not vaccinating your kids is one of the biggest parenting fails
like, you know how many people had to lose their precious kids to the same disease before the vax existed?
You know what my family would give for the chicken pox vaxx to have existed in time for my sister to have…
I am so disgusted seeing other therapists call trauma responses (fawning) and autistic survival tactics (masking) manipulation
There is zero therapeutic value in projecting ableist and sanist assumptions on to clients. In contrast it represents abuse of the inherent power…
Hi, I’m from Canada where I am expected to survive on $1308/month
My rent is $1200
My prescription co-pay is $168
I am at negative income before I can buy one morsel of food. Also before toilet paper, soap, laundry detergent etc
All our governments have done since 2020 is
"I don't want to be a burden. At any rate, the medical opinions say I won't be a burden for long; as the old folks say, it's better to kick the can,"
Normand Meunier died at home on March 29 from MAID.
two things
1 - pay attention to how people are popularizing rhetoric of cutting off disabled people from access to food. It’s already happened in Canada
2 - disabled people routinely tip delivery drivers well BECAUSE getting food depends on them. Cheap ableds know this
because maid isn’t serving old wealthy people choosing when they want to end their pain
it’s being offered to disabled people in Canada in lieu of adequate support for housing, food and prescription medication
In October I read the story about Rachel Corrie and how her parents truly believed this guy was going to get them justice
He led them on for years
Every time I see him boost this genocide I feel betrayed on their behalf
So epic. Palestine solidarity activists are camping outside the home of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Virginia urging for a
#CeasefireNOW
. No peace for war criminals!
@Imani_Barbarin
I need people to understand that this was mainstream “comedy” up to very recently and how a lot of people acted in public for laughs
but I also know people think we older disabled people are lying about everything so of course everyone is shocked
one reason my childhood was so…
I first read about the chicken pox vaccine merely months after it ripped through our house
Me getting it at age 14 was nothing compared to what happened to my sister
The idea anyone would neglect to get their kids this vaccine makes me actually crazy
@harkshetweets
No excuse whatsoever that the people paid to do this (cops, social workers and full disclose I have training in social work) can’t do it but us regular people can
Well done being there and showing this poor guy basic humanity when no one else would!
*obligatory recognition that yes, some people are unable to take vaccines. This is why everyone who is capable of taking them safely, should
Before parents started hating autism more than living kids and COVID, herd immunity is what kept immunocompromised kids who couldn’t be
What more proof do we need about this being abject negligent parenting than the kids who made it through childhood without vaccines, rushing to get them when they turn 18?
I’d do the same if my parents were that negligent
Parents should be fined heavily for not getting their
at least by heading back to the pharmacy across from my place (they had zero respirators for sale!) I was able to grab one of my other p100s to wear home
getting a lot of stares but i’m not gonna damage my organs
@alitlstrawberry
My ex insisted on me paying half the rent and and expenses when he was earning $50k a year and I was earning $8k
I had to beg my dad for help to make up the rent and then he didn’t share money with me so I starved
He kicked me out beginning of the pandemic. I’m on disability…
that dude apologized but still referred to disabled people angry about being left to get sick and die as a ‘brand of person’
who talks like this?
we are not objects or products, we are PEOPLE
This is what is going on and it’s unacceptable
It’s bad enough what abuse survivors have been through, and that status quo in our violent culture is blaming victims
I don’t have words for therapists who leverage their authority in service of legitimizing further harm to
therapists are so routinely saneist and get praised for it like /they're/ the victims. it's the same shit how ppl in healthcare like nurses and doctors will be racist, ableist, etc. and coddled for it.
@selinarobinson
No. If you were sincere you wouldn’t have posted your hateful comments at all
This apology is also flippant and disingenuous. We’re not buying it
You’re not entitled for us listening to your garbage. Resign and compete with us for jobs in private industry. You’re unfit for…
@samah_fadil
that video is chilling. The Israeli students didn’t view the Palestinian girl as a human at all - look at them exchanging glances, giggling and looking offended that she is in their presence.
@philaheather
where are they even hearing this nonsense
I know a lot of hcps subscribe to closed forums and groups intended for professional communication and study. Usually through professional associations. I bet those spaces are flooded with eugenics based misinformation
and if it *is* manipulation, we must take a nuanced perspective
Is a person pretending to want to do the activity their abuser wants them to do causing more harm than the abuser? What about how the abuser is manipulating them?
@AndreaWoo
yeah no this is coercion. it is not standard of practice to assess a patient’s suicide risk by selling euthanasia as preferable to suicide by OD
Vancouver Coastal Health says clinician raised MAID to gauge the patient's suicide risk. This is not in line with experts, guidelines, consulted for this story. Patient says clinician continued that it would be more "comfortable" process than suicide by drug OD.
Pre- buttals:
-No, there are not more programs. Food bank use is up 80% since 2020 and people get three potatoes and told to come back in a month
-Moving is not an option. I was born and raised in Toronto. That’s where my family is. The gov expects family to subsidize this…
@BriannaShrum
This is the basis on which I understand the Cyprus issue, which is something I am connected to (I’m half Greek and my family lived in Greek/south Cyprus for a year in the 1990s)
The conflict started in the 1970s when Greece’s government was taken over by a far right military
@AlanRMacLeod
@Wangenstein
The idea that a doctor could take a distressed patient’s words communicating their despair “I want to die” as informed consent to kill them, and that it’s so obvious that’s the hidden agenda AND no one seems to care, is hard to bear
@ItsAuntieChrist
never has my sister’s dubious praise of the show rung louder in my ears: ‘Seinfeld helped usher in the era of not caring’
Yeah it was funny when it was about nothing but not so funny now that not caring is what life is about anymore
@themermacorn
I am old enough to have been young when we only had red native ladybugs here and now the only ones around are the yellow/orange ones that bite
in 2020 I wrote this essay about my family’s experience with chicken pox in the late 1990s
the COVID parts of the piece are dated now but the chicken pox parts aren’t
(no paywall)
what’s really shows a lack of empathy is assuming me saying ppl pleasing is fawning is assuming those of us who have trauma don’t put in effort to address how trauma affected us
parents who neglect to get safe and effective vaccines for their children (who are not immunocompromised) value their opinions more than their child/ren’s heath status, disability status and very futures
negligent, violent, unfit parents.
