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ey3bags · 23 hours

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lightning-system · 3 months

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As a medium/lower support needs autistic who works with young higher support needs autistic:

We all matter. We all have the same diagnosis. We all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

But we are not the same.

I can mask and might be seen as 'odd' or 'weird' in public. The students I work with are seen as 'dangerous' and 'practically little kids'.

I can go to university and work with accommodations. The students I work with likely will never live independently and a few might find jobs that support them but still pay them less than an abled worker.

I have full control of my finances. The students I work with aren't allowed to make independent financial decisions, even if capable.

If I say 'no,' I'm making a choice. The students I work with can't say 'no' without being labeled as defiant and difficult.

I can feed myself, bathe myself, and take care of myself with extreme challenges. The students I work with are unable to take care of themselves without high levels of support/one on one support.

I had an IEP in high school but was mainstreamed in classes. The students I work with take separate classes and some rarely get to interact with their abled peers.

Our experiences are fundamentally different. Higher support needs autistics will experience a specific type of ableism I never will, and can never fully understand.

Lower support needs autistics need to stop saying we understand what higher support needs autistics are going through and then present autism as only being disabling because of society/lack of acceptance because that is dangerous. We need to stop saying every autistic person is capable of everything if given the right support because that leaves out huge parts of our community who will never be able to do certain things, regardless of support.

We are worthy of existence regardless of our abilities.

Autism is a spectrum. It is not the same for every autistic person. Autism acceptance and advocacy has to come with accepting, acknowledging, and listening to our higher support needs peers.

#disabled #disability #actually autistic #autism #low support needs #medium support needs #high support needs #autistic pride #advocacy #acceptance #lightning rambles #important

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ineffectualdemon · 9 months

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Disability Pride month let's not forget about the people in our community with intellectual disabilities!

I just found out about the Stay Up Late campaign to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities to have the right to go out in the evening and not have to be in bed by 8pm

I learned about it from this video:

And I found the website for the campaign which is here:

Let's support all members of our community

#disability #disability pride month #intellectual disabilities #advocacy #disability advocacy #please reblog

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punkxhazard · 6 months

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ART IS NOT MINE* The Art Against Apartheid toolkit contains 100 posters made by artists from across the world in solidarity with Palestine.

There are some fantastic pieces in here and above are some of my faves. If you wanna check them out yourself go to againstapartheid.art

Free Palestine, stop the genocide.

#free palestine #palestine #stop the genocide #art #artwork #fine art #art activism #advocacy #activism #politics #israel #ceasefire

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jackedjacket · 8 months

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I love disabled people who loudly and aggressively advocate for themselves

I was on the bus and a man in a motorized chair came on yelling “y’all better move cause I need room! Someone put that seat up for me so I can fit!” And I was like YES demand the accommodations you need

#disabled #disability #advocacy

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todayontumblr · 1 year

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Tuesday April 11.

Autism Acceptance Month.

Today is Tuesday, April 11, which means we are eleven days into the 30 blessed days of #autism acceptance month, 2023 (previously known as #autism awareness month). April is the month and April 2nd is the day—World Autism Day, to be precise—and these first weeks of spring are a time for uplifting autistic voices of all identities, advocating for acceptance, progress, and sharing in the community's joy. It began back in 1972, as National Autistic Children’s Week, and was founded by The Autism Society to raise awareness and campaign for change in communities, schools, medical facilities, and businesses. And this same vital, wonderful work continues today, and not just for the month of April, of course—but every day of every year. The lived reality is that every day of every month is Autism Acceptance Month, and it is on all of us to do better.

Progress has been made, but there is still so much to be done in the struggle for equality and justice for all those living under the broad church of autism. And if these words sound hollow, then simply read the moving story of Debra Vines, of The Answer Inc., and of her autistic son Jason. She articulates everyday struggles that families can face, and the many joys they experience, too. Her message is simple, but powerful: don't give up on milestones.

Want to know more, get involved, or donate? Here is just some of an impressive selection of charities sourced by the fine people at the Applied Behavior Analysis Programs Guide, where you can find the complete list of 20 charities and organizations:

The Asperger/Autism Network

The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network

Autism Research Institute

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network

The Autism National Committee

Happy Tuesday, folks, and here's to better.

#today on tumblr #autism acceptance #autism acceptance month #autism awareness month #autism #aspergers #advocacy #neurodivergent #actually autistic #autistic community #autistic life #neurodiversity

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faentasy-paesta · 21 days

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‼️DON’T SCROLL‼️Yara (@/Yaraasaberr on twitter) is trying to evacuate Her Mother And Brother Out Of Gaza! Yara’s Mother And Brother went to Gaza for a short visit, only to be trapped in the Genocide! Everything Counts Towards Saving Their Lives so Please Donate What You Can And Share Widely!!!

