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Reverse Racist. School abolitionist. Capitalism is bad. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. She/her.
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White supremacy is not that. It can cause that to happen, but fundamentally, white supremacy is still about white people keeping global power through war and subjugation (or imperialism, colonialism, slavery and genocide, to be more precise) over everyone else.
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It's so important that we keep sharing all the protests and actions for Palestine to show that their liberation is deeply popular and people are willing and ready to take action against any institution that stands against it.
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Trying to find a bra that's my actual, correct size has taught me exactly why most people are not wearing ones that fit and I need us to start discussing this as a structural issue rather than blaming it on ignorance.
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Bisan went live on TikTok today. She can see us losing hope and not as many protests as there were before and she said she wants us to keep pushing for a ceasefire and keep up the pressure.
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Can't wait for the ableists to find out one of the major reasons I usually can't cook is because of Tourette's, where you do involuntary movements you literally cannot prove are involuntary the vast majority of the time they happen (I've ticced under anesthesia, so I guess...
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Hi, I have tourette's syndrome. My tics mean that knives are extremely dangerous for me to use. There are also many, many disabilities that can make eating uncut oranges and other fruit very difficult or impossible. This makes preprepared fruit an accessibility feature.
America creates so much trash that we outsource it to Asian countries. But now they’ve had enough. Full piece:
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So I just found out my local community college is making accommodations for any student with coronavirus that they couldn't make for me while I was there with my chronic illness and I'm just a little salty.
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Bisan is live rn and calling for a global strike ok the 21st of January! Spread the word!
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We should bully doctors more. They're actually really weird (derogatory) people and get away with too much. Stigmatize the profession.
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If I said hypothetically that disability impacts my ability to cut my own hair, ableds would pretend they've never gotten a professional haircut in their life, start going off about the exploitation of hair stylists and conclude you're not a person if you can't cut your own...
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Sorry, I wrote this quickly while the live buffered, but to be clear, this means on January 21st, we don't do any economic activity. No working, no buying, no school. Shut everything down. We demand an end to this genocide and we grow stronger with every action we take.
Bisan is live rn and calling for a global strike ok the 21st of January! Spread the word!
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So most of the comments thankfully aren't like this thankfully, but some of y'all do need to stop telling people we just don't need bras and are being silly and patriarchal by buying them or whatever. Some of us want support and comfort, which bras are supposed to do.
Trying to find a bra that's my actual, correct size has taught me exactly why most people are not wearing ones that fit and I need us to start discussing this as a structural issue rather than blaming it on ignorance.
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The idea that disabled people, even disabled people who literally can't work at all, under any metric, are burdens is such bullshit. Whenever life improves for disabled people, it improves for literally everyone else. People really act like humans haven't survived by caring for
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that proves some tics, but I'm usually not under anesthesia, huh). A disorder most people think is just a behavioral issue where you only swear or "say what you're really thinking" that's probably made up anyways. Why would I need food delivery for that, right?
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Ppl don't want to hear this, but this is what's gonna happen in many cases w/the ppl buying used phones too bc it's all planned obsolescence. And I'm not saying to not buy used phones. I'm saying we need more strategies against companies making things like this in the first place
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You know, if Biden isn't going to raise SSI like he said he would, the less than bare minimum thing he could do is let us accept gifts and make it not illegal to have more than $2000. Like at least make it legal for us to not be poor, please and thank you.
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This might be a hot take, but therapists aren't actually for basic emotional support and the fact that so many people feel like they have to pay for even that points to a much larger systemic issue.
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Meanwhile there are a thousand viral "cooking with Tourette's" videos people have been using as mere entertainment this whole time without learning not a single thing.
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If you think those running our concentration camps in America will stop with immigrants, you don't know how fascism works.
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Can we actually just acknowledge real quick how inaccessible medication packaging can be?
