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Bardificer

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She/Her // 19 // ADHD, OCD, Aspergers // I'm always surrounded by LGBTQ and/or Neurodivergent people. This pleases me. // Profile picture: https://picrew.me/share?cd=HhqxRgl8EB
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newhologram

unfortunately you can be seen as both, by different people or by the same people at different times... including doctors

[ID: Venn Diagram of “Not Disabled Enough” and “Too Disabled” overlapping with a thin slice of “Right amount of disabled.” There’s points alongside ranging as a scale.

Not Disabled Enough:

  • Thrown off benefits
  • Dying after being deemed fit to work
  • Seen as scrounger
  • No suitable or accessible jobs

Right amount of disabled:

  • Inspiration porn

Too Disabled:

  • No ventilator if you catch Covid
  • Social care cuts
  • Independence thwarted
  • Seen as burden
  • “There’s always assisted dying”

/end ID]

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reblogged

STOP CENSORING SUBTITLES/TRANSCRIPTS/CLOSED CAPTIONS

LET DEAF AND NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE READ “FUCK”

I know this sounds jokey and funney but I am serious and it is ableist and infantilising and inaccessible so stop

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raithnait

Also, if the captions don’t match what they’re actually saying exactly I have a split second of confusion. My auditory processing is a tad bit delayed but it’s still *there* and when my brain catches up to the fact that what my ears heard doesn’t match what my eyes read it jolts me out of the narrative and by then the movie has gone on without me…

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Sometimes I get real annoyed at the way adults treat delayed speech, like YES it takes some of us longer to download a fucking language, that doesn’t make us subhuman you dumb brenda

Oh I have a trick for this I just try to predict every possible way a conversation might go and have prepared answers for every path it may take in order of probability, and I also have generic non-comitting responses to gain time when needed. Also I use humour to stir conversations towards a path I can more easily predict. Sometimes I mix them all by having stock jokes and pre studied joke formulas so I can quip faster than I consciously think though that one can get me in trouble sometimes. But socialisation is just a series of algorithms that can be easily predicted and prepared for as long as you put in the work and pay constant attention to patterns. People don’t even notice it’s all planned most of the time.

this comment sort of perfectly encapsulates the way verbal disabilities are still disabilities even when they’re invisible. like, yes, maybe you have over-trained yourself to the point that you can pass as neurotypical. (this is why autism is so difficult to diagnose in adults, who are more likely to have coping mechanisms that disguise their symptoms.) But passing doesn’t make you neurotypical or non-disabled. What the comment above is describing is a hard-earned, imperfect coping mechanism that makes it easier to hide a communication disability, but not easier to experience.

Let’s say that maybe, after hundreds of hours of self-training like the person above has put themselves through…let’s say that just maybe, you can speak and sound like you don’t have a verbal disability:

  • as long as you aren’t too tired
  • as long as you’re prepared to deal with the constant stress & anxiety
  • as long as you’re able to put up with a long recovery time after socializing
  • as long as you’re willing to spend hours and hours practicing & overthinking & preparing & agonizing over something that comes naturally to other people
  • as long as you don’t feel entitled to actually enjoy the conversation
  • as long as you’re willing to feel stilted & anxious & self-conscious & exhausted no matter how successful your ‘performance’ is
  • as long as you’re willing to put in 100x the effort other people have to

Stop telling people “Oh you aren’t really [x]. you seem normal.” 

“I have to put an unreasonable amount of effort into my social performance to get other people to treat me like a person“ IS in fact an aggression against people with developmental disorders

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bardificer

Okay but oh wow the answer that other poster gave oh wow okay.

I plan out the things I say, to say how people can react to things in my mind. This is more during the conversation, or preparing for it, rather than memorising it beforehand. Though I guess I do memorise what to say if things get past my checker. I say "Sorry, I'm tired" so often. And that's effective (from my perspective) because I am tired. All the time. That doesn't change.

So often, I imagine things going wrong. If I say only this, how can I stop everyone from leaving me? So I plan. And I make sure that everything I say makes sense because that's a valid concern. Sometimes, when planning out what I'm going to say, I accidentally misgender my friend, so I pointedly make sure that I don't make the mistake when I'm actually saying it.

Also, I first started talking to myself so that everyone around me wouldn't misinterpret what was doing. I do that less now, but I still exaggerate the things I do to avoid confusion.

