#ableism

[prokopetz]

Tumblr: Only neurotypical people do X. Neurodivergent people never do X. It's literally never necessary to do X, and if you do, you are by definition acting out of malice.

Neurodivergent person whose neurodivergence primarily expresses itself as X:

#tumblr #neurodiversity #ableism #animated gif

[creature-wizard]

Since the r-slur is making a comeback (you know, the word that starts with R, has six letters, and ends in D), I'm gonna make a little PSA:

Yes, it's an ableist slur.

Terms like "asshat," "head-up-ass," "up their own ass," and "high on their own farts" exist. There's also words like crap, dogshit, half-assed, assclown, and chucklefuck. And on the less vulgar side, there are terms like ridiculous, nonsense, train wreck, pointless, insipid, self-absorbed, pretentious, annoying, boring, contemptible, vile, and disgusting.

Substituting words like restarted, poptarted, brain damaged, smoothbrain, etc. is still ableist, because either 1. you obviously still mean the r-word, or 2. you're still using disability as an insult.

#r slur mention #psa #slurs #ableism #ableist slurs #social skills

[gothhabiba]

hey guys, I could use your help with something! Sue is a Black disabled mother, migrant, and PhD student at Newcastle University who urgently needs solidarity. Newcastle University is reporting her to the Home Office in retaliation for her complaint about her abusive supervisor, in full awareness of her Stage 5 kidney disease. this is a life-and-death situation.

here's how you can help:

retweet Unis Resist Border Control's tweet about Sue's abusive situation at the University of Newcastle

sign the open letter to Newcastle University by 22 May

pass a motion with your UCU branch (template here)

donate to help Sue find a kidney donor, apply to Leave to Remain, pay solicitor fees, and cover living costs

Sue's story from the #WeAreAllSue toolkit:

In 2022, Sue Agazie, high-achieving in her field, was promised financial support for her tuition fees through scholarships and paid opportunities and enrolled into the PhD programme at Newcastle University Business School with this understanding. When Sue arrived in the UK in 2023, however, she learned that all of this financial promise was a lie; the scholarships that she had been promised never materialised. Instead, she has gone into horrific debt and is having trouble surviving.

For almost a year, Sue sought financial support for herself and her family, including grants and opportunities that would burnish the reputation of her supervisor and university as a whole. However, in that year, her supervisor not only prevented her from applying to scholarships and paid opportunities, but further controlled her research and day-to-day quality of life, with a high-level of surveillance, inappropriate supervisory practices, and escalating harassment of both her and her family.

These practices include this supervisor repeatedly preventing Sue from taking part in important professional development activities, such as research presentations, within the Business School. He also isolated her from her senior colleagues, forbidding her from attending particular activities they were facilitating, or spreading malicious rumours about them. Further, the primary supervisor repeatedly ignored Sue's pleas for support on funding applications and other opportunities that would alleviate the precarious financial situation into which she had been placed, telling her to “stop sending me links to scholarships”.

This behaviour would culminate in the primary supervisor verbally abusing Sue a number of times, and maligning Sue’s husband, alleging that he has been too lazy to financially support her. These inappropriate supervisory practices belie Newcastle University’s commitment to gender equality under the Athena SWAN Charter, for which it holds a Silver award, and for which the Business School holds a Bronze award.

An environment of terror and retaliation

This environment of surveillance, harassment, and terror has grossly impacted the health of Sue as well as that of her spouse and children. In particular, her kidney condition escalated to stage 5 kidney disease, a severe and terminal illness that causes disablement and time-sensitive, highly-delicate medical needs, during this ordeal. The National Kidney Foundation in the United States indicates that “stress and uncontrolled reactions to stress” can “lead to kidney damage.” These compounding issues have also understandably affected Sue's studies, although she has bravely persisted in her research, meeting important deadlines.

Sue raised these issues using relevant avenues of informal complaint, including her supervisory teams and student support services; there are multiple complaints that have been raised in this department. However, she did not receive sufficient support. Further, her severe health issues were not treated with the urgency and importance that they deserved. In October and November 2023, Sue's supervisor accused her of allegedly plagiarising his work in what Sue sees as a malicious act of retaliation and victimisation over her informal complaint, and an attempt to sabotage her reputation not just at Newcastle University, but to prestigious global networks. Following all of this mistreatment, Sue filed a formal complaint against her supervisor in February 2024.

