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charedi || 19 || זist || disabled 🕍🇮🇱🦓🦻

[2spoonsofsugar]

וְדַע, שֶׁהָאָדָם צָרִיךְ לַעֲבֹר עַל גֶּשֶׁר צַר מְאֹד מְאֹד, וְהַכְּלָל וְהָעִקָּר – שֶׁלֹּא יִתְפַּחֵד כְּלָל

-Rabbeinu Nachman

[pukicho]

I lived in Taiwan for a time and I saw monkeys swing on trees 

[firel-makes-music]

Who asked

[pukicho]

God has granted you the gift of knowledge and yet you shun him

[lakevida]

i heard that guy doesn't have a library card let's kill him

[2spoonsofsugar]

it's torture to live near the ocean when it reminds me of you

[2spoonsofsugar]

i love the ocean, she's so beautiful... but only because of you, because you made her beautiful in my eyes

[2spoonsofsugar]

you always were my biggest blessing

[2spoonsofsugar]

it's torture to live near the ocean when it reminds me of you

[birdofmay]

A difficult thing about severe autism, especially in combination with severe intellectual disability, is that sometimes you can't tell the individual about another perspective, a different opinion, or try to say "Yes, in your case, but not all", because it's too much for the brain to handle in an already extremely confusing world.

I don't have ID, but I was extremely developmentally delayed, and I remember the fear, anger, and confusion I felt whenever somebody tried to tell me something that wasn't in alignment with my beliefs.

Autism makes it already hard to switch perspectives, and with severe autism, the world is one big chaos and makes no sense, and once things settled and you think you finally understood your little world, suddenly somebody says a contradictory thing and booom, chaos again.

So sometimes people with more or less severe ID and severe autism only see their perspective and their life, and therefore what they say and think seems pretty "black and white" to outsiders, but it's important not to tell them "Hey, this isn't always true, this is only partly correct", because what you try to tell them is too complex for an already overwhelmed brain.

And that's difficult to accept sometimes, but rest assured that somebody will at some point find a way to modify the knowledge you want to share in a way that it's not confusing and overwhelming, when the time is right.

I just wanted to say that because very often people hear or read something and immediately go "Hey, not necessarily ☝🏼", and then they don't understand why the individual melts down and screams, when they "just wanted to add on, that...".

[gwydion-aacblog]

oh for sure . not severe in either and can sometimes change adapt thoughts , but , really need not already be frustrate or stress . sometimes take long time understand what try say and still often have trouble remember people like . experience and think different things . ( far as brain feel . everyone can speak welsh same or better than self . know not true but still feel true , need remind self not . )

get very very upset people not agree things that feel important to self and can not help that . that could look like someone say that not agree about character , or that dislike gwydion favourite thing , or yes , say that gwydion understand something wrong especially when have perspective and experience too .

can not help that . not try be stubborn rude . but brain have hard time take new facts and thoughts that not fit and match everything already know . ants do not fly - ant with wings is not ant in mind because brain can not accept , feel like lie when say some ants fly . grow up know ant as ground bug and only ground bug that dig holes and never have wings , never fly .

if already frustrate and stress , which just say something not match can give stress , then have much harder time understand . but that make people talk circles and frustrate until meltdown , then complain how try be nice but gwydion so rude .

here is thing : if someone ( in this case moderate or severe autism , and/or intellectual disability ) ever start say only " shut up " or " go away " and rude things , then need know , is very probably sign overwhelm , and can not think anything but want stop . already have hard time communicate and filter , stress only break that down even more . 

need understand and learn not take personal , because in most times not , person just ask for break in only way that know how . if ever think that person with disabilities like this not listen , that on purpose rude try ignore and whatever . then what need do is step back . because that person probably not in shape listen right now , and just frustrate everyone to try more .

sometimes depend on disability severity and closeness with person , yes , can talk again later and calmer and person can better understand . but not always will happen like that , need understand this . if really really concern , see if have way reach to someone closer , but understand even that person might say " can not have that talk right now , sorry " .

[birdofmay]

Good addition!

Especially "go away" and "shut up", etc. is a sign of being overwhelmed and not meant in a rude or mean way, that's so important to know for others ☝🏼

[greelin]

in my documence. straight up “writing it”. and by “it”, haha, let’s justr say. Words certainly

[greelin]

hey.

