archive for disability flags

#hpd #bpd #hpd + bpd adjacent #histrionic personality disorder #borderline personality disorder #personality disorder #personality disorders

HPD + BPD adjacent flag! This is left vague so anyone who has, is questioning, or displays traits of the disorder(s) may use it! These were made with people who have trouble pinpointing neurodivergencies and are NOT for transid supporters.

[ID: A flag with ten equal horizontal stripes. In descending order, the stripes are purple black, plum purple, dark magenta, berry pink, bright orange, sunny yellow, off white, cloudy blue, light purple blue, and dark stormy blue. End ID.]

Flag by me using sampled colors. Requested by @gillipopmoji.

#ptsd #ptsd adjacent #post traumatic stress disorder #post traumatic stress adjacent #cptsd #cptsd adjacent #complex post traumatic stress adjacent #complex post traumatic stress disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Adjacent!

[plain text: Post-Traumatic Stress Adjacent! /end plain text.]

Post-traumatic stress adjacent, or PTSD adjacent - I titled the post the former because whenever I hear PTSD, my brain automatically assumes it's not C-PTSD, but the user may call it as they wish!

This flag is for those who are either unsure if they have a post traumatic stress disorder or if they only experience symptoms; or if they are unsure which disorder they have out of PTSD or C-PTSD. This flag is left vague so anyone with the disorders, or who is questioning, or only experiencing traits, may use it!

[ID: Two images;

the first image is a flag with nine equal horizontal stripes. In descending order, the stripes are cocoa brown, dull red, orange brown, sandy yellow, misty green, sea green, denim blue, dark blue purple, and and dark purple brown. In the center of the flag is the PTSD symbol colored icy blue. The symbol consists of a hand with a plant growing out of it. End first ID;

the second image is a striped flag like the first image, but there is no symbol. End second ID.]

[ID: A divider that consists of a thin white line with three stars on each side. End ID.]

Flag by me. Colors sampled from PTSD and C-PTSD flags by @blood-moon-night-coining. PTSD symbol courtesy of @themogaidragon.

#dpd #dpd adjacent #dependent personality disorder #personality disorder #personality disorders

DPD Adjacent!

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DPD adjacent flag! This is left vague so anyone who has, is questioning, or displays traits of the disorder may use it! This was made with people who have trouble pinpointing neurodivergencies and are NOT for transid supporters.

[ID: A flag with eight equal horizontal stripes. In descending order, the stripes are bright blue purple, magenta, salmon pink, pale salmon orange, bright yellow, off white, and pastel sea green. End ID.]

[ID: A divider that consists of a thin white line with three stars on each side. End ID.]

Flag by me, using sampled colors. Requested by @pastelroswell.

Very sorry for the delay, I have been very busy with work! I hope you like it! /gen

#aspd #aspd adjacent #antisocial personality disorder #personality disorder #personality disorders

ASPD Adjacent!

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ASPD adjacent flag! This is left vague so anyone who has, is questioning, or displays traits of the disorder may use it! This was made with people who have trouble pinpointing neurodivergencies and is NOT for transid supporters.

[ID: A flag with nine equal horizontal stripes. In descending order, the stripes are light coral pink, raspberry pink, grape magenta, dark purple brown, black orange, dark navy purple, dark ocean blue, pink blue grey, and light pink blue grey. End ID.]

[ID: A divider that consists of a thin white line with three stars on each side. End ID.]

Flag by me, using sampled colors. Requested by @radpocalypse. Tagging @radiomogai.

#hpd #hpd adjacent #histrionic personality disorder #personality disorder #personality disorders

HPD Adjacent!

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HPD adjacent flag! This is left vague so anyone who has, is questioning, or displays traits of the disorder may use it! This was made with people who have trouble pinpointing neurodivergencies and is NOT for transid supporters.

[ID: A flag with nine equal horizontal stripes. In descending order, the stripes are dusty purple, grape purple, dark grape purple, dark purple brown, dark magenta, bright pink, watermelon pink, bright orange, and bright yellow. End ID.]

[ID: A divider that consists of a thin white line with three stars on each side. End ID.]

Flag by me, using sampled colors. Requested by @shatterine. Tagging @radiomogai.

