#addictive disorders

[this-is-neuropsych-ableism]

The fact that addiction is illegal and you get jailed for having it. It's our bodies, should be our choice. What does it matter to them, as long as we aren't harming others, literally the only involved party to what happens in our body should be us. Why is denying bodily autonomy suddenly a good thing when someone's an addict?

This is neuropsych ableism.

Oh boy. Yeah, no, I will never stop being pissed that addiction is illegal in many locations. Making a disability illegal is so cruel.

Addicts deserve safety, harm reduction, and help. Not jail and punishment.

Sure, there's more nuance if a person's addiction is leading them to put others in danger, but they still shouldn't be treated with cruelty. They should still recieve actual, genuine help.

(It also gets into the whole "prisoner abuse should be deemed unacceptable and its horrifying how normalized it is" thing, but thats a whole other tangent I could go down.)

[this-is-neuropsych-ableism]

Is it ableist to hate that my father was an alcoholic and heavily resent a genetic history of addiction?

I have nothing against people with addictions generally (I think I'd be a hypocrite if I did because I have caffeine and self harm dependencies), but my father's alcoholism often embarrassed me and my mother in public when I was a small child, led to him yelling at me a lot and even threatening me sometimes, and once or twice made me feel like I was raising him instead of vice versa.

I also have a strong genetic history of addiction with pretty much all of my relatives having had some kind of addiction at some point, be it alcohol, caffeine, smoking, hard drugs, ect. I already have self harm and caffeine dependencies and a lot of the time I find myself craving alcohol, even though I haven't had more than a cup *total* in my entire life and haven't had even a sip in almost a year. I'm terrified that I'm going to be an alcoholic as soon as I gain more freedom (I'm a minor right now).

There's nuance to this. I think I should make one thing clear first and foremost - it is not ableist to be traumatized by the way a substance addict treated you while intoxicated.

Substance use disorder is a complicated condition. While I do not believe in making umbrella statements like "substance addicts should not have kids", I do believe it is correct to say "substance addicts should not have kids if their addiction causes them to behave in aggressive or neglectful ways."

Your father should have taken the way his addiction was impacting you and your mother seriously, and practiced harm reduction and/or weened off the alcohol. (For example, he should have dedicated time to drink that was away from you and in a private space, rather than in public.)

[patnaneuro]

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