I seriously hate pill packets like this. When my normal fibro hand pain is combined with the extra fatigue I get when muggle sick, these things are impossible to open. Why do they have to make these so hard to open?! Looks like I need to go get some scissors.
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"Getting back to normal" is just "Make America Great Again" for liberals.
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You actually have a higher chance of escaping a prison than any mental health institution determined to keep you there. They don't even need a trial or proof of anything. That's why politicians are discussing expanding them to "deal with" the homeless population 🫠.
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I do wish more people would measure themselves for their correct size because maybe then we'd all realize how badly the bra industry is screwing over the vast majority of people who use bras. Most of us absolutely don't fit in the available sizes.
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A TikTok just made this click for me. The "cognitive and personality changes" a lot of esp white cc people are seeing around them is actually just ableism and fascism that they're just getting a taste of for the first time now that they mask and it's on the rise.
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I'm straight sized by the way. Still thin by many people's standards even. I could hardly find anything and I had to pay a ton to get an option that was actually my size, which was worth it to me, but it's incredible how difficult and expensive this was.
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The other reason is a chronic illness that they all still insist is psychological and my own fault while they recklessly spread it to everyone else through covid, so I think I'm out of luck there too.
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Racism is not caused by mental illness. Racism is not caused by intellectual/cognitive disabilities. Racism is not caused by dementia. Racism is not caused by Autism. Racism is not caused by Tourette's.
Stop reaching for these explanations automatically to explain racism.
As a Black disabled person, y'all really need to stop blaming racism on disabilities. Who do y'all think this is helping? Why are people still doing this?
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This is my mutual in Gaza and they're sooo close to their goal. Please chip in if you can and share and interact with this post. I think we all know how important this is and anything helps. Thank you!
The last time I asked to reach a partial goal, it was from 33,000 to 40,000, and we achieved it in only 5 days! Now the goal is shorter. How much do we need to reach 60,000? Let's do it
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Hi, if you're a doctor and you hate poor and marginalized people this much, you need another job.
And if you're somehow confused by that statement, you need to learn more about poor and marginalized people before you try to treat them, cause this stuff is why we die.
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Yeah, idk who needs to hear this, but eugenics is still a really popular idea. A lot of y'all believe in it and don't even realize because you haven't truly unpacked what it is and exactly why it's wrong. Like so many people still believe in a white supremacist idea of evolution.
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Idk who needs to hear this, but "I'm not talking about real disabled people. I'm talking about the hoards of abled people using disability as an excuse to be lazy" is a terrible defense against accusations of ableism and no one believes you.
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If you want to eradicate fascism from the root, it simply isn't optional to leave the ideology of "intelligence" unaddressed. It's unscientific, eugenicist and glues together so many other kinds of oppression. It is impossible to let go of fascism without letting go of this idea.
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This is my mutual trying to escape from Gaza. Please donate to their gofundme if at all possible. Nothing is too small and everything helps. And at the very least, interact as much as possible with this post and share so it can get to more people who can donate. Thank you ❤️
Your support is my last hope to build a better future after losing everything and destroying my home and university. Your donation will move me from nothingness to life.
donate, share in twitter , instagram, and any plase 🙏🏼
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People really don't realize that BIPOC have a deep understanding of whiteness already. You actually don't need a white person's experience to discuss white supremacy, especially considering many white people don't understand it themselves. Cause they don't have to.
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"Oh you have a debilitating chronic illness that causes lots of pain and discomfort and severely reduces your activity levels..........
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Wow, I wish I could lay in bed all day. That's like a constant summer vacation." 🤦🏾♀️
#DisabledCompliments
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I'm kind of uncomfortable with the entire idea of doing your best to not spread a deadly virus becoming an identity in itself. And I especially don't like the way white people weild those identities.
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It's worth reiterating that turning "covid brain damage" into an insult and using it to explain fascist behaviors not only does nothing to help advocacy around covid, but actively sets us back. Ableism cannot be repurposed from its fascist roots. It just can't.
