Hi friends so many of you know I made a lifesize holiday Barbie dress and you all know I live in Memphis so ofc I had to model it in front of the bass pro shop pyramid and my boyfriend took this amazing picture which I had to share with y’all bc it’s hilarious
PLEASE keep this in mind PLEASE and PLEASE look at the targeted BDS list because a lot of people seemed surprised to learn Puma was on there so please please please do not stop boycotting
Oh my god my condos property manager just emailed me that accommodations mess up the uniform aesthetic of the property and that I should’ve asked about this before moving in so they could reject it before I bought my place… she really should’ve ran that one by an attorney first.
“what did people do before delivery”
“what did people do before vaccines”
“what did people do before medicine”
they died or made do with other things people shamed them for idk what to tell you it’s not any different now
Does it bother anyone else when a professor has “no extended deadlines for any reason” written in their syllabus, and then when you’re like “hey I have a disability should I not take this class?” they’re like “Omg why would you think I wouldn’t extend the deadline for you?” +
y’all no one is trying to get the lemonade banned they just want it to be properly labeled as an energy drink that’s not too much to ask. the people that died closely watched what they consumed because of heart issues and Panera failed to give necessary, LIFE OR DEATH information
This was in response to me asking what documentation she needed btw. She didn’t even bother to do the song and dance like she has no evidence of an attempt to accommodate me. Even if legally it doesn’t work out, there’s going to be consequences
This is getting a lot of attention so I feel the need to explain this joke that only a few of u will read lol:
My university is one of the worst about providing accommodations and they are really good at getting away with illegally refusing them and I talk about it on here a lot
what sucks is the DEA thinks the same thing so a bunch of us don’t have meds and can’t function because people with zero medical knowledge feel comfortable asserting this
my top boomer take is that I think 75% of people on meds don’t actually need them and should do a year of traditional talk or eastern therapy before trying any medication
“I hate chronically online people,” ok. I hate casually online people. y’all come in here and comment “it’s not that deep” on everything you see. the internet is for people who want to talk about things and people who have been pushed out of irl spaces if that isn’t you GET OUT
so what age do y’all think skincare, makeup, shape wear, etc. are acceptable?
(genuine question. just curious about y’all’s opinions. please be respectful of others just stating their opinion and don’t start fights in the comments.)
This is why disabled students commit suicide btw. Speaking from experience.
I know people don’t like to hear that but it’s true and if you are going to support the discrimination we face you should have the spine to say you don’t care when we kill ourselves.
Granted, the spike in disability accomidations for things like “anxiety” and ADHD, is probably one part students failing to cope with the challeges of college life, one part kids who realize that it’s incredibly easy to game the system. Both are problems!
you guys have traumatized service workers why is she crying and shaking telling me at 7pm they don’t have all the donuts in stock? baby it’s ok I kinda figured this
@queenveej
One time my shopper (a woman) saw my note about being disabled and she wiped all the groceries down before dropping them off 😭 I tipped 40% she was so kind
A woman’s urge to ask her boyfriend if he’d still love her if she were a worm stems from her wanting to know if he’d still love her if she were disabled. Men leave women after they become sick. She wants to know he would still be there for her if she couldn’t be a caretaker.
@parasocialyte
@kattenbarge
My family friend is a pediatrician and she had to make a pamphlet explaining this but she said all the moms have been really receptive right away so I’m hoping it’s a general lack of knowledge bc that’s fixable
if you can’t function without your medication you are disabled that includes mental health you are not “appropriating” a label or taking up space where you don’t belong
I know finding sponsors is hard but promoting betterhelp feels like a liability idk one day there’s going to be a documentary and your sponsor clip is going to be in it!! avoid it!!
Should’ve said this earlier but the reason the disability community is so shocked by this is that faking a disability is super rare and makes zero sense to us.
TO BE CLEAR WE LOVE THE ACCOMMODATING DISABLED STUDENTS PART Y’ALL JUST SCARE US WITH THE FIRST PART (because you don’t make your syllabus from the pov of a disabled student and that’s ok unless you want to change that idk up to you!!:))
“pirating is illegal” so is smoking weed, selling unlicensed merch, underage drinking, rolling through a stop sign, getting an abortion in some places, owning more than 6 dildos in texas, jaywalking, speeding, throwing out mail sent to a previous tenant. don’t act high and mighty
ok I officially want to share this on twitter. my betterhelp therapist told me she doesn’t think I’m autistic she just thinks I’m Jewish and from chicago (this was unprompted, I’m not self or officially dx’d as autistic)
Oh my god she just emailed me “I don’t understand how this accommodation helps you why can’t you just do [thing that does the exact opposite function]” and then threatened to fine me lmao ok yeah babe that’ll end well for you
Still thinking about how being diagnosed with ADHD and then years of therapy to “help” did nothing* but one time I googled “how to do things,” found
@blkgirllostkeys
website, went back to school, and now I’m about to get all my scholarships back.
@katimcf
like oh the woman who is extremely open about her personality disorder sometimes displays negative emotions publicly? the woman who takes medication that causes weight gain has gained weight? god forbid…
Medication isn’t always available for ADHDers. Even if it is, sometimes it’s not the best fit. Adderall treats my ADHD and narcolepsy but I hated it for a long time. My doctors were kind enough to help me find some alternatives:
My friend is a SWer and sometimes she has to promote stuff on social media and I am not good at discerning between the promotions and the other posts so sometimes I’ll be like “Omg bud looking AMAZING 😍🔥💜” and get a text like “hey girl appreciate the support, pls delete tho”
I would probably add “with the exception of disability” at the beginning if anyone was wondering. I know good professors don’t realize this but a lot of y’all’s colleagues don’t give us legally mandated accommodations:/ so “with the exception of disability” is not a given to us
This is a really great marketing strategy! The vintage community is made up of a ton of queer people and clearly they want to shift their customer base. This got my attention. I just followed! Hope they thank you for the free advertising, Bethany. Wouldn’t know them without you!