My younger brother is fully vaccinated but I never got anything. I confronted my parents about it one time and they literally said "opinions change" 🤦 I was alive while my bro was getting vaccines. What kind of excuse is that, I grew up with a fully vaccinated sibling
@uyarakq
He was a visionary. A self-made man who made men, like his father and his father’s father and all the men before him.
For you see, they were all white men, and everyone knows white men don’t just manage hedge funds, they are one with the hedge funds.
@laurieallee
This is also how my mom avoided catching COVID from my dad when he had it last fall. Windows open, CR running, masking in all common areas of the house (and the all too typical gender dynamic of my dad with an active infection refusing to mask at home, so she did). She didn’t
@Homeoffree61
@EM_RESUS
Wow. This tells us how much pain women were expected to put up with those days without saying anything/“it’s just cramps”
I’m so sorry for your loss and for your mother that this happened.
Common cancer screens (mammography, colonoscopy, PSA testing, etc.) don't save lives by extending lifetimes, per a meta-analysis of over 2M ppl.
That's pretty shocking when you think about it.
And for too many Americans, the downstream effects of mass screening (biopsies,…
@M8Void
I don’t think so. Viral reservoirs seem to last for years in a lot of people, and I think they even found COVID in the depths of the ocean at some point in the last year
It’s not going away without concerted effort
no family is exempt from the trauma, suffering and loss caused by infectious diseases for which today we have safe and effective vaccines
diphtheria, like chicken pox, used to routinely maim and kill children
My gramps told me the story of his little brother Georgie's fight against diphtheria. Even though Georgie had died 50 yrs before, my gramps wept over his brother's death. Diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles -- these are horrible unnecessary ways for kids to die.
@RealGayArbys
This is what I do now too. People avert their eyes form me because they see the mask and know better but don’t act. I don’t care about people who care more about what strangers think of their looks than protecting their lives and other peoples lives
@bibicosplays
I’m so sorry Bibi. These hoodies are awesome and while I don’t need the extra port spaces it’s wonderful you thought about disabled peoples’ needs
Folks should be buying from you and sharing your posts not attacking you
I say this constantly but this is no life. It’s existing until some type of death ends it
And I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, not even the fascists who do this to us because they can. That’s how horrific it is.
Everyone deserves better.
@RealGayArbys
I’m Nael and I am a trans, queer and autistic therapist with my own anticapitalist & decolonial private practice. I live mostly in isolation to protect myself and my family from fascist violence diseases. I wear an N95 to help stop the spread of COVID
@Damons_Bestie
@AidanTheJester
you should know that you sound exactly like a 19th century British colonizer
please, I beg you, do some critical reading on The White Man’s Burden
@amandalhu
I am a therapist who helps keep my clients informed about COVID news and ways to layer protections. I am a rogue therapist who works outside of formal institutions and exclusively with other autistic adults, so I am free to recognize reality. Therapists who deny reality because
@mayowasworld
This might be the character Tituba from The Crucible who was a Bajan slave owned by one of the main families in the story
Maryse Conde wrote a book called I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem telling her story from her pov
@Squijibo
Unconscionable. It’s so hot in my rented room that I’ve had to decamp to my middle class parents’ home with my pets to ride out this heat. Couldn’t sleep or stay hydrated without AC
The mass murder and eugenics intent of this is crystal clear
Notably, two big Canadian corporations just got tax breaks/subsidies and did massive layoffs
100% of any more assistance given to disabled people would go immediately back into our communities, supporting businesses
@hi_its_annaleah
Yep. The only reason a therapist would say that is if they are assuming authority to determine if someone’s trauma is “real”
See the therapists that tell people they don’t have ptsd unless they were “in a war” or a cop
@broadwaybabyto
They’re probably not advising
My sister is high risk for long COVID and when she gave birth last March, our parents paid out of pocket for a private room because otherwise she and the vulnerable newborn would have had to share a room with 3 other people and no COVID precautions
@FaatiTheStreet
what you wrote in the two text images here just gave me chills
I feel like I just read in real time something students in the future will read in history books🔥🔥🔥
@realdocv
This is so inappropriate
I’m so sorry you and Gabe had to deal with this during such a horrible time for your family
Your expectations of a professional were on point (I am a therapist and agree that terminating without making that request would have been the least harmful
Veteran
@Troma_Team
actor Will Keenan was assaulted in the street this past week for wearing an N95 mask in public. He was permanently blinded in one eye as a result.
@DebbieRochon
has started a gofundme to help with Will’s medical expenses. Can you help?
@polishXcellence
two things
1 - pay attention to how people are popularizing rhetoric of cutting off disabled people from access to food. It’s already happened in Canada
2 - disabled people routinely tip delivery drivers well BECAUSE getting food depends on them. Cheap ableds know this
@MeetJess
ableist parents chose not to vaccinate because they were so afraid their kids would be like me (autistic)
i know, bc they were my peers growing up & the teachers & adults around joined in with the bullying
instead of inclusion for everyone, painful death for us all💔