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[druidshollow]

When Descent learns of Flowers' involvement in Fire's demise, it is the last straw and she knows she can't stay with him any longer.

mmmmmmmmmm theres probably so much to fix here but i Really REALLY just want it to be done. another behemoth comic and as always its not a very fun one. here we see the most volatile her relationship with flowers ever got, peaking in an act of violence on flowers' end

it was. straining, to say the least, to draw her hurting so badly so this one took a long time to work on. i had to take multiple breaks, haha. i hope you guys can get some enjoyment out of it anyways????? atleast we can all be happy knowing that this is it for her having to deal with him! (until later when rivers happens but weve got a couple hundred years its fine)

#rain world oc #rw downpour #rw ancients #rw ocs #sequential #druid draw #flowers #descent #fire #violence #abuse #godddd behemoth post #ableism #<- maybe?????????? idk #ask to tag ofc #domestic violence #domestic abuse

[crippled-peeper]

The thing about disability being a social construct is largely true, because when you have a physical issue but receive accommodations + care such that they can do everything able-bodied people can, you're no longer considered disabled. Case in point: glasses. If glasses fix near-blindness, you're not considered disabled, even though you're basically blind without them.

In a hypothetical world where mech suits existed, were cheap and comfortable and accessible and worked well, and were normalised such that people didn't even notice, even quadreplegics wouldn't be considered disabled (although of course that's distant science fiction).

That's what "disability is a social construct" means. In the same way gender being a social construct doesn't mean boobs aren't real, or money being a social construct doesn't mean physical cash doesn't exist.

I don’t agree with this analysis at all.

What hypothetical disabled people might be able to do in the future holds no meaning in the current reality I occupy

You say that quadriplegics will be “considered” abled with exoskeletons - but then you fail to elaborate on the relationship between these devices, their users, and the people who supply them

My father has had type 1 diabetes for 30 years. 30 years is an entire lifetime for some people. The cost of his insulin increased literally that ENTIRE TIME until last year when the Biden admin put caps on insulin prices

Furthermore, his insulin pump retails for 4,600$, and if it breaks, he is still diabetic at the end of the day and will slowly and terribly die without it.

I noticed a lot of people on here have lots of ideas and hypotheticals about how disabled people should and could navigate the world, but their arguments fall flat and topple so easily because you’re not connecting these ideas to anyone’s intrinsic reality

This is why so many physically disabled people are fatigued by the entire “disability is a social construct” conversation. It’s overwhelmingly used by uneducated 17 year olds to minimize and downplay and discredit the real-life, life-or-death interactions and experiences many physically disabled people live with

#ableism #social model #cripplepunk #diabetes #fuck Medtronic

[662607015]

i've been too busy to post about it lately but the current situation surrounding disability rights in the uk is horrifying in a way that most people have zero awareness of. i would appreciate it if more people could spread awareness of this, because the situation is dire to the point that the united nations have officially recognised it as a human rights violation, and there is still little to no discussion about this present online that i'm aware of.

on march 22 this year, the united nations published a follow-up report - found here - on its 2016 inquiry into the human rights of disabled people in the uk. the original inquiry found "grave and systemic violations" of the human rights of disabled people, and the follow-up concludes that no significant progress has been made concerning the situation. the report details "deep poverty" becoming increasingly common for disabled people; media rhetoric "aimed at raising hostility against welfare claimants, including disabled people"; increasing rates of institutionalisation of disabled people; concern about ai tools being used to automate fraud detection in social security with little oversight; and reports of "benefit deaths": the phenomenon of disabled people resorting to suicide after having their social security removed by the state, which has evidently become so common that they have a name for it.

on april 19, just 28 days after the un's official condemnation, the uk government published a new press release announcing a "moral mission" to "reform" our disability welfare system - meaning plans to even further reduce or entirely remove what little finanical support is available to disabled people, in addition to removing the ability of gps to issue sick notes and the introduction of a "fraud bill" which would enable warrants for seizes, searches and arrests in addition to increased digital surveillance of any welfare claimant suspected of fraud. again, this comes less than a month after the un announced that the uk has taken no action to address human rights abuses of disabled people - and the only action they're taking on this is to actively make the situation worse. i don't know how to end this post other than that it's legitimately terrifying to be a disabled person here at present, and this is made even worse by how little media attention the situation is getting - if you're able to speak out about this, please do. the human rights of disabled people are being violated and our government needs to be held accountable.

