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iโm an artist with severe ME/CFS and iโm too sick to work at my art market tomorrow so i really need help this month!
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itโs suicide prevention month and all i have to say about that as someone who has survived many attempts and lived with chronic ideation is:
we cannot and should not seek to prevent suicide without committing ourselves to sustaining life by meeting peopleโs fundamental needs.
i wish people realized โprisonโ isnโt the only form of incarceration. involuntary psychiatric โhospitalizationโ (arguably not possibly voluntary do to signing a lot of basic autonomy and rights away, and a lot of uninformed consent happening) is incarceration.
being autistic is actually so debilitating and iโm tired of the โitโs not a disabilityโ crowd minimizing what autistic people have to navigate.
i am constantly one bad sensory experience or miscommunication away from a meltdown and every social interaction burns me tf out.
people with wealth that love to talk about โsuicide preventionโ also love to hoard the very resources that could save peopleโs lives. people are often driven to suicidality due to insufferable circumstances and lack of access to our basic needs.
the fact that the both โchronically onlineโ and โterminally online,โ exist as common phrases that ultimately mean the same thing makes it clear that ableism is laced in both and that yโall think disabled people whoโs social interaction exists primarily online are disposable.
currently getting myself angry over the ableism rooted in shaming people for being actively online.
i am isolated, multiply-disabled and broke. without the internet, iโd be flaring in bed all day with no friends, none of my needs met, dying.
the internet has kept me alive.
i remember fundraising for furniture a couple years ago and people were like โyou were just fundraising for rent now you want people to buy you furniture?โ well i would like to not be sleeping on the floor soโฆ yes. lmao. yโall act like poor people choose poverty.
i am seeing yt people engage with direct aid for ukrainians that have never engaged w any type of direct aid for Black folks, and still arenโt.
like yโall fully understand how funds assist in survival based needs for system-impacted folks but actively refuse to aid Black folks.
@UnnamedLov3
@TheyDavis
๐ and the thing isโฆ foreplay is โactualโ sex too! genitals donโt have to touch, and penetration does not have to happen for erotic intimacy to be real true authentic sex, yfm?
there are really ableists in the world that think homebound disabled are just lounging and lazing around. being disabled is a full time job. that is NOT an exaggeration.
i have never been โsavedโ by someone telling me they would hate for me to not be here anymore. i have not felt โbetterโ when people reduce my suicidality to mental illness. ongoing complex trauma is insufferable. i cannot be helped by people who wonโt honor that truth.
if thriving feels like an impossibility and crisis and survival states are more common than an inkling of joy or contentment, why would people not despair and anguish about their lives?
we need to make life more livable, beyond survival! starting with basic human needs.
i donโt get why yโall trust strangers around you to not have covid. thereโs so many layers to anti-masking but thatโs something i donโt get.
why are yโall at crowded events, on public transit, in restaurants, etc. maskless and think itโs impossible for someone to get you sick?
yt ppl really need not concern themselves with Black intracommunity issues because more often than not they take that as an opportunity to express anti-Blackness.
@kynthiaalice
@cuteandcanread
stop moralizing drugs. itโs not cute. no one said theyโre the same but using weed doesnโt make somebody morally superior to someone who uses other types of drugs.
weed being medicinal doesnโt have any bearing on the fact that all drugs should be decriminalized.
not only is self-diagnosis valid because of the inaccessibility of formal diagnosis but itโs crucial and needed because these systems are manufactured to disparage and disappear us. so if we can discover ourselves without the need to involve the state, thatโs a good thing!
this is so fucking disgusting. yโall be ANGRY like LIVID when disabled people ask yโall to not use ableist phrases because weโre โreachingโ when we call you eugenicists and then you call a global pandemic that killed and disabled millions โamazing.โ so what are yโall then? [QRT]
psychiatric patients are criminalized. some may have better experiences than others; i mean, we hear it all the time from survivors of incarceration that it was โhelpfulโ for them. but that is either privilege or a survival tactic.
all institutionalization is incarceration.
@motherjuniper
just saying that small lips are โstandardโ as well is just like... so exclusionary of the existence of black peopleโs ethnic features as well like ? wth is their problem.
over 100k raised in a week by this racist yt woman, only to not be used for the purpose it was supposedly intended and iโm asking to much by having an $8k goal to keep my housing because iโm disabled and canโt work but itโs also been stalling at the halfway point for monthsโฆ
white people love being meta so bad that theyโll continue to make media that tells stories of white supremacy under the guise of โsatireโ and then thereโs never any actual critique. what is satire without a rebuttal? without reflection? an excuse to be ignorant and harmful.
