#cognitive disability

[pixierainbows]

wish for smart autism people to STOP saying things like "most autism people actually smart ! ". is not true! is just so erase big part of autism community ! of people like Pixie, and intellectual disability autism people !

STOP say , is not okay ! people like Pixie, people with intellectual disability , are BIG part of autism community ! we deserve be part of own community !

STOP try push out of community, is ableism !

#autism #actually autistic #actually nonverbal #severe autism #low functioning #nonverbal #intellectual disability #cognitive disability #autism level 3

[zebulontheplanet]

Hearing constantly about gifted autistic kids and people seeing it as THEE autistic trait has completely disregarded those who aren’t gifted and made a HUGE divide in the community. Seeing constantly “yeah autistic people are usually gifted” is so annoying because a VERY large chunk of autistic people, aren’t actually gifted and media has just put the gifted people at the front because they’re more palatable. The “autistic gifted kid burnout” has become more so a trend than anything and I’ve seen a lot of people assume they’re autistic because they are the “gifted kid burnout person” when that isn’t even a requirement for an autism diagnosis. You don’t have to be gifted to be autistic. You don’t have to be!!

Start putting the people who struggle more in the spotlight. Those with intellectual disabilities, those with learning disabilities, those with cognitive disabilities, those who are just generally stereotypically “dumb” and embrace it!

We need to have a very big discussion about this as a community and it needs to start today.

#zebrambles #autism #actually autism #actually autistic #learning disability #learning disabilities #intellectual disability #cognitive disability #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid #autistic #autistic things #Zebplanet

[harrylovesspaezle]

"don't let your disability stop you from reaching your goals!" i have no choice but to let my disability put obstacles between me and my goals, you think i just pick and choose when i can/can't do something? it's the literal definition of a disability, it disables you from doing things. how hard is that to understand?

#disability #physical disability #cognitive disability #adhd #health stuff

[anonpositivityforu]

People with intellectual disabilities and cognitive disabilities and anything like those, you are so awesome!

Even if you can't learn new things or take care of yourself or be online without help or be "good" at things that people say you should be good at like creative stuff or reading or writing or anything else.

You are awesome and deserve to be treated nicely just because you exist in this world, even if other people make you feel bad about stuff.

#positivity for anon and for you #borderline intellectual disability #intellectual disability #cognitive disability #mild intellectual disability #moderate intellectual disability #severe intellectual disability #profound intellectual disability #i don't know if people are in some of those tags but im putting them anyways so that if anyone IS in those tags they get to see a nice thing

[chronicallycouchbound]

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[ID: pink and pink outlined text on a dark background reads: “intelligence doesn’t equal morality. Caring for others can happen at any IQ level.” The side text reads “@ chronicallycouchbound” In the upper right hand corner is a simple diamond star shape graphic. End ID.]

#chronically couchbound #disabled #disability #intellectual disability #mental disability #TBI #tbi survivor #cognitive disability #developmental disabilities #developmental disability #audhd #adhd #actually audhd #autistic experiences #autistic #cripple punk #cripplepunk #neuropunk #dyscalculia #dyslexia #dyspraxia #actually disabled #anti intellectualism #intelligence #stupid #low iq #high iq #smart #stupidity #kindness

[notabled-noodle]

the way people with obvious cognitive disabilities get treated on this site is rancid and we all need to have a big think about that

perfect grammar does not matter. someone asking for clarification is not starting an argument. TLDRs are not ridiculous or demeaning. be kind or leave us alone

#:/ #saw something happen with one of my mutuals and yep. horrible ableism coming from the tumblr #ableism #disabled #autism #cognitive disability

[externalmemorycomic]

Image description: a five page comic with messy writing and messy line drawings coloured with gouache. Each page has four panels and each panel has a caption and an image. Page one Caption: Mouse and Ruth go for drives a lot. Image: a red car drives down a country road. Caption: to stores and beaches and the dump where you can find cool things. Image: a white mouse looks up at a wall with doll’s heads nailed to it, labeled “wall of dolls”. Caption: I almost never join. Ruth asks, “isn’t My going stir crazy?” Image: a deer is driving a car, and the mouse sits on a pile of pillows on the passenger’s seat. Caption: but I’m so used to this I forget there’s anything to go crazy about Image: an orange cat lies in bed.

Page two Caption: When we lived in Malmö there were weeks I didn’t leave the apartment Image: the cat peeks out a window, looking at a pigeon that’s pooping on the window ledge. Caption: months I didn’t see anyone besides Mouse. I just couldn’t manage the stairs Image: the cat looks down an exaggerated, maze-like staircase. Caption: Mouse wasn’t much better off. I took up indoor “gardening” so we wouldn’t miss nature too much. Of course I often couldn’t water the plants. It felt bitter and symbolic when they died Image: the cat is in a different bed, looking at a house plant on a side table that’s beginning to wilt. Caption: here there’s no stairs and I have plants and bees right outside my window Image: the cat is in the first bed, drawing a comic. There’s a flower, a butterfly and a bee outside the window behind it.