#hi. not a fun post but one i feel the need to make right now. #disability #ableism #uk

[theconcealedweapon]

Child: (is smart, but struggles to make friends)

Parent: "Don't let it bother you. People don't like you because they're just jealous of how smart you are. But when you're an adult, you'll be rich and they'll be working for minimum wage."

Child: (stops being smart, starts getting bad grades and goofing off)

Parent: "People aren't going to like you if you do that. They'll think there's something wrong with you. But if you're smart, they'll like you."

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Child: (is nice, but struggles to make friends)

Parent: "People don't like you because they're all jerks. They're too immature to appreciate someone like you who's nice."

Child: (stops being nice, starts being an asshole)

Parent: "People aren't going to like you if you do that. They'll want nothing to do with you. But if you're nice, people will like you."

#autism #actuallyautistic #ableism #toxic positivity

[monachopsis-11]

#actually autistic #autistic experiences #invisible disability #autism #actuallyautistic #disability #disabled community #complex ptsd #physically disabled #physical disability #fibromyalgia #me/cfs #mild me/cfs #orthostatic intolerance #myalgic encephalomyelitis #chronic pain #authority figures #ableism #casual ableism #tw abuse

[quitblamingnarcissism]

Everywhere I look, I see people saying that people deserve the bad things that happen to them.

Whether it's being spanked as a child, being imprisoned, being killed by police, being bombed, being paid a poverty wage, being in debt, being homeless, being bullied, being raped, there's no shortage of people who are so devoid of compassion for others that they think it's possible to deserve that.

Mentally ill people are demonized for "lacking empathy" while neurotypical people pretty much compete with each other to see how cruel they can be and get away with it.

#narcissistic abuse #ableism #npd positivity #surviving narcissism #raised by narcissists

[stories-by-starlight]

Too many people don’t take visibly disabled people’s emotions seriously. Not just in way that they don’t care about how feel, although that true for many people too. But also in way that they treat their/our emotions, especially negative emotions, as a spectacle.

A punchline to a bad joke.

We seen this for long long time, but the right words describe it never came until recent.

Many people do things bother or hurt us, then laugh it off when we get upset because: “What are you going do about it?” Because they know can’t yell back or fight back or make them stop, and it’s funny see us try because we look so odd.

Because don’t look “right/normal”, human emotions stop being real emotions and start being entertainment. Or maybe they confusing, to them.

Ask everyone to please respect boundaries of others. And if you do/done these things to people, please stop. It’s not funny, just cruel. Disabled people not your entertainment.

#disability #actually disabled #actually autistic #actually nonverbal #nonverbal #autism #aac user #storybook talks #cw ableism #ableism

[yaoiboypussy]

as a phycodic tgirl ik i have diff experiences than autistic trans folks but godbless they rlly just dont listen n act like we cant make choices damn

Yeah it’s the worst part of being disabled/mentally ill. Some people act like full grown adults can’t make choices just bc we are disabled.

#.txt #anon #asks #ableism

[madnessandentropy]

I love Arcane but it was and is so upsetting to see so many people saying things like "Jinx was there from the beginning! She was a psycho from the start!" And their proof is that Powder didn't cry when her parents were dead like Vi did.

Do you hear yourselves? You're demonising a young child for not reacting to the death of her parents in the "correct" way. It could've been a delayed reaction. It could've been she didn't understand what was happening. It could've been that she was in shock. And yet the first thing you jump to is that she was a heartless psycho?

That's the unfortunate side effect of writing traumatised characters like Jinx. Everyone becomes a psychologist and diagnoses her with several very demonised mental illnesses because "Well she's murderous and crazy!" and just kinda throw around a lot of albeist terms and ideas.

#thoughts #arcane #jinx #arcane jinx #ableism

[trouble-not-rock-do]

#curly hair #prey #funny stuff #cats #pizza #school system #choi beomgyu #neko #ㄷㅊ #ableism #Charlotte Stokely #winnie the pooh #fernando torres

[phleb0tomist]

i blocked anon but im still posting this so i can say: disability is a regular part of life and i love normalising it. anon’s desperation to separate Normal from Aberrant is a eugenicist mindset

and while i’m on my soapbox, I’m so fucking over the use of ‘brain damage’ as a sensationalist troll buzzword. you can say it’s not that deep, but cmon. insults do not exist in a magical vacuum outside of social context. insults are a common means to further socially punish marginalised groups. anon is a prime example of someone capitalising on social imbalances to use as insult currency (usually to make up for a poor sense of self—anon might feel worthless, but at least they can prove they’re better than the Abnormals). ableism is a suuuper cheap way to exert power over others using existing frameworks of bigotry. anon didn’t put work into this ask, they just took glee in furthering a stigma that was already there. it’s clear to me that when ppl throw around language like this, the ableism isn’t a side effect, it’s the whole point. anon isn’t saying “I hope something bad happens to you!”, they’re saying “i hate disabled ppl, also i’m describing you as a dog because i think disabled ppl are less than human”.

