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Abled privilege is... Getting excited about the prospect of a cure for those with down syndrome that involves tests on children with the genetic condition.
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#250
Abled privilege is... Getting excited about the prospect of a cure for those with down syndrome that involves tests on children with the genetic condition.
#249
Abled Privilege is... lecturing your daughter for stuffing thirty-two Kit Kats in your purse prior to a family vacation and then refusing to take an adequate number of snack breaks throughout the trip despite knowing your daughter has hypoglycemia.
Abled Privilege is... getting annoyed when your daughter reveals that she never took the Kit Kats out of her purse, and winds up consuming all of them to manage her hypoglycemia.
Abled Privilege is... becoming angry when your hypoglycemic daughter becomes anxious at the idea of being away from a ready source of food for more than two hours.
Abled Privilege is...yelling at her for having a blood sugar melt-down after she has not been given access to food quick enough, despite her numerous warnings that she was becoming hungry.
Intersection of abled and thin privilege and possibly wealth privilege:
Abled Privilege is... justifying your annoyance at your hypoglycemic daughter's fear of being separated from food for any amount of time by telling her to look around at all the fat people, and that the large number of them signifies that in America, food is so plentiful and available that there is no legitimate reason to worry about going hungry.
#248
Context: Basically what happened was, my freshman year of high school, I was pulled out of gym class without warning and taking to the psychologist's office. The psych made me take some kind of evaluation, but I wasn't previously informed I would need a new evaluation, or what the evaluation was for. I'd very recently had my need for accommodations questioned, so I assumed they were gonna try to use the evaluation to force me to use a scantron and take away my extra time. So when I took the test, I was very careful to make sure I knew exactly what ever question was asking, and even more careful to give happy, positive answers that emphasized how everything in my life was fine if I had my accommodations.
Then, my junior year of college, I was looking through old paperwork and found out that the psych had noted my answers were overly positive, threw out my written test, and "diagnosed" me with an anxiety problem. They'd used that diagnosis to broker a deal with my parents, where everything relating to anxiety would be taken off my file if I would attend an "intensive social skills" class. I did not want to attend this class and expressed concerns that it would be designed to help people with far more serious social difficulties than I had, like autistics. They made me take the class anyway, even though I was right, it was for people with autism. (There is absolutely nothing wrong with being autistic, but there is something wrong with forcing a kid who does not have autism and functions at a much higher level socially to attend a class geared towards people with low functioning autism against her will.) I was unable to leave that class, or social work, until my social worker killed herself in the middle of the year.
I called my mother, extremely upset that this information had been kept from me. At the time of the evaluation, I did not have a problem with anxiety but likely had some of the precursors to what would become (what I believe) is a full-blown anxiety disorder. (I'm undiagnosed, thanks to my mom, but do experience panic attacks, extreme avoidance tendencies, phantom choking syndrome, and my heart will race or skip beats when I get nervous. Getting my wisdom teeth out triggered a hysterical, sobbing, meltdown.)
#247
(Submitted from http://pietra-dura.tumblr.com/ - I posted the actual submission at the wrong time)
Context: Part of my Learning Disorder NOS is a serious deficit in visual memory retention. I’m literally in the 0.4 percentile in that area.
Abled Privilege is…having to explain to your roommate once again that no, you do not know the streets surrounding your block by name, and that is not for lack of trying.
Abled Privilege is… getting excited upon finding out you scored in the 0.4 percentile in visual memory on your GRE accommodation evaluation because your roommate keeps insisting that you need to learn the names of the streets surrounding your apartment and refuses to believe you have a “real” problem with directions because that’s “not what dyslexia is,” and now you have proof that she’s wrong about you.
#246
Context: (Disability disclosure) Officially, I have a learning disability not otherwise specified, hypoglycemia, a penicillin allergy, and a sensitivity to heavy foods. Unofficially, I almost definitely have heat stroke, an anxiety disorder, and some social deficits I was treated for/am being treated for but my mom won't let me get a diagnosis. I also cannot smell and extreme motion sickness, but I do not know if that's on my medical record yet.
Abled Privilege is... having to prove to your father that it is in fact possible for people with penicillin allergies to be allergic to cheese cultured with penicillin mold, and you weren't making up all the times you had a reaction from accidentally eating that cheese.
#245
Abled Privilege is... never having to worry about how your father will react when you ask him if he used the same knife on all the cheese he just cut because of your allergy.
Abled Privilege is...never having to apologize after said father goes on a rant about how the household is "too allergic for him to deal with" and how unreasonable it is for you to expect him to inform you if the cheese is safe to eat or not.
#244
Intersecting adult and abled privilege
Abled Privilege is... when your father doesn't tell the doctor you're allergic to red dye because he doesn't believe medicine could cause you to have an allergic reaction, even though if the antibiotic is pink.
#243
Context: (Disability disclosure) Officially, I have a learning disability not otherwise specified, hypoglycemia, a penicillin allergy, and a sensitivity to heavy foods. Unofficially, I almost definitely have heat stroke, an anxiety disorder, and some issues with texture/social skills I was treated for/am being treated for but my mom won't let me get a diagnosis. I also cannot smell and have extreme motion sickness, but I do not know if that's on my medical record yet.
Abled Privilege is... not having to explain to your father that no, the reason you were able to sit outside for an hour in ninety degree weather was because the specific conditions required to prevent heat stroke (unlimited supply of cold water, shade, a breeze, and an air-conditioned place to escape to nearby) were met. It is not because you were being dramatic and fussy the numerous other times those conditions were not met.
#242
Abled privilege is... not being constantly corrected for your manners or physically steered out of people's way in public because your dad thinks you being mentally ill means he has to protect other people from your strangeness.
Able privilege is not having your dad be overly corrective for even minor mistakes or social misunderstandings that people who aren't mentally ill make, too.
Able privilege is having him stand up for you or correct other people too when they make YOU uncomfortable.
#241
Abled privilege is… having to sit quietly and smile while your brother and his girlfriend casually use ableist slurs in conversation because your parents have told you to stop making such a big deal over everything and quit fussing.
#240
Abled privilege is… asking if your (visual memory impaired) roommate really needs a parent to come help verify that their property has gone untouched after a recent robbery, and getting annoyed when the answer is, in fact, yes.
#239
Abled privilege is… never getting accused of using your disability as a crutch.
#238
Abled privilege is… informing a student that their self-advocacy is causing problems and they need to work harder at getting along better with their teachers, because that will somehow stop them from withholding your accommodations.
#237
Abled privilege is… explaining that you don'tt know if you will be using my extra time on a final, and your roommate's response is, "Well, how well do you know your shit?" Abled privilege is… when said roommate gets angry and gives you the silent treatment after you calmly tell her that what she was was really insulting and that your use of extra time depends on the format of a test, not how much you studied.
#236
Abled privilege is… believing that you could get a perfect score on your standardized tests if you had extra time too.
#235
Abled privilege is… refusing to let your child be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder or heat stroke because you're worried about having a preexisting condition on insurance.
#234
Trigger Warning: (censored) ableist slurs Abled privilege is… calmly explaining that no, stating that "you're not ret*rded, you can read," is not nearly as offensive as when your dyslexic sister requests that you stop using that language because your other dyslexic sister just decided to go to a school specializing in reading difficulties.