#cptsd #ptsd #complex ptsd #complex post traumatic stress disorder #post traumatic stress disorder

(C)PTSD Aro!

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Flag for aros and arospecs who have ptsd or cptsd!

[ID: A rectangular flag with nine equal horizontal stripes. In descending order, the stripes are dark blue, leaf green, dull pastel green, off white green, dull purple grey, off white pink, dull yellow, dull orange, and dull red. End ID.]

[ID: A divider that consists of a thin white line with three stars on each side. End ID.]

Flag by me, tagging @radiomogai.

revenant-coining

Avpd trans boy flag?

(id: a rectangular flag with 7 equally-sized horizontal lines. colors in order from top to bottom are blue, light blue, grey-purple, purple, pinkish-purple, light pink, and dark pink. /end id)

avpd trans boy flag!

tagging; @radiomogai, @avpdarchive

#avpd #avoidant personality disorder #personality disorder #personality disorders

note: no longer tagging reblogs with 'disability'

cause, well. everything here is for disabilities!

with that said, we're going to go through our drafts every so often (every time we come across a disability flag, we add it to our drafts) and post some reblogs every time

hopefully this will help this blog become more active without overwhelming us too much! a win-win, if you will

we may also start a queue, but for now we're going to see how this current plan works out

#eyestrain #disability #hearing aids #deafness #intersex

I would love to see an intersex flag with a purple hearing aid/deafness symbol instead of the circle <3

Here you go! 😁

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @disabilityflagsarchive @disabilityflags @varsex-pride @beyond-mogai-pride-flags

Intersex-disabled survey results part 5 (out of 5)! Term coinings

This is the final post in my series of analysing the results of a survey I put out asking people to rate possible flags and term coinings for 10 different ways that intersex people may identify with/as disabled. 😯 All flags are now available here on Wikmedia Commons.

While it was reasonably straightforward for me to match candidate flags to different use cases, matching candidate terms turned out to be not so straightforward 🙃

I'll talk in detail about process under the cut, but to make a long story short, I am coining:

Intersex-disabled: having an intersex-linked disability

Disabled-intersex: intersex and disabled in any way

Allodisabled: disabled in a way that is different/unrelated from what you might expect given other nearby words

Allodisabled-intersex: disabled in a way that is unrelated to being intersex

Codisabled: having a disability which is commonly correlated or co-incident with another nearby word. A non-pathological way to say comorbid.

Intersex-codisabled: intersex and disabled in a way which is commonly correlated to one's intersex variation

Intercomplicated: intersex and having a complicated and uncertain identity with regard to related identities like disability or queerness

Interdiscomplicated (inter-discomplicated): intersex, disabled, and the connection between them is complicated or unclear.

Interqueercomplicated (inter-queercomplicated): intersex, queer, and the connection between them is complicated or unclear.

Intergendercomplicated (intergender-complicated): intersex and the connection between one's gender and being intersex is complicated or unclear.

Sociodisabled: identifying as part of the disability community

Intersex-sociodisabled: an intersex person who considers intersex part of the disability, or who thinks it should be

Politicodisabled: identifying as part of the disability rights/justice movements

Intersex-politicodisabled: an intersex person who considers intersex rights/justice to be part of the disability rights/justice movements, or who thinks it should be

Fat-politicodisabled: same idea with fat liberation

Results and Process

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The consistent feedback was that people were underwhelmed by the candidate terms in the survey. 😭 Generally people favoured "intersex-disabled" and "disabled-intersex" and rated them highly for several use cases. Too many use cases really just had the same two terms as being highly rated. 😯

In the survey I asked people to rate how much utility they'd get out of coining a term for every given use case. I then put the weighted averages into a ranked order. The use case with the greatest demand for a term was "intersex as part of the disability community", which I talk about in Part 4.

Intersex-Disabled: Having an Intersex-Linked Disability

The second most-in-demand use case to have its own term was the use case for being intersex and having a disability that is linked in any way to being intersex. This would include people who have iatrogenic disabilities from IGM, people with commonly-correlated disabilities, and folks who personally understand their variation as a disability. Its flag was posted in Part 3 of the series.

Intersex-disabled was the most popular term for this use case, with a rating of 4.3 out of 5.

