#ableism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ableism, aggregated by home.social.
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This powerchair user has been to many nights of this protest. There are many disabled people (not all likely identify as disabled, but the wheelchair users tend to).
In fact, when I used live machine translation, the journalist (who himself has alopecia) mentioned that he wanted to come over and interview her because he's seen her many times over these 75 days.
She said she's been waiting 10 years for housing, for help with surgical interventions. And she thanked the media who are covering the protest & urged Albanians who are not on the square to come out with them.
He asked what she thought of a proposed law to double aid for 0 -18 year olds. She pointed out that one's disability doesn't end the day one turns 19.
https://citizens.al/2026/06/14/personat-me-aftesi-te-kufizuara-ne-shesh-per-nje-sistem-gjitheperfshires/ #Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Disability #Ableism #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Protest
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This powerchair user has been to many nights of this protest. There are many disabled people (not all likely identify as disabled, but the wheelchair users tend to).
In fact, when I used live machine translation, the journalist (who himself has alopecia) mentioned that he wanted to come over and interview her because he's seen her many times over these 75 days.
She said she's been waiting 10 years for housing, for help with surgical interventions. And she thanked the media who are covering the protest & urged Albanians who are not on the square to come out with them.
He asked what she thought of a proposed law to double aid for 0 -18 year olds. She pointed out that one's disability doesn't end the day one turns 19.
https://citizens.al/2026/06/14/personat-me-aftesi-te-kufizuara-ne-shesh-per-nje-sistem-gjitheperfshires/ #Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Disability #Ableism #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Protest
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@RosethornRanger "as a shield. Neurodivergence" is missing from the alt text near the end, its refreshing to see someone agree insane crazy dumb and stupid are ableist the prevalence of moralization for these phrases among people fighting oppression is disappointingly counterproductive
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@RosethornRanger "as a shield. Neurodivergence" is missing from the alt text near the end, its refreshing to see someone agree insane crazy dumb and stupid are ableist the prevalence of moralization for these phrases among people fighting oppression is disappointingly counterproductive
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“If it were really that bad you would have more support”.
People believe that when you’re disabled, help magically appears.
That when you get worse, you get more help and/or funding.
The reality is far different.
There’s little to no help.
We live in legislated poverty.
When there’s a setback, no one comes to save you.
We rely on community care and mutual aid because the capitalist system views us as expendable.
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“If it were really that bad you would have more support”.
People believe that when you’re disabled, help magically appears.
That when you get worse, you get more help and/or funding.
The reality is far different.
There’s little to no help.
We live in legislated poverty.
When there’s a setback, no one comes to save you.
We rely on community care and mutual aid because the capitalist system views us as expendable.
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America should be ashamed.
No one should ever have to delay medical care due to cost.
The US is the only developed country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to its citizens, and as a result they have extremely poor outcomes & lower life expectancy.
Healthcare is a human right.
https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/us-medical-costs-doctors-health-insurance-b3026479.html
#poverty #UniversalHealthcare #healthcare
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America should be ashamed.
No one should ever have to delay medical care due to cost.
The US is the only developed country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to its citizens, and as a result they have extremely poor outcomes & lower life expectancy.
Healthcare is a human right.
https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/us-medical-costs-doctors-health-insurance-b3026479.html
#poverty #UniversalHealthcare #healthcare
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Calling people "Insane" or "crazy", is ableist too, and so is "stupid" and "dumb".
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Calling people "Insane" or "crazy", is ableist too, and so is "stupid" and "dumb".
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CW: CW: ableist slurs, ableism
Just encountered another specimen of the “old white German man who thinks his vocabulary is a constitutional right” variety.
He was using “disabled” as an insult. Not accidentally. Not metaphorically in some obscure linguistic sense. Deliberately, to describe people he considers stupid, irrational, or “not quite right in the head.”
And when challenged?
Apparently, “disabled” is simply a synonym for people who "aren't quite clear in the head" (his words, not mine).
What a fascinating little piece of linguistic archaeology. Somewhere between 1950s institutionalisation and the village pub, apparently.
No, darling.
Disabled people are not a metaphor for stupidity. They are not a convenient category of human beings whose existence gives you a handy vocabulary for calling someone an idiot. And your personal decision to use an ableist slur does not magically turn it into a neutral dictionary definition.
Then, naturally, came the wounded dignity:
We should stop criticising him. We're annoying him.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Were we interrupting your little linguistic tradition of punching down?
How terribly inconvenient that the people you are casually degrading have developed the audacity to answer back.
