people have been asking me how I'm holding up and genuinely for the vast majority of the time, I'm fine, doing what I have to. but every now and then I get a single fraction of a second of excruciating, all-consuming, white-hot grief that winds me and makes me weak and dizzy and it feels like a horror movie where I could look down and see someone cutting me open and disemboweling me with their hands and I'm unable to move like a nightmare and all I can do is watch because how do you look away, and then just like that it goes back to normal. it's fine it's fine it's fine it's fine DIVINE LIGHTING TECHNIQUE 10000 SOULDEATHS it's fine it's f
I do think the post that's like "when they torture you to insanity and then torture you for being insane 😂🤣" is one of the most succinct and foundational analyses of interpersonal violence and conflict that had ever been written
ten years ago I was walking through my high school in a wet swimsuit to get my dive coach when I witnessed a girl getting in trouble because she had a custom LED belt buckle that scrolled the message “BOY GIMME THAT JOHNSON” and I loved it so much that I couldn’t even go back to practice, I just went home and went to sleep
On multiple fronts, the far right is attacking the well-established legal right of disabled people t
On multiple fronts, the far right is attacking the well-established legal right of disabled people to be supported to live in their communities instead of being institutionalized. People with disabilities and their allies are pushing back, but threats to the idea won through militant struggle, that disabled people should be supported to live in their communities, are real.
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In January of this year, nine states relaunched the lawsuit, now known as Texas v. Kennedy. The focus has now shifted to ending what is known as the “integration mandate;” that for states to get funding for services under 504, people with disabilities must be supported in living integrated in communities, not hidden away in institutions. The plaintiffs are now arguing that the integration mandate impinges on the states’ rights to decide how to care for people in their states, with echoes of the segregationist dog whistle of “states’ rights.” Of course the right of people with disabilities to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is nowhere mentioned.
Due to the advocacy of people with disabilities, caregivers and allies, led by Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, two states (Indiana and South Dakota) dropped out in May, but a core group of seven remains.
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One program that has helped people with disabilities remain in the community has been Medicaid funding that pays family members to be caregivers to disabled adults living at home. This support can be life-changing for the entire family, supporting consistency in care and reducing stress.
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Far-right politicians have targeted this program as being full of fraud. In typical bigoted fashion, claims are being made that family members are being paid to “hang out and watch TV!”
This kind of language is reminiscent of the talk of “welfare queens” that led to the “reform” of welfare during the Clinton administration. The reality is, home-based care work is work. Socialist theorists have named this kind of labor “reproductive labor” because it helps to maintain and reproduce the working class itself.
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Currently, adults with disabilities can qualify to receive Supplemental Security Income, a basic income. Because this is usually not enough for a person to rent their own apartment, many adults with SSI may live with family, who may also provide care. Now, a rule change being considered by the Trump administration would deduct the value of the bedroom’s rent from the monthly SSI check, even if the family qualifies for SNAP (food stamps). Up to 400,000 poor and disabled or elderly people could have their support cut or eliminated, according to a ProPublica analysis of actuarial figures from the Social Security Administration.
It’s not as if anyone is getting rich off this kind of support. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the typical SNAP household that is also supporting a person who receives SSI has an annual total income of $17,000.
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SSI is earned by 7.5 million Americans with severe disabilities unable to work. It is not easy to qualify for this program. It may take years and more than 2/3 of applicants are rejected. Once in the program, recipients are constantly scrutinized to make sure they still qualify, financially or in terms of their ability to work.
WAIT HOLD ON I cannot fucking believe when I was like four years old my parents were cajoling me to walk with the family and trying to get me to keep up even though I kept insisting that I was "tired" until they took me to a doctor and found out my LUNGS DIDN'T WORK. how insane that we live in a world where reasonably loving parents think their FOUR YEAR OLD is trying to be LAZY. like they were mortified to be clear. adults are just so trained to ignore children's complaints as untrustworthy, kids just need discipline, they can't possibly speak for themselves. what the fuuuuck.
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE BTW you should always be trying to take children seriously, especially very little ones but definitely all of them. the most disempowered class basically legally defined as property and most people are like "yeah that's good actually I hate when they Loiter lol they're stupid and loud and i actually think children should stop existing. restrict their personhood more actually"
The entire POINT of this post was that average, mundane, well-meaning parents and guardians do this constantly. while the horror stories in the notes are terrible and definitely at times just straight up abuse, this is about challenging YOUR OWN BIASES. you may not mean to dismiss children! for all their flaws, my parents loved me and weren't trying to hurt me. it was an accident enabled by societal expectations to not listen to vulnerable people like children. villains generally aren't hiding in the shadows to laugh at children with broken ankles. if you think you or people like you can't enact this dismissal of children because you aren't a villain hiding behind a bush, then you missed the whole point.
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