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It’s starting to feel like ableism is a catch phrase ableds throw around to pretend “they get it”. Fuck the ableist gaze. My visibly disabled child is not entertainment. Self stemming is natural. Vocalizations and body gestures must be respected as communication. There is an extensive amount of ableism within the Covid cautious and disability community towards folx who have intellectual disabilities. I’m exhausted with the questions, advice, and demeaning language. #ableism #disabled #MaskUp
Had another shitty ableist argument with a family in town who referenced “post covid” BS. I gave them a lecture about exclusion, masking, and ableism. They are an abled family who all work within “disability support services”. Meanwhile their children stared at my child with the obvious ableist gaze. The Dad is a sped teacher. These folx are told to let disabled folx die. If someone challenges them, they try to argue their way out of eugenics. Fuck the #MedicalIndustrialComplex #covid #ableism
I had a panic attack after this conversation. The problem is, this is a fucking daily experience when I take my disabled child for a stroll. I have to educate everyone’s shitty abled kids and adults. “No, she’s not a baby.” Signing and modeling with the AAC, “she’s 8 years old”. “Yes, some move by scooting, some talk with their bodies, some eat through a tube”. “No self stemming isn’t scary and bad”. “Please don’t touch her hands, face”. I used to share DJ books, and celebrate opportunities
It’s easier to stay home isolated forever which is reinforcing structural ableism and exclusion for my child and myself. I don’t have the fucking spoons. The most heartbreaking part has been the ongoing ableism and exclusion I’ve observed from other disabled, Covid cautious, and queer folx. I want others to have the same love for all folx who have intellectual disabilities who are medically fragile. However, I know enough about the ongoing eugenics my child experiences that this will never occur