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Subconscious Ableism.

Now while racism and sexism are difficult, ableism is…trickier.

First of all, some people don’t even know what ableism is. If you are one of those people, I shall explain for your benefit. Ableism is discrimination in favour of able bodied people, and recently the definition has been expanded to that of able minded people as well. Basically, it’s being discriminatory against a disabled person.

But the thing is, so many people are unaware that language they’re using, or something similar, is actually quite ableist. For example, any joke made at an autistic person’s expense is ableist. When I told my friend that, he was honestly quite shocked.

Tiny things that we’ve normalised as a society are actually ableist. For example, complaining about slow walkers, slow talkers, people not explaining things in the normal way. Getting frustrated at these things is fine, but when you complain and say “Ugh, I HATE people who walk slow!” That is ableist, as the slow walker may not be able to walk faster, or they maybe can, but not without pain or discomfort.

But we do it subconsciously. Sometimes we can’t even help it, or realise it. One of the most common and tiniest things is goggles and glasses. If there is a situation where a person is required to wear goggles, but the person has glasses and can’t put the goggles on, it’s subconscious ableism. Now this can easily be avoided by also bringing along a pair of goggles which are designed for fitting over glasses, but the problem in the beginning still remains.

We have ableism engrained in us, and honestly, it’s so disappointing. For example, one of my very good friends has a habit of making autistic jokes and calling people “retarded”. Even after I told him I was autistic, and that I wasn’t very comfortable with it after years of knowing about it and adapting my life and choices to work with it. He said he struggles because “the jokes are funny.”

Making jokes at someone’s expense isn’t funny, end of story. Using a slur isn’t funny, end of story. Making jokes at someone else’s expense isn’t funny, ESPECIALLY when the person in question may not even realise it’s a joke, isn’t funny. End of the goddamn story.

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Disabled bodies are beautiful

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Yoooo lemme bless your dashboard

(Feel free to add your pics too 😏😏)

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I AM A FAN

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reallymadscientist

This is a 2016 paper! I wonder what they said?

reallymadscientist

Update: She said yes!

ruingaraf

#I emailed the corresponding author to ask

dr-dendritic-trees

Best proposal ever 10/10.

#omg tamayo is my name :O

I’ve literally been trying to start my homework for the past 10 years

#with absolutely no success #literally dying #school sucks

if only I wasn’t so good at procrastinating.... I coulda been done with this paper 7 hours ago

#i'm dropping out and starting a band asap

Found out how to deal with awkward family dinners. Alcohol.

fullpraxisnow

#AfterSeptember11 trended on Twitter today. So real. White supremacy manifests in so many sinister ways. These tweets paint a vivid picture.

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my favorite jokes

when people pretend people wearing camo are invisible

calling random animals “weird looking dogs”

trolling beetles fans

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why do i keep laughing at the thought of female!spiderman…(spidergirl? spiderwoman?) getting caught without her mask on and the dude who catches her just goes on a rant about ‘fake geek girls’ and how ‘that costume isn’t even accurate oh my god’ and ‘comic-con was last week’

and her secret identity is saved because some dudebro in a batman t-shirt thinks he’s hot shit

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this dog is who im rooting for in the worl cup

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The Story Of St. Patrick’s Day: In the fifth century, St. Patrick came to Ireland, and he saw that no one was knockin’ ’em back with their buds. He went up to the first person he saw and said, “Hi, I’m St. Patrick, and I’ve come to ask why no one here is knockin’ ’em back with their buds like there’s no tomorrow and having a religious experience with a cold one in their hand?” And the person turned to him and said, “Don’t you know? This is Ireland; knockin’ ’em back with your buds is illegal and also there are snakes everywhere and basically no one is religious because of the lack of cold ones.” St. Patrick said, “One, I didn’t know that, and two, this snake thing…is that for real?” And another person turned to him and said, “Yeah, there’s a lot of snakes in Ireland.” And St. Patrick said, “Oh, I don’t like THAT. I don’t like SNAKES.” So he went around dumpin’ out cold ones on all the snakes, which caused them to wig out and die, and the mayor of Ireland said, “St. Patrick, we were wrong about knockin’ ’em back and the religion it causes. It’s good stuff. Thanks for doing that for us; now you have a religious holiday in your name.” And St. Patrick said, “Yeah, that makes sense. I deserve it.”

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There was a knock on our dressing room door! Our manager shouted “Keith! Ron! The police are here!” Oh man, we panicked. Flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Sting and Stewart Copeland.

Keith Richards, 1982 (via victoriassecreteatingdisorder)