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@bebsi-cola
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ask games i've made: 1, 2, 3, 4
i don't use pronouns. use my name in place of them.
i am physically disabled and use forearm crutches.
irish + pashtun
absolutely no "proship"/"pro-fiction" people
i believe in the complete liberation of occupied palestine
that means no two-state "solution". that means no israel. only a free and united palestine.
There is so much casual ableism towards people with intellectual-cognitive disabilities. I was listening to a podcast I listen to religiously (and is a very very leftist podcast) and they hit me with the "you'll understand this unless you are Three Years Old." And it was something I didn't understand. And this podcast (that I love!) does this quite frequently. The hosts would never purposely make fun of someone for their disability- but they say things like "no one is that stupid" or similar quite frequently. And as someone who is that stupid- it kinda fucking sucks.
out of all kinds of people, even among disabled people , we are among some of the most vulnerable largely because the idea of us existing in and participating in society like a person is completely unfathomable to almost EVERYONE . like u said , even people who are leftist strongly in every single other way .
"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card
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can't even call the police pigs without some people hoping you get killed or brutalised and other people wailing about how mean that is to pigs. abysmal state of things
if you decide to become a police officer then that outweighs any other marginalised identity you can rustle up like. not sorry, who asked you to willingly become a pig
I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.
The sexuality of a police officer is cop.
The gender of a police officer is cop.
When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.
If you want solidarity with those the system hates, you cannot be the system's servant and defender.
never said it did + find me a different insult that doesn't compare "bad people" to a type of marginalised human person. i'd rather call someone a pig bastard and it's weird and annoying that there is 1000% more pushback against insulting some animals who can't even read my posts than there are people calling others dumb or stupid or fat
if you decide to become a police officer then that outweighs any other marginalised identity you can rustle up like. not sorry, who asked you to willingly become a pig
I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.
The sexuality of a police officer is cop.
The gender of a police officer is cop.
When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.
If you want solidarity with those the system hates, you cannot be the system's servant and defender.
People really just lose all awareness of your body when you're a wheelchair user. When I'm at the grocery store, I have close calls constantly, and it's on me to dodge pedestrians who I seem to be invisible to until they sometimes literally trip over me.
I've been almost run over several times by drivers I could make eye contact with at crosswalks. I've been openly scolded for not moving my grocery cart fast enough when the person scolding me was blocking my way to my cart. I've had people ram their grocery carts into mine because I couldn't stop fast enough and they didn't "realize" I was there.
None of this happens when I can walk.
"It's not their fault" FAQ under the cut
Q: Maybe they didn't see you because you're not at eye level!
A: In my chair I'm about the height of a third grader. People don't ram their grocery carts into third graders. If someone is paying so little attention that they almost run someone my height over, they are an active danger to children, too.
Q: Maybe you were moving too fast!
A: I literally never go full speed indoors or outdoors because of this issue. I am regularly outpaced by small children walking when I am in stores because of how prevalent this issue is.
Q: Maybe you're hard to notice!
A: My wheelchair is bright, sparkly green with rainbow spokes. I have a headlight and a tail light. I am not.
Q: It was just an accident!
A: Yeah, sometimes, I'm sure it is. I would be a lot more sympathetic about that if it wasn't a coin toss if they'll just run off (sometimes bumping into me while they do) or if they'll start aggressively blaming me because they feel bad about it and externalize that shame as anger at me.
This is a real response that happens constantly.
Q: I'm sure other people would step in!
A: People will sometimes step in when I am sitting somewhere unable to get past. When I can speak and say "excuse me," people usually even notice me and move out of the way while apologizing (it's not that deep). Or someone else will notice and get the attention of the person ignoring me.
When I can't speak I've spent several minutes waiting for a car to move out of the way of a wheelchair ramp as I wave both arms to alert the driver I need it. I've had people raise their voice at me, a stranger, to scold me for being in their way, while other strangers just look away.
Sometimes someone will come up to me after and say they thought about intervening but just didn't. Usually with an excuse. I try to be gentle but I know that if I tell them I forgive them they won't step in next time either.
No one has ever deescalated between me and an aggressive person yet.
Q: Maybe they have a disability which makes it so they literally can't notice you!
A: Every blind or visually impaired or hard of hearing or deaf person I have ever run into or has ever run into me has been really normal about it. Usually they'll tell me they ran into or didn't notice me because of X sensory disability, we'll both apologize, and we go our separate ways.
Q: I don't like this post because I've done this and it's not personal I was just [focused/distracted/day dreaming/stressed]
A: Don't do it again. If I take this in good faith, I've already explained how doing this stuff is also putting children in active danger.
I would also ask you to really consider what you're feeling. When we've done something in the past and learned it hurt others we often feel shame or embarrassment. These feelings make it harder for us to learn and recognize how we can be better community members to the people around us.
Interesting that a criticism like "you are always trying to find a way to justify the value of disabled people through labor extraction because your worldview worships labor. this is a weakness of the communist as much as the capitalist" is met with "shut up bitch, get back in the kitchen, wash a plate."
a lot of people will specfically insinuate that you are trying to get out of doing work, because you are a bad person. "Me when i don't want to do chores." Confronting how they will be treated if and when they cant do any chores is too terrifying to think about, so everyone who asks that question is just trying to justify their own laziness.
