I'm Rouri I guess, sense of self being excavated an analyzed, personality currently under construction, they/them, ENFP, Cancer, Mother, Writer in each artistic medium. Special interest in psychology and the empirical study of behaviorism and the brain. Sometimes I draw things. Asks are always open and thoroughly enjoyed.
Thinking real hard about the time some dude in the psych ward with me with a nice British accent, high intellect, and who seemed mostly pretty with it (maybe depressed? I couldn’t tell? Seemed rude to ask) and was cool so I gave him my phone number to be friends maybe and then it turned out the impeccable accent wasn’t real and I had already given him my phone number and when I got out of the hospital and was checking my phone for the first time, sitting on the bench outside waiting for my uber, I had a voice mail from.... inside the hospital.... and it was the guy calling from phone inside the unit to ask me on a date and I was like. “Where is this date going to happen? Is it in the cafeteria? Am I going to come back later this week? During visiting hours?” And later was like “first of all, the audacity, and second of all the audacity” because damn dude you have to have hella confidence for a move like that and I told my friends and we howled for like 30 minutes
it really bothers me that so many people on this site treat ableism like it’s black and white.
just now i saw a post where op was like “i’m glad that spinners are popular because it normalizes fidgets and decreases stigma” and someone replied like “no!! it’s absolutely TERRIBLE that neurotypicals are using these fidgets because when they get in trouble they make things harder for mentally ill kids!!” and like you guys do realize that? you’re both right? it isn’t a decisive fact that neurotypicals using fidgets is either good or bad, there are both benefits and consequences that need to be taken into consideration.
a few months ago there was a post going around that was like, *neurotypical voice* why are you bouncing your leg, and somebody reblogged it saying that the post was ableist because autistic kids can get overstimulated by leg bouncing. i go to a school for the mentally disabled, and i’ve been in this exact scenario, my classmate wasn’t able to focus because i was bouncing my leg and although i felt bad i told him that i wouldn’t be able to stop for long because i do it subconsciously due to my adhd. he wasn’t being ableist for asking me to stop, and i wasn’t being ableist for saying i couldn’t, we just both had different needs. in the end, our compromise was that i went to work in the computer lab.
you have to understand that there is always more than one side to issues like these, and that we should be striving for understanding and balance over demonization of one side and blind support of the other. this is especially relevant when people on both sides are mentally ill or disabled, because sometimes symptoms will clash and you just need to deal with it.
If people wrote about other conditions like they do about autism:
BONUS:
(in short, we’re sick and tired of being treated like infants who are shallow and incapable of basic comprehension. we aren’t your circus animals to parade around and cluck at. don’t think we’re “too stupid” to know what you’re doing. we know exactly what you’re doing. stop infantilizing us. you’re the ones who are really acting like babies.)
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