My partner and I have to find a place to move ASAP! We are disabled and unemployed. Our lease ends the 29th and our plan for housing fell through last minute.
Visit this link to read our story and donate to help us secure housing! RTs appreciated. ๐
the โget a jobโ crowd is so tired. like yโall really think people fundraising havenโt thought of that and yโall really think the reason people are in poverty is because they โrefuseโ to work. i sadly *want* to work but my disease makes it impossible.
itโs so wild how quickly i was disposed of once my disability got more severe and i could no longer be exploited for my labor/participate in transactional relationships
i have been institutionalized 4 times, 3 times between ages 13-17. i experienced so much violence as a result, and each one of those times what i needed was material resources or to be taken care of by the people around me who were abusive/neglectful. i didnโt need more abuse.
i hate cissexisim. yโall thinking itโs trans allyship to conflate trans menโs experience with cis menโs and trans womenโs with cis womenโs. yโall are so invested in colonial binaries and gender essentialism, itโs sad!
i will never get over how blatant the ableism is. and ppl will be like, โnobody was talking about disabled people.โ exactly! yโall leave us out the narrative entirely because when youโre talking about โpeopleโ in general, we are not considered a part of that group?? lmao.
okay so currently i:
- am a month behind on rent
- have 27 days left in my lease, meaning 27 days to find housing
- have to raise funds for housing (cause where tf iโm gonna stay if i canโt afford move-in fees and moving costs?)
- need to pay $800 or my electric getting shut off
i didnโt need to be away from my home for 2 weeks at a time, away from my friends, unable to work and provide for myself after experiencing houselessness. gaslit and told cbt would โfixโ me and that i was in my own way like all of my troubles werenโt systemic.
โchecking inโ on someone whoโs life is unlivable is not enough. a lot of us are already dying due to our conditions; constant survival and crisis states are not living. itโs not sustainable.
without mutual aid, a lot of us would not be here. redistributing resources saves lives.
i donโt moralize when people get covid but the thing is the people that donโt mask and think the pandemic is over moralize themselves and go โiโm a good person! i donโt deserve this! how could this happen?โ never once considering their lack of mitigation and care as the culprit.
i hate that itโs looked down upon when patients do research on our symptoms and present it to our providers. that should make doctors feel more encouraged to collaborate with me in seeking a diagnosis and treatment plan. healthcare should be autonomous and patient-led.
#NEISvoid
if youโre trying to comment on internet culture and how it obscures peopleโs social interactions or view of the world at large, etc, you can articulate that without nonchalantly constructing a social category that ultimately targets and demonizes disabled people.
โmy disability doesnโt debilitate me that way so thereโs no way yours doesโ is such tired lateral ableism bs. iโm so exhausted by the way disabled people police othersโ disabilities ๐ญ
being disabled doesnโt make someone immune to ableism!
i will not elaborate bc i havenโt the spoons and any other details i could add are likeโฆ extremely obvious if you are a critical thinker and not willfully ignorant.
โitโs their money! they can do what they want with it!โ about people that could help so many folks experiencing crisis to find stability.
โget a job! find a way! do the hard work!โ about people that literally canโt do that because of systemic cyclical obstaclesโฆ be serious.
thereโs so many other words and phrases you could use to mean what youโre saying without insinuating that those who are more online than others are inherently less thanโฆ
this makes me mad bc of exactly what i saidโฆ itโs so nonchalant, like all microaggressions tend to be because yโall think itโs โnot that seriousโ and donโt recognize the implications of what you say and the power of language to sway our treatment of already marginalized peoples.
recently saw something that said the reason people have such a hard time cleaning and organizing is because they try to do both at once but theyโre entirely separate tasks. that definitely resonates with me as an auDHDer but itโs still so hard to focus on one task ๐ญ
@OgLakyn
people who normalize that phrase and similar phrases think the internet & IRL cannot coexist. โchronically onlineโ is a โgotchaโ phrase lacking nuance and rooted in ableism/dehumanization of those who are dependent on the internet for survival and connectivity.