Newcastle University is closing ranks

The university came back to Sue on 5 March 2024 with its response, alleging that she had fabricated the complaint against her supervisor in retaliation for his accusations of research misconduct against her, painting this vulnerable, disabled African student as a malicious liar. The supervisor even denies the relevance of her terminal illness and implicates her young child's behaviour in his response, while maintaining that her terminal illness "has nothing to do with her studies or work pressure here". Sue maintains: “During the time that I was supervised by the primary PhD supervisor, he neither kept in regular communication about my disability nor did he signpost me to relevant services within and outside of Newcastle University that could help me. It is dangerous for the primary supervisor to maintain that my disability would not have affected my studies. His comments show a gross level of disability discrimination that does not befit the reputation that Newcastle University seeks to cultivate as an inclusive place.”

Now, the university is claiming that Sue is not "engaging" sufficiently with the programme, and is threatening to report her to the Home Office, despite a written promise in January 2024 that her status would be unaffected due to the ongoing complaint process, and full knowledge of her terminal stage 5 kidney failure. Adding more insult to injury, Newcastle University Accommodation Service has been hounding Sue for rent arrears, even though they know she is critically ill and in a complaint with the university, surviving with the support of Food & Solidarity. Sue has pleaded with the university’s Accommodation Service for a rent freeze, indicating her urgent health complications and her complaint underway with the university. In all correspondences, the Accommodation Service has ignored Sue’s pleas for clemency. There is real fear that the Accommodation Service will evict Sue, her husband and their child. This will, no doubt, cause real precarity to Sue’s already fragile health condition.

We are appalled that the Newcastle University Business School is utilising obvious misogynoirist tropes to close ranks around a disabled Black migrant student who has been treated horribly, and weaponising her precarious migrant status against her as she attempts to seek justice. We are also aware that Sue is not the only student in this situation and that there have been other complaints in this department. It is a stark illustration of the pernicious institutional racism at Russell Group universities that a disabled Black migrant woman with caring responsibilities has been treated this way not only by a supervisor, but by the institution, as well as the abject way these universities instrumentalise migrant students from the Global South as sources of income that they can afterwards dispose of.

Sue maintains that this ordeal has not diminished her resolve to complete her PhD studies at Newcastle University Business School. She says, “I want to finish my PhD research. But for that to happen, Newcastle University must provide the necessary support for a disabled student in a non-abusive environment. I hope that the university listens to me and we can come to a resolution on this matter soon.”

#WeAreAllSue #ableism #misogynoir #academia

[heyftinally]

"You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me."

Somehow I don't think this is where Taylor Swift was raised.

Asylums we centers of horrific abuse, primarily of disabled people.

They were tied or chained up.

They were experimented on.

They were sexually abused and raped.

They were beaten.

They were degraded.

They were neglected.

They were murdered.

Asylums served as a way to hide away people with disabilities from society, pretend they never existed, and leave them to die alone, afraid, and in pain. Many having little to no idea why.

The fact that Taylor Swift, an able bodied, neurotypical billionaire who has never encountered even a fraction of the oppression asylum victims did and disabled people still do, thinks this is an acceptable metaphor is nothing short of selfish, vile, out of touch ableism.

She is profiting off of the abuse and the murder of disabled people. She's making light of their abuse by comparing it to her cushy, well to do childhood.

Let's take a look at Taylor Swift's "asylum":

Huge house. Huge yard. Detached two-car garage. In ground pool.

This is not an asylum. It's a home. She had a home. She had her family around her. That family did what they could to support her and make her successful.

That is not asylum life.

She was not experimented on by doctors who believed she was incapable of thinking or feeling. She was not left for dead because nobody could be bothered to clean and feed her when she was incapable of doing so herself. She was not denied access to society or human connection. She was not murdered for being disabled.

Might she have been abused? Sure. Abuse does not make an asylum.

This lyric is nothing short of ableist, and it demonstrates with incredible clarity that Taylor Swift only supports minorities when it makes her look good and suits her purposes. She doesn't care about actually being informed about oppression or being a good person. She'll use minorities in whatever ways she believe will rake in the most profit. She doesn't care who she hurts, as long as she adds another couple millions to her billions.

It's time to demand some real accountability.

#taylor swift #anti taylor swift #taylor swift critical #mental illness #ableism #asylum abuse #mental asylums #mental asylum #abuse #child abuse #medical abuse #medical neglect #medical experimentation #exploitation

[theconcealedweapon]

You spend my entire childhood regularly punishing me for accidentally saying something wrong. Then, when I struggle to make friends, you say "talk to people".

You spend my entire childhood regularly punishing me in order to force me to follow rules that make no sense. Then, when I struggle to make friends, you say "just be yourself".