[lovesickbrat]

[2spoonsofsugar]

oh poor pup :( i wish i could pet you again, i miss your creepy lil human-like eyes

[vinylstickers]

A List Of Challenges for Hearing people to Do

Don't touch our hearing aids/cochlear implants when they get loose or come undone.

Don't read our transcription.

Don't shut our transcription computers.

Don't swing around the FM/microphone like a toy.

Don't deny us the FM/microphone if we need it back.

Don't complain about captions.

Don't make fun of us for not hearing you.

Don't make fun of us for misunderstanding you.

Don't make fun of us for using sign language.

Don't make fun of us for our voices.

(Feel free to add more in RBs.)

[2spoonsofsugar]

G-d... give me just a chance, I promise I'll give it my best shot

[magnetothemagnificent]

Happy Pride, if you claim that Judaism recognizes six or eight genders, you are not being an ally to Jews or trans people, you are just misinformed at best and maliciously co-opting the historical reality and labels of intersex and infertile people at worst :)

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

I am an intersex nonbinary Jew and I cosign this message

[lakevida]

i heard that guy doesn't have a library card let's kill him

[mioxenoblade]

Captions shouldn't be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word.

[dancing-jestress]

Unless it's a slur! No one needs to see that.

[mioxenoblade]

If they say a slur in the video, the captions should reflect it. The disabled are not little babies who have to have life sanitized for them.

[sunbummonkey]

okay but I feel like ur forgetting that slurs don't just apply to the disabled... children don't need to be seeing the n-word or other racial slurs??

[sevengeese]

they would only be seeing a slur if they were watching something that said it in the first place. captions should not be made inaccurate even in the case of slurs, because it would give unequal access to the deaf people who need those captions. they are an accessibility aid. accessibility should not be made worse just because the captioner does not want to write it or doesn't want someone to read it.

[clownrecess]

I want to talk about using AAC whilst talking to somebody who is deaf or HoH.

If you do not know me, hello. I am a nonspeaking autistic and I use AAC to communicate. More specifically I use a high tech AAC device. This can be a little bit tricky when talking to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and I think it's an important discussion to be had. I have multiple people in my life who are deaf or heart of HoH. My mother, and my boyfriend.

When I use my AAC device, my device generates spoken words or plays recorded messages. This works great for individuals who can hear, but it becomes difficult and frustrating for both people when interacting with someone who is deaf or HoH. They probably won't be able to understand or hear the audio from my device. However, there are strategies we can use to try to overcome this barrier.

Normally, I hate when people try to watch my screen. It isn't okay, and unless you have consent please do not do it. However, when talking to someone who is dear or HoH it's actually really useful! My mother asks to see my screen quite often, and she reads my message window so she can understand better. An alternative to that is using a form of AAC that doesn't include audio, like writing something down or typing on a phones notepad app.

[vinylstickers]

Good morning, good evening, good mid-day, or good midnight to people who:

Are Deaf/HoH and don't consider themselves disabled

Are Deaf/HoH and don't consider themselves physically disabled

Are Deaf/HoH and consider themselves physically disabled

Are Deaf/HoH and consider themselves disabled

Are Deaf/HoH and don't know how to speak ASL

Are Deaf/HoH who used to know how to speak ASL but lost it early

Are Deaf/HoH who do speak ASL but learned to speak it later

Are Deaf/HoH who do speak ASL and learned it early

Are Deaf/HoH and can't speak ASL due to a disability

Are Deaf/HoH and can't speak ASL due to their family/partner

Are Deaf/HoH who is learning ASL

Are Deaf/HoH and is the only Deaf/HoH they know

Are Deaf/HoH with a Deaf/HoH family and friends

Are Deaf/HoH with a Deaf/HoH family

Are Deaf/HoH with Deaf/HoH friends

Are Deaf/HoH with speech impediments

Are Deaf/HoH who are not oral

Are Deaf/HoH who are oral with no speech impediments

Became Deaf/HoH later in life

Was born Deaf/HoH

Losing hearing and becoming Deaf/HoH

Deaf/HoH and don't identify with the Deaf community or culture