#abled

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

I really don't care if accessibility helps abled people. You should care about us even when there is no direct benefit to you personably.

[consider-your-potatoes-mashed]

Fuck abled people and their opinions on disabled bodies

My mother literally said to me that she “believes that I am choosing to be disabled and that she believes that I am healthier than I feel” like ma’am you are not in the same body as me you do not know it better than I do. Do you not think that I wasn’t to be healthier? Do you not think I’d rather not be in pain? You really think I’m choosing this? After saying that bull shit she goes on to say that she only wants the best for me and for me to “get well soon” and arugh I stg she really feels like one of those people who are like “don’t say disabled say differently abled” like gah no there are things I simply cannot do anymore I don’t do them differently I just can’t do them

[oo-o-o-oo]

As a disabled person, I feel like the community needs to stop treating abled people like they're all the devil.

[alexwritesfiction]

need to talk more about how fighting ableism isn’t about “disabled people are just as capable as us!” but about “disabled people are less capable than the abled but still worth the same!” you don’t need to make them seem more abled just to show them like they’re worth it. they are, no matter how capable of incapable they are of doing things compared to the abled.

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

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7.7: Ariel & Christina Discuss Living with a Disability as a Solarpunk

Today Christina talks to Ariel about what it's been like to live as a solarpunk with a visible - and then invisible - disability. Science fiction has spent decades dreaming of how future tech will make disabled people able to function as if they were fully abled. Now solarpunk has arrived on the scene to ask why should disabled bodies have to always be the ones to adapt? It can be uncomfortable, intrusive - not to mention expensive. Solarpunk wonders why can't cities, society, workplaces, and the like be the ones to use the tech to make themselves more accessible to and inclusive of disabled people?

Tune in as Ariel and Christina discuss the portrayal of disability in science fiction and solarpunk and how having to suddenly live with a disability opens your eyes to many of the ways cities fail people with disabilities.

[emsye-tries]

Reblog this post if you are NOT a white, fully abled, neurotypical, heterosexual, cisgender male.

[chronic-cane]

It genuinely bothers me that people on here want to use abled to mean not having a physical disability and not having no disability at all. What's the term for neurotypical able bodied people then? What are we going to use to identify the people with absolute privilege?

That's not even what mainly bothers me, what mainly bothers me is that being neurodivergent involves physical differences a lot of the fucking time. Depression and anxiety, two incredibly common disabilities, both can give you fatigue. They've also been shown to weaken the immune system. And what about the disabilities that we don't have a clear label for? Is my ibs physical because it has physical symptoms? Or is it mental because it's strongly related to my anxiety? Sleep disorders are usually taken care of in the field of psychology, but sleep apnea happens from physical structures most of the time.

All because the brain is a part of the physical body! You can't separate the two!

So stop acting like we can!