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How Pokémon Go is creating a barrier for gamers with disabilities
The augmented reality gaming app has taken the internet and world by storm, as people are desperate to catch and collect the characters, making friends and getting fit along the way. But not everyone can fully take part in the cultural phenomenon.
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Wow hadn’t even thought of this
When i’m doing a home assessment
And a client has questions about how to properly perform IADLs, I’m like…
Meanwhile, when i go home, my IADLs look like
Diversity 101: The Disabled Saint
A Caricature, Not a Compliment
Contributed to CBC Diversity by Kayla Whaley
It’s difficult to find any representations of disabled characters in any form of media. In GLAAD’s annual look at minority representation on scripted network shows, there were only eight characters with disabilities in the 2013-2014 season. That means of all the characters on network shows in primetime, a whopping 1% had a disability.
That figure measures only a very small segment of the media, but it is indicative of a larger problem: the woeful lack of representation of people with disabilities across the board. I would argue that this dearth of disabled characters makes it even more important that the ones we do get are respectful and thoughtful portrayals.
I would also argue that those characters that aren’t—those that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, clichés, and tropes—are even more dangerous than they otherwise would be given that lack.
Personal Connection
I was born with a degenerative neuromuscular disease, and have used a power wheelchair since I was two. I can distinctly remember the first time I saw a character that used a wheelchair. I was ten. I just want to emphasize that I didn’t see a single character like me for the first decade of my life. It didn’t even occur to me to ask for a wheelchair-using character.
But then there one was. Here was a movie where someone like me would not only be a character, but the main character. I was ecstatic. Until I actually watched it, and then I couldn’t figure out why I felt so utterly disappointed, almost betrayed. I didn’t understand that feeling then, but I understand it now.
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Little deaf girl gets to talk to Tinkerbell who has learned to communicate with sign language. How cute and heartwarming!
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[Picture shows 19 year old woman, standing with use of a cane. She has a red “x” on her hand and is holding a purple pillow with statement taped to it, reading the following] My name is Abby. I am a female, 19 year old, disabled college student and I stand with Emma Sulkowicz, but I have something to say to her that I truly hope she hears.
Emma Sulkowicz is a student at Columbia University who has been carrying around the mattress on which she was sexually assaulted as a performance art piece. Earlier today in her call to action for others around the country to carry their own mattresses in a show of support for victims and survivors of sexual assault, Emma asked that her supporters not carry pillows, stating that “pillows and ‘light’ and ‘fluffy.’” She stated that “sexual assault is neither a “light” nor “fluffy” matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were,” and suggested that by carrying pillows we are simply taking away from the number of hands to carry mattresses and instead said that people mark should themselves with a red “x” to show their willingness to help carry the weight.
But I cannot help carry a mattress. Carrying a mattress, even with a team of people, is not simply a difficult task for me, it is an impossible one. I have rheumatoid arthritis, and I walk with a cane. I am disabled. For me, even carrying a pillow is incredibly difficult, and I am far more privileged than many people with physical disability in that I can even carry that. If I were on crutches, in a wheelchair, or the use of my arms was more inhibited in any way, carrying anything would be out of the question.
According to Rape Response Services, almost 80% of people with disabilities are sexually assaulted on more than one occasion. Women with disabilities are at least twice as likely as the general population of women to be victims of sexual assault.
While I understand that Emma Sulkowicz wants to make an impact and retain the artistic integrity of her piece, disability is the often forgotten intersection in feminist activism, and I was disappointed to see her lack of consideration for those of us who cannot carry the physical weight, but are at a much greater risk to be forced to carry it emotionally.
We can’t all stand with Emma Sulkowicz. Edit: This is a link to her original op-ed in which she presents her call to action: http://columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2014/10/26/call-carry-weight-together
This is really, really important. Today I attended a rally on campus in solidarity with Emma Sulkowicz. I was the only person there using an aid to walk. All the people around me kept asking me to help them carry a mattress, and I wanted to say “are you kidding me? I can’t even hold myself up.” My attendance was greeted with stares, and when I remarked that we were walking too fast for me to feasibly keep up, someone told me that, perhaps, I shouldn’t have come.
As if being disabled closed me off from the activist community. As if I didn’t have a right to be there.
