Someone called me out on something similar years ago re: ADHD & interrupting people. She was like “I’m black. You think I can just talk over people the same way you do?” I had to go sit down in the grass for an hour lmao
It has never occurred to me that my impulses are not constrained or limited in most scenarios because I have no fear for my safety. Completely reshaped the way I think about my own behaviour.
This was in a conversation with myself and two other people with ADHD, one of them being the woman I mentioned above. I was talking about how it’s “completely out of my control” and she brought up how that was a privilege.
Hey can someone with a bigger audience make a fucking PSA telling people that this isn’t me. It’s my birthday and I’ve spent the entire fucking day dealing with death threats and very scary stalkers. thanks.
A “healthy” body is a privilege. It is not promised. It is not forever. Nor is it morally superior.
Many of you will learn this the hard way when your cumulative covid infections inevitably wreak havoc on every organ system in your body
@thornhawthorne
I’m so sorry and I really do hope you report it. I let a prof break me for similar reasons. She should have been fired but I let it destroy me. It’s 2022 and they can’t pretend to just “not know” anymore
Possibly important context: this was in an EXTREMELY white academic setting in Canada. I had inferred that she was talking about speaking over professors or other students and how it is received, but it opened up a whole avenue of things I had not considered.
I imagined that, although this one woman may have had to suppress or mask her ADHD, there are likely other POC who just can’t, and suffer social/academic/financial consequences. I thought about how something like “ODD” seems to be a very racialized and punitive diagnosis.
@noooonico
RE: asking if you were suicidal; they have done this a few times to people where they use their mental health history as a loophole to have them held in an institution
and TO BE COMPLETELY CLEAR: I am not trying to say “white people mask harder.” That’s not the point. The point is that even though I face consequences for my behaviour, it is still perceived differently and is generally more acceptable because I am white.
I am AuDHD and extremely fucking bad at masking. I have suffered severe consequences as a result. It is not hard for me to acknowledge that someone who has just as hard of a time masking as I do, but isn’t white, would face different and/or harsher consequences.
Why play transphobe wizard game for babies when you could play critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restri
I think y’all should be less concerned about why disabled people aren’t working out, and more concerned that people with disabilities that inhibit physical activity are seldom provided with resources to be able to live healthy lives.
Damn, you're right. In 20 years of human rights activism it never occurred to me that the very solution to my problems was to simply vote! All this time I have been infringing upon the rights of people who are trying to do a genocide, when I should have just called my state rep.
Yes, JKR may campaign for harmful legislation. That is her right, just like it is yours to oppose her. But the best place to oppose legislation is not in Hogwarts and its not on twitch dot tv. It is in your local representative’s office. /7
"The left is losing because disabled people wont to the gym" is a fucking wild take. I'm a former organizer w/ 20+ years experience. It was like pulling teeth trying to get people to show up for anything that didn't involve some sort of machismo or aggression towards an adversary
Indigenous people have been screaming at the top of their lungs about the presence of unmarked graves of children for centuries, only to be mocked, ignored, retaliated against, etc. by settlers and the government.
The dirtbag left is cointelpro shit. The idea that you can have leftism without having to do any sort of wholistic or intersectional analysis is about as useful as Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
Aren’t y’all tired of the same white guy psuedo intellectual debate bro?
They are literally all the same. They contribute literally nothing of value and they are fucking boring.
so my dad showed up at my place in a surgical mask today and said “it’s the same thing” as the N95s I’ve been giving him. He believes this now because he spent last week visiting a friend in the hospital and the hospital took his N95 and gave him surgical masks to wear 🫢
@GypsyEyedBeauty
Montebello Quebec 2007 SPP protests. Undercover cops tried to incite a riot and were immediately called out by protestors. They even had the cops “arrest” them so that they could flee to safety. The PD admitted to it after these photos were posted online.
Disabled people are individualistic and divisive for asking people to consider that they exist, meanwhile so-called leftists refuse wear masks to keep us (and each other) safe. And we’re the ones unwilling to make sacrifices?? I’m losing it lmao
There was an extended period of time in 2020-2021 where I just would not eat anything but bread and crackers for weeks because I couldn’t physically get to a grocery store. You want me to stop using doordash? Show the fuck up and do some grocery delivery you useless fucks.
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome can be severely debilitating and life-limiting. It is also extremely common in people with ADHD. You’re just being a cunt. Hope that helps!
the self diagnosing girls on tiktok are trying to make getting sleepy at 3pm an adhd thing. my girl you just hit on one of the universal truths of the human experience. we are all getting sleepy at 3pm
@laymagdalene
!!! I hate these too. Like what is wrong with having a regular dark skinned woman? Why do you have to make it into something surreal? It’s like some sci-fi shit. Dark skinned women are beautiful as they are 😤
I’m not kidding though watching libs and some “leftists” respond to Biden bombing Syria got me going full tankie
I could sort of understand the manufacturing of consent during Bush, and especially the Obama years but y’all can’t be fucking serious?
@eugenegu
Gandhi & MLK are held up by white people as “one of the good ones” to reinforce the idea that the only valid form of protest against oppression is non-violence. Gandhi was taking credit for revolutionary progress while other people were out there fighting and dying for autonomy.
A lot of people in the QRT’s really kinda missing the point here. It’s not about learning to “control your behaviour” …it’s about the fact that neurodivergent POC have a different experience of how their neurodivergence is perceived and received by others.
