#ablesm

[spltlvlhous]

[radioactivebee]

I hate how "delulu" is now the new replacement for crazy, it's not a good replacement especially given it's a term that comes from the word delusional, which is actually a serious mental health thing and isn't some quirky UwU alt thing.

I know there's a difference between being delusional and having delusions, but it's just tied to ablesm either way that its being treated as a replacement for crazy.

If your gonna be that way just say crazy.

[the-enby-rose]

Don't you love when people use the word triggered as a fucking joke meaning 'angry'?

It just makes people think triggered means angry/mad and when someone says "This triggers me" people just go "If it makes you mad get the fuck off my blog/page/account!!" Like

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!

[itsborderlinebitch]

so I’ve posted about this before but was taken out of context on the matter.

recently I’ve seen a lot of objection to the mentally ill community’s use of the word ableism. because the direct use of the word, or the bases was discrimination in favour of able-bodied/ against physically disabled people, their concern was literally.

“I go on tumblr and go on the ablesm tag, there’s only support in favour of autistic and mentally ill people there, its our word, there’s a difference, find your own. Use neurotypicalism,or something”

so I was incredibly fucking annoyed but decided to research the word and came to find there is indeed a term for directly and only mentally disabled people called “Mentalism/Sanism”

When you Google search ‘mentalism’, there is a much more popular definition in use of the word and it has a positive annotation. “Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities.” ‘sanism’, had absolutely no resources or support in terms actually helping people who experience it. -Google search ableism and there are support systems and coping strategies for both physically and mentally disabled people. I have absolutely no idea why physically disabled people have any concerns about us using the word because theres actually tons more support for them outside of tumblr tags, on Facebook, in booklets, billboard advertisements….etc. And in no way am I trivializing the ablesm that physically ill people experience but they can’t make claims that we’re stealing the word from them when there is no official or well known current term for us to use and the general use of the term is often used when discussing discrimination of them. In fact, I know both physically disabled and mentally disabled people. All those disabled physically knew exactly what ableism was and how to deal with it and that it wasn’t right. Only one of my mentally ill friends understood ableism against mentally disabled people, and that it wasn’t right. Their reasoning, outside of the tag being over crowded with non-neurotypicals.Was actually very ableist, mentalist, sanist whatever the hell you want to call it. They said. “Paralysis isn’t the same as depression! You don’t want to get up out of bed. I can’t!”. At this point in reading what they had to say I realized, the true problem. you want your term? fine. it’s all yours. I’m not going to discontinue to reblog posts from that tag or stop using it myself of course but you have full control of what you reblog and you post. i believe ableism against physically disabled people is a problem, it’s disgusting, it’s unfair, it isn’t okay. but neither is it against us. we have every right to utilize this word until an actual resourceful term is produced in society. both physically and mentally disabled people have the right to use the tag and both physically and mentally people face discrimination and both physically and mentally deserve an outlet. that is all.

[standing-cinema]

the way allistic parents of autistic children are saying that jerry seinfelds statement that he's on the spectrum is a "slap in the face" is disgusting. this doesn't involve you.

whats your problem that you have to deny someones self diagnosis about things they have realized about themselves for their entire lives. 

[beachgnome-blog]

You're having a good time, you're not having any problems. All of a sudden someone says something that implies they can TELL you're neuroatypical and that you take medication. 

You thought you were doing all right, that there was no issues with the way you were behaving, but someone goes and throws in that doubt. 

You were just being exited, and they said "someone forgot to take their chill pill today". In that moment you're suddenly horrified and just a kid again, horrifically aware that everyone around you can tell there's something off about you.

[beachgnome-blog]

Um. I'm neuroatypical and. Kind of confused as to how the phrase "take a chill pill" is ableist? I mean. I personally take medication, and I use the phrase a lot. It never occurred to me that it could be ableist. Could you explain why you think that, if it's okay with you?

Okay so here’s a scenario that happened recently. 

I was at a convention and was pretty darn chipper about the whole affair. I’m very excitable and was practically bouncing in a crowded elevator. 

Someone turned to me and said “Someone forgot to take their chill pill today.”

I was INSTANTLY taken from cloud 9 to I-want-to-puke. They looked at me and decided the thing to do was to tell me that medication was something I should have taken that day. 

No one should ever go around and tell anyone that they need medication unless they are that person’s doctor. 

[beachgnome-blog]

Reminder that these are ablest things to say:

"Take a chill pill"/"You need a chill pill"

"Retarded". I don't care if you're referring to its other meaning, "fag" has another meaning, but you're not about to say that either.

Saying you have a medical condition you don't have. "I'm really OCD sometimes" 

Telling other people THEY have medical conditions they do not, especially as an insult "Ugh he's being totally bi-polar"