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this is meant to serve as a blog to discuss ableism against people with intellectual disability (UK; learning disability).

see @this-is-id-solidarity for posts about solidarity/support

the rules for submission are:

1. use plain/simple language. avoid excessive swearing.

2. provide a summary if your post is long. (a big paragraph or more than 2 paragraphs counts as long).

3. do not write slurs in your submission. example; say r-slur instead of the slur itself.

intellectual disability is a medical condition defined by below-average IQ along with difficulties in everyday life skills. intellectual disability is one disorder that has multiple levels of severity: (borderline intellectual functioning), mild, moderate, severe, and profound. it is not autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc.

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autism not an intellectual disability (ID).

intellectual disability be singular diagnosis give to people who struggle with intellectual functioning & adaptive functioning (e.g living skills), rated from mild to profound. it affect everything every single aspect about person.

(UK: learning disability, not to be confused w specific learning disability or UK term learning difficulty. so far only find UK use this term difference.)

intellectual disability often comorbid with autism - different source n study say different things but many place say 30% or more autistic ppl have intellectual disability.

autism (& adhd, specific learning disability like dyslexia, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, etc) be part of wider umbrella called developmental disability (DD).

(technically, intellectual disability also a developmental disability. but because so many other developmental disability comorbid with ID, & ID affect everything single aspect of person, ppl often give it extra emphasis, abbreviating both of them as intellectual / developmental disability (I/DD))

intellectual disability experience & intellectual disability activism need center actual intellectually disabled people / people with intellectual disability. whenever autistic people without ID mistake autism as “an intellectual disability,” it speak over people with ID. it decenter people with ID from their own word / experience / space.

people insulting & mistreating you as autistic person without ID by confuse you with or compare you to people with intellectual disability cry, are saying you “just as bad”, n not mean you affected in same way as people with intellectual disability.

things targeting people with intellectual disability target people with intellectual disability first. they be most affected.

you can (& should) advocate for group of people you not without claim to be one of them. but most of time when people do this, they not even advocating.

autistic people without ID (and people without ID in general) need stop derailing things about people with intellectual disability.

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anti idd is people telling me "i can't possibly have an idd" because it's mild and i speak well

yes, it may seem so, but when you have disorders that cause idd and brain damage that doesn't mean much really.

i can't do/can't do alone so many things

yes i speak well, but idd is a spectrum since not everyone can and can't do the same things

i speak well because you're seeing me using typing assistance built into a phone and i happen to read books often enough to have a decent vocabulary

but apparently i'm "too smart" for idd

this is anti ID

[bebsi-cola]

disabled people, we don't need to care that the people who are stripping rights from people with intellectual disabilities or profound cognitive impairments because maybe they'll go after the rest of us next. we need to care now on the sole basis that these disabled people deserve their dignity. get involved with a disability rights charity or organisation wherever possible

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i need submissions

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Anti ID is the fact that multiple staff at the place I work were taking stuff from the residents and hiding it just because they thought the resident needed less stuff.

A few years back, most of the staff at the location I work at were fired for going into the client's rooms without the knowledge or consent while they were away, putting a bunch of their stuff in boxes, and putting those boxes in the basement where the clients couldn't retrieve it just because. None of their rooms were even messy, not that any level of messy would justify this, they just decided the client needed less stuff in their room and they took stuff very important to the clients and essentially stole it. It went on for years because the clients here don't understand their rights and know when their rights are being violated, until a new member of staff reported them. This was four years ago. The two clients still at the house from this are still traumatized by it and we're still finding these boxes in the basement to this day because the basement is massive, unfinished, and dark. One of the former residents has been deceased for five years and we're still returning her belongings to her relatives because we keep finding her family heirlooms in the basement.

The company put measures in place to protect them from this happening again in the future and this case went clear up to federal court, laws were changed in Ohio because of this, but it should have never happened at all

this is anti id.

