This isn't "not letting her disability hinder her"
This is a disabled person living a disabled life.
Yall just need to understand that disabled people are living everyday in a million different ways you can't fathom cause yall think if you get disabled you might as well die
PSA for writers:
Before you write that scene where a villain stands up out of their wheelchair and reveals They Could Walk The Whole Time... I'm going to quickly explain to you why that trope has serious and dangerous real world consequences
If you feel we are saying Lizzo should be able to say whatever she wants because she's a Black woman and we deal with enough... That's Not It.
I'm saying if you didn't have this energy when Taylor Swift released "St*pid Boy" last year its very suspicious that now you care.
Disabled people are publicly confronted by strangers that don't believe they are really disabled, because we can walk, all the time.
Violently and aggressively confronted. Threatened even.
This repeated trope programs people to associate seeing a person stand up out of a wheelchair with deception and evil.
This is very harmful to the Disability Community.
Please before you write this awful trope (or write it again) just don't.
@4WheelWorkOut
@Sia
@leslieodomjr
@maddieziegler
Why does this give neurotypical and abled people WARM FUZZIES is the real question!?
What do they not see!?
How can people not see that the non-autistic people were the center of that ad... That non-autistic people ARE TELLING OUR STORIES!
WHY DOES THAT MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY!?
Anecdote: Once a metrolink train conductor lied to me about their being Disabled Person seating.
I had a Disabled Person ticket (which he didn't know) but I guess I didn't "look disabled enough" for this guy.
These tropes effect our lives in such subversive ways
As someone who was one of those wives I need to say that this is not only on the Husbands.
When I was married EVERYONE told my husband he should leave me because I was sick. Both his parents suggested he leave me. All of his friends.
He didn't get there by himself
I can’t stop thinking about how the divorce rate for men leaving their really sick wives is so high that nurses are taught to warn women patients when they get diagnosed with a serious illness
Democrats: You have to vote for us if you don't want to lose your rights!
Also Democrats: Yes we let you lose your rights but how will you get them back without us!
You may have heard that my friend, soul sister, life partner and mentor Tinu passed away this week.
This loss has left me numb and heart broken.
I know she meant so much to so many people in our communities. The impact of her loss is truly unknowable and unspeakable
Just in case yall didn't know here's a friendly reminder:
🇺🇸Disabled people don't have marriage equality in America.
🇨🇦Disabled people don't have marriage equality in Canada.
🇬🇧Disabled people don't have marriage equality in the UK.
#Disabled
people please add to this list!
ACTUAL DOCTORS "You're still so young, I don't want you to 'give up' and start calling yourself disabled"
ME "but I've been diagnosed with and debilitated by Disabilities for over 15 years now what else do you call that?"
DOCTORS "....😬"
#DisabledCompliments
@isthat_kt
It's not safe to imply that some people LET their disabilities hinder them.
Like it's literally not safe.
That mentality is a massive barrier we have to deal with in order to access the help, resources and accommodations that we really need
PSA for writers:
Let me first give a couple examples of the horrible "Magic Legs" trope!
Professor Xavier in the
#Xmen
series could walk for most of season 2 because *on Genosha his powers were suppressed... Therefore he could walk*
My goodness that's so damn ridiculous
I would like to do a Ted Talk on virtual existence.
I'm so sick of people not understanding virtual relationships. It's almost 2023 and you still think you dunking on someone by telling them their online friends, activism, and lives aren't real.
Watching CNN and this pundit just said "T****'s mental disability is now on full display"
Honestly what I've hated the most the last 4 years is watching all of abelist America throw disabled people under the bus
Hey Disability Fam💚🫂
@Tinu
is widely and beloved we want to allow as many people as possible to attend her online home going service
Unfortunately trolls and other particularly vile human beings have left us no choice but to make this event private/invite only
I couldn't agree with this more
So many killers have left writings saying that this infamy was part of their motivation. And then society gives them everything they dreamed of by elevating devious monstrous killers to icon status.
Jeffrey Dahmer victim’s mother, Shirley Hughes, suggests that Evan Peters’
#GoldenGlobes
win is dangerous:
"There's a lot of sick people around the world. People winning acting roles from playing killers keeps the obsession going and this makes sick people thrive on the fame."
Even my family ignored his years of neglect because I was just lucky to have someone.
Society encourages men to leave their sick wives.
Society tells people that a sick partner has no value.
Society is a part of the problem.
@BootlegMermaid
Only ok if it's a Disabled hero.
