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I repeat: "they need to teach something in school that I was taken out of class into a separate special ed class to be taught"

i am talking specifically about the fact it is something that I was explicitly taught in a special education class, and that none of those joke posts actually recognize that special education classes where people are explicitly taught these things exist. it's about the absence of disabled people in the public awareness! it's about people joking about actual things I was given grades on and able to pass or fail at, like the idea of being graded on it itself is laughable.

Also like out of your list, all of those except conversation skills were covered in mainstream classes in my district, the cooking was an elective. which like yes all these things are useful skills that should be taught! And I still ended up with extra classes on reading and language and social skills and how to behave like a person and if i did anything wrong i was punished for it and given even more support classes.

again, this post was specifically about things people joked needed to be taught in schools that I was specifically given extra support classes about and how i leaves me just going "yeah ok but i was taught this because i was deemed retarded and faced horrific ableism from the staff and my peers for it, and absolutely none of those posts ever seem to recognize these kinds of classes exist"

Anytime I see someone joke about how they need to teach something in school that I was taken out of class into a separate special ed class to be taught I'm just like. Yeah. They do actually teach this stuff if you've been deemed to person wrong. Extra skills classes exists if you're not the right kind of person.

#ableism

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worried that about donating to palestinian escape gofundmes instead of organizations like careforgaza i know are vetted; any tips for telling if one is legit?

Usually if an account reaches out to you and their tumblr page is a shit ton of popular posts all reblogged within minutes of each other, with a fundraising post pinned that was made maybe 45 minutes ago, it's a sign they're a scam (and are spamming reblogs to make themselves look more legit). Go to Operation Olive Branch for funds to donate to - their team is thorough when vetting funds and they have hundreds still waiting to reach their goal.

#because i have gotten a couple that are clearly scams #if you want to help make sure your help is actually going to the right places and not scammers taking advantage of the situation

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Anytime I see someone joke about how they need to teach something in school that I was taken out of class into a separate special ed class to be taught I'm just like. Yeah. They do actually teach this stuff if you've been deemed to person wrong. Extra skills classes exists if you're not the right kind of person.

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I’m not sure who needs to hear this but it’s normal and okay to be DISABLED by your DISABILITY.

Sometimes it is going to stop you from doing things, and that’s okay. Sometimes it’s going to get in your way or make you struggle or cause problems in your life. But that’s okay, that’s why it’s called a disability.

You don’t need to fight yourself or “not let it hold you back” because a lot of times it will, but that’s the point.

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Why us tumblr just... making notifications even more cluttered and with less information?

1 person liked my post.

2 people liked my post.

Just. Tell me who it is and what post? This tells me absolutely nothing. I get more information when there are a million little notifications because it at least gives me usernames and a word or two to identify the post.

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Switching between bold text and non bold text is like driving down the highway with really strong winds that keep wanting to push the car so you have to kind of steer into it and then when a semi blocks the wind you get jerked the other way and have to correct the other way and you spend the whole trip with your muscles tensed and seconds away from careening into other cars or the guardrails (or a ditch).

Reading a whole sentence in bold text is easier than highlighted words and phrases because it can adjust to the one sentence or more and then adjust back. It takes a bit to refocus but it is doable.(Unless it's too much bold and then i run into other problems). Sporadic bolding though interrupts my ability to properly track the line of text and makes it impossible to get through unless I want to put in a mountain of effort.

Anon says that when multiple sentences are bolded, they become unreadable. They're unsure why, since common wisdom holds that bolding should make it easier for people with reading- or language-related disabilities to read a long block of text.

I (pollmonger) would posit that bold isn't meant to be used for full sentences and bold sentences are (generally speaking) harder to read. If you emphasize everything, you effectively emphasize nothing. The most useful application of bold text is for short, salient keywords. But we're interested to see what others think.

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The solution for this is for more people to include image descriptions and transcripts and actually put in the work to make things accessible.

You know one problem with the fact that the most likely people to write image descriptions or audio transcripts are the ones who also need them is that sometimes they are missing key details that the person missed because the description was not already in place

#image descriptions

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

#writing

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taking your own advice is so hard. it’s “make bad art” this and “kill your perfectionism” that until i sit down with an idea i like. the i have to execute it perfectly Or Else

#writing

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if your defense of continuing to use ableist language is to engage in more ableism it's probably time for you to stop and reevaluate

#some people really only admit to something being ableist and making a decision to not perpetuate it only after the greater part of their #social circles have also recognized the things as officially ableist and that continuing to do the thing will then brand them as ableist #and that will then make them look bad #as opposed to going oh hey someone is pointing out how this thing is ableist and the harm is does and that hey society has ableism baked in #and there are a ton of thing that are ableist that people will fight tooth and nail to avoid having to admit it is #ableism

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what do you think of disabled people using ableist language to refer to themselves? what about disabled people referring to abled people with ableist slurs?