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I need people to discuss the increasing use of the r slur without acting like it went away ever. And also connect it to the rise in general eugenicist sentiments cause this is not an isolated, mysterious issue. It's not even a little bit surprising.
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Not to be conspiratorial or anything, but it genuinely cannot be a coincidence this is happening everywhere all at once.
The UK Government is trying to pass new laws that would criminalise sleeping on the streets with a fine up to £2,500, or even prison.
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This is how people are thinking when they say "I would never make fun of a real disabled person". Which is to say not much thinking is happening. Just ableism and vibes.
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This is exactly what happened to Black and other indigenous peoples here within the US.
Want to know the extent of Israeli settler-colonial vindictiveness? Did you know that Israel passed a law to ban and criminalize Palestinians from harvesting za'atar (hyssop), akoub (gundelia) & sage (maramiya)– wild herbs used in traditional Palestinian cuisine for centuries?🧵
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I really need all oppressed people to internalize this because it took me a while: If someone isn't already convinced you're a human being worthy of respect, there is *nothing* you can do to convince them otherwise.
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If you're white, you really need to realize that not all your good doctors will be my good doctors.
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Gonna start tweeting as if my disabilities are the default and then when ableds are like "but wait, we're not all like that" I'm gonna be like "I OBVIOUSLY wasn't talking about YOU. I was talking about PEOPLE. Stop inserting yourself into every conversation omg."
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I've never gotten a medical diagnosis without googling first and my accuracy rate is FAR higher than all my doctors.
But in a sense, you're right. I'm not a doctor. I have no qualifications.
So I wish our medical system would stop asking me to be.
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I know you might not have known this, but you have a large platform and messages like these make life harder for a lot of disabled people. I suggest getting to know some disabled activists and learning from them so mistakes like these happen less frequently.
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I'm going to scream. I just spent nearly an hour and a half on the phone with
@SouthwestAir
just to learn they told me to call the wrong department. Again, this is after they broke my wheelchair, didn't fix it for a month & now don't want to compensate me for my lost income. 🙃
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Disability being expensive is a sign of oppression, not that we're all rich ffs, like....... how do you think this works? Poverty is expensive too, but it's poverty.....
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Hey allies: This is a perfect example of exactly what not to do. You are not us. The best way to support us is to actually signal boost our voices, not appropriate our struggles so you can look "woke". Stop dominating the conversation with these shenanigans.
I’m trans. I’m a person of color. I’m an immigrant. I’m a lesbian. I’m a gay man. I’m the disabled.
I’m everything. And so are you, Kirk.
Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know or understand. No one wants to hurt you. We are all just looking for our happily ever after.
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Please keep RTing this and
@SouthwestAir
. Again, they broke my wheelchair. They're fixing it, but haven't done so or given me a replacement chair for a month. I've lost work because of this and haven't been compensated for it. A voucher was offered, but nothing for lost income.
I'm going to scream. I just spent nearly an hour and a half on the phone with
@SouthwestAir
just to learn they told me to call the wrong department. Again, this is after they broke my wheelchair, didn't fix it for a month & now don't want to compensate me for my lost income. 🙃
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I'm gonna need ableds to realize their jealousy for their imagined version of my illness is really their hatred of capitalism.
You don't really want a debilitating chronic illness. You want to not have to make someone else money all day so you can barely survive.
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They died.
If you're asking, what did disabled people do before x life saving measure.......they died 🙃.
@aIIis8n
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But what did everyone do before covid??? Are we supposed to wear masks forever??? What about the flu? Common colds??? There’s always bugs going around. Always has been, always will be. How long are we supposed to do this shit lmao
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Hey hey hey, I love Al Jazeera's reporting usually, but why am I seeing them platforming Shaun King?? Do they somehow not know??? This man must be stopped.
