I know ableds find it hard to believe, but especially in the U.S. there is no comprehensive care for disabled adults. If you don't have family willing to care for you? You're screwed.

But people just cannot grasp this, and will argue like their very emotional comfort depends on it oh wait. 3/3

The twist of the knife is when you try & advocate for yourself/your community on this issue, & all the ableds race to argue with you that no, there's funds and aid out there. You just need to LOOK.

Becky🙄

The lack of support for disabled folks is a MUCH larger issue than 99% of people realize. 2/3

I'm back in contact with a HS friend who is indigenous and was taken from his mom immediately after birth. Last of the Indian School b.s, etc. I made a crack about Columbus and my friend said, "oh, was he actually super bad or something?"

They don't fund public education for a reason, y'all.

Yes, not a one-to-one. But can y'all PLEASE stop using my very existence as an example of a reality so torturous you'd prefer to shuffle off this mortal coil?

I've said it a thousand times: 99% of what makes #disability hard is the way society treats us. You know, the part that COULD be fixed. 3/3

I cannot tell you how many times Ive met someone, and after they've learned a bit about my accident they've said to me, "wow, you're tough. If I were you I'd have just killed myself."

Oh. Oh...um, nice to meet you too?

Imagine a straight person saying that to a #queer. White to POC. HOLY SHIT. 2/

No, Hank. It's the 5g Comtrail Space Laser vaccines making us all sick.

(But only the fluoridated ones.)

#butthurt

Oh, this is so relatable. The filings on my case are fekkin WILD.

My ex accused our 11yo of "cyberbullying" over a yt comment she made--on an anon account--which never even mentioned him. 😳

He threatened to sue me (it's kinda his thing) if I didn't force her to delete her "defamatory comments."

It also doesn't care about penalizing offenders.

Welcome to the patriarchy. Sit down, shut up, spread your legs & watch your tone--because men are allowed an entitlement to rage you wouldn't believe…so long as they're charming.

Bonus if they abuse a cripple like me. Then NO one'll care. Trust.

Hey Boo. I pop into Discord here and there, but I'm in your comments a good bit with the same pfp. I'd love a follow-back!

There is NOTHING that scares those in power more than the idea of true revolution. It's why our schools are underfunded, it's why we're worked to the bone, it's why they sow so much division. Because if we genuinely, truly, *effectively* came together...they know they're completely screwed.
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Yes, this #ttban is wrong in many ways--but I am absolutely heartsick over what this does to #disabilityactivism. ANY restriction on our access to support and camaraderie and information and allyship is a blow more massive than I can really describe if you aren't already actively #anti-ableist. [7/]

Bringing it back around to my wheelhouse--social media allows disabled people to participate in activism in ways they simply cannot otherwise. The disabled community has banded together into something I wouldn't have dared DREAMED of twenty years ago. Our visibility and allyship is growing.[6/]

Social media gives us a way to start some of these conversations we aren't otherwise having. It creates access in places with horribly segregated schools. It crosses all sorts of lines--even the red ones you'd think would be gentrified out by now, but still keep us from class solidarity.
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As an aside, one of my privilege bombs was learning how few white women had really close black women friends. "Oh, I have a bw friend at work," or "my neighbor is black and we chat."

Girl, I am talking about the kind of friend you discuss your periods with. Someone who will call you OUT. [4/]