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nerdfighternichole · 1 month

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Please sign this petition to tell @DanaherCorp that their test prices are too much. Why should someone have to spend ALL their money just to get a test? Medicine should not be a luxury. #TimeFor5 #PeopleOverProfits

#tuberculosis #dftba #nerdfighteria #unpaidcoffeeinternsaga #nerdfighters #john green #doctors without borders #advocacy

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blanket-burrito-protocol · 1 year

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The 50th anniversary of AIMs (American Indian Movement's) occupation at Wounded Knee is coming up, so the Lakota People's Law Project is leading another push to free an AIM activist who was wrongly convicted of killing two federal agents in 1975- Leonard Peltier. He was convicted on false evidence and false testimony and sentenced to two life sentences. He is now 78.

LPL has a formatted email up on their website now which you can personalize and send to Biden to ask for clemency. (Please personalize emails like this so it doesn't get filtered as spam. Just move some words around, add some, take some, you don't have to write a whole email.) Please pass this around.

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many-sparrows · 6 months

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If you want to advocate but can't protest, are under voting age, want to do more, whatever, my roommates and I made a bunch of solidarity stickers. Palestinians are begging us to not look away, to force awareness-- we made these to easily and quickly stick up everywhere that people might see them. I'm talking Starbucks windows, light poles, crosswalks, electrical boxes, street signs, bus stops etc to keep this on people's minds. They also make easy post cards-- stick one on an index card and mail it to congress.

I bought 150 mailing labels from Staples for about $15, but you could also use scrap paper and clear packing tape. I also tried to use some different phrasing-- a lot of people shut down when they read "free Palestine" or "from the river to the sea" so I tried to bypass the "pOLiTiCaL" angle and appeal to the humanitarian one.

Also also, if you want to contribute and have some time, sending physical mail to representatives is a good thing to do. For this issue, it doesn't even have to be long or complicated letters, it can literally just be a note that says "cease fire now xoxox, your constituent, [name]" or whatever. It can be easy to ignore Twitter and brush off voicemails left with their staffers, it's time to get stuff in their desk.

#free Palestine #israel #palestine #activism 101 #disabled activists #advocacy #all eyes on gaza #all eyes on palestine #arizona #arizona politics #ceasefire #ceasefire now

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fantasy-frog · 10 months

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To anybody who might see this, July in the states is disability pride month. As someone who’s past decade plus has been a journey towards understanding, accepting, and advocating for my psychological and physical disabilities and my whole life, aiding disabled family members, I want make it known that: the way many of us feel you can help us the most, is not by “pretending” we’re abled, like we’re just like everyone else, because we’re *not*

When disabilities are ignored, or treated as just “uniquely abled”, it falls on the disabled to maintain abled people’s comfort; to make our disabilities small, to not advocate for equity and the bettering of our lives in a supposedly equal society.

Equality is not equity.

Differences must be acknowledged, understood, and worked around *by abled people* for any true progress to be made.

Most people think this is government related. I know abled people as individuals can’t change that there’s little to no wheel chair access in their bustling city, that the sidewalks are cracked and filled with lips. An abled person can’t make public schools treat autistic kids with humanity, or children with memory-relates disabilities able to always have notes for their exams. They can’t make the employers stop firing us, or the government give us our right to marriage when living under SSI.

What I’m asking for is Empathy. True empathy. The kind that informs your beliefs, and actions. Talk to disabled people. Get to know them. I promise you, you have a disabled person in your family or social circle. Really be inquisitive about their experiences, struggles, and frustrations.

Acknowledge your privilege. Your ease of access to the world. Really sit in it. Absorb it. Your empathy will only grow. And when enough abled people do even just this, the world for us becomes less hostile. It becomes more livable. We become no longer burdens, but cherished by our communities, our families and friends. And trust me, even though the world is not built for me, and I have to consistently jump through 10,000 hoops to achieve even the smallest of victories for an abled person, and my body hurts and breaks down, so I get in a chair on wheels, or get out my cane, or put on my noise cancelling headphones, and just come across obstacle after obstacle -

The majority of the pain comes from the stares. The glances. The questioning. The points when you see the patience leave the eyes of the one who you thought loved you unconditionally, and you remember your place in our collective culture. And fuck man. You recall how workable all the bureaucracy and hurdles felt, how manageable it was to push forward (it’s what you always do) … before you were reminded of where you sit on the totem poll, and how conditional worth is in our society.

Disabled people are worthy. We are valuable. But we need you to believe it, or nothing will ever change.

#disability #please reblog #disability pride month #important #disabled #disabilties #disability rights #advocacy #autism #ADHD #wheel chair friendly #wheel chair users #invisible disability #cane user #mental illness #chronic illness #disability awareness #disability awareness month

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acti-veg · 3 months

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I don’t think that people grasp what it is that they’re actually asking when they tell vegans not to ‘push their beliefs on others.’ This can only be understood as asking us to stop advocating for animal rights and stop speaking up for the victims of animal agriculture.

You can dislike pushy vegans or want to be one of the ‘chill ones’ if you like. But the fact of the matter there is no way for us to just stop talking about animal agriculture or promoting veganism while simultaneously defending animals. What they’re actually asking us to do is to be silent so that they don’t have to feel bad.

#vegan #advocacy #vegans #preachy vegans #original

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purplethespian · 4 months

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The American Census Bureau is considering changes that would artificially decrease the number of disabled people in the US. We may be able to stop this.