Page three Caption: people tend to get frustrated with my acceptance Image: the cat takes down a half finished painting from an easel. Caption: even after we’ve talked a lot about my illness, they think I should plan ahead as if a cure is right around the corner Image: a rabbit is standing beside a table covered in unfinished canvases, looking at  one of them. The cat stands behind them, looking nervous. Caption: often it’s the same people who respond to tragedies you CAN fix by saying “life’s not fair” Image: the cat is rescuing bugs from drowning in a water barrel and the rabbit looks over its shoulder, looking annoyed. Caption: but when I let go of what I can’t have, they see it as defeat. Image: the cat is curled up and hiding in bed while the rabbit stands over them, frowning, holding the unfinished painting and waving two paintbrushes.

Page four Caption: I understand the impulse to say “maybe some day”. When it’s kindly meant, I value the intention. Image: The rabbit has its arm around the cat’s shoulder and waves towards a thought bubble. In the thought bubble the cat is floating and happy at the end of a rainbow with pink clouds, flowers and a smiling sky in the background. Caption: but few things are more dangerous to my soul than “maybe some day” Image: the cat huddles on the ground and hides its face. Right above the cat, as if pushing down, is a bigger thought bubble with images of the cat looking happy - dancing, being held, proudly painting, holding a baby. Caption: There is no greater wisdom in life than: fix what you can and accept what you can’t. Image: the thought bubble is breaking up and shrinking. The cat is sitting up, smiling at a dandelion beside it. Caption: some times, giving up isn’t just the only way to survive but to thrive, and leave room for joy. Image: The half finished canvases are burning on the ground and the cat walks away without looking back.

Page five Caption: today I’m sad because I’m in pain and I miss moving and doing Image: the cat is crying in bed. Caption: but when I thank God for giving me this life filled with blessings, it’s from the heart. Image: the cat wipes away some tears and looks a little happier. Caption: I am happy more often than not. I mostly cry from gratitude. There is no contradiction Image: the cat closes its eyes and is surrounded by a pink glow and red cartoon hearts. Caption: life will ask me to let go of much bigger things and maybe I can come with to the dump next time Image: the cat looks at the wall of dolls and says: “cool!” End ID. Here's some disability thoughts I had during my latest flare (hence the wobblier-than-usual lines and messy writing). I hope it makes sense even if I was pretty confused when I made it! I have POTS and ME/CFS, as well as ADHD and being autistic. Accepting the reality of being bed/housebound and hard-of-thinking often is going to be a life long effort but I'm getting there. Happy disability pride month!!! Reblogs are much appreciated! (if you wanna help me live and stuff and make more art and comics I have a Patreon. I post comic pages there on average once a day for the 3€ tier as well as other fun things! Link in my pinned post)

#comic #comics #original comic #web comic #webcomic #diary comic #slice of life #autobiographical comics #journal comics #comic artists on tumblr #external memory comic #slice of life comic #disability #disability pride #physical disability #cognitive disability #actually disabled #disabled art #me cfs #pots #myalgic encephalomyelitis #Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #described

[birdofmay]

Important: If a person on Tumblr says that somebody else writes your posts for you, and wants you to prove that you write everything on your own:

Don't respond. Don't upload a video of you typing or using your AAC device. Block that person, or ask someone to block them for you.

They won't listen to you and you can't convince them. They're just mean. It's spam. Really, just ignore them.

Here's a long post I wrote about that today, in case you're curious:

#severe autism #high support needs #nonverbal autism #nonverbal autistic #actually nonverbal #intellectual disability #cognitive disability #level 3 autism #level 2 autism #nonspeaking #actually nonspeaking #higher support needs

[neuroticboyfriend]

it took me a long time to learn to do things compared to other people my age... like literal years. no matter how old i get, i don't think my abilities will ever be on par with abled people my age. especially because as soon as something unfamiliar enters the picture, i get confused at best and have a panic attack at worst.

and i still get a little nervous doing things i "know" how to do, because i'm worried the way i do it won't work. even if its something as "simple" as ordering food at a restaurant. people tell me over and over and over, you just tell the waiter what you want. but it just won't click.

also some things i still haven't learned. other things i never want to learn. like driving. its just way too much for me, i'd probably be a safety hazard. and learning what i know now was traumatizing, between the stress and ableism. i don't want to put myself through that if i can just have people do things for me.

im not a burden for that. not everyone has the same abilities, and that's okay. no matter how old we are, or how "easy" something is to others... it's okay to be disabled.

