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  1. I'm autistic. Here's what happened to us this week.

    - Scottish police used Tasers on children in custody 43 times in one year. Ten of those childran had learning disabilities or autism. A government watchdog says stop. Police Scotland says it will "consider" the recommendation.

    - A nonverbal autistic 5-year-old drowned in South Carolina. Warrants allege her parents removed her safety tracker before the trip... then misled searchers about where to look.

    - Brazil is considering a bill that goes beyond hiring quotas. It would require employers to change how workplaces actually function for autistic workers. The catch... disclosure still carries real risk.

    Plus a dozen more stories that hit where we live.

    If your child can't explain what's wrong during a crisis... if keeping a job means hiding who you are... this isn't abstact policy.

    This is the week we just lived.

    What does this fight look like where you live?

    johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.co

    #ActuallyAutistic #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #Autism #Psychology

  2. Dr. Kirk Adams Book 'The Disability Dividend' Makes Business Case for Inclusion | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    einpresswire.com/article/93586

    Only 35% of people with significant disabilities are in the workforce, vs 75% of non-disabled adults. Adams, blind since age five and former CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, cites Accenture: disability-inclusive companies saw 28% higher revenue.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  3. Dr. Kirk Adams Book 'The Disability Dividend' Makes Business Case for Inclusion | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    einpresswire.com/article/93586

    Only 35% of people with significant disabilities are in the workforce, vs 75% of non-disabled adults. Adams, blind since age five and former CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, cites Accenture: disability-inclusive companies saw 28% higher revenue.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  4. Dr. Kirk Adams Book 'The Disability Dividend' Makes Business Case for Inclusion | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    einpresswire.com/article/93586

    Only 35% of people with significant disabilities are in the workforce, vs 75% of non-disabled adults. Adams, blind since age five and former CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, cites Accenture: disability-inclusive companies saw 28% higher revenue.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  5. Tactile Revolution, An Exhibit Of Art Meant To Be Touched | Even Grounds | By Tom Babinszki | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    evengrounds.com/tactile-revolu

    An exhibit at the Northern Kentucky University features tactile and 3D printed art, visitors are encouraged to touch all the displayed objects.

    Art, buildings, maps, biology tools and braille publications.

    If you are in the Cincinnati area, you can visit the exhibit until September 17th.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  6. Tactile Revolution, An Exhibit Of Art Meant To Be Touched | Even Grounds | By Tom Babinszki | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    evengrounds.com/tactile-revolu

    An exhibit at the Northern Kentucky University features tactile and 3D printed art, visitors are encouraged to touch all the displayed objects.

    Art, buildings, maps, biology tools and braille publications.

    If you are in the Cincinnati area, you can visit the exhibit until September 17th.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  7. Tactile Revolution, An Exhibit Of Art Meant To Be Touched | Even Grounds | By Tom Babinszki | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    evengrounds.com/tactile-revolu

    An exhibit at the Northern Kentucky University features tactile and 3D printed art, visitors are encouraged to touch all the displayed objects.

    Art, buildings, maps, biology tools and braille publications.

    If you are in the Cincinnati area, you can visit the exhibit until September 17th.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  8. Steve Way appears in "Furious" as the character Alden who, like him, has physical disabilities that mean he needs a caregiver. He writes for his newsletter about the lie that disabled people are a burden, the fact that everyone needs care, and the economics of it all. "My care shows up as a line item. Yours is dispersed across a hundred transactions you don’t think about, most of them performed by people paid worse than they should be."

    flip.it/EPT1DA

    #Caregiving #DisabilityRights #Television

  9. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  10. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  11. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  12. I’m autistic. Here’s what happened to us this week.

    Federal officials are closing the comment window on a 336-page autism research plan. It could steer priorities at NIH, CDC, and beyond for the next two years. Advocates had to push for more time just to read it.

    Meanwhile, prescriptions for leucovorin rose 46% after White House autism claims. But the largest supporting trial was retracted earlier this year.

    And in North Carolina, new Medicaid rules for autism therapy are already raising access questions for families and providers.

    This isn’t abstract policy. It shapes what gets studied, prescribed, funded, restricted... and who gets heard.

    What story in this week’s briefing hits closest to home for you?

    #ActuallyAutistic #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #AutismResearch

    johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.co

  13. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  14. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  15. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  16. We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronge

    Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  17. We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronge

    Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  18. We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronge

    Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  19. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  20. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  21. 🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/

    Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.