I hate that there are so many disabled villains and so few disabled heroes. If disabled heroes encounter someone who decides to be evil "because disability" (Another common trope) the hero could just say that's a ridiculous excuse for villainy 🤭
I'm disabled and I'm terrified of the hospital right now.
I feel like the hospitals are definitely not safe anymore. Last time I went to the ER my anxiety was so triggered I could barely handle it.
#HighRiskCovid19
@TheeAnimeGuru_
@LOUIEFATTONS
She gonna catch onnnnnne health event or pregnancy & suddenly realize OHHHH IS NOT A CHOICE. WE ALL ON A JOURNEY & WE ALL STILL DESERVE TO BE COMFORTABLE IN OUR CLOTHES
I'm not wishing that on her. I just know as a "1x when everything is going right" bitch, that's what happens
Everyone: 2020 was the most ridiculous and outrageous year of our lives
Everyone Disabled: 2020 made everything accessible FINALLY! Too bad that's not gonna last 🙃😟
I'll keep you all updated with ways to support her children and family but for now you can continue to give to her links:
C: $TinuWrites
V: @ TinuWrites
You know what is extremely cold blooded
The way SSI/SSA/SSDI doesn't just want you to die waiting to get approved (or the ten years it takes you to get approved took 20 years off life expectancy) to lighten the "burden" of inevitable disability on the system
Assholes: CovID is interfering with my ability to shop and party! I'm at my witts end and I won't take it anymore!
Me: Covid is delaying a surgery I really need right now! But I suppose I'll just have to suffer until it's safe.
PSA for writers:
Let me first give a couple examples of the horrible "Magic Legs" trope!
Professor Xavier in the
#Xmen
series could walk for most of season 2 because *on Genosha his powers were suppressed... Therefore he could walk*
My goodness that's so damn ridiculous
@Mae_DayJ
@AnaMardoll
On a slightly related matter — let’s say I’m writing a scene where a NON-villain either quickly & permanently acquires, or quickly & permanently loses, the ability to be 100% ambulatory, for an actual and legitimate reason). How should that scene be cast?
@TCM_tweets
And I'm going on like year 6 being prescribed nothing but motrin for:
Fibromyalgia
Migraines
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)
&
Trigeminal Neuralgia
(to name a few)
I just need to see one person with Long Covid acknowledge that you were one of the apathetic people that never stopped to care about the Disability Advocates that were fighting for everything you need now LONG before these accommodations were a blip on your radar
Maybe don't write a plot where you send a wheelchair user to a tropical island with no wheelchair access! How hard is that?!
So let's discuss how this ridiculous trope is why people think disabled people will be magically healed!
How this trope has contributed to people actually pulling disabled people out of their chairs and taking away their mobility aids because abled people think we just need the right motivation or situation to be normal!
People are acting like "if you are happy without kids you wouldn't have to prove it"
Then why yall run to the comments to make sure everyone knows you still love your kids lol. Why does this threaten you? Why not just say, "do you and imma do me"
Why do you care?!
The team organizing the HomeGoing service
#ForTinu
has created a registration form that you can use to sign up for an invite, sign up to aid with the event, and/or sign up to speak during the service
🙏🏽Thank you for joining us for this celebration of Life
The
#Xmen
series and
#WolverineandtheXmen
give professor X magic legs with little to no explanation for how it's even working.
They definitely don't address that man who's been using a wheelchair for decades wouldn't be able to just stand up, climb a mountain and do a back flip
Last night I saw someone saying that they didn't care how old Jenna Ortega is, they won't have anything to do with the series Wednesday because she performed with Covid
@tisharowemd
@AmericanAir
As a Californian we 100% travel dressed like this all the time!
Being stopped and treated asked to cover up is outrageous. A full refund is MORE THAN IN ORDER. Free miles if she even wants to fly on their dusty ass airline again.
I usually fly
@AmericanAir
but not after this🤔
Why didn't they just have the character as an ambulatory wheelchair user???
Magic Legs really don't ever make sense that I've seen. So I suggest people simply write characters that are not full-time chair users. See the Disability spectrum and use it to be more creative
Jenna reported her symptoms immediately.
And then her bosses told her to continue working until they had the actual covid test results.
WHY ARE YOU BLAMING HER! She was an employee who did what she was told to do like a good little cog in the machine of this production
The Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Bay Area, CA) has mandatory masked events on Sundays and Tuesdays.
This is inclusiveness. This is community care.
Vulnerable people deserve to experience life, too.