#softspoonie #autistic #autism #actually autism #autistic adult #autistic spectrum #actually autistic #autistic experiences #medium support needs #medium-high support needs #high support needs #support needs #disabled #disability #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #ableism #developmental disabilities #developmental disability #cognitive disability

[liminalweirdo]

Poll: Disability and healthcare

if you feel comfortable please share your choice as well as whether you have ever experienced medical malpractice

not to be that person but please consider reblogging this, my tumblr don't have a ton of traffic and i'm genuinely interested in the results.

also please do my other related polls if you're queer, trans, and/or disabled/have chronic pain:

neurodivergence/neurotypical healthcare poll

#disability #chronic pain #polls #intellectual disability #cognitive disability #invisible disability #disabled community #disabled

[pixierainbows]

Pixie have new caregiver! Yesterday make Pixie safe cookies and Pixie allow add as much chocolate chips as Pixie want , so many !!

And! Get to go walk after lunch see tree friend! Not get run over by car or get lost or people calling police or anything bad happen . Because Pixie still have hard time with that all from when Pixie just started learn to walk . running away for no good reason . Or because see interesting thing Pixie very very very want see . Pixie run not think look around for car .

( Cookies look burn but is just all the chocolate chips ! )

#cookies #actually disabled #actually nonverbal #nonverbal #severe autism #wandering #cognitive disability #baking #new caregiver

[dyspunktional-revan]

Less “some people need everything to be explicitly explained” and more “some people can understand things without an explicit explanation”. Why the fuck even is the latter default.

#leviathan.txt #swearing cw #neurodiversity #norm-defaultism #umbrella tag: norm #autism #adhd #intellectual disability #cognitive disability #actually autistic #actuallyautistic #actually adhd #actually audhd #actually autism #autistic #neurodivergence #neurodivergency #nd #neurodivergent #note: out of the three specific ones I tagged I have autism and adhd #I do not have intellectual disability and there might be more I do not know that have the need for explicitness as a thing #in any case as I said again *that* should be treated as default not people somehow reading between some lines #disabilityposting

[sarahowritesostucky]

Rated: Explicit

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Steve Rogers

Tags: a/b/o, medical institutionalization, cognitive disability, made up kinky medical things, diapers, catheters, non-con medical procedures, restraints, forced wetting, hurt/comfort, humiliation, kind!Careworker Steve, bratty!Patient Bucky, alpha Steve, omega bucky, dub con everything due to a/b/o biology, dry humping, forced orgasm, masturbation, implied self harm, orgasm therapy, age difference (19/30), omorashi

Summary: Bucky is a troubled teen coping with the traumatic transformation of late-onset omega puberty.

Steve's been developing too much of an attachment, he knows he has. But he might not have the self control to remain detached anymore.

Chapter 1: A Weekend in the Pens

Chapter 2: Holding It in

Chapter 3: A Catalyst

Chapter 4: Release Therapy

Chapter 5: Excited Catatonia with Aggression

Chapter 6: Inflation Therapy

Chapter 7: Pheromonal Oil Massage

Chapter 8: Sensory Reset Therapy

Chapter 9: Persistent Genital Arousal

#marvel #mcu #bucky barnes #stucky #steve rogers #steve rogers x bucky barnes #fanfiction #fanfic #sebastian stan #chris evans #stucky au #stucky smut #omega bucky barnes #alpha steve rogers #a/b/o #a/b/o verse #a/b/o dynamics #a/b/o au #medical kink #doctor/patient #older man younger boy #hurt/comfort #omorashi #forced wetting #dub con #non con #cognitive disability #omegaverse #alpha beta omega #alpha/omega

[chronicallycouchbound]

Intelligence Doesn't Equal Morality

Intellect is rooted in ableist systems and stupidity and intelligence are pointless social constructs that don't relate to morals or character.

I try to be a pretty good person, I fight for human rights, I regularly engage in mutual aid, and I care for my community. I try to do the right thing and support causes I care about and make positive changes in the world.

But I also am not very smart. I have several neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as cognitive disabilities. I can’t do simple, basic math, it’s hard for me to remember facts or algorithms, I rely entirely on spellcheck and speech-to-text to write, I failed many classes in high school and I barely passed with a low GPA, I had low pSAT scores and I never took the SATs. I moved around a lot all through school starting in third grade, and I missed a lot of basic fundamentals in learning (like how to do division and multiplication) so when I went to a different school they had already passed it and expected me to know. After my TBI, I could barely read AFTER I was cleared from my “concussion” symptoms because letters and words would flip around and I’d get headaches. Which still happens sometimes.