    #NEADS #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #BlindAndLowVision

  22. We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronge

    Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  23. We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronge

    Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  24. We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronge

    Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  25. Build, Lead, and Innovate: Blind People Are Done Waiting | By Mike Calvo, CEO, Pneuma Solutions | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    pneumasolutions.com/build-lead

    When I spoke at the National Federation of the Blind Convention, I had twenty minutes — enough to light a fire, not enough to say everything behind the message. So I wrote this companion piece. My talk's title wasn't just a convention title to me. It was a challenge.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  26. Build, Lead, and Innovate: Blind People Are Done Waiting | By Mike Calvo, CEO, Pneuma Solutions | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    pneumasolutions.com/build-lead

    When I spoke at the National Federation of the Blind Convention, I had twenty minutes — enough to light a fire, not enough to say everything behind the message. So I wrote this companion piece. My talk's title wasn't just a convention title to me. It was a challenge.

    #PWDMediaCoOp #DisabilityRights #BlindAndLowVision

  27. Unsere Körper, unsere Entscheidung! ✊🛑

    Der aktuelle Bericht des Österreichischen Behindertenrats zeigt schwarz auf weiß, was wir in der Community schon lange wissen: Die reproduktive Selbstbestimmung von Menschen mit Behinderungen wird mit Füßen getreten.
    Achtung Überraschung (nicht): In Deutschland sieht es kein Stück besser aus.⬇️

    #DisabilityRights #ReproductiveJustice #Ableism #Inklusion #Schwangerschaft #Periode #Feminism #MyBodyMyChoice #Selbstbestimmung #Behinderung #Disability

  28. Manchmal fühlt es sich so ermüdend und frustrierend an, immer noch für Dinge kämpfen zu müssen, die längst selbstverständlich sein sollten: das Recht auf Nähe, Lust, Berührung und Selbstbestimmung.⬇️

    #Selbstbestimmung #Sexualassistenz #Inklusion #Inkluencer #DisabilityRights #Queer #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #Behinderung #SexEducation #SexEd #Sexualität #Menschenrechte #Empowerment #Feminismus #Teilhabe #Kohlhammer

  29. "US sues Uber, alleges discrimination against disabled riders"

    reuters.com/sustainability/soc

    "… Uber drivers routinely refuse to serve riders with disabilities, including people who travel with service animals or stowable wheelchairs."

    "[Uber drivers] illegally charge cleaning fees for service animals, and cancellation fees to riders who are denied service."

    #Uber #Disability #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #Wheelchairs #ServiceAnimals

  30. #MadLiterature
    Available for pre order:

    A Mad Turn
    Edited by Phil Smith

    Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

    autonomous-press.myshopify.com

    Hashtags & Group mentions below
    #LivingMad
    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon @[email protected] @disability @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory @neurodivergence

  31. *Developers are #ableists because they can't profit as much from #PeopleWithDisabilities. Disabled folks have been struggling for far too long, trying to find & obtain #AccessibleHousing.

    Starting next March in B.C., all large new condominium and apartment buildings will require 100-per cent adaptable suites and first-floor suites in smaller apartment buildings will be required to be easily adapted so anyone with a disability can live in them.

    Developers say this could add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of new homes because they will all require bigger rooms, lower outlets and various changes in washrooms.

    Tom Davidoff, associate professor of business at the University of British Columbia told Global News that if accessibility for everyone is not mandated, it is certainly possible that builders would provide almost no accessible units.

    globalnews.ca/news/10601068/bc

    #BCpoli #DisabledCanadians #Housing #Accessibility #DisabledPeopleDeserveHomesToo #HumanRights #DisabilityRights

  32. A #Toronto woman is calling for more #accessibility in #AirTravel after she had to be carried off an #AirCanada plane in a badly broken aisle chair, an experience she says was #unsafe & #undignified.

    Tori Lacey, 26, chronicled the troubling incident on her #TikTok & #Instagram pages, where she usually posts content about her #travel exploits as a person who uses a #wheelchair.

    cbc.ca/amp/1.7211123

    #DisabilityRights #PeopleWithDisabilities #DisabledCanadians #StopAbleism #CDNpoli #Canada

  33. #MadLiterature

    Empire of Normality
    Neurodiversity and Capitalism
    by Robert Chapman

    This is a priority read for me!

    I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.

    plutobooks.com/9780745348667/e

    Hashtags & Group mentions below

    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon
    @[email protected]
    @disability
    @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory
    @neurodivergence