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Disabled, Autistic, Mad, Queer, MA in Critical Disability Studies, Activist, and dog mum. Black Lives Matter; she/her 🇨🇦🇬🇧

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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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My favourite AITA post will always be the girl who threatened to evict her mom and stepdad when her clueless asshole stepdad tried to force her to pay rent to live in the house she inherited from her father Just the perfect degree of fuck around and find out
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As an adoptee I really hate the "just give the baby up for adoption" line from forced birthers Let's ignore the still extremely relevant point that the existence of a uterus does not make you a publicly available incubator and talk about adoption and it's flaws
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Piers Morgan acts like Meghan Markle left him for Prince Harry His wife who he's been married to since before Harry and Meghan got together, treats Meghan like she was the other woman and it is all in both of their heads
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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PSA: We are replacing an ableist term with the term "dead angle" It means a spot in your periphery you cannot see or an area not covered by CCTV You all probably already know what term I'm replacing so I'm not even gonna tell you Dead angle, use it til other people conform
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
6 years
In case you were unaware and in my experience many of you are unaware If a marginalized person tells you about an incident where they were discriminated against and how that hurt them & you respond with "oh they probably didn't mean it that way" You are gaslighting them
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My doctor: You got your BA and your MA so you can clearly focus Me: A lot has happened since then MD: ADHD isn't progressive Me: yeah but I had a fucking breakdown and destroyed all my trauma hypervigilance and coping skills MD: oh
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
6 years
The reason I'm not talking about "the good men" is because A.) They are not victims in this B.) If you are a good man, you don't seek accolades for not being a rapey bastard C.) As Matt Damon exemplifies in terms of systemic misogyny "the good men" are often complicit
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
2 years
This is the commitment to authentic casting we like to see
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After a worldwide search of blind and low vision actresses, Aria Mia Loberti — who is blind — will make her acting debut as Marie-Laure, the star of All The Light We Cannot See, an epic four-part limited series that will be released with audio descriptions.
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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@kapaibro The shit parents will let step parents get away with so they can control their children is gross
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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News outlets: How a prop gun can kill someone...yada yada science of blanks Prop master union: yeah it was a real bullet because the production hired an unqualified nonunion prop guy to save money
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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@isaac32767 @DisabilityStor1 It sounded like he’d been enjoying the “free house” for a while before pulling that bullshit Like, she already knew he was messy before he pulled that shit Just didn’t realize he wasn’t as calculated as he thought himself to be in that moment
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I am an adult with cerebral palsy who deals with chronic pain and an increased risk of serious injury because I was regularly pushed beyond my limits or physical comfort as a child
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This beautiful and brave little girl with cerebral palsy is walking up the stairs by herself for the very first time. That smile.🌎❤️😊
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I really need to remind the general public that it has only been about 50 years (if that) since it has become expected for parents to raise their disabled children in the community instead of just depositing us in institutions at birth (or discovery of disability)
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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@Muffin_Chips @BufferingJuffy He also produces less lactic acid than the average person so he has a natural faster workout recovery time
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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The fetishization of adopting a newborn is actually kind of weird and ignores all the not babies available for adoption
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Well I sincerely hope that Myka Stauffer's online career is over As an adopted disabled person this just hits too close to home
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I hate adults who are like “young people don’t understand 9/11” which is happening a lot right now What young people don’t have is that shared experience of cultural trauma that happened when the towers fell And I don’t know why you’d wish that on them
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Do not talk to me about adoption being an alternative to abortion ever, it's gross but also don't uplift adoption as some ideal when there are thousands of children being shuffled around foster care
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We aren't taking proper care of children who already exist So don't go endorsing more children should exist through forced birth
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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My first visceral reaction was "How the hell did no one realize she was pregnant until she went into labour, she lived in a care facility staffed by medical personel" but then reality reasserted itself and I knew why \
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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People can go into adopting a child for all the wrong reasons and the system does not even try to control for it Sure there are home studies, you need references but you can still be handed a child who you just want to fulfill some personal saviour fantasy of your own
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I think even more so than with biological parents. adoptive parents go into having children for the wrong reasons They want to save some poor unfortunate soul They want to make a statement about their (usually Christian) faith
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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But seriously what an utterly ridiculous idea that the experience of ADHD and how it impacts your life will remain static the whole time is objectively nonsense