anyway it’s 2am and i’m rambling. disability is a normal part of life. brain damaged people are whole, complex, beautiful humans. ableism is an oft-socially-sanctioned tool of hatred. bye

#i got this ask on my sideblog but i also talk a lot about my disability there. soo #txt #answered #ableism #negative #don’t know how to trigger tag this

[cistematicchaos]

I feel guilty sometimes when I visit doctors. Largely because of money but also because most doctors don't seem to like me much, or at least treat me badly and some part of my brain still believes that must be my fault.

After all, I've been going to doctors for years. How is it so many of them treat me like shit? How is it I am fighting for bare minimum treatment every time I see them? I guess part of me thinks since I'm the one involved every time, it has to be my fault.

I've been told frequently by others that I'm off-putting, strange, a pain to talk to-Hell, I had a doctor suggest I was "too dumb" to be in his office. It wouldn't greatly surprise me if there was something about me that just put all of these people off.

But I don't really think that's it anymore. I think neglect and abuse from doctors is actually far more common than people think. I think tons of people dislike people who need accommodations because of their disabilities, even (and some times especially) medical professionals. I think people look at "unsolved medical issues" and immediately jump to liar, and then mentally ill and let's just say that train of thought doesn't have good intentions.

I think I'm visibly Black and gender-weird, which also goes over badly. But I also think that no matter any of these things, even if I was faking, that those medical professionals made the choice to treat me like shit. And that's on them. It just takes time to actually accept that.

#chaos is speaking #ableism #disability #actually autistic #actually disabled #sanism #Medical neglect #medical abuse #Feel.free to reblog I don't mind #just been thinking on this a lot lately

[crippled-peeper]

pointing out that ozempic causes bone density loss and joint problems and major depression isn’t a “violent ableist attack against people with eating disorders” it’s literally a warning on the fucking packaging for the meds

#ableism

[angiethewitch]

I have no words.

Scope, a charity for disabled people, have created a petition. sign it here:

#angie talks #ukpol #ableism #uk news #uk politics

[sophieinwonderland]

really funny to see aspen using the plural flag thats inclusive. like yeah soooo anti endo to use (checks smudged writing on hand) the Plural Endo Friendly Flag Tm. although they also use the pluralgang tag to Hash Tag Trigger People so. but kinda silly. they sure act smart, at least!

Anti-endos using things the pro-endo community built while spreading hate about us! What a shocker!?

Okay, but really, I sometimes feel like anti-endos are parasites.

Let's look at Aspen for instance. Here we have someone calling herself plural, a label that was made for non-disordered systems in the 90s as an alternative to the more medicalized "multiple." She makes an introduction post for a fictive of her system, which is a term taken from the endogenic soulbonders. She'll wave a flag that was made with intent to be inclusive while posting in tags that were made by pro-endos to be safe spaces for systems of all kinds. Then she'll go back to her server that relies on the pro-endo-designed Pluralkit made by inclusive systems.

The only problem with the parasite comparison is the same as the invasive species comparison from the other day... that being that most of the animals in nature don't have the explicit intent of destroying the organism they feed off of in the same way anti-endos are intentionally seeking to harm and destroy the pro-endo community.

There is something that's just so... malevolent... about the way anti-endos like this operate. Trying to attack and destroy our community while at the same time taking everything we've built and trying to pretend it was theirs all along. All while the reality is that anti-endos have contributed nothing to the plural community but hate and division.

#syscourse #pro endogenic #sysblr #multiplicity #plural #plurality #systems #hate groups #hategroup #ableism #ableists

[houstonxbreed]

Disabled people get criticized and called lazy for being unemployed but nobody wants to discuss how employers won’t hire us because we’re considered a “liability”. Many companies also refuse to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Let’s not talk about how the government takes away our lifesaving healthcare benefits if we make more than $2000 a month and this the reason why most disabled people live in poverty!!!

#disabled #queer and disabled #disabled lesbian #disability #chronic disease #disabled masc #muscular dystrophy #wheelchair user #wheelchair #severe disability #ableism #spoonie #chrinic illness #chronically ill #chronic illness #chronic pain #disability problems #chronic fatigue #gay and disabled #disabilties