listen we’re always pushing back against anti-vaxxers with the science showing that no, vaccines don’t cause autism, but can we please talk about the underlying problem here which is that people hate autistic children?
even if the poorly researched pseudo-science was right and vaccines had any link to autism in children, i would still want myself and my children vaccinated because guess what, there’s nothing wrong with autistic people.
what i hear when people say they don’t want their children vaccinated against deadly illnesses because they believe that vaccines cause autism is not just that they’re horribly misinformed, but that they’d rather have a sick, dying, or dead child than an autistic child. and honestly, that’s pretty fucked up and just goes to show that neurotypical people don’t view us as people who are equally entitled to life.
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THANK YOU!!!! this upsets me so much. the only other time i saw a post like this it was “id rather my kid got autism than [disease]” and the way it was written made it sound like autism was the lesser of two evils. it’s so nice to finally see a post that says “you know what? autism isn’t bad at all” because. it isn’t
We’re very happy that a lot of groups like various IWW locals and socialist parties have stepped up to agitate and educate at March For Our Lives events, and we very much hope that that trend continues to grow, because JESUS CHRIST are these kids coming out with some bad takes.
Change privacy laws to allow mental healthcare providers to communicate with law enforcement
As seen in the tragedy at our school, poor communication between mental healthcare providers and law enforcement may have contributed to a disturbed person with murderous tendencies and intentions entering a school and gunning down 17 people in cold blood.
We must improve this channel of communication. To do so, privacy laws should be amended. That will allow us to prevent people who are a danger to themselves or to others from purchasing firearms. That could help prevent tragedies such as the Parkland massacre.
I still get so pissed off remembering the dozens of people who would tell me “Oh, well your ADHD will just go away as soon as you’re an adult, and its not like its a REAL mental problem” bitch I’m almost 19 and so far all its done is gotten worse like what did you expect me to magically become a perfect adult upon my 18th birthday
like i constantly forget to perform basic human functions and not on the level of “oh, you just need reminders” but more on the level of “if i didnt have my sister i would forget to eat for like, a week and then probably die”
Yeah. ADHD doesn’t go away when you grow up, more than half of adults diagnosed as children still meet the diagnostic criteria. Those who don’t still have a lot of ADHD traits, they just aren’t substantially impaired by them anymore, possibly because they’ve found jobs that suit them.
But even if ADHD did disappear entirely the day you turn 18, you would not magically gain the multitude of skills you missed out on growing up. It wouldn’t erase the memories of failure and shame. Don’t fucking ignore a child’s disability just because you think it’s going to go away eventually.
I’m 36 years old, and even though I was diagnosed at age THREE, I’m only now actually dealing with it instead of just sort of throwing drugs at it and telling myself I’ll do better next time. Why now? Because I had a mental breakdown, quit my career, and didn’t get out of bed for a year. So, yeah. It’s not going to go away. It’s going to get better on it’s own. Don’t wait till your 30’s to start learning how to live with it 😉
My Mom suspects she has it but has never been formally diagnosed. She used to beat herself up all the time for expressing common ADHD traits and is only now being less hard on herself about them. A lot of adult women are in that same category: They’re undiagnosed and just see themselves as “forgetful” or “bad mothers.” The way we as a society forget about adults with ADHD affects the lives of real people and it sucks.
Destroy the notion that intellectually disabled adults are children in adult bodies.
I don’t care if they only watch Sesame Street because it’s one of a few things on TV that’s cognitively accessible to them. They are not children unless they are actually children.
as someone who grew up neurodivergent, can i just say “kids will be kids” is not good enough to excuse the years of peer abuse i had to go through because you couldn’t teach little johnny how to behave like a decent fucking person. both teachers and parents didn’t do jack shit but to hold on to their own agenda which was to get me to erase parts of myself so that i could please them. the problem was always on my side. it was my fault. but i’m an adult now and sick of it. so i sincerely hope you unlearn that ableism or get out of my sight.
It’s weird too in that I’m friends on facebook with adults now who, while they weren’t bullying me in Middle and Elementary school per se, never really cared that I was being bullied and a few of them have liked posts about my Middle and Elementary school friendships with other “weird” kids and/or my anti-bullying posts. I feel uncomfortable when they do thos things but I never quite know how to explain why.
Stephen Hawking is currently getting a full walking tour of ALL the universe’s mysteries.
Born on Gallieos birthday and departs on Pi day. The Universe has taken back a piece of itself.
Memorial posts that focus on a disabled person’s sudden ability to walk now that they’re dead are horridly disrespectful to their memories and to disabled people who’re still alive today.
Stephen Hawking was an ardent crusader for disability rights, and he was also an atheist, so saying that he’d be doing anything in an afterlife, especially walking, is straight-up insulting.
I’m not a wheelchair user, so I can only echo my friends who are here. But these are some of the things they’ve said:
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So much of it comes down to seeing wheelchairs as a restriction on mobility when it is the opposite, wheelchairs give us freedom when our mobility would be otherwise limited. So hurtful seeing the way people are treating a proud disabled scientist in death.”
“My wheelchair freed me. I was housebound, except to use the scooters at the grocery store. I went awhile without one because I had to fundraise, and it was misery. Imagine being stuck in the house except to go to the grocery store for one hour a week. Now I can grocery shop alone, visit friends, DANCE, run errands, go shopping, exercise. I could work until I got too sick, too. A wheelchair is like getting wings. The only time it’s a pain is when SOCIETY doesn’t make something accessible. Something Hawking fought strongly for. He’s a cripple hero.”
Saying that a disabled child or adult “will never live independently” is such a slap in the face. I think it’s unacceptable and I think it’s lazy. No one will ever live independently! No one is living independent of medical care, emotional support, and goods/services provided by others. Humans are a deeply interdependent species. Disabled people are sometimes rendered ~dependent~ specifically on a state or family apparatus in a way that makes them vulnerable to abuse or exploitation, but this isn’t the only way to experience “”dependency.”“
Some people are just told that they are “independent” because their lives and needs are normalized to such an extent that the enormous amount of support they receive is invisible.
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