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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@kantbemyself @popelizbet full Cinderella evil step parent bad but he only tried to pull some shit bio parents pull on their actually dependent children all the time so it's refreshing to see that hatred of youth behaviour get an immediate and righteous comeuppance
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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it positions children as objects for adults to project their fantasies on This was very much the situation I grew up in
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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A disabled child is forced to self soothe because medical professionals have not figured out how to make this repeated experience in her life not entirely terrifying so that she must associate something that brings her joy (singing) and link it inextricably from trauma #inspired
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This little girl who was born without eyes sings to calm her fears in the hospital
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I want to talk about the Chris Pratt "heathy daughter" comment because it sits at the intersections of both ableism and sexism
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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adoption isn't a magical solution for parentless children and treating it like it keeps the flaws in the system from being addressed
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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and culturally we seem to view these motivations as noble but they are not in the best interests of children
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Clickhole is here woth the autism allyship we all deserve
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I Was Never Able To Accept My Son’s Autism Until I Monetized It Through Blogging
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@brianlilley They are to stop visually impaired people from walking into traffic because the curb cut stops them from knowing where the street starts. It exists to accommodate visually impaired people who lost accessibility to make the world more accessible to people with limited mobility
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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but as the adopted child who turned out to be disabled either being undiagnosed at birth or more likely falling down the basement stairs as a baby I had all of the added expectations of the fantasy of the adopted child and I really did not meet expectations
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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and this resulted in a lot of abuse that included physical violence, which as far as I know none of my siblings experienced My eldest sister didn't speak to me for months after I told her dad hit me
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
6 years
Stephens heavily glosses over Allen's relationship with Soon Yi Previn and ignores Mariel Hemingway's experiences with the director
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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In addition to my mother's intractable expectations around public behaviour (I'm autistic so I did not and could not live up to these), her academic expectations (I again did not measure up, I was supposed to just get over having cerebral palsy (not medically possible)
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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In a completely unsurprising turn Britney Spears has been free of her conservatorship for about 15 seconds and people are already questioning her entirely predictable decisions #FreeBritney
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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My parents had 3 biological children and none of them escaped our mother's unflinching often unreasonable expectations
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It opens with a reference to the ill fated Rolling Stone University of Virginia gang rape story. What this has to do with Allen is unclear. The Rolling Stone article is however a case of bad reporting on rape allegations which is relevant to Stephens piece specifically How Apt
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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So I have been treated like a burden in ways my siblings were not. I was openly resented for living at home past when mum thought I should be gone
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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It really does boil dpwn to people just not caring for disabled people combined with the cognitive dissonance of firmly believing that disabled people are in fact culturally valued
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and while the "lucky" adoptees move on to uncertain futures with parents whose motives might or might not be ideal. There are thousands of children still in the system in even more tenuous situations
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@brianlilley The reality is so much more complex and interesting than your little self absorbed epiphany
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Please always defer first to disabled people yes even if it is specifically about a nonverbal disability disabled people who can talk are still going to know if something is oppressive better than a parent who has never been disabled
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but in reality violence and other horrible things are common occurrences in the lives of disabled people The world just has a policy of "out of sight out of mind" and boy is it ever easy to keep us out of sight
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Timeline cleanse My dog Tobey a retrospective Look at his cute baby self
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while my other sister was treated like a guest when she returned from a failed roommate situation, despite living at home for over a year
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@RyanJBlack @MichelleGlauser @AustinBeerGeek the "praise" of the above tweet is actually condescending gendered nonsense though in addition to likely being paired with insufficient pay
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How does pearl clutching handle the reality that 83% of disabled women will experience sexual violence in our lifetimes? Do you even know the rates we experience other forms of abuse
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People don't like to hear that bad things happen to disabled people and they'll clutch their pearls every time a story comes out but they always think things like this are anomolies
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@Lynsey_Fullerrr @KeatonJFish it's because shaving is genuinely actually not hygienic and actually comes with health risks
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I don't recall either Spacey or Weinstein having been tried for the things that they are accused of. What substantively makes them different?
