#diabilities

[frogsfordisabilityjustice]

I hate it when people act like you can't talk about disability/educate abled people without sharing your diagnosis/disability.

"Oh you should tell people your disability when they ask so that you can educate them!" it's just as educational, if not more, to tell somebody proper disability etiquette.

The average person probably isn't going to care about or even remember my specific disability, there are few scenarios where they'll actually apply that information, especially if we don't know each other very well.

But what they CAN apply on a regular basis is disability etiquette and how to actually interact with a disabled person.

TL;DR: disability education expands way beyond labels and disabled people don't owe you our medical history

[thehighaspeccouncil]

Warning! Flashing gifs in the LGBTQ and disability tags!

Some trolls are posting fast flashing gifs in the lgbtq and disability related tags. These gifs are supposed to cause seizures in people with epilepsy or other conditions. This is fucking dangerous and life threatening.

If you are not affected by flashing gifs please go through the tags and post a warning above. Report the troll. Warn the other users.

Calling all BotHunters: You know what to do.

Most of these trolls are also posting extremely vile racist garbage. If you come across such a post: Report them for hatespeech.

[booklovertwilight]

As an autistic person, I don't much like tone indicators (e.g., /s, /j, /nm, etc) for a very simple reason. They just replicate my issue with tone in a new medium.

IRL, I have to memorize tones and what they mean, then when I hear words, I need to retroactively change what I think they mean based on the tone.

With these "tone indicators", I need to do the exact same thing. Memorize the little weird acronyms, then when I read words, retroactively change what I think they mean based on the acronym.

Instead, can we actually SAY the words we mean, in the sentence? So instead of:

"hey when will you do the dishes /nm"

write:

"hey, not mad just asking, when will you do the dishes?"

If we really *must* use some kind of indicator, can we change it to a word in parentheses, like that meme? I often do this with short phrases or jokes, such as, "lol I hate you (affectionate)".

[seattlemermaid]

A different perspective

Yesterday I asked a mom what her older daughter’s diagnosis was, I knew her younger daughter because she was in the classroom I was in. And she said, “We’re not sure what her diagnosis will be. Currently it is just developmentally delayed, it might be genetic, but we don’t know what makes her so magical.” Isn’t that beautiful?

[jazzdoesjazzhands]

Important announcement

GUILD WARS 2 has disabled and LGBTQ NPC characters!!!!

[good-news-network]

Pope Francis is Paying the Rent of a Private Beach for the Disabled

[elisehu]

Mind Control

This whole experience was insane. But also really empowering.

We are in the process of revamping my video series, Elise Tries, now that I am US-based and able to work in similar time zones and in the same physical space as the rest of the video team. What we have designed is a dive into a time marker in the future — 2050 — which means we’re essentially doing “Elise Tries: The Future.”

Last week…

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[kinintl]

The Disability Empowerment Coach