According to this article from the Associated Press, the Census Bureau's proposed changes would align the way that the American Community Survey measures disability with international standards. They will be changing the way that some of the questions are worded, as well as changing the options for answers.

The problem is this: the questions about disability will ask if respondents if they have “no difficulty,” “some difficulty,” “a lot of difficulty” or “cannot do at all” with regard to things like hearing, seeing, ability to bathe or dress oneself, etc. Someone will only be counted as disabled if they answer "a lot of difficulty" or "cannot do at all." This excludes a lot of people. "During testing last year by the Census Bureau, the percentage of respondents who were defined as having a disability went from 13.9% using the current questions to 8.1% under the international standards. When the definition was expanded to also include “some difficulty,” it grew to 31.7%" (AP).

So what can we do? The Census Bureau is accepting public comment on the proposed changes until the end of the day on Tuesday, December 19th. Visit this link to submit your comments, and tell the Census Bureau why this change is a bad idea! Statistics show that at least 25% of Americans are disabled (CDC). We can't let the Census Bureau erase us.

Please share this widely, and submit your comments before the close of business on Tuesday, December 19th! I also highly encourage you to check out the Associate Press article linked above, since it does a good job of explaining the situation in more detail.

#disability #disability advocacy #signal boost #disabled #actually disabled #advocacy #social justice #current events #census #surveys #tagging to boost #disability justice #disability awareness #invisible disability #physical disability #intellectual disability #disability rights #spoonie #disability community

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sillymcrandom · 5 months

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heyo!! with the presidential election coming up pls go to this website to tell your representatives to pass/support the national popular vote bill so that candidates like claudia de la cruz have a chance and so elections are no longer rigged by the electoral college!!

we need change!!! pls sign this and pls organize and protest and call if you can (because that will pressure them way more than just an email) and just spread the word and do anything you can to help abolish the current system!!

ALSO PLS VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS THEY HELP SO MUCH!!!

#important #election 2024 #claudia de la cruz #activist #leftism #leftist #politics #ig #electoral college #pls rb #advocacy #flowers are blooming in antarctica.#we need change #protest #we need to start organizing #protesting #organizing

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221bluescarf · 5 months

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I just don't understand some people

By far I'm not the only one

An online friend of mine who has schizoaffective received a note at his home telling him "I'm watching you". I've seen the note. it's suspected to be a neighbor.

It just makes no sense

it's hard enough to know what's real. Now we have to worry about people purposely triggering paranoia because why?

is it funny?

Maybe we can overlook the troll messages. But some people are worse than that —more sinister even. They use our illness against us, manipulate us, "gaslight" us. I've seen it many times. I have stories.

I think it's wrong to bully or manipulate *anyone* with *any* mental illness. But with schizophrenia in particular we already struggle to know what's real, to know what's true and what's paranoia, struggle to remember correctly, to think clearly… It's totally unfair and hateful to take advantage of that.

I hope none of you have to experience this behavior, but if you do you're not alone... in a good way <3

#anons #stigma #mental illness #schizospec #schizophrenia #schizoaffective #schizophrenia awareness #mental health awareness #advocacy #ableism #psychosis #actually psychotic #actually schizophrenic #bullying #cyber bullying

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noahsarkisfulloffrogs · 2 months

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A part 2 to a previous post I made so I can raise awareness

By the way, here's a comprehensive list of individuals who've done stuff that concerns me, so without further ado

Ben Shapiro-

Key Jean-Kay/Posey Parker- a TERF or transphobe whose more known in the UK (where I'm from) who posted this as a response to Brianna Ghey's death

Libs Of Tiktok-

Matt Walsh-

Alice Cooper-

Graham Linean-

JK ROWLING- I'm not even going to dignify her with any image because she's notorious for doing that shit.

Rosin Murphy-

Elon musk-

Ricky Gervais-

Blair White : It's full of subtleties, but if someone uses the word 'convincing' to say that someone's exploring their identity, then you're inciting hatred because you're creating a narrative that they're just confused and don't really understand themselves.

This is a reupload BUT kalvin Garrah has done some serious damage too

Raven-This might not seem harmful now, but this pronoun moral panic can lead to you being brought down a transphobic pipeline.

Arielle Scarcella

There's probably MANY MANY more, but please, THINK BEFORE YOU POST. These people spread dangerous rhetoric because it's easy to ostracise a social group, so PLEASE PLEASE think about what you say because you will tar your hands with the blood of hundreds of people, and that's something you can never wash off. (I'd encourage anyone to comment any other creators who do similar things.)

I want to start a petition so here goes nothing, but here's a change.org petition I made so hopefully countries or groups will be put into more pressure to DEAL WITH these individuals beyond demonetising them

Change.org- https://chng.it/LQx5JS6D9s

(I'M GOING TO UPDATE THIS WITH MORE LINKS SO PLEASE KEEP CHECKING THIS POST <3)

Also posts made by others on this include: https://www.change.org/p/youtube-stop-targeting-trans-youtubers?source_location=search

#brianna ghey #transphobes #trans rights #nex benedict #petition #direct action #transgender #advocacy #nonbinary #two spirit

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