#ableism*

[eldunea]

in mainverse, UB verse and pokéverse, lotor is not above taking advantage of his enemies’ traumas in order to get the upper hand. triggering his enemies/making them (re)live their deepest fears for his own sadistic pleasure is also definitely something that both mainverse and UB verse lotor have done in the past, and is definitely something that pokéverse lotor does currently. some people tell him “but how can you treat others that way who have been through trauma just like you?” and lotor’s reply is “that’s the point. I do it because I KNOW HOW MUCH IT HURTS.”

[ofalsehoods]

lotor: says some positive sounding phony shit

paladins: we’d trust you so much more if you were honest!!

lotor: ..............

lotor: disabled people shouldn’t be allowed to breed

paladins: ............................

[usertoxicyaoi]

“You may not talk.” Snotty’s time to sink into her chair now. “You will not move from these seats. And you—” she points and I hear the James Dean-wannabe take his feet off the table and let them drop loudly onto the floor. —”will not sleep.”

EVEN.

She knows.

Some would call it paranoia but, when you’re crazy (I know how that sounds), you develop a sixth sense for people who treat you differently because they know. It’s that mixture of aggression and apprehension sprinkled with just a little bit of guilt (enough to make them feel OK with themselves) that gives it away.

That last rule Ms Willhelmsen directed at me feels ominous. More a promise than a warning.

She’s grabs a pile of sheets of paper and a few pens from the Loans and Returns desk and starts distributing them amongst us.

“We’re going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay — of no less than a thousand words — describing to me who you think you are.”

“Is this a test?” I hear Sana mutter and I smile at her, until Ms Willhelmsen slams a sheet of paper and a pen too hard on Sana’s table, making her flinch.

Chapter 1: When You Grow Up, Your Heart Dies - by @monstermonstre

[bugeyesboutique]

x i just want to make some things apparent for new followers; check tags for warnings...

my current living situation is terrifying; i am losing more and more function the longer i’m here

i’m not okay

i’ve been keeping myself busy with projects, and trying to do something with what i have

my family is violent

the police do nothing because my mom rushes to each and every one of my brother’s defenses, and recognizes she’s an enabler, but refuses to work on that

my mom is a nazi

she believes we’ll never have true unity until all unite under God in Christian Faith, and that blue-eyed blond-haired white people are superior

and would often refer to my dad and brother, and even myself as neanderthals because we have brown eyes, brown hair, and olive-toned skin(i’m ginger, so my skin is a mix between olive toned and pale pinks)

because my oldest brother, and younger brothers have blue eyes, my mom praises them for being pure like her or something

she never knew how to ‘categorize’ me because i have brown-green-grey hazel eyes, and would always refer to me as a ‘balance’

i cannot go to a shelter because i’m dealing with major paranoia, unmedicated schizophrenia, and not in my correct state of residency; also, nobody really talks about it, but shelters deal with a lot of violence and even death, especially if you’re trans, which is part of the reason trans-housing network exists in the first place

i have no one i can stay with

i have to barricade the door every night to be able to rest comfortably

if i sleep without barricading the door, i end up waking up frequently, and have night terrors of people coming in and trying to kill me, or drag me away

i have been self-medicating with drowsy medicines to help me sleep, and now also because my anxiety and paranoia have been flaring up anytime someone in the house raises their voice even the slightest

friends on skype calls have heard my family get violent, and scream

my boyfriend who visited in february couldn’t leave the room i’m staying in without me escorting him because my younger brothers were prepared to get violent with me for ‘inviting a stranger into the house of my own volition’

and i was scared that if he did anything without my supervision, they might attack him, verbally or physically

my younger brother has lifted me by the throat, and thrown me, and my other older brother has pulled a gun on me, both times due to them triggering my PTSD

they’re all quick to violence if conversations don’t go their way

i want to go back home

i’ve lived with these people my entire life, and they blame me for not agreeing with them

they blame me for their violent acts

there are good things in my life, of course

i just got engaged

my fiancé and trying to move out to SoCal with a friend

the three of us are coming out of bad situations

i’m going to try and do some other work now that i’ve gotten this off my chest

but i just want to make my working conditions apparent; i’m legally homeless, my residency is in california, but because nobody wanted me on the streets, i took refuge somewhere that was only meant to be temporary, and i’ll have been here for almost a year at the beginning of may

so i’m very sorry for the lack of In-Character interactions

i’m very stressed, and constantly trying to work with what i have, and what i’m able

but also, when i say thank you for following this blog, or being a fan of the podcast, it is the most encouraging thing

because i have poured so so much love into the characters and the series, and i’m so so excited to work with the amazing cast of people on the team who are contributing to the series

i want the series to always be available to everyone free; donating, or becoming a patreon helps too

but following this blog, enjoying the content, whether reblogged or original???