Please understand that high support needs are substantially more than low support needs.
I hate to say it, but if you can hold a job with minimal accommodation from others, drive a car or take public transport independently, and handle most bADL’s and iADL’s with self-management strategies, you are not high support needs.
I by no means am trying to invalidate people, but it’s incredibly important to recognize where you actually lie on the full spectrum of disability. Otherwise we risk speaking over people who genuinely are HSN.
Today in australia they started senate hearings on the bill the government hopes will make enough disabled people die or disappear to make us all less irritatingly expensive for them. We had two weeks to submit feedback on over 400 pages of complicated legal terms. They don't care what we have to say and they don’t care that this will kill people and disenfranchise disabled people across the country.
There are 760,000 Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the system that - if they feel like it and your personalised plan says you get to have it - provides funding for everything from personal hygiene care to support workers to therapies to assistive technology. It's already very hard for disabled people to get on the NDIS, regardless of your disability. It's near impossible to access most support and equipment without being on the NDIS. And the government has announced that they want that number to drop to 600,000 in four years. 160,000 of us cut off the Scheme - and countless more denied access. This will cause deaths. People will die and people will suffer because there is no safety net. The NDIS is the only option for most of us. Even private health insurance doesn't cover most of these things. Nobody will swoop in to save us.
The bill wants to give the (non disabled!) NDIS minister basically unlimited power to cut our funding. They're already planning what they'd do with that power. What rights they'll strip from us. What dignity and freedom they'll remove to make their budget look better.
The bill wants to force people to try every treatment out there before they're allowed to be on the NDIS. Including if the treatment is literally impossible to access. There’s a lot of us living in regional areas or out bush who can't just pop to the capital cities for specialists. This will especially hurt disabled First Nations people in regional and remote communities, who already experience limited access to healthcare.
If you're australian and worried, the ABC did a good breakdown of the proposed changes.
I know australia stuff doesn't really pop up on the radar on this site, but I want everyone to know what's going on. What we're fighting for here. Your australian disabled friends might be NDIS participants fearing for their life, rights, and freedom. They might not be a participant and afraid these changes mean they never will have access. We deserve better. The government built a system with no backup plan, and now they want hundreds of thousands of disabled people to pay the price for their bad planning.
Sorry we're too expensive to have rights, I guess.
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please help farah. kidney failure is time sensitive so whatever you can spare will be of great help
if you decide to become a police officer then that outweighs any other marginalised identity you can rustle up like. not sorry, who asked you to willingly become a pig
I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.
The sexuality of a police officer is cop.
The gender of a police officer is cop.
When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.
If you want solidarity with those the system hates, you cannot be the system's servant and defender.
I dunno, guys
I want to become a soldier/cop when I get older, but with how many people having been hating on it, I feel like I could genuinely get more dangerous threats if I say that I genuinely went through with it and went to a Youth Cadet Academy... (which i'm about to)
It's simply conflicting, as I've dreamt of being a cop and/or a soldier since I was little and having the ultimate honour of having my two last names to wear on my chest is the honour I want to wear. But I'm not so sure on how I can do that, if my choice will cause other people to feel free enough to call me a "pig."
If I can't become a cop or a soldier, what else can I become? I don't know what else to do, as I've always wanted to prove to my family that I could do it too, that I could be like my grandpa and wear a silver medal.
look it's not too late. you don't need to kill and brutalise people to prove something. and people will hate you if you become either of those things. if you wanna do that then you gotta know a not insignificant number of people find those professions and those in them detestable and for good reason. i don't want or need to threaten you, although i am honest about how much i hate police and military, i think you shouldn't do it because there's something wrong with those professions and the fact that people hate them so much is an indication that something is wrong.
image description: screenshot of tags reading "we need to stop calling cops pigs. pigs are blessed animals and are very smart and I want them at pride. cops are bastards who are dumb by design and I do not want them at pride. animals are innocent and don't deserve." end description
at this point it must be performance art right? i'll be frank. a lot of insults are ableist (like the one used in these tags), racist, misogynistic, fatphobic, discriminatory to LGBTQ people or otherwise based on a subsection of humanity that is being degraded. i don't give a single flying fuck about your goddamn animals when the alternative is to insult real oppressed people. and to use "dumb" instead on the post of a vocally disabled person is just insulting. fuck your pigs, you're a pig. your whole family are pigs. shut the fuck up you shit eating swine of a person
same thing happen to me when talk abt dogs & cats who get animal buttons that say words when press get more attention n aww n positivity vs communication disabled especially nonverbal nonspeaking disabled children n adults still without AAC & discouraged from access to AAC in every way
wild to me that people (including medical professionals) still refer to the monoamine hypothesis when discussing depression and antidepressants
“depression is caused by an imbalance of these neurotransmitters in your brain, and anti-depressants fix that. no I don’t have direct evidence of that imbalance being the cause. no I can’t explain why these medications that change the balance very quickly still take weeks to have any effect. no I can’t explain why many patients do not benefit from these at all. no I can’t explain why meds that should make the balance worse do not cause depressive symptoms. you just gotta trust me.”