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USI removes student from campus because of his Tourette’s

Oct 12, 2020

A USI student named Seth Pressler who has Tourette’s syndrome was allowed to come to campus, but now he is being sent home to continue his education online because of other students’ reports about his disability to Public Safety. According to others I’ve heard from at this university as well as the person who made the petition, Seth is a pleasant and kind student who is always apologetic about his disability and explains that he has Tourette’s when people are offended by his behavior, but his apologies are often not accepted.

As someone who is on the autism spectrum and has been ostracized throughout my childhood for “socially unacceptable” behavior such as stimming or talking too loud or laughing at inappropriate times, I feel for this man. A disability is a disability, no matter how “socially unacceptable” it is. Disabled people can’t always adapt to our society’s expectations, and they shouldn’t have to do so just to access the same privileges as others. Our society needs to adapt to meet disabled people’s needs.

Please sign this petition and reblog this. (Remember not to donate to change.org.)

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Locking your wheelchair lift and requiring disabled people to find an employee to unlock AND OPERATE it is a direct violation of the ADA.

“The [ADA] Standards require ‘unassisted’ entry and exit from lifts (§410.1). Situations in which platform lifts are locked and require users to request or retrieve a key for operation will not satisfy this requirement for independent operation.”

“Attendant operation, although recognized by the ASME A18.1 Standard, is expressly prohibited by the ADA Standards. Platform lifts must provide ‘unassisted entry and exit from the lift’ (§410.1).”

Smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen…

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penndragon

This is not great, but it’s likely because people are fucking stupid and will screw around with it if it’s not locked up.

[ID: @gavrielabrahams “It’s probably because people were peeing in it.”]

You think people were peeing. In an open wheelchair lift. In the middle of a museum. With public toilets around the corner.

I think not.

But even if people had been peeing in it or otherwise misusing the lift… It. Doesn’t. Matter. It’s not just “not great.” It’s ILLEGAL. It is just as illegal to lock off a wheelchair lift as it is to not provide one to begin with. 

The correct response to people peeing in an elevator is never to lock the elevator. It is to provide a toilet. If you think the correct response to any problem is to violate the civil rights of an entire group of people by denying them access, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

Disability rights are civil rights.

You want to know exactly how this went down? Let me tell you a tale.

I was visiting the museum with friends. They went on around the corner while I finished looking at the previous exhibit. I then followed them around the corner only to find I couldn’t get up to the exhibit because the museum AS PART OF THEIR POLICY had illegally locked the lift. My friends didn’t know the lift was locked (why would the lift be locked?) and had no idea that I couldn’t get to them.

Now I, the disabled person, am forced to travel halfway around the building to the front desk to find someone to unlock the lift for me, wait for them to finish what they’re doing, and then travel all the way back to the lift. This was bad enough in a wheelchair. Who else uses lifts? Oh yes. People who struggle to walk. Can you imagine, as a person who struggles to walk, being forced to walk halfway around a building, and then back again, just to access an exhibit? You wouldn’t do it. You’d skip the exhibit. You’ve just been completely denied access.

So finally the museum employee unlocks the lift and then operates it (because yes, they’ve made it so I can’t operate it myself, which is also illegal). I finally get to the top probably ten minutes later, only to find that my friends have finished looking at the exhibit and are heading down again, wondering what has happened to me. 

After I’ve gone to all the trouble to get up there, fuck it if I’m not going to look at the damn exhibit. So I look at it, then head back to the lift to go back down, only to find they’ve locked the lift with me at the top and gone back to the front desk.

If one of my friends hadn’t stayed up there with me, I’d probably still be up there. As it was, my friend had to go down the stairs, back around to the front, find an employee, and get them to come back and let me down. Leaving me sitting up there. Alone. For another five minutes.

Now imagine if I had gone to the the museum by myself. Or what if there had been an emergency? You think if there was a fire some museum employee who couldn’t be assed to leave the damn lift unlocked until I had come back down would really have run back into the building to unlock the lift so I could get down? I think not.

Locking an accessibility feature is never the right solution. It is denying access to an entire class of people. Which is ILLEGAL and a CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION.

Disability law is civil rights law.

Disabilities need to stop being an afterthought with access! Businesses and such shouldn’t have to have a disabled person be the one to explain OBVIOUS problems for fucks sake

The amount of times my family and many other people with disabilities have dealt with nonsense like this where disabled entrances and lifts are for whatever reason blocked is ridiculous

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