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Anti-ID is when my bio family still treats me like I'm 5 even though I'm an adult

this is anti intellectual disability

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no, i don't care if you've been called the r word over being autistic. you have no room to say it if you aren't also intellectually disabled. and frankly? the recent uprising in low support needs autistics trying to claim it is concerning. it is not your word.

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There is so much casual ableism towards people with intellectual-cognitive disabilities. I was listening to a podcast I listen to religiously (and is a very very leftist podcast) and they hit me with the "you'll understand this unless you are Three Years Old." And it was something I didn't understand. And this podcast (that I love!) does this quite frequently. The hosts would never purposely make fun of someone for their disability- but they say things like "no one is that stupid" or similar quite frequently. And as someone who is that stupid- it kinda fucking sucks.

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Anti-ID is how TJ Bright (and to a lesser extent his sister, Sarah,) aka SCP 590, was written. He got his ID through using his healing ability to "cure" several cases of IDD (the article literally uses the r slur here) and basically took away their IDD and gave it to himself because that's how his power works, he heals others by taking the injury or illness onto himself. He's described as mentally three deepite being physically around sixteen and also multiple decades old since he doesn't age. There are also points in the tales where it's implied he's actually faking his ID to manipulate others. Genuinely what was the writer thinking.

simplified text: “The way TJ Bright (aka SCP 590) was written is anti ID. He can heal injuries/disability, but he takes them on himself. This means he gets their injuries/disability when he heals them. So, he got his ID by using his healing power to “cure” several cases of IDD (the article even uses the r slur). He is described as mentally 3, despite being physically 16. There are also points in the stories where it's suggested he's faking his ID to trick others. Honestly, what was the writer thinking?”

this is anti intellectual disability.

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My girlfriend telling me about what her friend says about intellectually disabled kids. His girlfriend works with intellectually disabled kids and he constantly calls that place "the r-slur center" and the kids themselves "r-slurs". His excuse? He grew up on 4chan.

Its safe to say that I now feel completely uncomfortable around him and won't be interacting with him IRL or online again.

this is ableism.

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this is anti intellectual disability.

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when people say the r slur in front of me & I just get so mad cant explain to them why it's bad im just mad & mad & mad

this is anti intellectual disability

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you made an accessible version of ID ableism blogs :)

thank you! i have mild intellectual disability and want this blog to be accessible to all with intellectual disability.

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I'm a DSP who works with people who have ID, and it's a well-known issue for us that random people will come up while we're out in public with the clients to tell us we're angels on Earth or something. Which is not only embarrassing for the client and awkward for us, it also can put the client in danger if we're distracted. It's also mentally hard on the client, who might feel as though their existence and their being in public is being seen as a burden.

This is agorableism.

My mom is also a DSP and she complains about it a lot. Your clients are just people, and it should be normal for them to have accessibility, not some grand gesture on the aide’s part. You need to do your job, and if people are getting in the way that’s dangerous.

People with IDDs will exist, and they will need resources, and that should be normal.

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this is anti intellectual disability

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people adding long and confusing text to my post, then getting mad at me for not understanding.

this is anti intellectual disability

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The r slur is a nasty, nasty word and I do not understand how so many otherwise progressive people hurl it around like confetti. A lot of yall have zero solidarity with those who are intellectually disabled. You are not ""reclaiming"" it when you use it to insult someone. Be real, you just wanna use it cuz it gives you a little surge of catharsis whenever you are Big Mad. Fuck you.

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People ignoring the ID community (intellectual Disability) or not learning about it (thinking autism is an intellectual Disability — it's not — or not knowing that ID is a diagnosis on its own)

Ignoring their input on the R slur (a slur that was made to oppress THEM)

Ignoring their input on being included, on being accommodated, to stop insulting people by saying stuff like "can you not read" or "can you not speak are you stupid" etc.

This is ableism : out casting a part of the disabled community when they become "too disabled"

this is ableism.

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this is anti intellectual disability