If it’s reclaiming a slur then they have the right to reclaim, then they have the right to reclaim it and that’s their choice.

If they’re using it the same way that the rest of society does, it’s still being used in an ableist way and shouldn’t be used because still ableism.

As for your second question, it’s still ableism.

Like, ableism is bad. Don’t perpetuate it.

#ableism #ableist slurs

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“Can’t you just ignore those ableist slurs?”

I have been punched in the face for being autistic. My autistic brothers and sisters are being murdered on a weekly basis. Ableism is deadly. Spreading hatred with ableist slurs contributes to this behavior. 

So no, I can’t and won’t ignore ableist slurs. I may not have the spoons to speak up every time I hear it, but I’m at least going to talk about it online. I’m not gonna pretend this stuff isn’t hurting people.

#ableism

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You know... it's like.

An article actually includes explicit mention of trans people in how the needs may be different than that of their cis peers. That trans men depending on if they are on hormones/period have stopped could have the iron requirements of either cis men or cis women. Says trans women won't see the changes to their iron needs. Says trans teenagers on hormones should just talk to their doctor to figure out how much they should be getting.

And then there is a chart at thr end that breaks it down by age and male/female gender. And then... puts a dash through the pregnancy and related lines for male. Like. It would be entirely possible for there to be pregnant men! The article already mentioned the existence of trans people. Also like. This chart is not labelled "cis male" and "cis female" it is male and female. I'm sure cis men can figure out that the line about iron requirements for pregnant men doesn't apply to them if they're not pregnant. Just like the cis women can look at that line and figure out it also does not apply to them if they are not pregnant.

#monday trans ramble

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I think ableist slurs fundamentally don’t make any sense as insults. Let’s say I call someone the r word. By doing so, I’m basically blaming their negative traits on a developmental disability that they themselves have no control over and absolving them of all responsibilities, which means I did not in fact blame them at all. The only reason ableist slurs are used as insults is because of ableism and society’s misguided hatred of the disabled. Am I onto something here, and do you at all agree?

you’re off on why. like the ‘so I’m not blaming them at all” is ?????? makes no sense logic. (sorry words agh. hard.) also going “disabled people aren’t accountable for their actions” is ableist and infantalizing and removes agency (which is ableism aspect entirely else)

but.

it’s more.

arg. uh.

Calling the person a disabled slur.

If the person is disabled it’s going “you’re disabled and that’s a bad thing, you’re bad because you’re disabled.”

Call a non-disabled person by a disabled slur it’s going “this thing you did is like you’re disabled, that’s a bad thing.”

it’s “being disabled is bad, calling someone disabled is insulting because I see it as a bad thing.”

Like. If I can’t talk because I’ve gone nonverbal and someone then calls me a fucking r****d it’s because they see that aspect of me as a bad thing.

If someone then calls someone else who isn’t disabled a fucking r****d, they’re comparing them to me/other disabled people and saying that it’s bad to be like me/like other disabled people.

You are right though in saying it’s because of society’s hatred of the disabled. Which is why they’re USED as insults. They make sense as insults in a society where being disabled is seen as a bad thing. But they only make sense as insults if being disabled is a bad thing.

(also the calling people disabled slurs because you want to attribute things to being disabled bc ableism reasons is another aspect of ableism... but again it’s not “oh they’re disabled they can’t help it” it’s “they’re mentally ill and that makes them scary/evil” which is the ableism part. and different aspect of ableism that is used more with non-disabled people to distance from being shitty people and blaming mental illness for being bigot or refusing to care about other people being hurt and so demonizing mental illness rather than abled people who lack compassion. aka “I’m not like that person, that person is like disabled people, that’s why they’re bad and I’m good. also disabled people are violent and bigotry is a mental illness or result of disability not society so I’m free of blame here and don’t have to question my own biases.” Sorry words there went wonky because thoughts were hard to organize.)

#ableism #ableist slurs

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Also I have been thinking lately of how much better my chronic pain has been and how it basically disappeared and wow gee I guess I don't actually have chronic pain anymore just if I move wrong or get cold or the weather changes

And then realized that I still wake up every hour or so at night to reposition because of the pain and that sometimes I just have to straight up get out of bed and move about until the pain goes away and I can go back to sleep.

Like. Yeah brain ok. The thing I had the most trouble with is gone. But there is still other things here.

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Ok so you know that whole body horror of healing magic and what if it just got rid of all your scars

And like once I started T my body just like... got rid of a bunch of scars I had. Most of them were very shallow that would have faded naturally anyway. And so like some of that was definitely in play. But also. I had a scar that I got when I was 3 from injury/surgery and that hadn't changed in like twenty years just completely change to be more normal skin and less scar color-texture. Like. I knew this scar as well as the back of my hand because it literally was that. And it was so fucking weird to just look down and realize it looked different.

#monday trans ramble