also, but not limited to:
asking people jokingly (or even seriously) if they’re autistic when they’re being obtuse, ignorant, or annoying
calling someone “a bit downsy in the face” as if that has ever been funny
mocking people with abnormal movement/ mobility, nervous ticks, or stim behaviour for comedic value (yes, a lot of impressions and caricatures are ableist)
asking if someone “needs a wheelchair, haha” when they discuss their chronic pain or their mobility issues (i have a close friend that tries to joke about wheelchairs and walkers with me and i never know how to shut it down. i need a cane some days but i make sure she never sees it because she thinks mobility devices are a joke)
jokes about how people who use elevators are lazy
grabbing someone’s mobility device for physical comedy purposes
mocking deaf accents, or repeating things someone says with a stutter to make fun of them
pretending to be deaf or hard of hearing to get a rise out of another hearing person.
jokes about how you wish you were disabled so you could “get special treatment too”
jokes about people being mentally ill whenever they exhibit a social behaviour that you find annoying/ parse as antisocial
any joke about how disabled people are “whining too much” eg: all the “back in my day…” kind of jokes about how accessibility isn’t necessary and disabled people are making a big deal out of nothing.
joking about infomercials, many of which are for products that mostly help people with mobility issues live independently. none of those products are “for lazy people” and the people in the before clips who spill food or can’t get their socks on etc are supposed to represent people with mobility concerns
Saying things like “jeez man stop spazzing out,” calling people who are in distress “spastic.”
jokes about elderly people being “high maintenance” and hard to care for/ relate to.
jokes about disabled people being “perpetual children” and mocking or joking about children and child-likeness as if it’s a deficit in general.
remember that a lot of ageism has strong crossovers with ableism in general. ageism is bad in and of itself but it can be particularly harmful in many ways. (it also often strongly connects/ converges with misogyny and racism too)
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