When you are sick, you are excused from the daily act of living. You have an automatic pass at social events, a free seat on the bus, a place a the head of the line at amusement parks. They say that they are accommodating you, like it was a massive feat for them, like you should be grateful. They pride themselves for their rear-entry wheelchair ramps and single-stall bathrooms, while refusing to take into account the fact that, in spite of (or perhaps even because of) my disability, I want to participate without having to be accommodated.
As the original caption reads, almost 80% of disabled people are sexually assaulted on more than one occasion in their lives. We are at higher risk than almost any other group, merely because of our physical or mental states. And yet we are told, constantly, to leave the fight up to the people who are physically capable of fighting it on our behalf.
This is not how it should be. We still deal with the hurt and the shame and the guilt every day. We live with the same things that Emma lives with, but we cannot show it in the same way that she does. We carry the weight, but we don’t have people cheering us on. If they did initially, family and friends and partners, we eventually lose it because people get tired of hearing about it.
I’m certain it will feel like this for her too, waking up every morning to drag her mattress around in a grim reminder of everything that has been done to her. I’m sure it will start to feel lonely, the weight of it.
I know that Emma did not intend for people to be excluded from the protest. I trust that it was not her intention to isolate a group of people who are already isolated. I believe that the problem is not hers. The problem is the system that has created this situation.
I am disappointed to be isolated from this movement because of my disability. I feel let down and even more alone than I did before, but I know that I was intended to feel this way. Solidarity means different things to different people.
This movement was not for me, but I can make one for people like me. We crawled up the stairs of the capital building. We demanded a place in public schools and accessible buildings. We can do this for ourselves. There is a place for disabled people in activism, and if there isn’t, we will make one for ourselves.
Dementia and improv? What does the loss of memory have to do with the type of comedy based on making things up on the spot? It turns out, quite a bit.
When you read this after finishing an assignment based upon a lady with dementia... 😒 Could have been a fun thing...
Hey, I saw that throughout April you'll be focusing on different conditions, and was wondering if you could post about how OTs work with people who suffer psychosis?
Thank you for your request! Fun fact, though many people may think that OT strictly focuses on physical rehabilitation, the profession actually has many of its’ roots in mental health. Still today, OTs play an important role in the management of mental health conditions.
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Yay my saga of having to be stuck in airport from 10am until another flight at 1pm thanks to ableism.
Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
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Learning techniques in text books vs. applying them in actual therapy...
Now this is what occupational therapy is, and who an occupational therapist is. We are for you and what you want to do.
I'm not crying... I'm not!! 😢
reasons why my grandpa is the best:
he made my wife and i (i’m a woman) a giant banner for our one year anniversary
when i was pregnant, the baby was kicking and when he touched my belly, the baby stopped and he called him a little shit
he once called and left a voicemail asking how to spell styrofoam
he flipped a table bc he saw someone hit a dog
he beat skrim in 4 days
he served in the korean war and when he came home, he learned korean so if he ever ran into a korean vet, he could “give them the same respect he’d give an american vet”
my son has two moms and there was a “special guy in your life” day at his school for father’s day so my grandpa went and showed up in dress pants and a pressed shirt bc he “didn’t want to embarrass him”. also, there was a little boy who didn’t have anyone there and grandpa asked if he could be his “special guy” and the little boy beamed
he knows all of the secrets to the zelda games
he’s had 4 open heart surgeries and can still kick your ass
This is legendary
Why People With Alzheimer’s Stop Recognizing the Faces of Loved Ones
Alzheimer’s not only steals people’s memories but also their ability to recognize faces, which widens the gulf between people with this disease and their loved ones. A recent study has demonstrated that, beyond causing memory problems, Alzheimer’s disease also impairs visual face perception. This finding may help families better understand their loved one’s inevitable difficulties and lead to new avenues to postpone this painful aspect of the disease.
The research is in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. (full access paywall)
The notion of “looking past” disability to somehow see “the real person” is one I have come to find deeply offensive. I spent my teenage years thinking that I needed to find someone who could ignore my physical body and see my “attributes” - my intelligence and humour, my mad knitting skillz. I thought that the only logical way for someone to find me attractive would be for them to ignore what I look like. It didn’t occur to me until years later that my body is also an attribute. I realised that I didn’t want that kind of relationship. I didn’t want someone to ignore my body. I wanted someone who’d look directly at it and love it, wonky bits and all. I’ve also come to realise that the wonder and acceptance I found as a 17-year-old when I started hanging out with other people with disabilities – the shared experience of difference – is one of the things that I definitely want in a relationship.
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Happy Occupational Therapy Month
Not all heroes wear capes…
