For this Disability Pride Month can you all maybe stop assuming your disability experiences as the frame of reference for everyone else's.
Happy Disability Pride Month — and here's a reminder that you don't need to push yourself to do something for it.
You can let your disability pride be in accommodating your disability. That is very important.
Tl;dr:
I struggle with basic arithmetics.
But not enough that my school would let me not do math.
So I had to do math in school, straining my entire organism for that.
That is really bad, actually.
I don’t even need math in my life at all.
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I struggle with basic arithmetics.
I do not actually need math in my life. At all. I am lucky to live in the time and the environment where I can always have a calculator do it for me.
The fact that I had to do math in school is bad, actually, and not just for the general school reasons.
I was forced to strain myself on something my brain just fundamentally doesn’t do.
That something not even being remotely anything I would need in life.
But even if it was only one of those two things!
I want to focus on the former most of all here in particular though.
I have chronic migraines, and at least in the later years, when I was homeschooling, my headache would immediately get much worse when I’d just try to think in the direction of math. I don’t know if it was like that when I was public-schooling, there were too many sources of headache worsening.
I don’t remember if I had much math problems before middle school, though I always disliked math, but in middle school, it was very visible in my math work that my numbers were constantly wrong in the most basic ways.
It’s easier to do math on paper than in my mind, writing it out and using column math and long division *is an aid*, I can say I struggle with basic arithmetics even if in school I struggled less (using aids; also still struggled), I certainly do acknowledge those who struggle more than me and the ableism they face
But, so, my struggles with math were not enough for them to let me not do it, just enough for them to force me to struggle more trying to correct my mistakes, and as a whole I still had to do the thing that my brain just doesn’t do, and it was needlessly straining the entire me.
#leviathan.txt#disabilityposting#disability pride month#dyspunktional#actually autistic#actuallyautistic#autistic#autism#neurodivergence#neurodiversity#adhd#actually adhd#i used to think it’s adhd now i think it’s probably autism#whatever though#i doubt i have#dyscalculia#but i will tag it i guess yeah#…thinking about it more. maybe i actually do#will look into that more
I honestly feel like beings are starting to forget about the entire concept of competing access needs.
Things that make something accessible to some can make it inaccessible to others, and including both versions will not always work.
Someone with language problems writing something can be inaccessible to someone with language problems reading it.
Providing accessibility even when one is technically able to do that can be a strain too much for them, and they should not be pushed to put others’ needs above their own, especially if/when it is by far not as important for others to see than for them not to strain themself.
And more.
Do not call my chronic migraines and other chronic pain physical disabilities if you are not also going to call my ADHD and bipolar physical disabilities.
Do not call my ADHD and bipolar neurodivergence and neurological disabilities if you are not also going to call my chronic migraines a neurodivergence, and that and other chronic pain neurological disabilities.
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Edit: do not call me neurodivergent at all. I’m a full-bodymind crip, including being disabled and insane and overlap of these. No divisions.
dyspunktional-leviathan reblogged
this disability pride month, remember our loved ones who are locked up, institutionalized, and incarcerated. Remember our loved ones who are in carceral group homes that wouldn't pass the burrito test. Remember our loved ones who are cut off from disability community and forcibly isolated through the violent ableism of these institutions. Disability solidarity means that we must create these community connections that transgress these barriers and lets our loved ones know that they are valued, important, and that we are fighting for their freedom.
This disability pride month, send a care package to your local psych ward or residential treatment facility.
Support patient organizing, prison protests, and advocacy for independent living.
This disability pride month, commit to fighting for abolition of all forms of incarceration, from psych wards to residential treatment to prisons.
dyspunktional-leviathan reblogged
aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact
hey I wanted to wish a very special disability pride month to every disabled person who’s getting worse. to people who are losing the ability to do things they used to do. people whose symptoms are increasing in severity. people who are developing new symptoms. people with degenerative and terminal disorders. people who are dealing with new disorders on top of preexisting ones. happy disability pride month to everyone who knows they’re not getting better. there’s nothing wrong with that, and you deserve to take pride as much as anyone else.
dyspunktional-leviathan reblogged
happy disable pride month severe autistic. high support need autistic. visible autistic. non/semiverbal autistic. autistic never learn mask. autistic not able communicate anything other than special interest. autistic with intellectual disable. autistic in special education. autistic severe disable just because autistic.
dyspunktional-leviathan reblogged
Happy disability pride to everyone whose disability makes it hard/impossible for them to leave the house.
Happy disability pride to everyone who WANTS to do something they love, but can't because of their disability.
Happy disability pride to everyone who has ever been ignored, side-eyed or scoffed at (or otherwise judged) for being themselves in public.
Happy disability pride to people in constant pain, that doesn't end or break.
Happy disability pride to people who can't/don't want an official diagnosis because it would fuck up their lives, but they need the accommodations anyway.
Happy disability pride to people who did get/have gotten/had to get a diagnosis, because they needed what came from it.
Happy disability pride to the under-represented disabilities that people don't talk about much, or that get ignored both online and IRL.
Happy disability pride to those whose disabilities get represented in ways that do not match your experience at all.
Happy disability pride to the physically and mentally disabled people who are reading this. If you are one, the other, or (more often) both, you are still a valid person who faces discrimination and hardship from ableists, and we must all band together to vouch for our rights- ALL of our rights.
Happy disability pride to all of you, I love you all, and may we get through this month, and all the rest, together.
A very important message to all disabled beings this disability pride month:
You don’t have to push yourself to do something for pride month.
[Plaintext: You don’t have to push yourself to do something for pride month.]
This is the entire post, because otherwise I would also be a disabled being pushing himself to do something for disability pride month!
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