It follows a pattern that things which are linked to being intersex start with Inter- (e.g. Intergender is one's gender is linked to being intersex). Interdisabled already has an unrelated meaning, so intersex-disabled avoids ambiguity about what "inter" could mean.

Disabled-Intersex: Intersex and ANY disability

This was another highly-in-demand term, coming in fourth in the rankings. Its flag was posted in Part 1 of this series.

The term "Disabled-intersex" was the highest rated term for this use case, with a weighted average rating of 4.4, substantially higher than any other term for this use case.

"Disabled-intersex" was also highly rated for the use case of intersex and having an unrelated disability (4.5). This left a question of which use case to assign "disabled-intersex" to. A suggestion in the open-ended part of the survey suggested adding prefixes to the candidate terms to differentiate them.

I decided it made most sense to give the more concise term to the more general use case, and use a derived term (allodisabled-intersex) for its subtype.

Allodisabled-Intersex: Intersex and Unrelated Disability

Allo- is a prefix used to mean distinct or other. I ran a bunch of potentially suitable prefixes past @/scifimagpie and xe immediately perked up for this one given how allo- is already used in the queer community for terms like allosexual. Flag posted here.

Intersex-Codisabled: Intersex-Correlated Disability

Some disabilities are known to be more frequent in intersex people, like EDS and ADHD. Some specific intersex variations have known correlations, like MRKH and Deafness. Flag posted here.

Once again, the highest rated terms for this use case were intersex-disabled (4.2) and disabled-intersex (4.1), and I prioritized these terms for other use cases.

This use case is a subtype of what I've called intersex-disabled (an intersex-linked disability). So, following feedback from the open-ended part of the survey to use prefixes to expand the lexical space, I got to thinking about what prefixes would be most suitable.

I quickly landed on co- because it's used for indicating things go together. "Codisabled" reads to me as a non-pathologizing way of saying comorbid. So: intersex-codisabled.

Inter-discomplicated: It's complicated!

Not everybody has an easy time identifying/articulating what relationship their disability identity has to their intersex disability. Sometimes things are just unclear. 💙 (flag posted here)

The most highest rated terms for this use case were "disabled-intersex" and "intersex-disabled", and those terms were now off the table.

"Disintersex" and "interdissex" came in third and fourth. Feedback from the open-ended responses was that these terms are awkward to say (disintersex sounds like "disinterested" and interdissex sounds like a kind of dissection). I also received feedback that disintersex would likely be understood as a short form of disabled-intersex, so I found myself rather hesitant to assign "disintersex" to a meaning.

Since participants were underwhelmed by the candidate terms offered in the survey, I spent some time trying to brainstorm new terms.

Eventually I landed on "intercomplicated". Workshopping it with @/scifimagpie and another disabled intersex person, the feedback I got was it could be interpreted as a gender/queerness thing. So "interdiscomplicated" could be intersex with a complicated disability identity, and "interqueercomplicated" could be intersex with a complicated queer identity, and "intercomplicated" could be an umbrella category for these two varieties

Sociodisabled and Politicodisabled

I talked about these in the last post in the series, but for people who are avoiding a certain word that starts with c, I'm coining these terms!

Sociodisabled being for identifying with the disability community, and politicodisabled for identifying with the disability rights/justice movements.

Groups experiencing ableism can use these terms, such as Intersex-sociodisabled for an intersex person identifying with the disability community, or Fat-politicodisabled for a fat person who sees fat liberation as part of the disability justice movement.

Closing thoughts

Thank you, once again, to all the survey respondents and people who have been voting in my tumblr polls! 💜 Thank you to folks who gave me direct feedback, especially @/scifimagpie who helped me get through analysis paralysis on the term coining issue.

Thank you all for reading, and to the archival blogs who archive and share this sort of stuff 💜

Tagging for archival: @/interarchive @/varsex-pride @/disabilityflagsarchive @/radiomogai @/liom-archive

#disability #intersex

Cripintersex (intersex-disability survey results part 4)

Cripintersex: an intersex individual who considers the intersex community to be a member of the broader disability community and/or that intersex rights/justice should be considered part of the disability rights/justice movements. 💜

In the survey I recently ran where I asked people about candidate terms & flags for disability-intersex intersections, this was the overwhelmingly favoured candidate term for this meaning.

