as much of the face as I could as per the rules, hopefully this is okay?)
Authoritarians all over the world are oppressing autistic people. It won’t be long until it turns into a genocide. Autistic people should retaliate by forming their own socialist nation. Spread the word across the internet!
I'm from India and I' autistic. In very near past I experienced something that I'm failing to 'process'.
TL;DR: I'm feeling guilty and hopeless for experiencing the mental freeze and not being able to grab the evidence of ableist ideologies being promoted by authority scientists from premium research organization and policy makers.
Main post: I was present in a certain science awareness lecture where a few stalwart scientists were present. They were talking about future priorities of Indian research, career opportunities, funding options, student interaction, etc. One of the scientist repeatedly used an 'example': "success is like climbing a mountain with a wheelchair. The moment you take rest, you slip back to to the bottom, and you have to start from zero again". For unknown reason, I felt that remark creepy but difficult to explain. I stepped back from challenging the statement because my social anxiety creeped in. At a certain point, the scientist shown a slide showing a cartoon figure climbing a steady mountain with a wheelchair. I had my smartphone on my hand, but my hand just frozen. I felt too hopeless to force my hand to grab the evidence. In the stage there were another eminent speaker who was praising Narayana Murthy of Infosys (Infamous for proposing a 72 hours work per week for Indian youth). Wheelchair is not a burden to overcome. Wheelchair is a mobility tool. Its totally fine if an individual want to explore mountains or push limits using their wheelchair. But it is NOT OK to present wheelchair in a way that wheelchair users are meant to push themselves harder. Even as an 'example', if this hustle is the current situation in STEM field, then scientists should recognize this hustle as a problem instead of a glamour. Their first priority should be developing a "rake" for that metaphorical wheelchair so that it doesn't slip back to the ground. I noticed, after the talk was over, a canestick user probably with a leg injury or surgery, in the audience was trying to hide his canestick, looking ashamed or embarrassed, was telling his friends "aah its temporary. It doesn't hurt me. I don't care about these ailments". Science is much about depth of imagination, and good imagination requires sleep, health, peace of mind. I do not understand why they think people should be put into suffering in order to make good science.
I made [this post the other day in which I wrote about how the concept of what has come to be called sanism - a largely unnamed and conceptually unknown phenomenon phenomenon that is often boxed in with Disablism under some variation of discrimination against people with mental disabilities or something] (https://www.reddit.com/r/Antipsychiatry/comments/ndxars/why_isnt_the_concept_of_sanism_more_known_and/) - is, like [ageism towards older people and elderly people] (https://www.reddit.com/r/socialjustice101/comments/n695lo/why_dont_we_talk_more_about_ageism_in_sj_circles/) not really something that I have seen material on or heard much talk of in SJ circles, which is alarming to me because there are mental ill-health epidemics among men and boys, for example, which can make them more prone to suicidality, I believe. There are also issues from which trans people suffer, who often have their gender identity made into a pathological, psychiatric, mental ill-health issue when it really doesn't need to be for trans people generally. Likewise, gayness, lesbianism, and bisexuality suffer the same fate as transness, really, in that they, too, are seen as still being pathological mental states of people who are homosexual or bisexual - a mental illness or something akin, in other words.
Why is sanism so un-talked about? For me, it is one of the most important things to talk about.
The shirt says Rizz 'Em with the 'Tism, I looked up the term and it has something to do with romantic attraction. What do you guys think?
should go without saying, but this is NOT an excuse to go find this sub and harass this person. i trust people here to be mature enough to not do that but I do not condone any sort of harassment against them.
tl;dr it's a place to vent about bad experiences with roleplay partners, this person in particular was frustrated because the people approaching them sounded "dry" or "uninterested", and on top of that they took an issue with them saying common, completely harmless phrases like "Nice to meet you" and "That sounds good" for...some reason, to the point they think it's some sort of character flaw on their part and calling them "lazy" for it, and even mentioning outright wanting to cause physical harm to them. and all this over a fucking *online roleplay?* jesus christ.
as far as I know, it's not uncommon for people on the auitsm spectrum to sound "dry" even when they are genuinely interested in or excited for something. I feel like there's a decent chance most of the people they're complaining about were on the spectrum in some way, especially since roleplay as a hobby tends to attract neurodivergent folks a lot.
what is your view on generative ai,and it being used as an accesibilty tool, ultimately as someone neurodivergent,i view chatbots as something i'd avoid (they're shady coporate, spread dangerous misinfo etc )but ai itself can help me (for example for grammarly to assist me without replacing my creativity and grammarly is an ai tool)
what are your views on this , if you are anti ai how do you ground that with not being ablelist?
There was a post in which a DoorDash was talking about how they canceled an order because it had no tip on it and I commented giving my two cents as they were asking for opinions on the situation and I personally do DoorDash as well as order from DoorDash (and other related delivery service services like that).
I basically said that I am someone who prefers to tip afterwards, as opposed to beforehand, as I am used to people, not listening to the delivery instructions. Like, I could count on one hand, the amount of times I’ve had in order where they did not straight up try to leave it where I had instructed them not to.
This person then began essentially saying I was not disabled enough to demand they leave it somewhere specific. The location isn’t miles away, nor is it difficult to access, it’s just the porch of the apartment as opposed to the front door. I’d also be willing to argue that the porch area is actually a lot less confusing in our apartments but, either way, it has a wider door and it makes it more accessible to me when I’m using my mobility aid.
I feel so frustrated and disheartened because the wheelchair is actually new and it’s because of my decreased mobility. I fought getting one for this long because I knew they were going to be issues such as this. I knew that I was simply not going to be “disabled enough” to use a mobility aid without straight up discrimination (I honestly don’t know if that’s the right word but that’s kind of what it feels like). To my fellow, ambulatory wheelchair users— do you ever stop feeling like you’re faking it? Stop feeling bad because you feel like you’re taking away resources from people who actually need them? I’ve been chronically ill since I was younger, and more than half of my life has been spent with days that were so debilitating I couldn’t walk and only just recently. I bought a wheelchair because I finally got enough courage to admit to myself that it would make my life a lot easier mobility wise, but it feels like I’ve traded my mobility for harassment (again, I really don’t know if this is the right word, just feels right).