#developmental ableism

[voidmire-system-error]

laws should be written by simple language.

scientific books should be written by simple language.

studies should be written by simple language.

rules & regulations should be written by simple language.

every information, especially important one, should be written by simple language.

it's basic accessibility. people with intellectual disability, people with developmental disabilities, people with learning disabilities, people with language processing issues/language impairment, people with brain fog/low concentration, and people with other conditions that make comprehension difficult should have access to every information, especially important one.

i'm autistic and have some language processing issues. so i feel very isolated when i can't read studies, articles, books, and other info. i'm really interested in it, but can't process language. so i have to rely on others' interpretations instead of original text.

i wanna have access to first-hand information. i wanna have the opportunity to form my own opinion, not rely on others' explanations.

btw, "simple language" doesn't mean "avoid complicated ideas & nuances", it means "explain complicated ideas & nuances using mostly simple words and short sentences".

#neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #accessibility #ableism #intellectual disability #developmental disabilities #learning disabilities #brain fog #actually autistic

[thecorvidforest]

just a reminder that insulting the way people speak because it’s “weird” (i.e. too fast, too slow, too monotone, too animated, slurred, etc) is ableist. many of us with intellectual disabilities, developmental disorders, autism, traumatic brain injuries, physical disabilities, and other conditions speak “weird” because of our conditions.

i see posts all the time like “POV you’re talking to that person who talks like they’re in an anime” or “people who speak monotone are so creepy, they’re like robots” or “people who slur their speech gross me out”. it’s ableist and dehumanizing. insulting the way “certain people” speak may seem harmless on the surface but under the surface those “certain people” are almost always disabled, and these traits are just traits of our disabilities.

#corvidforest #ableism #tw ableism #ableist language #autism #intellectual disability #developmental disability #physically disabled #cpunk

[aacalienz]

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are ADULTS. Not eternal children

#low support needs #medium support needs #actually autistic #ableism #developmentalal disability #developmentally disabled #I/DD

[zebulontheplanet]

Just your reminder that mental age isn’t real and hurts people with ID and developmental disabilities. Please stop saying it’s real.

#autism #zebrambles #medium support needs #actually autism #high support needs #borderline intellectual disability #intellectual disability #support needs #tw mental age #mental age #tw ableism #actually autistic #idd #developmental disabilities

[dysgeographica]

there’s nothing wrong with needing to use gps directions to get everywhere.

it doesn’t mean you’re “stupid”, it doesn’t mean you’re not trying hard enough or not paying enough attention. it doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong or taking the easy way out. it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be allowed to be independent.

yes, even if you need it to get somewhere you’ve been a million times before. even if you need it to get around the town you’ve lived in your entire life. even if other people think you should be able to go without it.

if you wouldn’t judge another disabled person for using certain tools that let them live more independently, don’t judge yourself for doing the same.

and never ever let someone else shame you into going out into the world without the tools that allow you to feel safe.

these tools exist to be used, so use them if you need them. there’s no shame in needing help.

#this post brought to you by ‘my parents make me feel bad for needing to use google maps all the time’ #positivity #ableism #dysgeographica #actually dysgeographic #developmental topographical disorientation #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #actually neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neuroqueer #neurodivergent positivity #neurodivergent community #developmentally disabled #developmental disabilities #neurodevelopmental disorders #disability #actually disabled #disability education #disability awareness #disability community #disability positivity #directionally challenged #sense of direction #accommodation #accommodating disability

[0th3rw0rldl1n3ss]

So tired of lateral ableism coming from autistics and ADHDers who have symptoms that aren’t severely debilitating. Like just because you don’t need meds or accommodations to function or you can conform well/adapt to NT society to a certain point doesn’t mean other autistics or ADHDers will also be able to?

This post brought to you by a group of people getting frustrated at us for being unable to keep up with a game, us saying “sorry I didn’t take my meds today” and them ALL glaring at me and scoffing about how well they haven’t been on ADHD meds for years. Every single person in the room (there were more than 2 other people). Like ok, good for you, I NEED them to function?? (and even then, I still can’t “pass” as NT.)