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This isn't even to mention, frozen food is made by exploited workers. Who do you think makes it? Just because we don't see or interact with the exploited workers, doesn't mean workers weren't exploited.
so y’all definitely don’t go to restaurants or fast food, use uber, go shopping at most retail stores, use amazon, seek healthcare anywhere with CNAs or MAs, utilize childcare, send your kids to schools… right?
because those models also function by massively underpaying workers?
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Leftists who think health is some kind of moral value you have to personally uphold are eugenicists who will expose everyone to covid and then abandon them the second they get long covid, systematically destroying any movements they're allowed to partake in.
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I think caregivers, family, friends and people around disabled people need to be listened to less actually.
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I wish we'd discuss more what it means to be in a capitalist society knowing you can't and never will be able to work.
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I just want to remind people responding to that awful video showing someone trying to get gluten free bread to the IOF not to act like gluten free bread is some luxury Palestinians aren't thinking about bc I can guarantee that there are Palestinians with celiac or other...
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Tourette's is not about swearing. Tourette's is not about swearing. Tourette's is not about swearing.
Tourette's is not about swearing.
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I know a lot of ppl get confused abt this, but it's really important, so I wanted to put it out there again:
Trauma bonds aren't people bonding over shared trauma. That can actually be a very healthy way to cope.
Trauma bonds are when you bond with the person traumatizing you.
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I also wonder how much more easily this would be contained if people had just listened to chronically ill people all along. Many people don't have enough sick days and can't risk less school attendance already, so it was a disaster waiting to happen.
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Stop seeing doctors as angels who can't be criticized and start recognizing that western medicine is a violent, colonialist, capitalist institution that comes with all the same pitfalls as the rest of colonialist, capitalist societies and doctors are complicit.
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I'm begging us to have a real conversation about how covid affects the brain without blaming all of society's ills that existed before covid on supposedly evil brain damaged people. It's very frustrating as someone who's had ME the past 16 years or so.
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Hey, if you're not chronically ill, it's not a good idea to use "spoons". That was created for us and isn't applicable to everyone. Chronically ill people made it to describe a unique experience that gets watered down when ableds try to use it.
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I'm literally not legally allowed to, so I'd say so.
Would it be a reach to say it’s a privilege to save money?
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As a Black disabled person, y'all really need to stop blaming racism on disabilities. Who do y'all think this is helping? Why are people still doing this?
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This pandemic is pushing more and more of us towards a political question I've never been able to answer and what most people don't even know is a question. How do you resist when you're as sick, you can hardly do anything? When you're sick past what most people can imagine?
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ADHD brain: Let's do all the things.
Chronically ill body: No.
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It just hit me what's bothering me about doctors recently.
They've spent their whole careers (ESPECIALLY during the pandemic actually) treating disabled people as disposable & now they're surprised that system they were complicit in finds them disposable too.
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Just so everyone knows, Shaun King is a scammer. The Palestinians are just his latest target after he ran out of Black movements to exploit. Giving him attention and praise rn will not be worth any good you might think he's doing.
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Just for the record, if someone tells you they can't eat x and you try to sneak x into their meal somehow or trick them into eating it, you need to be held accountable for attempted murder or at the very, very least, assault.
That's not something to be played around with.
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No no no, don't delete now.
Very interesting the reply you chose to hide on this one 🙄
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I don't think we should underestimate the role of ableism in manufacturing consent for the TikTok ban for years. A lot of people, especially doctors, hated disabled people being able to control our own representation and generally be in public.
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Is it weird to anyone else that it's an incredibly common problem for abusers to get worse after therapy and yet therapists like.....do nothing about that?
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When we talk about the pandemic as a mass disabling event, I think we should be a bit more specific that a major complication covid is causing, and one of *the most disabling* complications, is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or ME. And we should be looking to the ME community for
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I'm going to remind people that I got ME from a flu 15 years ago and I've been too sick to work or care for myself ever since. When you say "we didn't do x for the flu", you should just be able to realize our societies are bad at dealing with viruses in general.