i literally canโt feel nostalgic about martin and a lot of these old shows/movies bc thereโs so much minstrelsy, so much transmisogyny x misogynist x fatphobia going on. all this cishet Black male-made media that caters to yts and commodifies Black femmesโฆ yuck! canโt.
if you donโt have chronic pain and/or chronic fatigue please donโt ever try to hold me to the same standard as yourself (and honestly able bodied people be holding me to higher standards than themself too like? what are we doing??)
reminder that if you see me at PAX you can ask me for a mask! I have a bunch of standard size and kids KN95s and standard size and large N95s!
the info booth will also have some!
but we can say we donโt gaf that sheโs autistic bc she donโt gaf about the community. iโm so tired of yt auties prioritizing validity politics over the safety and systemic circumstances of autistic people. [QRT]
why do white people insert themselves into intracommunity Black discussions? and why are there so many folks that welcome them in/entertain them?? ๐คฆ
poor and disabled people supposedly โlack ambitionโ and โwork ethicโ cause we have circumstances outside of our control that make basic needs inaccessible and have the self-respect to ask for support but those who have excess resources are justified in hoarding them? yโall r cops
and many ableds would think thatโs a reach but itโs actually an understatement.
thereโs so much to it. having ME/CFS, surviving so much trauma and ongoing, concurrent crises, homebound and bedridden, why shouldnโt i look to the internet to access what i otherwise cannot?
@GGGAET20
@kakovalipuduk
@jd_occasionally
i think the reason folks are mad is because the texture of hair they have, white people can also have. theyโre not impacted by texturism, and itโs frustrating for people who are to see others whine about microaggressions when theyโre much more violent for others.
@fluidsonja
and they will call people pleasers manipulators meanwhile they use the most pathologizing and demonizing clinical language making it obvious they understand theyโre being ableist but just donโt care!
just noting for folks arguing psychiatric institutions are โnecessaryโ โ what you mean is access to resources, safe spaces, support, is necessary.
as i mentioned, being institutionalized leads to different experiences for different folks but the system overall is fucked.
@plscallmeky
mood. when i initially thought i might be autistic i gaslit myself because the understanding i had of autism was through functioning labels and so i thought i had to be non-speaking and โnon-functioningโ OR a savant that was really really good at something.
many of us literally CANNOT work and, whether or not we work, depend on mutual aid and virtual community.
yโall want to exploit disabled people and if we canโt be then youโll isolate and disappear us.
to yโall weโre jokes and burdens for just trying to live.
a lil message from your sober pothead at heart:
please incorporate harm reduction into your cannabis use as youโre able. weed is not โjust a plant.โ
I developed severe CHS (cannabis hyperemesis syndrome), heart palpitations, psychosis after years of โsafeโ daily weed use.
another appointment that led to nothing.
the doctor kept calling me young and healthy and i wanted to fucking scream. being undiagnosed but dealing with tens of symptoms daily and being homebound by them is not healthy.
โthere is a CRAZY flu going around right nowโ
no, itโs covid. and when it is the flu, itโs whooping your ass so bad because your immune system has been absolutely ravaged by covid infections.
donโt call yourself covid conscious if youโre only thinking about how covid effects you.
if youโre able to take a risk that you know impacts other people because you donโt care how it impacts you, you were never covid conscious. collectivism is crucial.
@Imani_Barbarin
I am so grateful for your existence. everytime thereโs a video of yours on my tl I stop what Iโm doing n tune in bc youโre always so on point ๐งก
0/$600
taking off the next week of work so I can rest and grieve. I lost a family member to suicide and a close friend to medical neglect in a span of days. I need to rest and recoup the funds I'm missing out on. I'm so tired.
v/c - @/$autieshawtie
pp/z - lalashanks
@gmail
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if iโm keeping it 100%, iโm chronically suicidal and there isnโt a day where i donโt feel untethered to my body and this world. the best days be the most triggering, highkey, because i know how unlikely it is to be that good again and how fast shit can get real bad.
certain autistic people (โช๏ธ) love ranting about how they canโt be their authentic selves without suppression and shame yet suppress and shame racialized autistics for being ourselves, authentically ๐ง they love to project and tone police.
โฃ๏ธ my partner and i are at serious risk of being homeless again if we cannot acquire funds for april rent and moving costs for may!
we are $225 in the negatives. april rent is $1k. moving costs also ~$1k.
๐ธ โ
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