This is the part where I am apparently supposed to be polite and explain, very gently, that perhaps we shouldn't use language that treats disabled people as synonymous with being defective.
No.
Fuck that.
If your vocabulary depends on treating an entire group of people as shorthand for “stupid,” your vocabulary is the thing that needs fixing.
And if being told that makes you uncomfortable, perhaps sit with that discomfort for a while.
It won't hurt you.
Being treated as though your feelings matter more than the dignity of the people you just insulted, however, might be a habit worth breaking.
We are not going to make ourselves smaller so you can remain comfortable in your prejudices.
You can update your language.
You can apologise.
Or you can continue being offended that the twenty-first century has arrived without asking your permission.
But please don't mistake our refusal to shut up for rudeness.
It is accountability.
And yes, we will keep "annoying" you.
Apparently someone has to.
#Ableism #DisabilityRights #StopAbleism #DisabledPeople #LanguageMatters #Accessibility #Inclusion #Dignity #PunchUpNotDown
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CW: CW: ableist slurs, ableism
Just encountered another specimen of the “old white German man who thinks his vocabulary is a constitutional right” variety.
He was using “disabled” as an insult. Not accidentally. Not metaphorically in some obscure linguistic sense. Deliberately, to describe people he considers stupid, irrational, or “not quite right in the head.”
And when challenged?
Apparently, “disabled” is simply a synonym for people who "aren't quite clear in the head" (his words, not mine).
What a fascinating little piece of linguistic archaeology. Somewhere between 1950s institutionalisation and the village pub, apparently.
No, darling.
Disabled people are not a metaphor for stupidity. They are not a convenient category of human beings whose existence gives you a handy vocabulary for calling someone an idiot. And your personal decision to use an ableist slur does not magically turn it into a neutral dictionary definition.
Then, naturally, came the wounded dignity:
We should stop criticising him. We're annoying him.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Were we interrupting your little linguistic tradition of punching down?
How terribly inconvenient that the people you are casually degrading have developed the audacity to answer back.
This is the part where I am apparently supposed to be polite and explain, very gently, that perhaps we shouldn't use language that treats disabled people as synonymous with being defective.
No.
Fuck that.
If your vocabulary depends on treating an entire group of people as shorthand for “stupid,” your vocabulary is the thing that needs fixing.
And if being told that makes you uncomfortable, perhaps sit with that discomfort for a while.
It won't hurt you.
Being treated as though your feelings matter more than the dignity of the people you just insulted, however, might be a habit worth breaking.
We are not going to make ourselves smaller so you can remain comfortable in your prejudices.
You can update your language.
You can apologise.
Or you can continue being offended that the twenty-first century has arrived without asking your permission.
But please don't mistake our refusal to shut up for rudeness.
It is accountability.
And yes, we will keep "annoying" you.
Apparently someone has to.
#Ableism #DisabilityRights #StopAbleism #DisabledPeople #LanguageMatters #Accessibility #Inclusion #Dignity #PunchUpNotDown
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Privilege and luck play a huge role in whether you survive our healthcare system.
Bias, racism and misogyny are rampant and frequently cost people their lives.
A surgical complication almost killed me when I was 24.
Luck, privilege and a 22 year old boy saved my life.
No one’s survival should be based on luck or how much privilege they have.
People should have a reasonable expectation of safety in a hospital.
They should be treated the same regardless of their skin colour, marital status, sexual orientation or insurance status.
Sadly that’s not how things work.
I had a hysterectomy when I was 24. Doctors expected me to “sail through” recovery because I was young and fit.
Unfortunately they were wrong. My body wasn’t recovering, it was decompensating.
I had many abdominal surgeries before the hysterectomy. I knew the difference between normal post op pain and something being “wrong”.
After surgery I felt like I was dying.
My pain worsened every day.
I became more fatigued. I couldn’t eat or sleep.
But no one believed me.
The surgeon discharged me.
I returned to the ER and told them something was wrong.
They dismissed me and sent me home.
I went back multiple times and each time was treated like a nuisance.
I was gaslit and told my pain was “normal”.
No one even ran basic tests.
Even people in my life started to doubt me.
Told me I should just rest and stop bothering the folks at the ER.
I KNEW something was wrong but I was rapidly losing the ability to self advocate as I became too weak to speak or even sit up.
My 22 year old boyfriend came to check on me and instantly realized things were dire.
He called a coworker to take us back to the hospital.
He caused a scene to ensure a doctor saw me and I wasn’t sent home again.
They threatened to call the police but he refused to back down.
He was right.