TW: SA
I know nothing about this person.
But I know I was in high school when the term "run a train" became popular and it VERY RARELY is used consentually.
I'm offended. Disgusted. And irate that they are using the Autonomy that Autistic people have fought for to excuse this.
@theestallion
Are you already planning to work with Black Disabled & Chronically Ill women to make sure the facilities are designed with the disabled Community's real needs in mind?
I know Disabled Hot Girls in your area that would LOVE to help!
I think what hurts most about
#CripCamp
losing at the
#Oscars
is that if this had been a film with abled people playing disabled people, we all know that Oscar would've been guaranteed!!!
#OscarsDISs
This exchange really captures the problem with this mentality
The answer to "how is she wiping her ass" isn't a joke.
The answer is that she still has an aid or family to help her with the things she can't do.
Because disabled people need support and resources and that's fine!
All this is to say, we shouldn't be blaming Jenna Ortega for having the "cog" worker mentality when we know for a fact this nation raises us that way. And as a child actor (a career that legally shouldn't exist) she's been subject to this mentality for a very long time
So of course she told the story wrong, because she couldn't see the worker abuse and work place danger.
But all you who've reacted by blaming the employee and not the employer are literally doing the same thing!
@mttd_ag
@theestallion
Just in case these headass ppl really need a reminder of the Nasty lyrics...
Until ppl have this same angry energy for every rap song they really need to stfu and leave these women alone.
#WAP
Maybe Disabled people aren't lazy & have been pleading for remote work for decades so more of us can work
They told us it wasn't possible but when everyone needed it, it was immediately possible. So why get rid of something that we needed and finally got?!
Make that make sense
For years this was a point of pride for me. A story that reflected what a hard worker I was.
It was a long time before I told the story correctly. That I was taken advantage of by bosses that new I wouldn't defy them.
@Somesaylezzels
@zenhussy
Becoming a parent comes with a guarantee of 18 years of legal responsibility but the moral responsibility goes far beyond that.
In the spinoff episode of
#Titans
that introduces the Doom Patrol (DP) Niles has recovered from a broken back but once reinjured he must use his wheelchair again
In the series premiere Niles (recast) is now a full time wheelchair user (no explanation for his immobility is given)
Disabled kids were institutionalized, sterilized and euthanized by this country.
America don't give a fuck about kids unless they're white, wealthy, straight and healthy.
But I digress...
During season 1 Niles is kidnapped by a villain and returns with "Magic Legs"! No explanation is given to how this paralyzed man is now fully mobile.
But after defeating this villain, no more magic legs... I really don't see how the ability to walk was needed!
@FionasWriting
@JSWPhysics
@Noobventor
@queenveej
Also no one seems to be mentioning that you can simply be high risk and avoiding these places that are no longer safe for us.
I've had many borders where the primary items I needed were canceled, which often makes the order a waste of money I can't spare
He was still just the brains of the operation! He couldn't suddenly do Judo! So whyyyy?!
🙄 I am sure the Writers will tell me they have a reason he needed to not walk/walk/not walk but that's some bullshit
@Mau_Mooni
@brookewinters33
This plot was probably what broke me.
I was so enjoying the show and then that man stood up out of his wheelchair and I wanted to throw my TV.
The OP is a mother of a child with autism and she should know that's the answer and she should say that with her whole chest
If you are not eagerly and enthusiastically advocating for the resources & accommodations disabled people need to live you ain't for the team!
@4WheelWorkOut
Remember when they were doing comic cons online... Proving it is possible but they merely didn't want to give us access all this time.
I don't know if I can go on physically torturing myself at cons knowing this.
Once ur friends start seein you as Disabled they actually break up with you
"I know youve been gettin a lot sicker lately, and that's been really hard for me... And kinda a downer cause even tho you don't bring up your pain I HAVE TO KNOW you're in pain"
QUOTE
#DisabledDumpings
"I mean, you're not DISABLED-disabled, y'know? Like I promise you're not...*one of those disabled ppl*. You don't have to worry -- I wouldn't be friends with you if you were!"
Direct. Fucking. Quote 😑
#DisabledCompliments
It's really upsetting because these people really did hurt her. It broke her heart that people were treating her this way at the absolute worst time in her life.
I hope every one of these people burns in hell
I received this email the day after it was announced publicly that my dear friend
@Tinu
passed away. I'm still mourning her loss and people are being so vile.
Tinu is real, she wasn't a scammer! Cancer is extremely expensive and her family needs all the help they can get.