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i think one question to ask when people start telling you that someone who hurt you had good intentions is "why are you telling me this?" and then make them explain, really explain why this is important and necessary right now. why they had the instinct to say it. what they are trying to accomplish. why is this something that would be helpful for you to hear?

because i wonder if they even know exactly, when they think about it, what they are trying to do. and what beliefs they are operating from.

i wish sometimes i could be more curious. instead of just angry. being angry is very cool but i don't know that it's helpful. in the same way.

#good intentions

if you are trying to be, or think you are, the hero in someone else's abuse story, you are a piece of shit. and if i could reach deep into your chest and steal from you that lie, that you are noble, or selfless, or whatever else you concocted to make yourself believe that, i would. and i would leave you only with the knowledge of exactly, exactly who you are.

i wish i could impart on you the shame you so deeply deserve. i cannot, unfortunately. but i still want to try.

i feel so incredibly, incredibly worthless. like saying "fine, if that's how it is, if that's how it's going to be, then i'll just kill myself too. who cares? i'm not sticking around for this. i'm just not"

i found out myriad's main therapist at the time of his death was basically practicing mind control and that's why he didn't want myriad to go into the hospital even though he was so suicidal. and i just didn't know. and i feel like such an asshole. like how could that have happened? how could that have happened? why didn't i stop it? why didn't i stop it? why didn't i stop it?

i know the savior complex is just narcissism in armor on a white horse, but here i am back here again. back here not understanding why i couldn't stop it or prevent it. how again, i let it happen.

walkingouttahere

disabledblackberry

[ID: a tweet from Kat, username chronicparent30, that reads "chronic illness is weird in that if a healthy person got ill for a week with all the symptoms i deal with in a single day, they'd likely rest and do the bare minimum for that week. but because my symptoms are forever i'm meant to live life as normal no matter how dreadful i feel. /End ID]

noping-out-deactivated20241117

The CDC Director is really out here straight up promoting eugenics.

noping-out-deactivated20241117

“Good news everyone! Only the disabled and chronically ill are dying so that’s REALLY ENCOURAGING. No need to change a thing. Let ‘er rip!”

acertainrandomguy

CDC Diretor be like

noping-out-deactivated20241117

[ID: Headline that reads “Would Anyone Notice If We Started Endorsing Eugenics?”]

noping-out-deactivated20241117

For all y’all going ?!? I need you to know this is not an exaggeration.

The CDC director says fuck disabled and chronically ill lives. I’m also going to point out that you’re significantly more likely to be disabled if you are Native American or Black so this is also racist. The CDC out here officially cheering our deaths is just the perfect way to start 2022.

[ID: A series of four screen grabs of Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC Director, speaking on TV. The subtitles read “The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who were unwell to begin with and yes, really encouraging news in the context of Omicrom.”]

breelandwalker

What makes this worse is that something like half the people living in this country have some kind of comorbid or pre-existing condition. And the CDC knows that perfectly well.

So while it IS good news that Omicron is apparently less deadly than previous mutations, it is NOT in any way acceptable for the CDC or the press to throw literal millions of people under the COVID bus and just shrug it off like, "Welp, they were sick anyway."

For SHAME.

stickypickles1

disabled isn’t a bad word. i can’t stand when able-bodied people say “stop bringing yourself down. i’m not going to tolerate your negative self talk”

me saying i’m disabled isn’t negative self talk. it’s just a true statement. and it’s neutral.

like i once had someone say “i wouldn’t say you’re disabled” like dude i can’t stand in the shower without nearly fainting. i can’t even get out of bed most days. i have to sit down when i brush my teeth. i had to drop out of high school because i couldn’t physically endure it. i am disabled. that is not your truth to decide. it’s my reality.

able-bodied people do not decide how you should or should not feel about your disability. they don’t decide how or whether you talk about it. it is your disability. it is a part of your life, and it sucks a lot of the time but it’s still a true statement. it impacts our everyday lives. they can’t shut down your troubles or dismiss your reality like it’s not real when the world is built in their favor.

spoonie-isms

This is something I get mean about, just like any white person who flinches when I refer to someone as Black.

Like, I'm sorry your biases and ignorance are causing you discomfort. That must be unpleasant for you. I don't feel bad for people who try to minimize who *I* am because they don't like the words that describe me, or which describe other people.

enki2

jacensolodjo

In case anyone was curious: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky claimed that “So really these are people who were unwell to begin with and yes, really encouraging news in the context of Omicron. The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75 per cent, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities."

We're just inconvenient to have around. Let us die like lame horses. We were already sick anyways, right?

#mydisabledlifeisworthy

cucumber-kimchi

also if you look at the list, it includes things like vitamin deficiencies, anxiety or depression, needing glasses, being short (??), being overweight so like. most. most people??? the vast majority of people??? (to be clear it would be utterly fucked up if they just meant disabled people, but its somehow worse than that)

noping-out-deactivated20241117

Don’t forget acne, seasonal allergies and lactose intolerance.

The CDC is using the general populations’ acceptance of eugenics to sell their own deaths to them by saying something people hear as “only the chronically ill and disabled are dying” and then changing the definition of comorbidity to be “any condition the people who are actually dying have” aka common medical conditions. Like lactose intolerance. And acne. And the general population is buying it because they do not GAF how many chronically ill and disabled people die.

noping-out-deactivated20241117

Ableds NEED to believe that there’s a cure for every illness/our chronic illnesses and disabilities are our fault because otherwise it could happen to them too and they can’t be having that.

comfydarkme

I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it's okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes.

-- Callista Buchen, from Taking Care

vaporwavehistorian-deactivated2

Why do I share my disability?

Because those kind people who shared theirs made me confident. Not all of us are accepted in our lives. Some of us aren't even treated like a being who deserves respect. Sometimes people ignore us altogether. Sometimes they say nasty things.

It hurt a lot because I felt broken, I felt wrong. I questioned my worth. I thought that I meant nothing.

Then I started reading what other disabled people posted. They were confident, loud, proud. "Get your accommodations, fight for your rights, shout your existence!" I felt accepted, I felt strong, I felt home. I became proud of myself, I never bowed down and looked at the pavement again.

Relatives try to give me random advice, some think that I exaggerate, some think that I'm a faker, some worry too much, some pity me in a "oh the little soul whose life is ruined" way.

But the disabled community compliments my cane, shares cool tips, laughs with me, mourns with me, stands with me, supports me, just gets me. I am allowed to rant, joke, cry, laugh, ramble, speak...

I am allowed to exist.

I want every disabled person to know that you aren't wrong. You aren't broken. You are glorious. We are the ones who change the world. I absolutely adore the way you loudly and proudly exist. Thank you. You are a part of this loving community and I'm so grateful.

thegiftedoneishere

Please spread the word.

fatsexybitch

In a case of mistaken identity, Baltimore police fired 44 shots at Keith Davis Jr., hitting him three times. He now faces his fourth trial f

t51bpowerarmor

the smartest things the prison industrial complex ever did were

1) convincing American society that prisoners are all “rapists and murderers” despite the fact that: a) most prisoners are drug offenders, b) even most violent offenders are just victims of class society and could very easily be turned into non-violent people, and c) our country seems to be run by people who are either rapists or murderers and no one seems to care.

2) using that bad reputation to not only make people apathetic to any kind of brutality or atrocity committed against prisoners who don’t deserve any of it (see a and b) but using it as an excuse to increase the power the carceral state has over EVERYONE, all while smearing those who disagree as supporting rapists and murderers.

when talking about prison abolition, it’s important to note that most people, including most leftists, have internalized these ideas to a huge extent.