I had a massive internal bleed and an infected abscess.
I was immediately evacuated to a larger hospital for emergency surgery and only given a 50/50 chance of survival.
I spent nearly a month in the hospital recovering.
I didn’t even want to go back to the ER that day.
I was thoroughly beaten down.
Being dismissed and mistreated so many times left me feeling hopeless and like I would rather die in my own bed than be disrespected in the hospital AGAIN.
No one should face these types of decisions.
No one should have to fight that hard for care.
Had my boyfriend not believed me, I would have died.
Had he told me to stop bothering ER staff, I would have died.
Had he not come to check on me that night, I would have died.
He wasn’t prepared to handle such an intense life or death situation… but he stepped up because no one else did.
He saw the danger and fought like hell to protect me.
That’s privilege.
The fact that he wasn’t arrested? Privilege and luck.
I’m grateful to him for being willing to risk his own safety to ensure I got the care I needed, but I hate that it took a man causing a scene to get the healthcare system to pay attention.
I hate that others have died simply because they didn’t have someone to fight for them.
We must do better.
We must call out the bias in medicine and ensure everyone is equally protected.
We must establish networks of community care so that no one ever has to face the ER alone.
We must tell our stories so people know they aren’t alone.
We must amplify the stories of those without platforms so their voices are heard too.
If you’ve been mistreated, know that it’s not your fault.
The system needs to change, and we will keep fighting until it does.
#ableism #racism #misogyny #chronicillness #disability #medicalmisogyny
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Privilege and luck play a huge role in whether you survive our healthcare system.
Bias, racism and misogyny are rampant and frequently cost people their lives.
A surgical complication almost killed me when I was 24.
Luck, privilege and a 22 year old boy saved my life.
No one’s survival should be based on luck or how much privilege they have.
People should have a reasonable expectation of safety in a hospital.
They should be treated the same regardless of their skin colour, marital status, sexual orientation or insurance status.
Sadly that’s not how things work.
I had a hysterectomy when I was 24. Doctors expected me to “sail through” recovery because I was young and fit.
Unfortunately they were wrong. My body wasn’t recovering, it was decompensating.
I had many abdominal surgeries before the hysterectomy. I knew the difference between normal post op pain and something being “wrong”.
After surgery I felt like I was dying.
My pain worsened every day.
I became more fatigued. I couldn’t eat or sleep.
But no one believed me.
The surgeon discharged me.
I returned to the ER and told them something was wrong.
They dismissed me and sent me home.
I went back multiple times and each time was treated like a nuisance.
I was gaslit and told my pain was “normal”.
No one even ran basic tests.
Even people in my life started to doubt me.
Told me I should just rest and stop bothering the folks at the ER.
I KNEW something was wrong but I was rapidly losing the ability to self advocate as I became too weak to speak or even sit up.
My 22 year old boyfriend came to check on me and instantly realized things were dire.
He called a coworker to take us back to the hospital.
He caused a scene to ensure a doctor saw me and I wasn’t sent home again.
They threatened to call the police but he refused to back down.
He was right.
I had a massive internal bleed and an infected abscess.
I was immediately evacuated to a larger hospital for emergency surgery and only given a 50/50 chance of survival.
I spent nearly a month in the hospital recovering.
I didn’t even want to go back to the ER that day.
I was thoroughly beaten down.
Being dismissed and mistreated so many times left me feeling hopeless and like I would rather die in my own bed than be disrespected in the hospital AGAIN.
No one should face these types of decisions.
No one should have to fight that hard for care.
Had my boyfriend not believed me, I would have died.
Had he told me to stop bothering ER staff, I would have died.
Had he not come to check on me that night, I would have died.
He wasn’t prepared to handle such an intense life or death situation… but he stepped up because no one else did.
He saw the danger and fought like hell to protect me.
That’s privilege.
The fact that he wasn’t arrested? Privilege and luck.
I’m grateful to him for being willing to risk his own safety to ensure I got the care I needed, but I hate that it took a man causing a scene to get the healthcare system to pay attention.
I hate that others have died simply because they didn’t have someone to fight for them.
We must do better.
We must call out the bias in medicine and ensure everyone is equally protected.
We must establish networks of community care so that no one ever has to face the ER alone.
We must tell our stories so people know they aren’t alone.
We must amplify the stories of those without platforms so their voices are heard too.
If you’ve been mistreated, know that it’s not your fault.
The system needs to change, and we will keep fighting until it does.
#ableism #racism #misogyny #chronicillness #disability #medicalmisogyny
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Disability will happen to almost everyone.