#autism #actuallyautistic #ableism

[seek-left-continue-require]

#funny stuff #cats #pizza #Giphy #school system #photooftheday #choi beomgyu #susanna canzian #neko #ableism #winnie the pooh #nick miller #inlove #cryaotic #jujutsu kaisen smut

[a-final-important-next]

https://felicia-427.mjcyd.asia/t/z3hvRxL

#ableism #winnie the pooh #melayu sex #motivational #jujutsu kaisen smut #marvel imagine #s4cc #snoopy #bts rm #watamote #dumb thicc #gay teen

[avoid-body]

https://kim-530.mxtkh.fun/lv/Cs5tlhO

#captain america #pro for me not for thee #sonic the hedgehog 2 #harry styles gif #funny stuff #school system #choi beomgyu #ㄷㅊ #ableism #Charlotte Stokely #winnie the pooh #melayu sex #motivational

[the-kitty-hell-system]

if you are short, but not a little person you have no right to be in conversations about dwarfism. shut the fuck up. you do not experience the violence and discrimination i experience as someone with dwarfism. you are an average sized person. ive been thrown down the fucking stairs by a drunk, average sized man, for the purpose of "dwarf throwing" (which by some is considered a FUCKING SPORT). and i never got justice for it. i am a fucking paraplegic, i have brain damage. we arent midgets we arent "just short" we arent a joke we are little people we are disabled people we are people. if little people are apart of your joke, you arent funny. you should honestly get thrown down the stairs like i did lmao. if you make fun of little peoples height and call it a "joke". you arent funny. why is it that my condition is a joke to all my friends? why is it that all they do is make fun of me for how tall i am, ignoring that i am literally disabled? i am 4'0, that doesnt mean ANYTHING on if im a person or not. i have achondroplasia and cleidocranial dysplasia. im not a fucking joke, the violence i experience isnt a damn joke and you should really stop dehumanizing little people.

#cripple punk #cpunk #cripplepunk #dwarfism #disability #actually disabled #m slur #little people #ableism #violence

[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.

#aesthetic #gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #game design #1980s #psychiatry #dsm #cosmic horror #homophobia #ableism

[creature-wizard]

Id argue "smooth brain" isn't nearly as bad as the r slur, actual lissencephaly is super rare (1 in every 100,000 babys are born with it) and its going to be even rarer for those babies to survive and grow up, be able to use the internet and be offended at people using "smooth brain" as an insult

And yet it's still using disability as an insult. There are no loopholes here.

#answered #ableism

[lightning-system]

Ableism

“What's up Coach?” Fabian asks, coming to Gorthalax’s side. The other team's captain and coach are there with him, as is the ref.

“Fabian,” Gorthalax says, “I was just explaining that you were indeed the team captain and playing today.”

“Oh,” Fabian frowns, “okay.”

He's not quite sure why Gorthalax is explaining that, but it's true. So why is Fabian here, in this conversation?

“Son,” the ref says, and he lilts his voice up so it's soft as he speaks to Fabian. “Is that true, you play for this team?”

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Or: Another team has an issue with Fabian playing for the Owlbears.

#dimension 20 #d20 #dimension twenty #d20 fantasy high #d20 fhjy #disabled #disability #the bad kids #ao3feed #fabian seacaster #gorthalax the insatiable #gorthalax #ableism #hurt/comfort #angst #fluff #ao3 writer #ao3 link #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #fanfic #fanfiction

[hijab-described]

Nothing worse than people reblogging from me, but removing my descriptions. This whole blog’s purpose is to make content accessible to the blind and visually impaired. All the posts here have descriptions, either in the main post body or in alt text. Why even follow me or reblog from me when you’re going to remove that. Do you hate disabled people so much?

#not a description #not hijab #mine #accessibility #ableism

[psychoticallytrans]

It's amazing, the things that people will say to you to be nice when you're disabled. That you will never get anywhere in life, and that anyone who told you otherwise is lying to you. That people like you have never done anything other than lie down and die, and that your death will be a relief to those around you. That nobody like you should exist, and that it is a moral good to make sure that they don't. That your birth was the worst act of abuse that ever has or will happen to you, and that you should have been taken from your parents for it. That if you ever have biological children, that you have committed an act of child abuse by choosing to do so, and that they should be taken from you and made to behave as abled as possible. That any money spent on making sure that you stay alive is charity and pity at best, and probably a waste that could have gone to something far more useful than you. That you are disgusting, that anyone who tells you that they find you attractive is pitying you, that you will never be loved as anything other than some piteous thing to be taken care of. That you are a worthless, unloveable waste.

Oh, and that they are the nicest people you will ever meet for being considerate enough to tell you.

What nice people. Just imagine if they weren't.

#ableism #ableist language