#ableism warning

[in-my-side]

I have more thoughts about Rudo

I don't know if Urana intended him to be Disabled™, but he is AMAZING disabled representation!!

Source: Me, a disabled person

//Ableism

Before he was thrown away for the false murder accusations, he was thrown away among his peers for having a visible chronic pain condition. His rage and grief as a child wasn't just from people associating him with his dad, but it was also the ableism he faced

He was discriminated against and harassed for how his condition appeared on his body and how he reacted to the pain, and then for wearing gloves to help with said pain and boost his confidence. Aside from canon reasons, the reason his bond to 3R is so strong is because they're his disability aids. It's pretty much the same with Bundus' vital instrument being his prosthetics he's had over his life. This emotional bond between these characters and their aids is incredibly accurate! About a year ago I broke my cane that I had for a long time, it physically supported me through some of the hardest moments of my life, and I sobbed over it. It literally felt like a part of me died. It's pretty much the same with Rudo and 3R! They physically protect his hands from getting hurt, they help manage his pain, and they give him confidence!

Like Rudo, I too feel thrown away by society for being disabled. I have multiple conditions, but where we meet is chronic pain. (I also think he's autistic but that's a different yapfestry) It hits my legs the worst but I also have joint pain in my hands with risk of developing early arthritis, which really scares me because I'm a very creative person and the ability to make things with my hands is everything to me. I wear compression gloves and use multiple mobility aids, the latter of which would definitely be vital instruments of mine if I were a giver. (You look me in the eyes and tell me my wheelchair turning into a tank wouldn't be sick as FUCK.) I relate so heavily to his grief and rage at the world for treating him so horribly because he's in pain. The scene of him as a kid insisting we shouldn't throw away good things and to fix the mask that someone threw out struck painfully deep within me. We all know he was talking about himself in that moment, but I also felt like he was talking about me. It breaks my heart that there are people in this world who see that I'm disabled and immediately think my life means nothing, refusing to see me as a person, just a thing taking up resources, a gene to be eliminated.

Not only does his character give the message that children of criminals still have value, but also that disabled people still have value. Again, I have no idea of Rudo was intended to be disabled representation, but I feel so incredibly seen by his existence and I hope he's able to give people some sliver of an understanding of what it's like to be disabled. We need more representation in media, characters like Rudo are so rare and so important

[augh-tism]

Making this post its own thing so I don't derail any conversations by high support needs autistics who already get talked over enough (listen to high support needs autistics and people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities. Intersectional solidarity yesterday.)

It's really weird being medium support needs, tbh. Because, like, here's the thing. I know all the therapy and shit I got as a kid was designed to break me and remake me into something that could work a job. And I have a love/hate relationship with the fact that it, on the most pragmatic level, worked.

Because on one hand, yes, I'm employed. And on the other...the actual literal psychological torture that it took to make me this way made me every kind of dysfunctional. I can't work on any task that falls even slightly out of the workflow I've built for myself. I lose hours to meltdowns because of minor procedure changes (meltdowns which look like panic attacks, because that's one of the big things they forced onto me, that things that look like meltdowns are unacceptable). I regularly have coworkers who support me pull me aside to explain that I have once again socially clowned on myself (thank you Hannah and Tiffani you are real ones). I regularly get in trouble for not understanding things that were not explained to me, even when I repeatedly remind people I need things as explicit as possible. I forget things. Dear god, do I forget things. I've spent nearly as much of my life in autistic burnout completely incapable of working as I have actually employed.

And I think about it a lot because there's a low support needs person in my department. (She told me herself she was autistic, shortly after she was hired. It's not my place to disbelieve her, and I believe fakeclaiming is inherently bigoted.) Maybe I should say was, because she got promoted to head of a different department three months after she joined us. She's completely indistinguishable from a neurotypical person, to the point that she reads to me as a threat. I know workplace ableism favoring her is not her fault, just like I know it's not my fault, but it doesn't make it hurt any less.

I don't quite know where I'm going with this, really. Maybe I don't follow enough other medium support needs folks. Maybe I'm not trying enough.

Or maybe I'm just feeling a normal kind of upset and traumatized about being tortured as a child.