It had a weighted average score of 4.4 out of 5 (5 is strongly agree / highly suitable). Screenshot of spreadsheet is at bottom of this post. Part 1 (has a similar flag) - Part 2 (has analysis info) - Part 3

For the Discourse-Averse

Given this is Tumblr and the word crip has a way of evoking Discourse, multiple survey respondents and people in my notifications requested that a non-crip term ALSO be coined should cripintersex come out on top. Which it did.

I'm going to suggest sociodisabled as a term for identifying as part of the disability community, and politicodisabled as a term for identifying as part of the disability rights/justice movements more specifically. So intersex-sociodisabled would be sociodisabled on the basis of being intersex.

These terms weren't in the survey (alas!) but came out of a suggestion made in the open-ended feedback for sociodisintersex as a non-crip alternative. Thank you, anonymous respondent! 💜

I posted a similar-looking flag for this meaning in Part 1 of the survey results, that I'm tentatively thinking of as the intersex-sociodisabled flag. This flag is different in two ways: - it uses the stripes from the Crip Pride Flag - the yellow background and purple ring now match the yellow and purple used in the Crip Pride Flag (which I'm also hoping will help with eyestrain 🤞)

And now: Some Discourse

With that out of the way, I'd like to carefully point out a few things in good faith. I've been doing a bunch of thinking on this and reading a lot more about cripplepunk. 💜

Some folks have pushed back on the idea that crip would be appropriate for intersex on the grounds that "crip is for physical disabilities". I would gently like to respond that the most common interpretation of the term "physical disability" is a disability which affects the body (i.e. not mental). 🙂

If one is to understand intersex as a disability, and then try to categorize it as mental/physical/sensory, intersex would be a physical disability. Being intersex is a physical, embodied thing. It is not a gender. It is not a brain thing. It's a category of physical differences. Physicians understand us as physically disfigured and/or having a chronic condition. They consider us within the scope of teratology research, just like Down Syndrome and kyphoscoliosis.

#disability #intersex #cripintersex #<3

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This is why there's a long history of physicians using the term "cripple" to describe intersex people. Historically, intersex people have been understood as physically disfigured. This language persists in modern medical literature: e.g. hypospadias cripple is still a formal diagnostic term being used in medicine. 😬

Those of us who understand intersex as disabling tend to be doing so because in ways that relate to how intersex is embodied. Intersex people who identify with disability because of the chronic pain they have as a result of IGM. Intersex people who have unstable hormones because of IGM. Intersex people who have needed accommodations to take time off from work/school for surgeries. Etc.

The reasons that intersex people like myself identify intersex as being in line with the disability community is because our rights struggles revolve around our bodies. Whether we get bodily autonomy. Whether we have to expose our genitals to doctors just for their curiosity. Whether we can access the medicines we need.

The controversy around crip tends to revolve around cripplepunk being explicitly for physical disabilities only.

The tenets of cripple punk that I see shared around state explicitly that: "Cripple punk is not conditional on things like mobility aids & 'functioning levels'" and "Always listen to those w/ different physical disabilities & different intersections than yourself. Do not speak over them"

To those of you who believe that crip(ple) should only be for physical disabilities, I ask you, in the spirit of cripplepunk, to consider that intersex, if understood as a disability, is a physical disability. Best I can tell, room is made in the cpunk community for chronic illness and chronic pain. Why not intersex also? 💜

As best as I understand it, the controversy about who is/isn't cripple largely centres on a sense that people with physical disabilities need space to talk about our experiences without neurodivergent people monopolizing the conversation. 👀

Intersex people participating in disability conversation are very aware that we are on the margins here. People like myself who are inclined to see intersex through a disability lens tend to have other disabilities - often mobility ones (I'm a part-time wheelchair user). I obviously can't speak for every intersex person out there, but from where I sit it seems really unlike that intersex people would "take over" the crip space.

Intersex may not be rare but it's also nowhere near as common as mobility disabilities or neurodivergence, and we're nowhere near as coordinated. As a community we are incredibly fractured, and still in the consciousness-raising days. We are not an organized threat, we're a bunch of people in pain, trying desperately to get doctors to stop performing coercive surgeries on our bodies. 🫤

For some of us, disability rights/justice looks like the best route to go to try and make that happen. I'm far from alone in feeling that the queer community has done an underwhelming job of advocating for our issues, and many of the gains we intersex people have gotten have come thanks to disability organizing.