We feel so out of place even around other people who are also autistic and/or ADHD. Because so often the other(s) will show just enough traits to seem a bit quirky/odd to NTs, but not get read as visibly ND (except maybe under unusual circumstances, but generally speaking, they can mask effectively enough that NTs wouldn’t perceive them as “having something wrong with them”) but we’re noticeably “slow/r-worded” in a way we’re frequently, under normal, non-extreme circumstances, unable to hide. We’ve heard so many things about how other autistics and ADHDers found other neurodivergent folks and finally felt safe and comfortable after a lifetime of being judged in NT-dominated social circles, and we wish we could relate to that, but honestly we don’t feel any safer with someone just because they’re also autistic/ADHD, because in our experience they’re just as likely to be ableist to us as NTs. Sometimes even worse, because at least NTs can’t say “well *I* can handle (insert task) and I’m autistic/ADHD too so what’s YOUR excuse?”

But yeah. Some of y’all hate to acknowledge that autistics and ADHDers with higher support needs than you exist and you’re quick to throw the rest of us under the bus just because you’re so desperate to make autism and/or ADHD seem more palatable to NTs. Moderate-higher support needs neurodivergents shouldn’t have to beg lower support needs neurodivergents to have solidarity with us.

#lateral ableism #autism #adhd #audhd #neurodivergent #moderate support needs #high support needs #low support needs #medium support needs #autistic #actually autistic #actually adhd #actually audhd #ableism #disabled #disability #developmentally disabled #developmental disabilities #disabled acceptance #disability issues #disabled community #neurodivergent community #audhd things #level 2 autism #disabled solidarity #learning disabled #rant #semi speaking autistic #semi verbal

[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

[adhbabey]

Sick of how people are like "ew what's that" when people are acting childish or something like hello? can you be a human fucking being for a second?

Its my life, the way I grew up and the way I was treated as a neurodivergent and disabled person. The developmental delays, my echolalia and vocal stims and the way that I look and have been treated makes me look, act and be treated like a child.

So before you say "omg all women are infantilized in stories and media and its so gross and yucky", like shut the fuck up. If you aren't disabled or don't have developmental delays, you don't know what it's like and its not your right to judge people who act like kids.

If you say "omg men treat women like babies" and then turn around and look at an autistic woman and think she's "ew gross" because she acts like a child, actually go fuck yourself.

#babey posts #actually autistic #actually neurodivergent #developmental delays #feminism #infantilism #like actually fall off a cliff and die if you dont treat childish disabled women right #fuck you so fucking much #ableism

[dyspunktional-revan]

When I am treated “like a child” because of my disabilities the thing fucking isn’t that they “should treat me as adult” the thing is they shouldn’t fucking treat actual children and youth like that

#leviathan.txt #no spoons rn to write out another related thing so ig I’ll just yell into the void this thing that other people have already talked about > #almost in these exact words because I’m pissed #ageism #adultism #adult supremacy #disability #ableism #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #pseriouslyschizospectrum #developmentally disabled #physically disabled #swearing cw #leviathan yells at folkel #umbrella tag: age

[wheelie-sick]

imagine having to personally fight for your right to be in integrated education as a child and teenager just for some fuck to come along and decide that you actually need to be locked in an institution "for your own good" because you're an "easy target for bullying"

[ID: a Tumblr comment saying "Yes, and they should go to a different school. Having the mentally challenged and normal students together just makes them targets for bullying, because everyone knows they are easy victims."]

I actually greatly prefer having been bullied and severely ostracized to being in an institution.

also, why is it our fault that children bully us?? why can't you teach your kids not to be fucking bullies? why can't you make teachers step in and actually protect us??

my mom fought for my right to be in integrated classrooms. I fought for my right to be in integrated classrooms. IDD folks of the past fought for all of our rights to be in integrated classrooms. saying shit like this is spitting on everything IDD people have fought for

#neuropunk #neurodivergent #actually autistic #ActuallyAutistic #developmentally disabled #developmental disabilities #developmental disability #tw ableism

[wronggalaxy]

The idea that disabled people have to have a billion accessibility tools(in their own home) and therapies to be independent whether they want to or not is inherently and completely part of our current ableist capitalist hell scape <3

#autism #actually autistic #disability #disabled #disabilties #physical disability #developmental disabilities #cripple punk #neuro punk #anti capitalism #socialism #socialist #fuck ableists #ableist nonsense #ableism #queer cripple #angry cripple #only i can call myself a cripple

[thecorvidforest]

I need you all to know about the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts.

(Content warning for below the cut: ableism, electroshock torture of developmentally & intellectually disabled people, mention of death)

Two days ago (Sep. 7th, 2023), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a residential school called the Judge Rotenberg Center can continue to use electric shock devices called GEDs (graduated electronic decelerator) that are worn 24/7 to attempt to control the actions of developmentally & intellectually disabled people.