that encouragement has allowed me to take positive steps to make the series what it’s already become, and allows me to do something i can pour love and life into

i will never ever be able to say enough how thankful i am when i’m shown encouragement, because it’s allowed me to create something that i feel is wonderful

so

thank you

thank you from the bottom of my heart

things are really rough, but it always means so much to me when people show kindness and encouragement, not even just to me, but with other people as well

i want to keep putting good out into the world

thank you for reading

i’m sorry i haven’t been doing as much RPing as i’d like to

please be safe, and eat well, stay hydrated, and if you take meds, remember to take those

you are loved

you are so so loved

[briarneekoarchive]

Got reminded about the fact I opened up about the sexual abuse my older brother and dad put me through as a kid and my sister was like “huh they were always really nice to me growing up I don’t know why you hate them so much” and treated what I said like a joke and when i tried to explain to her that she was the favorite bc she was the golden child she was the smart one she got to go to school they’ve bought her and my brother multiple cars and taught them both how to drive they’ve gotten her and my brother multiple jobs(which they always quit bc they know they have a safety net.) But I’ve never had a safety net. I never got that. Nobody taught me to drive nobody ever got me a car the only person that has ever helped me is Astro. Now I’m finally able to put my life back together and I’m saving for my first car and Astro is teaching me to drive like I’m actually being given a chance at life and even after explaining all that my sister was like “ermmmmm actually you were the favorite even though you got beaten and sexually abused and nobody ever helped you with anything.”(paraphrasing) and she thinks that because apparently I was “lazy” growing up and my parents “let me get away with being lazy” like I excuse me you fucking twat waffle???? Fucking Excuse me? This is why I fucking hate TME ppl bro like don’t get me wrong I love my sister and I’m trying really hard to be her friend now even though she used to beat me up too like everyone else in that fucking house and she and my brother have the fucking gonads to tell me I was the favorite bc I was “lazy” for hiding in my room constantly and locking my door. I was living with a family of IRL fucking jokers but if I try to tell them that shit they’ll go “errmmmmm yikes! actually everything is your fault for being trans and disabled and also lazy”

[forcefuried]

what's the descendants verse world's culture re: mental illness? - @rivalbede 

OOOoooo hmmm. auradon is set in a place with 21st-century technology and what appears to be 21st-century culture, so it might stand to reason that its views on mental illness would be similar to ours: deeply flawed, but at least there is a lot of research on the topic and a scientific consensus that these things aren’t just caused by demons. however. given that the populace is mostly ancient/historical humans slapped into the modern world, i can see auradon’s view of mental illness being somewhat worse than our own. i don’t want to speculate on which members of the main casts would be ableist, as i don’t want to ruin anyone’s childhood that badly. but i would not be surprised if these old-timey 18th and 19th century folks had some boomer opinions on mental illness and disability, and i would be even less surprised if most of the populace did as well.

whatever the feelings of auradonians are, though, the isle’s are worse. i just can’t see maleficient, mistress of evil, being nice to neurodivergents, nor can i picture parents like lady tremaine being accepting of such things as ADHD and autism. and then you have the canon bigots like frollo and ratcliffe, who…i don’t even want to know what they’d think of people like me. at best, people would just say that we’re making it up, and at worst, they’d ostracize us, call us weak, worthless and broken. strangely, in terms of who has the worst ableism, i can see it being the opposite of auradon, where the main cast is more tolerant but the randos, not so much. the big bads on the isle are more likely to have discrimination in spades. but some of the unnamed underlings, people who aren’t truly evil but might have joined evil out of desperation or to fill some emotional need and could be good if given the chance--they might be more likely to give a much-needed show of support.

[ofalsehoods]

      ❝it has come to my attention that my mun wishes to switch places with me, if she could. i would like to take this time to say that such a thing will never transpire. i would never trade my place for one so base and low as hers. i have made historic contributions to every academic field that i have set foot in. i have saved billions of lives, both human and altean. she may attend one of earth’s finest universities, but the greatest centers of intellect of earth are but primary schools to the alteans’ most well-known institutions of learning. she may be somewhat happier, and she may be less ugly, but what are her meager ‘accomplishments’ to this great mind of mine? why would i even for a moment consider trading my gifts for her mediocrity? and she acts as though she can use her disabilities as an excuse to continually live with the silver spoon still shoved so far down her throat by her so-called abusive mother that it’s a surprise she doesn’t CHOKE on it--i would never consent to be so reliant and yet so fractiously ungrateful. in the end--what is a base human like her to an altean like me? even she herself admits that i am the superior being. there are many reasons why i would never wish to become her. but to become a FAILED ALTEAN alone is enough to render the trade unjust.❞