But I also want to be clear that a large number of intersex people are resistant to seeing intersex as a disability. Indeed, one survey respondent (out of 30) shared they found pretty much the whole survey to be offensive. This is not something that intersex people are united on.

Crip is More than Cripple Punk

This post has ballooned in length but I do want to note a couple of other things about the term crip:

Others have already pointed this out, but crip and cripple in practice are not being used the same ways, and it may be productive to think of them as different words.

"Crip" was reclaimed as a pan-disability term, starting in the 1970s. It made its way into the performing arts in the 90s, and then academic crip theory from there. This activist tradition has been using crip in a pan-disability sense for a long time at this point -- much longer than cripplepunk (coined 2014). Terms like crip time and crip labour come from this pan-disability framework.

Crip continues to be a pan-disability organizing term, such as in #CripTheVote and Crips for eSims for Gaza. Tumblr may skew towards cripplepunk but other spaces lean a lot more towards the pan-disability context - all of the in-person activism I've participated in has uncontroversially understood crip as pan-disability. 🤷

Honestly, I'm not sure what is best going forward when it comes to the cripple usage question. 😵‍💫 Crip is a word with a very well established pan-disability sense.

And it's clear from the survey responses that it resonates with the vast majority of disabled intersex respondents. I didn't think to ask people why - I can only guess that some individuals identified with crip out of the pan-disability sense, and others out of a sense that intersex is a physical disability.

For anybody who wants a breakdown of the ratings of the candidate terms, here are the averages (weighted so people who identified with a given use case / column had a bit more of a "vote"). The use case of intersex-in-disabilty-community is the column titled "COMM".

As always, my flag designs are public domain unless otherwise noted. You are 100% welcome to repost the flag and its definition without all my Discoursing.

I have one more post to write up in this series! We're nearly done! 😅 Thank you for reading, thanks once again to the survey respondents, @/scifimagpie, and I'd also like to thank the archival blogs I keep tagging repeatedly for this 💜

Tagging for archival @/disabilityflagsarchive @/radiomogai @/liom-archive @/varsex-pride @/radiomogai

#teratical #disability #solidarity

Teratical: a coining for people who want to resist/subvert ideas of "monstrosity"

Teratical: an individual whose appearance is stigmatized in a way that society frames as "monstrous", who is critical of this framing and seeking to reject/resist/subvert ideas of "monstrosity". A solidarity-building term for liberation-seeking minorities that are the subjects of teratology: intersex people, disabled people, fat people, people with disfigurements, etc.

The term rhymes with "emphatical". The word teratical is presently an obscure word in English which means “incredible, marvellous” and shares the root terato- (monstrous) that is used in medicine. 😯

Speaking back to teratology

This is a backdoor way of reclaiming of the root terato- (monstrous) that is used in medicine. Teratology is the study of congenital “defects” and continues to be an active subfield of biomedical research. Some related terms include: teratosis (having such a congenital difference), teratogenesis (the development of a teratosis), and teratogen (an environmental substance which causes teratogenesis).

The scope of teratology as a discipline has long included intersex people, people with disfigurements, and a large variety of disabilities. It includes environmental teratoses (e.g. fetal alcohol syndrome) and genetic ones (e.g. Down syndrome). It’s worth noting that teratology has consistently included the study of people whose “monstrous” traits emerged over the course of their life span. Intersex variations which first become apparent at puberty have reliably been within the scope of teratology: congenital means you were born on this path, not necessarily that it was visible at birth.

While fatness, madness, and acquired disfigurements (e.g. burn survivors) haven't consistently been within the scope of teratology, the point here is for us teratical folks to reframe the conversation. I don't see a need to limit ourselves to the traditional scope of teratology. Fat people, burn survivors, mad folks, and anybody else who feels the spectre of monstrosity can use the term.

Why coin this term?

Because I want a way to talk about the shared history of intersex, disfigurement, and disability. I want a way for us to talk about our common political struggles. And I want a way to do it on Tumblr without invoking the Discourse around the term crip. 👀

There’s an academic niche which takes a critical disability lens to the concept of monstrosity (monstrosity studies), and I think it’d be nice to be able to tap into that while working to build solidarity between the intersex, fat, mad, disability, and disfigurement communities.