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I am so confused by the claim that the average period involves only 3-4tbsps (45-60ml) of blood But period products often claim to absorb up to 30ml Hygiene aside, I’ve never had a period that could have been fully dealt with by 2 products over the week
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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On that note, let's dissect the Bret Stephens piece because there is so much wrong with it
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Hello, I see that you asked "but what about paper/glass/silicone/metal/pasta straws You are person 1986473658 to ask that question Your question may be answered in the order it was received Or you could just read one of the thousands of explanations on why those don't work
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Disabled children deserve to be celebrated for the people that they are not mourned as the nondisabled children that you expected but who never existed
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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So to recap You don't need to be accused by many for allegations to be credible regardless Allen has exhibited a pattern of behaviour that put Dylan's accusations into context
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Also, know that there is a real and deeply ingrained prejudice in society against disabled people expectant parents saying shit like "we don't care if it's a boy or a girl we just want the kid to be healthy" is just the tip of the ice berg
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Abled parents of disabled children are given a level of cultural deference that they have not earned and disabled people are suffering for it
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um hi ableds, can we talk about disability and yoga for a minute? Ok, first off it is never ok to give unsolicited medical advice to disabled people ever Please stop doing this in general Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk Just kidding there's more
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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It's not hard to find patterns of inapprpriate behaviour and a fixation on younger women and girls
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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There are no decades of best practices for raising disabled kids please defer to us not our parents
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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but it cannot be ignored that people are uncomfortable with seeing Jirau in a bra not because she is generically disabled They are uncomfortable because she has Down Syndrome and do not see adults with intellectual disabilities as adults
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Parenting advice for disabled kids is largely crowd sourced and no one really listens to disabled people when we say certain things are harmful You'd all rather defer to a parent
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My experience of growing up disabled can probably be summed up with the following anecdote My mother to 30-year-old me: "I just realized why it takes you longer than other people to put on your shoes" (I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when I was 1)
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The only disability in life is a bad attitude wom't sound so inspiring next to rape statistics, unemployment statistics, poverty, child abuse, etc.
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Just watched a video of a plastic surgeon explaining why you shouldn't use the diabetes drug Ozempic for weightloss & he went through all the science and the risks, that its use is causing shortages for people who need it then he just capped it off with it will make you ugly
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That woman who tackled a black child because she assumed that he stole her phone (she left it in an Uber)’s lawyer is claiming she did the violent racist thing because she has anxiety As someone with a severe panic disorder, I would just like to remind you that this is bullshit
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I would really love to see @TheOnion or hell even a perfectly serious publication write an article with all the bullshit sweet syrupy things society thinks it believes about disabled people next to cold hard facts about our actual reality
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I just watched Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign ad about his autistic son Both the terms illness and special needs were used The child is framed as a burden
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I didn’t get the MMR vaccine until I was 10 but my mother has the same “regression” narrative I suspect autistic “regressions” are just that until about 3 or 4 kids’ autisticness is masked by the universal truth that Toddlers are weird
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“May the odds be ever in your favour”
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“You all heard about what happened today … We are reminded there's nothing guaranteed about our democracy, nothing guaranteed about our way of life. You have to fight for it, defend it and earn it by voting." - Biden
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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When deinstitutionalization happened, parents weren't prepared, they did not know what they were doing and I'm sorry I'm gonna offend a lot of people here most still don't
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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5 decades is a short learning curve to learn to love accept and raise kids that the world largely used to throw away
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@UnclePaulEMath @JessicaValenti Because 2000 years ago ultrasounds didn’t exist so they simply assume Jesus would rock up to the 21st century still riding a donkey
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Saying someone has overcome their disability if that person has not in fact somehow become nondisabled is really just saying that you consider disability and competence to be mutually exclusive concepts
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Please understand that pretty much every parent (with few exceptions) who gets a disabled child has to go through finding out that they got a kid that they didn't want and then they have to keep and raise that kid and you think prejudice doesn't make an appearance?
