Anonymous #2 7w

This is less of a problem with autism and more of a problem with society. Non-verbal communication is not wrong or bad and suggesting otherwise is completely ableist.

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Anonymous #1 7w

My sensitivity to detail is 100% my greatest strength as an artist. Speak for yourself.

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Anonymous #2 7w

This is like blaming poor people for suffering under capitalism. They wouldn't be poor if our society didn't set up its systems to maintain poverty. Disabled people wouldn't be functionally disabled if society didn't refuse accommodation. And this is the same problem behind all marginalization! Not even just ableism...

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Anonymous #2 7w

Right, but I’m not claiming to speak for everyone

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Anonymous #3 7w

I mean poor people are partially to blame for their habits that contribute to them being poor. Blaming a system for behavior wouldn’t be true accountability.

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Anonymous #1 7w

Individual habits don’t exist in a vacuum. When generational wealth, quality education, healthcare, and stable housing are distributed unequally from birth, the “choices” available to poor people are already severely limited. Calling that a personal failure ignores that the starting conditions were never equal.

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Anonymous #1 7w

The habits you’re describing are often symptoms, not causes. Chronic stress from financial insecurity impairs decision-making. Working three jobs leaves no time for “better habits.” Accountability means nothing if the system keeps moving the goalposts regardless of behavior.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Anonymous #3 6w

There are like, social-model disabilities that this applies to but there are also just. Disabilities that are disabling. Like I have chronic pain, even if I lived in a different social structure with better social support and healthcare I would have it and it would prevent me from doing a fair amount of things that I want to do but cannot.

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Anonymous #4 6w

No diva if we lived in a better system you wouldn't have chronic pain!! Hell if we didn't have such shitty systems the stress conditions for cancer to develop would be much less common, not to mention cancer treatment is a whole industry that makes hundreds of billions of dollars off of prolonged treatment. The mind and the body are inextricably connected and when the mind suffers the body suffers in unexplainable ways, and modern medicine is just barely starting to come to terms this.

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Anonymous #4 6w

If you tell yourself something about yourself repeatedly over it literally becomes true. I suffered from chronic nausea that I thought was genetic until I snapped out of the American patriarchal capitalism telling me I'm broken. The truth is that what's breaking us is not ourselves, it's our systems. This is why they are called conditions. Because you are in a specific state of being, not of a specific quality.

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Anonymous #3 6w

Unfortunately a better social system will not undo my spina bifida nor will changing my mindset about it make it go away. People will be born disabled, it is crucial that this is understood so that we can set up better social support for them instead of just pretending like they aren’t there or that they’re the ones doing something wrong for not just getting better. I can’t believe my original comment got downvoted but ig that shows how internalized ableism still strikes

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Anonymous #4 6w

And people will become disabled at any moment btw! You could become paralyzed in a car accident or just by climbing up a tree and falling out of it. And what’s important is that there be support systems already in place, because there are things that just can’t be prevented

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Anonymous #4 6w

PREVENTION???? OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOVING MY POSITION BACK IN MY FACE LIKE IT WASN'T MY POSITION!!! SUPER RESPECTFUL AND CONSIDERATE OF YOU!!

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Anonymous #4 6w

"There are just things that can't be prevented" is almost always a lie to justify inequality. NOBODY would be unable to live their lives with full autonomy and dignity if we completely normalized preventative measures and accommodations, because then in practice nobody is full on disabled, point blank period, can't do anything on their own, no instead individual range of ability spans XYZ naturally and can reach ABC with accommodations. ACCOMMODATIONS MITIGATE DISABILITIES FUNCTIONALLY.

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Anonymous #4 6w

THE PROBLEM IS NOT DISABILITIES!!!! THE PROBLEM IS A LACK OF ACCOMMODATIONS INSIDE AN INHERENTLY UNACCOMMODATING SYSTEM!!! WAKE TF UP!!!!!

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Anonymous #3 6w

I ain’t reading allat

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Anonymous #4 6w

This goes so much further than just "disabilities". It stems into everyone's lives thanks the patriarchal capitalism. Many people's basic needs are not being met and most people's higher needs aren't being met either, so of course accommodation isn't happening. Our entire social operating system is disabling everyone to different degrees.

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Anonymous OP 6w

I'm on your side dipshit

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Anonymous #3 6w

Yeah I’m well aware you don’t need to be doing this all caps multi paragraph bullshit, I was just saying that, even with the accommodations disability still *exists*, that it should be accommodated as best as possible but that you cannot wipe it out entirely and trying to do so would be eugenicist

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Anonymous #4 6w

Hey diva. You struck a nerve in a way that doesn't happen often. Please forgive me for being PISSED and kindly point out exactly where I suggested eugenics. Maybe my memory is foggy but what I remember opposing is social classification based on ability, the same way I'm against social classification based on binary sex.

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