I find the “we don’t self isolate with the flu” argument so funny because like, maybe we shouldn’t be going to school or work or a big shopping trip when we’re sick in general
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This isn't like...a fully formed thought, disclaimer. But does anyone else feel weird about all the doctor praise rn? And I'm not saying it's bad. I don't think it is.
It's just like.....how do I process that when I probably wouldn't get proper care because of who I am?
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It's almost like the people who can't work out.....wouldn't be training with you. Mind blowing, I know.
I train people with disabilities 😭 they work out y'all. They are interested in fitness too
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hair and that you should die for some reason. That's how reactive they are. It could literally be about anything.
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Do not expect that you'll be able to get on disability if you catch long covid. It was already nearly impossible for most people and it's about to get even worse cause they're not about to let as many people who will be disabled after covid get on that system.
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Some men can give birth. Some women cannot. Reproductive rights aren't about gender.
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The job of a therapist is to treat what white colonial society identifies as pathologies enough to let you function under capitalism, which is what some people need to survive in this society, but a lot of rhetoric I see isn't honest about that purpose.
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I really wish people understood how much power there is in claiming the word "disabled" and letting go of the shame we're taught to have about our bodies and brains. Disabled isn't a negative word. It connects us to a community, culture & identity that is powerful.
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Folks aren't gonna want to hear this, but people who can't read are oppressed people.
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Wow, you know I've really been looking for an elevator that's gonna crush me and my wheelchair as I walk in. I need it for..... some reason. /s
A paternoster lift is a passenger elevator, each designed for two persons, that move slowly in a loop without stopping.
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Ok so just a note: when I say I lack energy, that's not the same thing as lacking motivation. I have a chronic illness that severely limits my energy. Physical energy. It's not like my depression when I find it hard to work up the mental/emotional energy to do something.
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Why is the concept of medical neglect applied to parents and caregivers, but not like...... doctors?
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If y'all still don't think disease is a weapon for genocide.....
After reintroducing polio in Gaza after it had been eradicated, the Israeli military is now rolling out a polio vaccine booster programme. But not for Gazans. For the soldiers killing Gazans. This is exactly what colonial extermination looks like
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Idk if people have realized, but most abusers and assholes in general still have community and most people who don't are just oppressed. So there's no reason to use lack of community as a blanket red flag except to strengthen systems of abuse and oppression.
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So much of what people consider to make someone "a real adult" excludes disabled people. No wonder we're infantilized.
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Remember, even if you can't fully participate in the strike tomorrow, that doesn't mean you have to give up on it. I do think it's right to take on some risk and difficulty, but if it's totally impossible, I think we can all at least refrain from buying anything but absolute...
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The thing people who are legitimately worried about self-diagnosis don't often realize is that my doctors not only don't diagnose me with what I have. I've probably experienced much more misdiagnosis from them than accurate diagnoses.
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You're not a bad person if your disability holds you back. You can have limitations. You're not doing anything wrong if you're listening to your body.
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Ok, this is something I need to spell out because it happens too much.
When I post something complaining about something white people do, if you're white, you do not need to come and tell me how you never do the thing. You don't need to tell me what a good white you are.
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I was today years old when I figured out that your hormone levels can change ADHD symptoms and even the effectiveness of ADHD medication.
Misogyny in medicine strikes again 🙃.
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The idea that you need a "valid medical reason" to wear a mask is gonna bring out the disability police in droves. And fakeclaiming has already been getting far worse in response to this pandemic. Get ready for drs to start pushing this even more than usual too.
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Something that really clarified for me in tonight's book club: all oppression is rooted in ableism. It's not that ableism is worse somehow. It's that oppression is rooted in the idea of an inferior body and especially brain, a construct that was shaped by white supremacy.
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It's really telling if you see lgbtq+ issues and disability issues as wholly separate from Black issues.
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