I just witnessed the most incredible thing in Aldi. So thereโs this woman in a wheelchair happily doing her shopping with her partner, but oh no she got spotted by a middle aged man
Back in January one of my disabled pals made the difficult choice to quit her degree because her university wouldn't allow her to study from home. Then, two months later she watched the accommodations made so easily for thousands of others when lockdown happened.
Absolutely no time for the people in the replies sympathising with the man who basically interrupted a disabled woman to tell her that her life was shit
Disabled/ unemployed ppl on benefits deserve nice things. Weโre allowed to get our nails done, have takeaways, watch Netflix, treat our kids, get drunk etc.
The right would prefer it if we all lived in squalor eating gruel and wearing sacks but that says more about them than us
Man: eee isnโt it awful
Woman: what?
Man: well itโs the worst time of year to be stuck in a wheelchair
Woman: *looks him dead in the eyes* well Iโm not stuck and Iโm in it all year round, same as youโre an ableist prick all year
Oh fuck no we are not telling long covid patients they should try CBT, Iโm not allowing it. Chronic fatigue canโt be thought out of. Go away please
You can criticise Therese Coffey without bringing her appearance or weight into it. I mean, letโs talk about the fact she just REFUSED to release reports into how many disabled people the DWP killed for starters.
I'm going to keep repeating this stat but, 60% of ALL covid deaths in England were disabled people last year.
And they had not one but SEVEN Christmas parties and LAUGHED
Disabled people have been shouting screaming begging you to listen to us about the do not resuscitate orders since the start of the pandemic. You don't all get to be shocked and outraged and ask "how was this allowed to happen??!" now when we've neededyour help for almost 2 years
Iโm sorry but Iโm 35 and I just learnt that when someone asks what your plans for today/ tomorrow are youโre not supposed to list your whole day??
How are ND people seen as having communication problems when the NTs are just out there asking things they donโt want answered?
Disabled people have been saying for years that Jk Rowling uses us as a pawn to try and prove trans hating points and now she goes ahead and makes it a whole plot in her book
The telegraph has created a calculator that lets people calculate how much disabled people who can't work are "Costing" them. This is deliberately inciting hatred against disabled people. I urge you all to report this to IPSO if you can
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Halloween reminder that activated charcoal which is often used as a black food or drink dye can mess with meds including:
- birth control
- antidepressants
- copd meds
- heart meds
- methotraxate and other
- arthritis meds
- diabetes meds
The reason I'm freelance is because I was repeatedly told I couldn't do a typically office based job from home and now everyone's at home and nobody wants to commission me to write about the ableism involved ๐
โIf youโre not making it up why did you close who can replyโ 1) you literally just answered all your own questions lads 2) I donโt owe any fucker anything
I'm done with being told that the biggest fucking priority in this pandemic is "getting back to normal" when nothing is being done to save disabled people
"thereโs a whole Twitter generation of people who hang around waiting to be offended.
They wouldnโt have won the war, would they? Thatโs me talking like a grumpy old man" - neither would you Hagrid, you were born in 1950
The โperiods are supposed to be painfulโ discourse is what stops people from realising that what weโre experiencing isnโt normal and seeking help. Women who perpetuate it against birth control are no better than the doctors who donโt believe us. THERE I SAID IT
Editors: Hire black disabled women to write about the Jada Pinkett-Smith, Will Smith, Chris Rock situation. Donโt just contact them for quotes. PAY THEM.
I really hate this rhetoric that non-disabled people should support disabled people cos you could become disabled yourself. No, you should support us because we deserve to live.
My boyfriend threw out the packaging for our turkey crown. The packaging with the cooking instructions on it. Because I am a generous and mature person I said โnever mind, I should have said.โ And HE SAID โyes you should have reallyโ.
And thatโs what happened your honour.
The online disabled community is so strong because itโs for many people the first place where they are supported and believed in years. Thatโs not a cult intent on making each other worse, itโs a safe place for us all to be and grow. Iโm sorry if that threatens you.
Rishi wants to charge ยฃ10 for every missed GP appointment.
What about every time a deaf person asks for communication only to be by email, text or face to face appointment and gets called or made to have an inaccessible phone appointment?
What Rishi's done today is declare sick and disabled people the enemy of working people. All the attacks we already receive in the media and every day life are only going to rise and the government are sanctioning it
Canโt stop thinking about how inherently weird it is that Simon Baron Cohen wants to dissect a dead autistic girls diary for reasons autistic girls struggle in schools instead of talking to autistic women and girls and actually investigating the school system.
Just been for my vaccine and was asked by 4 different people "why/how are *you* getting the vaccine?"
Well I just fancied a day out Sharon.
Or maybe I've got an autoimmune disorder and it's not just old people that are at risk.
Really fucking weird experience on the tube last night. It was quite busy but we were only going 2 stops so it was fine. However this woman SCREAMED โis NOBODY going to let the GIRL with the STICK sit downโ, reader she didnโt move to let me sit down herself
Have to say it makes me really uncomfortable when disabled people say nondisabled people should treat us better cos they could become disabled one day. Real โI respect women cos I have a daughterโ energy
Nah they should treat us better because weโre people.