Most people are only temporarily abled.
It’s not a moral failing.
It’s not a choice people make.
The human body is frail.
It only takes one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck to forever change your health.
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Disability will happen to almost everyone.
Most people are only temporarily abled.
It’s not a moral failing.
It’s not a choice people make.
The human body is frail.
It only takes one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck to forever change your health.
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When you’re disabled, people will treat you like you’re broken.
They’ll act like you’re in the wrong no matter what you do.
They will insinuate you could “try harder”.
They will blame you for their discomfort.
Your disability is not your fault.
People just can’t face it.
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When you’re disabled, people will treat you like you’re broken.
They’ll act like you’re in the wrong no matter what you do.
They will insinuate you could “try harder”.
They will blame you for their discomfort.
Your disability is not your fault.
People just can’t face it.
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CW: CW: mental illness stigma, ableist language, psychiatric slurs
Because I also see people on our side doing this:
Can we please stop using mental illness and adjacent medical conditions as slurs, insults, and accusations against people we dislike?
Calling someone “crazy,” “psychotic,” “autistic,” “schizo,” or whatever the flavour of the day happens to be doesn’t make your argument stronger. It just turns somebody else’s medical condition into a weapon.
People with mental illnesses, neurodivergencies, and other conditions (people like you and me!) don’t deserve to see their lives and diagnoses casually dragged into the mud just because somebody is being awful.
You can call someone cruel. You can call them dishonest. You can call them bigoted, hateful, abusive, manipulative, or simply an absolute fucking nightmare.
There are plenty of words available.
Please choose better ones.Being compassionate and fighting fascism are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I rather think we should be capable of both.
#MentalHealth #EndAbleism #DisabilityJustice #Neurodiversity #MentalHealthMatters #Ableism #QueerCommunity #Solidarity #BeKind
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CW: CW: mental illness stigma, ableist language, psychiatric slurs
Because I also see people on our side doing this:
Can we please stop using mental illness and adjacent medical conditions as slurs, insults, and accusations against people we dislike?
Calling someone “crazy,” “psychotic,” “autistic,” “schizo,” or whatever the flavour of the day happens to be doesn’t make your argument stronger. It just turns somebody else’s medical condition into a weapon.
People with mental illnesses, neurodivergencies, and other conditions (people like you and me!) don’t deserve to see their lives and diagnoses casually dragged into the mud just because somebody is being awful.
You can call someone cruel. You can call them dishonest. You can call them bigoted, hateful, abusive, manipulative, or simply an absolute fucking nightmare.
There are plenty of words available.
Please choose better ones.Being compassionate and fighting fascism are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I rather think we should be capable of both.
#MentalHealth #EndAbleism #DisabilityJustice #Neurodiversity #MentalHealthMatters #Ableism #QueerCommunity #Solidarity #BeKind
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@volts.wtf Please stop using "insane" as some sort of synonym for evil.
It's ableist AF.
Insanity is a defense in court for a reason. Amazon should actually be held accountable for its willful CHOICE to do these things. It's possible to be sane AND evil, but abled people just don't want to reckon with the banality of evil that way. Which actually keeps them from seeing evil until they're already well soaking in it.
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@volts.wtf Please stop using "insane" as some sort of synonym for evil.
It's ableist AF.
Insanity is a defense in court for a reason. Amazon should actually be held accountable for its willful CHOICE to do these things. It's possible to be sane AND evil, but abled people just don't want to reckon with the banality of evil that way. Which actually keeps them from seeing evil until they're already well soaking in it.
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"Some disabled people want to advance their careers. They say Medicaid rules stop them"
Beware lazy ableist phrases like "(paralyzed) but it didn't slow her down". Why is that ableist? Because what slows disabled people down the most is systemic ableism, as the story itself should illustrate.
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5910791/disabilities-people-work-requirements-medicaid-income-caps-buy-in #Iowa #USpol #Disability #Ableism
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"Some disabled people want to advance their careers. They say Medicaid rules stop them"
Beware lazy ableist phrases like "(paralyzed) but it didn't slow her down". Why is that ableist? Because what slows disabled people down the most is systemic ableism, as the story itself should illustrate.
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5910791/disabilities-people-work-requirements-medicaid-income-caps-buy-in #Iowa #USpol #Disability #Ableism
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Personally, I think #google employees have serious challenges as human being...
...when a google employee (of a trillion dollar company) was asked when there is no "old person" mode for #Android interface ...
...their response was "its a great idea for open source"
No! You fix your interface so oldies can use it!