#badd2017

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by Dani Alexis

I grew up hearing two things:

1. You only have a disability if you can’t do something. At all.  2. “Can’t” only means “physically incapable of doing so.” Otherwise, it’s “won’t.”

...I struggle with executive function. A lot of autistic people do. And in the past week, two things related to that topic have floated across my Facebook feed in ways that made me strongly reconsider what it means to be disabled. What it means to “can’t.”

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Dear Science

Dear Science,

I love you. I do not, in the slightest, lie when I proclaim this. However, love is not a condition in which you simply accept the problems something has. Because I love you, science, and I want to work with you in the future, I feel it best to discuss your problems, with the hope of a brighter future.

Dear Science,

You scare me. 

You scare me not because of what you’ll discover, it is what you’ll do with that information. The idea of science taking away what I love and turning towards hatred looms over me, a future scientist, like a dark cloud. Science, I fear that you will reject me and claim I am not worthy. Science, you scare me because I am disabled.

Dear Science,

The disabled identity is as unique and complex as the issues that come with it. To be disabled is not to be bound to a lack of mobility, a lack of sight, a lack of limbs. To be disabled to experience something beautiful: a community, a culture, a history. To be disabled is to be human, something I am unsure that you fully understand. Science, I fear as though you will try to take my humanity away from me.

Dear Science,

I’m proud of you. You’ve come so far. You claim that you’re changing lives. But are those changes positive? Does that girl with one hand really want a second, or does she want respect? Does she want to be surgically created equal, or to be given equality regardless of circumstance? Science, I fear that you are creating a world where one must conform to an ability to deserve human rights. I fear that you will revive your past self. I fear that one day you will frown upon me, and decide that I am not worthy. 

Dear Science,

You want to make the world a better place. This I know. This is why I love you. But in this pursuit of “better”, maybe you should consider how you treat the patients you claim to care for.

I am real.

I am disabled.

I deserve respect from you.

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BADD2017: Informal ABA: Compliance Training Led by Peers

BADD2017: Informal ABA: Compliance Training Led by Peers

This post has been reposted for Blogging Against Disableism Day

As a child, I didn’t need ABA to teach me compliance for other children taught this well enough on their own. Aversives and rewards from trained behaviorists were not what taught me to hide myself but rather the torment I received from other children for daring to be different. I wasn’t diagnosed with autism as a child. I was…

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This is my first post for BADD this year — Blogging Against Disablism Day. Hopefully there will be others to follow. So these days, in the USA and many other countries, different categories …

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This is my first post for BADD this year — Blogging Against Disablism Day. Hopefully there will be others to follow. So these days, in the USA and many other countries, different categories …

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Feel like contributing?

We are looking for people to join in with Blogging Against Disablism Day on Monday 1st May 2017.  It’s not just blog posts - In the past we’ve had everything from photo essays, academic pieces, poems, stories, artwork...  For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/BADD2017

But even if you don’t want to create something for the day, we need you to spread the word because the more people who join in, the better it will all be.  So please, do us a favour and RT, Share, Reblog and generally raise a noise about #BADD2017.  Thanks!

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