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I have chronic pain and this is abuse
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The more you think about pain, the more it hurts, an expert hypothesizes. To help kids with a rare pain syndrome, he's offering a paradoxical cure: "Put them in pain to get them better."
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Did I preheat my oven and forget I was using it as storage space? Yes
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It might just be an innocuous milestone, the gaining of a new skill or it may be the beginning of a lifetime of unreasonable expectations and long term consequences We just don’t know In either case it has no place making the rounds on the internet
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I've seen a lot of physically disabled people posting sexy pics in response to the Sofia Jirau Victoria's Secret modelling backlash and it makes me really uncomfortable
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Abuse has the consequences of abuse
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Spanking may affect children's brain development in a similar way to abuse: study
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Of course no one realized that woman was pregnant until she was in labour No one would even have considered that she or anyone else in that facility might be harmed That sort of thing just doesn't happen to disabled people after all No one could be that horrible
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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If you don't believe me just look up the stats on how many disabled people experience child abuse
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"the charges #MeToo has leveled against men such as Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey are almost certainly true. The reason they have not been spared is because they are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The facts, not the allegations, prove it." um really?
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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It's also really important to contextualize Pratt's comments in the misogynist history of blaming mother's if their children are disabled. That it has been seen as a moral failing
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Despite attempting to appear reasonable by presenting Spacey and Weinstein as clearly guilty. His primary defence of Allen is that he was neither tried or convicted of assaulting Dylan
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Seriously, people can you please stop telling marginalized people to subjugate their trauma in favour of assuming that the person had good or neutral intentions. Not only bc you might be fucking wrong but also who cares about their intentions They were a discriminatory asshole
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK oh wait that's usually us because the rest of the room is inaccessible nevermind
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@fnatodaso @Nick___Collins @KaisLifeInWords @crippledscholar Disabled people are part of the general public.
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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I don’t know what led up to this video and neither does anyone but that little girl and that is precisely why it shouldn’t be fodder for inspiration and manufactured good feels on the internet.
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I kinda want to see #DoctorsAreDickheads trending with stories of medical gaslighting and abuse
#NotAllDoctors 🙃 put your pride/ego aside and listen to what the disabled community is saying.
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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"Journalist" Sees a tactile strip on a curb cut. Doesn't know what it is. Does he look it up? No Does he see it's integration into the curb cut and assume it's an additional access feature: No He decides it's for nondisabled people who are still inferior to him somehow
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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Colin Powell’s death is interesting because of how often people’s deaths involving COVID are dismissed because they had a pre-existing condition But in Powell’s case the media keeps highlighting that he was fully vaxxed while ignoring or downplaying the fact that he had cancer
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
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So please, take anything put out by parents with a grain of salt They're not all bad but there are a lot of echo chambers
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
5 years
PSA: Many disabled people who use Identity First Language (IFL) like disabled person as opposed to Person First Language (PFL) Person with a disability do so because they view disability as a valid part of their identities They are not necessarily using social model rhetoric...
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
6 years
I am so fucking sick of people justifying views that harm disabled people by saying "yeah, I'm disabled too" The harm doesn't disappear just because you are a member of the group you are harming
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
3 years
Considering one of the goals here is to switch from emission causing gas inhalers to non emission powder inhalers, I can’t comprehend why the messaging is targeting patients Put that responsibility on doctors FFS Where it becomes a relatively benign suggestion
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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
3 years
Elon Musk is the worst kind of autistic white boy He has an entitlement complex which during the pandemic has seen him endanger his employees. Claim that he was making respirators (he wasn't)
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