Image description: Tweet from Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998 “Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5 Monday to Friday. I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times.”
Tweet from Phoenix on Wheels @phoenixonwheels “You can’t possibly envision disabled people running errands or having any kind of life outside of weekday business hours? Way to be an ableist asshole! Why not just say you’d rather not have to look at us.”
I saw this earlier and took a lot at the rest of his Twitter. In addition to the ableism, it’s all Islamophobia and racism. He’s clearly looking for attention…
The last part, especially. Why do so many people have to interfere with really harmless aspects of how other people live?
Who the hell goes to the grocery store to socialize?
I guess it would be great grand parents of Gen Z. My grandparents know/knew half the people in the grocery store. They went there to talk to people they knew. They would strike up conversations with people they’d seen in there around the same time as them more than once a week.
An now my parents, boomers, in their 60′s are starting to do it to. Especially now that my mom is disabled and due to her issues drops friend groups constantly and doesn’t talk to many people daily outside of my sister and nephews.
So the answer to “Who the hell goes to the grocery store to socialize” is people who grew up with out the internet. People who don’t see the internet as social interaction. People who are older and have grown up with the idea that talking to strangers in public like that is totally normal. Where as Gen X/Gen Y/ Millennials have grown up being told we should never talk to strangers. We must be cautious. We have to watch who we befriend because the bad people are everywhere. And then we’re berated for appearing anti-social.
Gen X will start doing this next. I suspect I’ll see it in my sister in the next 15 years.
My partner (Millenial) and I (maybe gen X, probably millenial) had a nice, brief chat with the owner of our favourite cafe when we ran into her in Target the other night.
So, you get to be social with people who aren’t actually friends in grocery stores. We don’t go there to socialise, but that does not mean that they aren’t social spaces. And they are definitely public spaces.
The issue is not the social/asocial nature of public space but the fact that people acting not-how-you-want in public space DO NOT NEED TO BE CORRECTED. One should basically trust that anyone not harming themselves or others is doing their best to meet social expectations in public. (Also, public social expectations are cultural and therefore different in different times/places.)
But a witty “mong,” apparently, so even you, with your apparent anonymous vendetta, appear to feel the need to give me some credit.
Now, much as I enjoy scoring cheap clever response points out of your vapid anonymous bile, I’m afraid I shan’t be responding to anything else you send me. I’ve got some really excellent asks to get back to, several writing projects to work on, some books to read, a queue to fill, and a whole lot of life to be living. Snarky retorts are tragically hard to schedule in that, so I’ll wish you a good day and leave it at that.
My mind still quietly boggles whenever I see the m-word dropped so casually. God, why do people still seem to think it’s okay to use?
BACK WHEN DISNEY CHANNEL KNEW WHAT WAS UP I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS SHOW
how about “when abled people talk to disabled people” OP, how about that?
#disabled people aren’t people they’re just metaphors!#obviously!#having a disability must be a metaphor for marginalized groups right?#cause disability is just a thing & not a group of marginalized people themselves right? (via onewordtest)
Don’t armchair diagnose mass shooters and other killers. The misconception that all violent people must be mentally ill (and the following conclusion that all mentally ill people must be dangerous) has horrible real life consequences for visibly mentally ill people.
50% of people killed by police are disabled or mentally ill (and the victims are disproportionately black or other people of color) because the unusual behavior of visibly disabled and visibly mentally ill people is read as inherently threathening and dangerous.
Please consider the real life consequences of reinforcing the association between mental illness and violence – people are dying because y’all want to blame all evil in the world on severe mental illness so that you can clearly separate yourself from it. You’re harming an already extremely vulnerable and marginalized group of people and it’s time to stop!
I encourage people who aren’t schizophrenic to reblog this. These stereotypes are literally getting people killed and I’ve seen no awareness around this on this website.
I still don’t understand why you would need a dog to keep you away from wheat. What kinda white nonsense…
If that girl ingests food containing gluten during lunch she could get severely sick or even die. It costs $0 to not be a stupid bitch.
In some cases people can get ill from even being around too much gluten, and sometimes it takes less than 10 parts per million of gluten to cause an attack. It’s important to have a service dog to keep people safe or from making vital mistakes. There are even things like bug spray that can contain gluten, and dogs can alert you to wash it off before it’s too late. Here’s an article that talks about the importance and usefulness of celiac alert dogs: https://celiac.org/blog/2014/12/can-service-dogs-help-sniff-gluten/
An informed/appropriate response^
Thank you!
Honey you were the one who ignorantly called the need of a service dog “white nonsense“. Don’t act like anybody owes you politeness.
probably gonna get slammed with anon hate for this but like…
much of the ableism towards Autistic people doesn’t happen “because we’re Autistic,” it happens because we’re weird.
now consider that… and now consider what some of the most common insults are here on tumblr.
weird, gross, embarrassing, cringeworthy… all insults based on that same idea of “you are different and we don’t like you.”
and now consider the constant mocking of “just trying to be special” and “Not Like Other Girls™” that is constantly seen on tumblr.
from early childhood, we are taught and conditioned to know that any deviation from the norm will be punished. for Autistic people, who make up a big portion of what is usually thought of as tumblr’s userbase, this conditioning is often increased tenfold by coercive “therapies” such as ABA and Social Thinking.
the fact that so much of tumblr’s culture is based on strict deviation from the norm– often citing “weird, embarrassing, cringeworthy, just trying to be special” as offenses– is regressive. and as an Autistic person, I would go so far as to say that it is at least somewhat rooted in ableism.
if you’re Autistic and you do this, especially if you’re a survivor of coercive behavioral and social treatments designed to make you “normal,” please think about why you take part in this treatment of others. I know you’ve been hurt, and overcoming internalized ableism is hard. I’m here to help.
if you’re allistic and you do this, please stop. just stop. we’ve already been through enough.
also yes, allistics can reblog this. please do, in fact.
cringe culture is just adult neurotypicals perpetuating the same bullying they did to classmates in school, except now they get millions of views for it
Honestly, it’s at the point now where if you use ‘nerd’ in a certain context (you know the one – ‘reblog to shove more [fandom] nerds in lockers’, that sort of thing) I probably won’t trust you for very long, because the word ‘nerd’ has always been dangling entirely too close to ‘autistic’ for me. You know the thing. The way teenagers would bully the ‘weird kids’ who were overenthusiastic about things and had no social graces. Same sort of teenagers who threw things out of moving buses at me and my sister, I would imagine.
Honestly, I was cracking up when this photo was taken, because it’s just so ridiculous.
There was a ramp, but it was VERY well camouflaged. And when I did finally get in, there were these awful thick carpets that were next to impossible to wheel over.
Basically, no one thought this through.
[ID: photo of a wheelchair user at the bottom of a flight of steps with their back turned, looking up. the building behind them reads in large capital lettering, “wheelchair foundation”.]