[cult-of-the-gundead]

finn has both arms in his fortnite skin... because of fucking course he does.

just like with multiversus and bloons adventure time tower defense, his disability has been removed for the sake of marketability, and this time there isn't even fern because fuck anything past season 5 am i right (sarcasm)

i just feel like finn losing his arm, both times it happened, was a major part of his character and growth as a person, and this just feels like disability erasure. this happened in bloons adventure time tower defense, despite that more or less serving as a weirdass piece of marketing for adventure time's finale. and this happened in multiversus, with only a single release of a skin with him having his prosthetic.

just once, i would like to see a finn cameo in something in which he has his prosthetic from the start, no skins required. is that too much to ask, to see a character with their disability?

[justanothersinner211]

i was blocked by OP but i still feel petty sooooo im gonna keep responding to people who dislike me for being a queer satanist person!!

lets start with this lovely person:

hello, @/midnightdaystar! i dont worship satan. i do not believe in satan, as you mentioned, so i do not worship it. i worship team fortress two mercenaries and cute cats. thank you for coming to my ted talk

next up we got:

wow! a lot going on here! slur usage, ableism, barack obama looking at naked anime girls...? huh

anyway, @/robot17, wonderful post! thank you for another lovely contribution for my blocklist!

oh, and mr. feminismisstillahatemovement? please unblock me i wanna keep making fun of people who dont like me pleaseeeee

[selective-yellow]

huh???

Students Dressed as Furries Could be Collected by Animal Control if New Oklahoma Bill Passes

If one Oklahoma representative gets his way, children who act like dogs and cats during school hours could be punished by... animal control.

huh??????????

huh????????????

[sunshinegremlin]

tw medical terms being misused

Hey! If you use tiktok maybe stay away from the trending page currently. 'hyperfixated' is trending and there's a lot of misuse of the medical term and a fair amount of neurotypicals are using the terms as a trendy and quirking synonym to interest/obsession. Stay away from tiktok for a few days until the tag calms down if it will bother you :)) hope the warning helps, especially for ppl with adhd and stuff often in their fyp (as now it will be filled with random content instead of ND content) 👍

[pics-that-make-you-goku]

yea its kind of weird when ppl who arent autistic call goku autistic and treat him a *certain* way

Hmm, I would like to make it clear that I am not officially diagnosed autistic, these past years I have had thoughts and feel like I might possibly be. I would self diagnose, but I second thought literally everything so I do not trust myself with that. Should anyone have a problem with my own words of this subject, I understand and accept that and would encourage you to say your own thoughts.

But I definitely see your point anon. A lot of people not only use the word Autistic as an insult, they show that they clearly do not think of Autistic people as people. And in a fanbase that is filled with neurotypical fans that are proud to be bigoted, it definitely does not help the neurodivergent fans.

Others simply label him as Autistic just to get away with their ableism as well. It is all incredibly unfortunate. Especially for newer fans, who are actually being able to finally learn these things with not as much bigotry as before.

I would like to make it clear though, I also meant that labeling Goku as Autistic is a bit iffy due to the source material as well. Ever since DragonBall, Goku was made the butt of the joke when it came to intelligence. Super unfortunately dialed down on the joke at times (the anime. The manga as well, probably worse but I prefer to just. Not acknowledge the manga if I can) but it was always there. Even in Z and GT.

He was on his complete own for years and there was only so much Grandpa Gohan could teach him for the brief years they had. And even then, Goku has, at times, had a short attention span unless it was dead serious or if it was something he was actually excited to learn about. Yet nearly every joke on him is about him being seen as stupid.

One smaller reason to be wary as well is his head injury. His head injury in itself is just, not really a valued thing for me personally. The Saiyans being an inherently evil race in the beginning was, in my opinion, was stupid but I digress.

There is also the fact that a LOT of fans baby him, treating him like some infant rather than the literal adult who has been through traumatic experiences that he is. Which is not what anyone wants, for the love of Goku, please know he is an actual character with thoughts and emotions that are not strictly "pure".

I try to make it so that I personally do not do that but I could be doing better perhaps. I do apologize sincerely if it has seemed that and will try to do better.

So yeah, for me, I do think Goku is autistic, but there is reason to be wary. Especially in this series where a lot of bigotry already exists in the source material.

[exclamaquest]

some parts of how he talks about autism in his oc ref sheet is. very gross. like the mention of high/low function and saying he 'struggled with autism'

yeah it's just ableist through and through. and again like hes been corrected on this multiple times but just...continues to do it. it's gross.