A lot of people see me as smart because I've learned a lot of academic language and can formulate thoughts into cohesive posts. But I lack a lot of necessary skills and rely on my caretakers to assist me. Things like budgeting and planning are extremely difficult for me. If I need to do simple addition or subtraction, even with a calculator, I quickly get confused and struggle. I forget basic information about myself all the time, let alone other subjects. I'm talking, has to check my ID for my birthday type confused. Doesn't know my name or address or what year it is confused. It happens daily, sometimes multiple times a day. Being able to type out posts like this often takes weeks and many adaptive tools to get there. Focusing is extremely difficult on many fronts, severe chronic pain, ADHD, dissociation, fatigue, migraines, and TBI, are just some of the contributing factors. I struggle daily with many things because of my lack of intellect.

I’m also privileged in the fact that I had some access to education as a homeless youth, that I had some supports in place to help me (towards the end of school), that I was somewhat able-bodied at the time and could walk or bike to and from school when the school system didn’t provide transportation. I was fortunate to have a chance to succeed, and I’m proud that I graduated high school because it was a difficult task for me, and others often aren’t offered that chance or get accommodations. I almost didn’t and I dropped out many times before graduation. I passed on sheer luck and what little privileges I had. 

That all being said, me being stupid (reclaiming it here) doesn't make me a bad person. I don't hurt people because I can't do math. I may mess up things or get confused but it doesn't make me want to harm others.

We often (wrongfully) equate morals with intellect. Being ‘stupid’, ‘dumb’, or an ‘idiot’ doesn’t automatically make someone a bad person. Plenty of evil, awful, and abusive people are extremely intelligent. 

I see this most notably with people advocating for IQ tests to be able to vote. Often from left-leaning people, in hopes it'll make the right (that they view as unintelligent), unable to vote. The reality is, it just hurts some of our most vulnerable members of the community while not actively doing anything to restrict some of the most dangerous members of our community-- those who know what they're doing to harm others and deliberately doing so. My voice matters, and I speak up against injustice and participate in dismantling oppressive systems. Taking away my right to vote won't make the right stop oppressing minorities (which also puts a lot of faith into the two-party voting system, which is a post for another day).

Additionally, legislative measures that discriminate against intellectually disabled people such as IQ tests for voting are also rooted in racism and classism. 

Yes, education can be a vital tool when it comes to addressing discrimination and creating safer communities. But the kind of education that is measured with an IQ test (or any test) isn't the same. Building compassion and caring for others can (and should) happen at any IQ level. We can all practice this, we can all participate.

It harms our communities and stagnates our progress when we equate intelligence with high morals.

#disability #chronically couchbound #disabled #disabled pride #disability pride #cripple punk #cripplepunk #intellectual disability #neurodevelopmental disabilities #cognitive disability #brain fog #adhd #audhd #autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #actuallyautistic #autistic #neurodivergence #tbi survivor #iq test #voter rights #ableism #chronic pain #dissociation #dissociative identity disorder #dissociative amnesia #amnesiac #IQ score #Low IQ

[ichverdurstehier]

A terrifying article from 2018. Based on the rise of porn, I am sure it has only gotten worse

Ever since I learned about mental disabilities, this possibility has occured to me, because I have severe pessimism.

But is it really pessimism if it's a realistic fear to have?

@ihatemenandtherearereasons

#rape tw #tw rape #rape culture #intellectual disability #cognitive disability #ableism #men suck #men behaving badly #men being horrible #radfem #terfs do not touch #terfs do touch #radblr #scary

[perplexingluciddreams]

get so upset when i read old posts or just things i write and it is all wrong and not accurate

is so frustrating to me that the way words work in my brain is with scripts and chunks of language and when i use that to try build own thoughts, it just is not true so often.

and want so badly to express things, that i keep try over and over again, and always get it wrong. and so hard to explain to people that the words is wrong, and not match up with actual thoughts and experiences.

sometimes i don't even know what is the "right" version of how i explain something. because words just don't connect. and if i use only words i have (scripts, echolalia, chunks of language), it is always from someone else not me. and because of that, is not accurate or even correct at all.

is like - words connect with each other in patterns and chunks and can go down any path with the words to make sentences... but that not mean that the words is actually match to what i think at all. and if i cannot get hold of correct "pattern" or "path" for what i really want to say, often words go opposite direction and veer off path, connect to another different "section" of script. sometimes end up go in circles with this connect to patterns. this make brain loud.

wish i could just have telepathy and plug in to someone else brain, and send thoughts in "raw form" that way. without have to try to translate which is so so difficult and end up with so so SO much miscommunication/misunderstanding.

#autism #autistic #nonverbal #nonspeaking #communication #language problems #cognitive disability #language disability #language disorder #autism regression #from the chaos of my mind