@scifimagpie contributes a verb form, teraticalizing: to subvert notions of monstrosity in ways connected to disability/intersex/fat/etc justice/liberation. In the same vein of how queering and cripping are verbs used to subvert binaries and ideas about ability.

Flag details

The flag is inspired by the Disability Pride Flag and the Crip Pride Flag. Its stripes represent:

Yellow: the affirmation model of disability. Our existence is not a tragedy. Our lives and our unique viewpoints are valuable. Our bodies are beautiful.

Blue: the social model of disability. It’s not us who are the monsters: the monstrosity we face is the oppression we face.

Olive (yellow-green): the eco-social model of disability. The social model focuses on how the interactions we have in our daily lives disable us. The eco-social model winds back the clock to point out that we can be disabled by social decisions made long before we were born. For example, lead pollution in POC communities is a social cause of disability. I think of this model as “social determinants of health” meets environmental justice meets disability studies.

Purple: the social construction model of disability. “Disability”, “intersex”, and related categories are created by humans, and who is and isn’t included in the categories changes over time and across cultures. Beauty is also socially constructed.

Cerise (pink-red): the radical model of disability. Disability is socially constructed, but in practice we disabled people don’t actually get to control the definition of disability. So let's focus on who experiences ableism. Ableism does not act alone: it shares a deep history with racism and cisheteroperinormativity.

You can learn more about these (and other) models of disability on their Wikipedia page! (Full disclosure: I created and wrote the bulk of the text in the article 😅).

Sub-coinings

While I'm in term coining mode, I thought I'd get the ball rolling on some subtypes:

Interteratical: teratical in a way that is linked to being intersex (e.g. “bearded lady” presentation of hyperandrogenism, Klinefelter’s)

Neuroteratical: teratical in a way which is neurological, such as tremors, paralysis, seizures, dyspraxia, autism, etc.

Musculoskeleteratical: teratical in a way which is musculoskeletal (e.g. brachydactyly, hip dysplasia, kyphoscoliosis)

Syndesmoteratical: teratical in a way connected to a connective tissue disorder (e.g. EDS, Marfan’s)

Dermoteratical: teratical in a way which is dermatological (e.g. albinism, vitiligo)

Fat-teratical: teratical in a way which is linked to being fat

Mad-teratical / psychoteratical: teratical in a way which is mad/mental

Enviroteratical: teratical in a way which is linked to environmental causes (e.g. lead)

Genoteratical: teratical in a way which is genetic (e.g. Down Syndrome, CAH)

Cryptoteratical: teratical in a way which is unknown or unclear (credit: @scifimagpie)

Racioteratical: teratical in a way which is amplified by being racialized

Flags and additional subcoinings on demand. 💜

Tagging for archival: @disabilityflagsarchive @disabilityflags @mad-pride @varsex-pride @radiomogai @liom-archive @interarchive

Intersex-disability combination survey results Part 3: flags for whether one's disability is linked to being intersex

Part 1: four flags and coining of interdebilitated

Part 2: inter-iatrogene and interimpaired (two flags & coinings)

The following three flags represent three different positions that disabled intersex people may hold about what connection (if any) there is between being intersex and disabled.

Intersex-linked disability: an intersex person who has one or more disabilities that are linked in any way to being intersex. This is an umbrella category which includes:

Having a disability that is commonly correlated to your intersex variation (e.g. Deafness and MRKH)

Having an iatrogenic disability (e.g. chronic pain caused by IGM) - i.e. being an inter-iatrogene

Debility due to intersexism (e.g. PTSD from intersexism) - i.e. interdebility

Seeing your personal intersex variation as personally being a disability (e.g. "I find my salt-wasting CAH a disability but I am not trying to claim everybody with this variation does.") - i.e. interimpaired

I wanna explicitly note that like every other intersex-disability combination, this is inclusive of ALL models of disability. While the medical model is a very common way in our society of understanding disability, identifying as disabled (or "with a disability") does not mean that one subscribes to the medical model. 💙

Right: Intersex with unrelated disability. The complement of intersex-linked disability (on the left). Note it's not mutually exclusive: for example, somebody with intersexism-associated PTSD may also wind up with long covid and see that as unrelated to being intersex.

