#unitypunk

[disabledunitypunk]

I am begging the FDA to require that companies CANNOT just put "spices" as an ingredient but have to label the spices.

"Spices" can mean "this has some oregano and black pepper in it" or it can mean "this has cumin cayenne and paprika and if you eat this you will be sick in bed in pain for a week" for me.

Seriously, this is an allergy issue and a huge oversight on the part of corporations.

Require detailed labeling of spices used in packaged foods NOW.

[hopegrasping]

Despite popular belief, smelling bad is not actually a crime and should not be used to judge someone's morality or character. Lots of good people smell stank as hell. Real bad. You can acknowledge that bad smells are unpleasant, and how you might not want to be around someone who stinks (I choose to suck it up personally, just acknowledging it as an option!) without perpetuating a sentiment that causes disadvantaged people to face more harm and scrutiny. Stand up for stinky people I'm being so genuine rn.

[stuffieautism]

hate that as nonverbal & HrSN autistic people say i have no quality of life because i can't live their way (the only way they see valid)

and when i say "actually i quite want to be alive and also i need support to have my basic needs met and am not getting that. but when i am alive i get to have my toys and plushies and animal crossing and everything that makes me happy and i would like to live more for those things"

response is either "well you're lying because if you were really that autistic couldn't use internet."

"i know person like you and it is clear they have no quality of life and so you shouldn't be alive"

or "those are no reasons to live. you need to be like these people (job, not need daily care, independent or mostly so, smart, speaking, don't injure self involuntarily, etc etc) to be worth keeping alive"

they get to say our lives would be better not existing. we don't get to be heard to say we want to be here, we just want the world to be better for us

[yellowyarn]

I need a badge that says "Nothing happened, I'm just disabled" to wear when I use my braces or other disability aids. Maybe abled people would stop asking me about it then.

[moonpool-system]

For disabilities that cause some kind of obstacle to Doing Things (exec dysfunction, memory issues, etc) when you're otherwise (visibly, supposedly) physically able to, something I don't see talked about much is the effect of humiliation and fear on that process. If you weren't able to do something that involves other people- like going into an appointment, cleaning something, doing a task or favor, really anything- then the longer it's left un-done, the more fearful you get of feeling the humiliation of others' reactions when you finally complete it. Shame that it took so long, or someone's annoyance at it, or someone looking down on you, or guilt that you couldn't do it for them until now- it builds up worse and worse over time, and the fear of humiliation once it's acknowledged by other people makes it exponentially harder over time to actually complete the task at all.

Not really sure how to solve this but I think it's worth mentioning. Sometimes trying to explain yourself under the scrutiny of abled people really leaves a mark.

[8irdies]

have to remember that my special interests are good for my heart and bodymind, and that even though i can’t work, i still get to exist on earth and have joy! and you do too!

[anomalousmancunt]

this disability pride month i'd like to remind y'all that "visibly disabled" does not imply "mobility aid user" (nor anything else other than "people can see there is something about you that doesn't fit abled hegemony")

OP is autistic and talking about its experiences being autistic (AND multiply disabled). don't fucking touch if you have no solidarity towards autistic people.

[liquid-mercury-in-alive-form]

There's so much infighting in the queer and neurodivergent communities

The title, really.

I don't really feel like I will ever be supported by anyone in the LGBTQ community or neurodiversity community - and I have a ton of diagnoses.

Instead of uplifting each other, people are finding ways to put each other down and measure who is truly oppressed enough to access these precious services.

I think really it's beyond repair. I don't know how to use the correct language to describe these issues, and I know someone will come at me for using wrong terms or something, but if anything that's further the proof for me that the community is not cohesive and is not as able to fight for equality as I hoped it was.

I know this might sound like "I'm not like other girls, I hang out with boys because there's less drama" trope, but I noticed that cis (accepting!) people are actually more tolerant of me than fellow queer and neurodivergent people, because they're not as familiar with intricacies. Like someone cis who accepts being gifted and autistic would just see a smart although weird trans girl. However in the community there's just sooo much infighting and picking which oppression is more valid than which, who is "TME" or "TMA", who is actually physically or actually mentally abled, who is level 23895235890 or who gets to have which accommodation, why is this term problematic or exclusionary, etc, etc. Meanwhile accepting people will just listen.

(This being said, if this worldview is queerphobic and ableist in the same way "boys have less drama" is misogynist, i'd be happy to learn why).

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