Weโre literally in the midst of a huge ADHD meds shortage that could have dangerous consequences and one of the biggest papers in the country prints this. Is it any wonder
Shaking with rage, in her new book Rowling mocks the online disability community with fake tweets and tumblr accounts. Also all Iโm seeing here is valid criticism?? Remember when she was claiming to want to protect disabled people the other month? Absolutely vile.
Disabled/ unemployed people on benefits arenโt coming for your tax money.
The rich whoโs companies are contracted to do shoddy work by their dodgy gov mates are.
42 billion in unpaid taxes a year but 23 times more likely to get done for benefit fraud. Thatโs all Iโm saying.
Rishi has got as much blood on his hands as Johnson over Covid & cost of living. ๐งต
He encouraged healthy people to eat out to help out in September 20, denied thousands of businesses grants and placed the blame on us for not using them during a pandemic.
You can tell this BBC reporter has never spent anytime in the healthcare system because "Well the NHS said I don't have it" isn't the gotcha you think it is mate
Sick of seeing articles that basically give people permission to call people who work from bed lazy without even a paragraph about chronic illness or disability. I pushed myself to work outside of bed for years because of the shame I felt.
I've had a couple of people in my inbox expressing concern that Miriam Margoyles has defended JKR in the past so I just wanted to share this from last week. It's important we give people space to learn and acknowledge their growth
โI think people on disability benefits and sick pay are an enormous untapped resourceโ
Journalist Isabel Oakeshott says reform to the disability benefits criteria, announced in the autumn statement, is not โunreasonableโ
#bbcqt
Thereโs going to be a lot of โ4 years since the world shut downโ posts today, as a disabled person this so incredibly triggering.
The world didnโt โshut downโ we were supposed to shelter to protect our most vulnerable, people who were told to shield for a year and given noโฆ
You can't "force disabled people into work" you can however deprive people of benefits until they die or force them into work that kills them.
Either way the WCA reforms will kill disabled people
Having an autoimmune disorder means i usually catch bugs, colds, the flu all year being out and about. You know how many colds I've had in the last year? One. So yeah, I'll still be wearing a mask.
Dear editors: please don't assign nondisabled journos to write "these people have shielded for a year" type articles. Reach out to disabled freelancers. The article won't be the same
Disabled people deserve a welfare system that supports us IF WE WANT TO work AND supports us if we canโt. That listens to us and assesses our needs properly, not whether they think weโre disabled enough.
We deserve just basic human decency and compassion. Thatโs not there.
Everyone is giving me the answer of โbecause people canโt afford to stay off with covidโ, which is making me madder because the gov should be making it financially safe to isolate not forcing us to go back to work and spread the virus
THIS is what the government and media are spreading with their constant disabled people are benefits scroungers narratives. I was lucky that was all that was said to me.
NEWS
Caitlynโs mother has withdrawn her consent for Simon Baron Cohen to use her autistic daughters diaries (who died by suicide) as part of his research. SBC Has confirmed the end of the study (via instagram)
Let me say this once again: Iโm not a person with a disability, Iโm a disabled person. Disabled isnโt a bad word so I donโt need reminding Iโm a person first.
Vouchers and claiming back benefits like theyโre expenses is controlling disabled peoples money because we donโt deserve treats. Itโs catering to the sad little losers who tell me to get a job and that I canโt really be disabled if I get my nails done
We needed nondisabled people to fight for us in December 2020 when 6 in 10 covid deaths in the UK were disabled people, irrelevant of the fact of the person was actually vulnerable to the virus. Meanwhile you were all more concerned with "saving Christmas"
I started a whole goddamn publication because I was sick of being told stories of disabled people fighting to survive from a virus that was killing the most vulnerable wasn't "newsworthy". Disabled people have been fighting whilst collectively grieving for almost 2 years
Psa to disabled writers/journos: if a nondisabled editor changes the language of your work to person first or not something the community uses you're allowed to tell them.
Man in primark lift: youโre a bit young to be pushing one of those around [my walker]
Me: I was a bit young at 9 too
Woman: you should take it as a compliment!
I am so drained from constantly having to defend disabled people's right to be supported and live. It shouldn't be a debate. Welfare is designed to support those most vulnerable, not be a witch hunt of turning the public against us. Where's your humanity?
This was a busy crossing, people watched him say this and either agreed or let it happen. I know it's not that vicious in terms of things disabled people get said to them but it was still mean.
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The gov has an open call for evidence on their proposed changes to fit notes.
This is open to disabled people, carers and medical professionals.
It's open til 8th July
BREAKING: UN committee finds thats the UK government has "failed to take all appropriate measures to address grave and systematic violations" of the human rights of disabled people.
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the ยฃ10 DWP christmas bonus hasn't gone up with inflation in 50 years.
When it was launched it was enough to buy a Christmas dinner and some presents.
Now the cheapest turkey joint in Asda is ยฃ8.50