One of my favorite dress shops- a modest old fashioned linen company- featured a man modeling their dresses. They’re down 1,000 followers and the comments are a dumpster fire for them. I truly do not understand what they expected. Who do they think their audience is?
This person on tiktok went out with someone and discovered they’re the person who saved her by calling the fire department about a year ago when their apartment was on fire and everyone’s like “Aw soulmates” meanwhile my brain is like “omg they’ve been stalking you a year”
@amberjans
That’s something I’m hoping to find out. I know one of my neighbors is disabled so I plan to talk to her and ideally I can check in with everyone. There’s not a ton of us so 🤞
Contrary to popular belief, we don’t love revolving our lives around our medical conditions or endlessly talking abt them online. We have to to find answers. I’ll prob explain this better later. just had to quickly say this bc fakers get more attention than those really in need
Me: I just wish I had a way to distribute some of my weight to like my arms or something when I walk idk how to explain it but like something to hold onto
My friend: so a walker? The thing your doctor suggested?
Me, ruined by internalized ableism: ur just not getting it
I’m not trying to be insensitive but if you’re going to insert yourself into disability Twitter, catfish all of us, project onto others about faking disability, etc. the LEAST you could do is keep your account up so we can look through all the weird lies you’ve told
I’m the most annoying “lesser of two evils” “you have to vote” bitch I know and even I don’t believe it anymore. I don’t think democrats realize how many people they are losing.
Thank you for giving a perfect example in this thread about the difference in the consequences for people refusing accommodations (suicide) vs giving accommodations to the few who fake (some people got to live more comfortably which led to everyone living more comfortably)
Funny story when I lived on the lawn, literally half of us went *cough, cough I have allergies* to the disability office in order to get an A/C unit. Because who wants to be A/C-less in VA heat?!
Anyway the next year they gave all lawnies A/C units lol.
hanging out with straight friends (who don’t hang out w a lot of queer people) is funny bc they’ll say something like “idk if I could date a guy shorter than me” and I’m just kinda like “oh so we’re still on this? that prompt from Facebook in 2013 is still a conversation topic?”
I think you should only be allowed to deny accommodations after the disabled person requesting them puts you through a short trial to see if YOU can function without them.
@annathropoIogy
there’s like 5 Christmas lists going around. some people are talking about shape wear. some are talking about skincare. some are talking about makeup. so I just squeezed it into one post lol
I can’t believe the worst thing in the world to abled people is using resources to help each other. Must be a nice life if that’s fr your biggest problem.
I wish people understood that disabled people know the difference between “I can’t do X thing” and “I won’t know if I can’t do it until I try” like we’re not as defeatist as people treat us we’ve just thought about things longer than you
frustrating that this is a hot take outside of our community but disability is a part of life. you’re very very likely to be disabled at some point. this inaccessible world we’ve built is so ridiculous because despite disability being inevitable, people think disability = death +
I’m so tired of this and I’m so tired of people saying it’s totally fine and cool. there’s a lot of ways to show solidarity with Jewish people. I do not believe this is one of them.
Today is the first light of Hanukkah. We're not Jewish, but my daughter wants to light a menorah this year in solidarity with all her Jewish friends.
Would this be offensive to Jews, to light a menorah when not Jewish?
@flklrsae
@disappr_val
I hate it so much. And then women are like “hello this makes me uncomfortable” and ofc it turns into either hateful and angry replies or just a continuation like “🥺 sorry mommy we didn’t mean it” like omfg get help 😭😭
I don’t think this is at the forefront of most women’s minds but I do think many are concerned their partner is only with them because of looks and what they do for their partner, not who they are to their partner.
“Not everything is about ADHD”
Sorry to break it to you but ADHD brains are literally a different shape than other brains. It affects emotions, information processing, hormones, etc. So yes, I do always keep ADHD in mind because it affects everything.
this is ableism btw. most of the qrts on that post are. everyone’s disdain for adhders is ableism. the “omg you people can’t do anything” post is ableism.
@queend236
Idk why people are being so annoying in your qrts when literally none of this is your fault. It’s not weird to expect the person you’re paying to go to the door lmao if they couldn’t, they needed to express that to you.
@Katt_85
@MichaelaOkla
@Novaya_Tofana
this exchange reads like no one would tell her the answer until she identified herself as the girl who didn’t know raisins were grapes
“I’m Christian but I have Jewish blood” ok well that’s VERY alarming. where did you get it?? to whom does it belong?? would they like it back??? is it too late????
I was talking to my boyfriend about how we’re going to handle long distance and it was 11:53 and I was like “I’m so sorry I don’t have any streak freezes I have to do this rn”😭😭😭
my friend was on his phone at lunch and i was giving him the "hang up and hang out" stare and he looks up and goes oh i'm sorry hold on i have to do my duolingo i have a 871 day streak y'all i'm in tears rn
antisemitism is really bad right now. a lot of Jews feel unsafe and there’s a lot of us who are fighting for Palestinian liberation without denying that so maybe y’all could fix what is an obvious skill issue and stop thinking your antisemitism is activism