Left: It's complicated! Not everybody has an easy time identifying/articulating what relationship their disability identity has to their intersex disability. Sometimes things are just unclear. 💙

Survey results

#eyestrain #disability #intersex

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Intersex-linked disability

The inset flag was the highest rated candidate flag for this use case, with a weighted average rating of 4.4 out of 5. (People who self-identified with a given use case effectively got to "vote" twice for anything concerning that use case, for reasons I explained in Part 2.)

I had some hesitation in assigning this flag to this use case though. 🤔 The problem with the inset flag is it was broadly popular across the ten use cases. For 8 out of 10 use cases, it had an average rating higher than 4.0. This made it kind of tricky to match to a meaning because it seems it has a real broad appeal/interpretation. 😵‍💫

As a result it felt important to me that whatever meaning I assigned it would be a broad umbrella term. It was rated slightly higher as a candidate flag for commonly-correlated disabilities (4.5) but that use case had less demand, plus it had one (different) flag that people really consistently rated as being specific to that one meaning. 🤷

Given its broad interpretation, I considered making this flag be a second flag for people who are disabled in any sort of way. 🤔 But then what flag would I pick for intersex-linked disability? The second pick option for a flag was very clearly rejected by a quick poll. And everything else scoring well for this meaning had a clearer association with a different use case. That quick poll also strongly backed up this meaning-flag association, so that confirmed it.

Unrelated disability

Out of the ten use cases in the survey, this one actually had the lowest demand for a flag. Weighted average perceived utility was 3.0 out of 5 (basically: neutral).

I decided to release a flag for this case anyway because I had data which favoured this specific meaning-flag pairing. 😎 If releasing a flag for this meaning, I wanted the flag to be a definite "opposite" to the intersex-linked disability flag.

So I added a row to my spreadsheet where I took the difference between the flag ratings for the linked-disability use case and the ratings for the unrelated-disability use case. Most flag designs had a higher rating for intersex-linked than for intersex-unrelated. The segmented ring flag and the universal symbol of access were the only two where people associated them more with unrelated disabilities than intersex-linked disabilities.

Since the universal symbol of access flag had a much higher rating for the "all possible disabilities" use case, and that use case had a lot of demand, I had allocated that flag to that meaning.

This left the segmented ring flag. It wasn't otherwise getting used, and since the data indicated it was understood as a a flag for disabilities unrelated to being intersex, I figured, why not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's complicated!

This was another case where I picked the flag-meaning association based on what flag design was most uniquely associated to the meaning. This maximalist flag had a rating of 4.0 out of 5 for this meaning, which is decent.

It was not the top-rated flag for this meaning - it was actually the third highest rated for the "it's complicated" use case. The coloured stripes on the side flag that I released as the "intersex is part of the disability community/movement" flag had a higher rating of 4.3. But that flag was more strongly associated to that meaning (4.5).

Same deal with the inset flag - it had a score of 4.2 for "it's complicated", but 4.4 for intersex-linked disability.

Importantly to me, the maximalist flag was more popular for the "it's complicated" use case (4.0) than it was for the either the intersex-linked case (3.8) or the unrelated-disability case (3.3). So this pairing felt good to me in that it seems distinct from both intersex-linked and intersex-unrelated disabilities. 👍️

The version of this flag I'm releasing is a wee bit different from the one in the survey, which was not neatly oriented. A participant wrote in the open-ended feedback they were bothered by the rotation of the survey-version flag being a little off. This version is slightly rotated so the segment at the horizontal middle of the flag is actually parallel to the midline of the flag. 📏

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Once again, my appreciation goes out to those who filled in the survey! And to @/scifimagpie for sanity checks! Two people filled in the survey after I started the data analysis. This post includes the results of those two people, but the previous two posts did not. I have now set the google form to stop accepting responses.

Like in Part 2, I used weighted averages so that people who self-identified with a given use case had twice as many "votes" on any question directly relevant to the given use case.

This now shares all the flag-related results of the survey! In my next post I'll get to the remaining coining-related results.