Evo Morales dunking on Elon Musk has cured my depression, all my health problems, reversed all signs of aging, fixed my plumbing, and brought all my pets back from the dead.
I am so fucking tired of cis people and their crocodile tears being weaponized against trans people, and then turning around and claiming that they have always been allies to queer people. Like sincerely, get fucked.
Everyone keeps telling me how Vaush is so good ACTUALLY so I checked out his livestream for a few minutes to hear shit like “Land given to the natives is land taken away from the US, rights given to the natives is rights taken away from the US”
Fuck right off with that shit
Building solidarity networks? Proactive care for the community? Free educational workshops, self defense training, feeding and clothing people, emergency supplies for unhoused people etc etc. The only people who showed up for that shit? Disabled people.
Let’s be real here, 90% of the people fedjacketing disabled people over asking for basic community care and safety have never done a single hour of real community organizing in their lives.
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Most of you probably don't know this because I don't talk about my family much, but my middle sister has what is most often referred to as a "severe developmental disorder." She is almost entirely non-verbal and requires full-time support. She is a person who is visibly disabled.
I love when these dipshits start spamming “evidence” of alleged harassment of their favourite anime uwu streamer and it’s some of the most mild sentiments of dislike I have ever seen. Meanwhile, trans people are being literally legislated out of existence daily.
I know a ton of neurodivergent POC who cannot mask in that way, and as a result they suffer increased violence, discrimination, and trauma. And the people who DO mask suffer from having to constantly be masking, on top of everything else they are dealing with.
Dear cis allies:
There is something I need you to understand. If you’re going to fight alongside trans people, you may face significant backlash for it—but trying to provoke a reaction to it is a deliberate tactic to waste your time and shift your energy away from helping us 🧵
Respectfully, this is an absolutely fucking BONKERS thing to say when disabled people have been forced into isolation, further disabled, or died because able-bodied leftists can’t even wear a mask. Reading this makes me feel like I am losing my mind.
I think the points been lost a little so to drill down to the thing I think actually matters: the deployment of “ableism” whenever we are asked to make sacrifices. Whether it’s to boycott, to read revolutionary literature, to exercise, to organize—to invoke “disabled people”…
One time we had a comrade with a mobility aid pack half a flat of bottled water at a time into their scooter, ripping around downtown in a heatwave like a badass.
All the big strong tough guys with flatbed trucks couldn't be bothered.
Ohhh the irony of being immunocompromised and needing to protect myself because no one else will, but my autoimmune disorder makes it so I can’t regulate my body temp and I get so sweaty that I can’t wear a mask for very long…
I hope people understand that self-immolation is probably one of the most painful ways to die.
To quote a friend of Wynn Bruce, who self-immolated on Earth Day 2022 before the Supreme Court it is “a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis".
Now one could argue that there is a role for the tough guys and it's fine that they don't participate in any other way... except that they never really protected anyone or did anything. If anything their chest thumping just antagonized the other guys and perpetuated more shit
We were concerned for the safety of a bunch of young queer kids going up against a mob of people who want them, specifically, dead.
Not a single one of these tough guys showed up. Not one. And all hell broke loose. In all my years of activism I had never seen anything like it.
Wait what lol
#cowardofthecottage
is trending because Trudeau won't leave his house.... because... he's in isolation... during a pandemic...
I don't like Trudeau either but this is some intense reaching lol
I sure am noticing an uptick of ableist rhetoric recently. Specifically, attempting to discredit and delegitimize the experiences of disabled people. I’ve also seen a lot of pick me disabled people trying to pull the “I’m not like those other ANNOYING disabled people” crap.
It still fucks me up because it traumatized a bunch of kids who were just starting to get excited about activism and it was their first time taking organizing into their own hands and I was so proud of them. It sent the message loud and clear that they were on their own.
Wild how Canada can mobilize paramilitary arms of the RCMP to violently suppress Indigenous people defending their land and treaty rights–but are MIA when white people are literally pissing and shitting all over downtown Ottawa.
People were very badly hurt. There were also no cops there which was unusual but it's not like they would have done anything anyway.
And what was the response from the dudes who didn't show up? They blamed my comrades for being attacked while advocating (alone) for their rights
AND HERE'S THE BEST FUCKING PART
One time some of my younger comrades decided to counter protest an anti-lgbtq+ hatemonger in town. I was swamped with finals and couldn't attend or help much with organizing, so I reached out to all of our able bodied cishet "tough guy" comrades-
Millions of workers are still missing from the U.S. labor force three years after COVID-19 surfaced, and economists are scratching their heads as to how big the gap actually is and where all these people went.
@gracejessup_
@nielsenhibbing
@thornhawthorne
I had one professor who I had confided a medical issue to make a statement in front of the entire class about my “made up disability.” He should have been fired for that honestly.
People will always rally together to condemn vandalism, property damage, and looting—but turn a blind eye to institutionalized violence—because we have been taught to value commodities above human lives.
Breaking: The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of the Oath Keepers.
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Hey everyone! Just checking in! I am fine! I get super nauseous from anesthesia so I have spent most of the day sleeping/trying not to vomit. Finally just got some food in me and I feel fine! Super achey, though
@gracejessup_
@nielsenhibbing
@thornhawthorne
I don’t know the contents of the email either but being a disabled student, I am all too familiar with the process of having support from your accessibility/disability centre on campus but then having that not translate to having to deal with actual professors
I talked to a cashier who told me about a woman buying $800 worth of toilet paper and how she was bragging loudly about the profits she was going to make.
#panicbuying
#pricegouging