JRC calls itself an education & treatment school for “emotionally disturbed students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems, as well as those with intellectual disabilities or on the autism spectrum” (according to their website). They have around 50 residences throughout Massachusetts. Their strategies center around restraint and punishment for unwanted behaviors. At least five deaths are attributed directly and indirectly to their treatments.

They say these electric shock devices, which are stronger than a police grade taser and are irrefutably shown to cause permanent mental & physical damage, are “life saving” and that they’re used on people “for whom all other treatment options have been tried and failed”.

Here’s a short list of things their “students” (who are placed there by their families and very likely have no choice in the matter, and are disproportionately Black/Brown/Indigenous) are shocked for:

hand flapping/stimming

standing up

sitting down

swearing

speaking

not fulfilling a simple task

any perceived disobedience

making noises because of their disability

making noises while being shocked (such as screaming or crying)

sitting in the "wrong" way

acting without permission

incontinence

More info on JRC here and on their history here (content warning: graphic & disturbing descriptions of ableism & torture in both links, death & suicide in the 2nd link).

This is just the latest piece of an ongoing battle to stop electric shock treatment on disabled people. In 2023 we are still not seen as human enough to be the victims of human rights violations.

Info on how you can help here. Disabled people have been trying to get eyes on this fight for decades. Please talk about it. Please don’t let this go unseen like it always does.

#stop the shock #ableism #cw ableism #tw ableism #ableism tw #ableism cw #judge rotenberg center #shock therapy #torture #tw torture #torture tw #electric shock #cw torture #torture cw #disability #disability advocacy #developmental disability #intellectual disability #disability justice

[aacalienz]

if you’re autistic (even if you’re white, able to mask and fully speaking) you’re much closer to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities than you ever will be to neurotypical society. Include people with I/DD in your activism. Don’t separate yourself from us. I’d go as far as to say all autistic people have a developmental disability. You don’t have to identify that way, but really think hard about why you’re choosing not to. Autism is a Developmental Disability and and by separating yourself from intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) you are throwing autistics with higher support needs and autitistics with intellectual disabilities under the bus. (Signed developmentally disabled autistics without ID who are considered developmentally disabled by the state)

#actually autistic #autism #low support needs #medium support needs #ableism #developmentalal disability #i/dd #developmentally disabled #developmental disabilities #IDD #intellectual disability

[nordic-ravens]

if you get offended when someone suggest you might be disabled due to a condition you have, you have ableism to process.

if you get offended when someone thinks you're disabled, you have ableism to process.

if you feel bad about the thought of being seen as disabled, you have ableism to process.

no matter if you're abled or disabled, if you see the words "disabled" and "disability" as offensive, bad, less-than etc. you have (internalized) ableism to process through.

#why are you so reluctant to possibly be seen as disabled hmm? #if you genuinely don't think disability is bad or makes you less of a person why are you so afraid of it? #you could turn disabled today so better start processing your ableist biases sooner than later #this post includes intellectual. developmental and mental disabilities too btw #disability #disabilities #ableism #disability awareness #actually disabled #physical disability #mental disability #intellectual disability #developmental disability #and yes this is about a rly bad ableist conversation i just had to go through

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

People ignoring what you said is rarely due to poor reading comprehension.

People jumping to wild conclusions is rarely due to poor reading comprehension.

People assuming you implied things you did not is rarely due to poor reading comprehension.

People correctly identifying what you implied is good reading comprehension.

And if you think someone actually has poor reading comprehension, they should not be made fun of for it.

Stop armchair diagnosing and stop making fun of disabilities.

#reading comprehension #ableism #disabled #mentally disabled #learning disabled #developmentally disabled

[theatresofarcana]

i'm tired of lsn autistics saying that you can just learn social conventions and how to perform them, maybe not perfectly, but you can learn them yourself. NO, I CAN'T. no matter how hard i try, it is always masking that exhausts me giving me constant meltdowns, it is always your brain giving itself more than hundred procent to understand what even is going on around you, barely even being able to understand it, interpret it and react properly to it. i can't see conventions, social rituals and rules here and now, i'm aware they exist, i can name many of them, but i can't see them HERE AND NOW. my brain is too tired to even make myself a fucking simple meal, therefore understanding social situations when someone is talking to me and so much is going on is fucking exhausting. please understand it and don't expect me to perform those rituals. i'm valid the way i am.

#actually autistic #medium support needs #ableism #neurodivergent #developmentally disabled