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Intersex-disabled combination survey results part 2: two flags and coinings and one non-result

Part 1 here with flags for four other ways that intersex and disability can go together and one new coining

Left: Inter-iatrogene. an intersex person with an iatrogenic disability. Iatrogenesis is the term for when medical intervention causes illness or disability. This will often overlap with interdebility. But an intersex person who willingly chooses a surgery which causes them an unintended disability (e.g. chronic pain) would be an inter-iatrogene and not interdebilitated. An intersex person who has PTSD from a (non-medical) hate crime would be interdebiltated and not an inter-iatrogene.

Right: Interimpaired: seeing your individual case of your personal intersex variation as a disability. For example, somebody who understands their salt-wasting CAH as a disability, but is not trying to claim that everybody with CAH understands their variation that way.

Survey results: relevant details

copy-pasting everything under cut here for archival:

Inter-iatrogene / intersex-associated iatrogenic disability

The matching of the candidate term "inter-iatrogene" to the meaning above had an average score of 4.3 out of 5 (where 5 is strongly agree/highly suitable). It was the highest rated candidate term for this meaning. 😀

Similarly, the flag that I'm releasing as the inter-iatrogene flag was also the top-ranked candidate flag design for this meaning. It had an average rating of 4.3 out of 5. 😀

🆕 Best as I can tell, iatrogene is not already a term in English, so I'd like to term "iatrogene" as a term for people who have any kind of iatrogenic disability (intersex-related or not). Note: Iatrogène is already a term in French.

Interimpaired / personal view of one's variation as a disability

In the survey I asked for people to rate suitability of different flag designs & potential term coninigs, as well as how much demand/utility they saw for each use case to even have a flag and/or coining. The two questions about demand/utility have played a big role in how I've prioritized the matchings of terms and flags.

The thing about asking everybody about potential utility is that naturally the people who personally with a use case are going to rate the utility as higher than the people who don't personally identify with the use case. 🤔 So I set up the analysis to use weighted averages rather than straight-up averages. If a respondent self-identified with a given use case, their vote counted twice when it came to matters directly related to that that use case.

I did this to ensure that if I saw low demand for a term/flag, I could have some confidence that it wasn't just because people personally didn't identify with it. 😅

I explain all this because this case had a medium amount of demand for a flag (ranked #4 out of 10) and a low demand for a term to be coined (ranked #8 out of 10). 😕

The two highest rated flag designs for this use case had higher ratings for those other higher-demand use cases. The yellow-purple concentric rings on a grey background the best rated flag design that wasn't prioritized for a higher-demand use case. It had an average vote of 3.9 out of 5.

The term-meaning matching for this use case was 3.5 out of 5 - not super high. This was the meaning which had the highest score for the term "interimpaired". However, it was not the highest-scored term for the meaning in question: "intersex-disabled" had a score of 4.0, "interdissex" had a score of 3.9, "disintersex" was at 3.8, and "disabled-intersex" was at 3.5.

But the terms "intersex-disabled", "interdissex", "disintersex", and "disabled-intersex" all have higher ratings on terms which were perceived to have more utility, and so will be prioritized for terms that people said they'd get more use of. 👍️

No flag or term for "variation as disability"

Based on the survey results, I will not attempt to coin a term for somebody who views their intersex variation as a disability, and I'm not presently planning to release a flag either. 🤷

In the survey I presented 10 possible use cases (different meanings that a flag/term could have). This use case is for when somebody a whole intersex variation as a disability, rather than just their own case (e.g. "I have CAH and CAH is a disability." rather than "I have CAH and I personally see it as a disability but not everybody with CAH does.")

This meaning had no clear matching to a candidate term and had the lowest score in terms of potential utility (average rating of 2.5 out of 5 where 5 is strongly agree/high utility). It was also ranked #9 out of #10 for demand for a flag, and no candidate flag showed a clear association with this use case. 💀

This use case got some push-back in the open-ended question. Even though it's totally a thing for (some) intersex people to express these sorts of sentiments, the survey respondents were collectively iffy about giving that sentiment a term and/or flag. As I understand it, the people pushing back on it were displeased that somebody would attempt to speak on behalf of everybody with a given intersex variation.

I'd like to reiterate my gratitude to everybody who participated in the survey and my various polls on this tumblr! 💜

At the rate I'm going through the data, I expect I be posting two more posts on the survey results in the next day or so.

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