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"Akin to the ideal victim, the ideal claimant of hidden disability must navigate a system built by (and from the perspective of) those with specific preconceived notions of what it means to be a person with a disability and to present as one."

#MEcfs #invisibleillness #hiddenillness #spoonie @mecfs #hiddendisability #invisibledisabilityawareness #invisibledisability #invisibledisabilities

Well, figured out what's going on with my neck/shoulder/arm. I've been diagnosed as being in the early stages of frozen shoulder. Apparently, menopausal folks are more prone to it for unknown reasons. Yay?

So I have about a year and a half until this issue goes away, and it will get worse before it gets better. The good news is that when that awful pain happens, I'm not causing myself damage. Apparently, a cortisone shot early on will help prevent some of that pain. So will continuing to exercise regularly, although I will have to avoid exercises which bring on the pain (which is sudden and intense). Massages will also help, because the surrounding muscles will lock up from that pain.

Looks like I have a rocky road ahead of me.
#FrozenShoulder #ChronicPain #InvisibleDisabilities #menopause

On International Day of People with #Disabilities, I thought I'd share this article on #invisibledisabilities.

This individual has ME/CFS & ulcerative colitis
https://meassociation.org.uk/2021/10/invisible-disabilities-week-2021-jessica-logan/

#IDPD #IDPD2024 #IDPD24 #IDPWD #invisibledisability #Hiddendisability
#Hiddendisabilities @chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
#ulcerativecolitis
@ibd #ibd

#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.

https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/a-mad-turn

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I’m interested in memoirs, blogs etcetera telling stories of resilience, surviving psychiatry, trauma (developmental). Please share them if you know any.
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Lisa Wallace on why she left psychiatric care and why she may return one day

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/guest-post-a-psychiatric-survivor?r=c50ah&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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The Soteria model relies on personal relationships, interactive activities, and minimal use of psychiatric medication within a comfortable “living community” as opposed to a conventional psychiatric setting.

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How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/09/soteria-house-heal/

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/psychiatric-yeti-schizophrenia-genetic/?mc_cid=91cea752ff&mc_eid=1b94bba8b7

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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.

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348667/empire-of-normality/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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…the need to offer a positive account of mental illness—one that does not define the essence of mental illness exclusively as the absence, lack, or failure of the power of reasoning…

On the Importance of Conceptual Contrasts Madness, Reason, and Mad Pride
Awais Aftab

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/916209 (open source)
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Mad Pride and Neurodiversity
Personal Perspective: Parallel movements of lived experience.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-mental-health/202312/mad-pride-and-neurodiversity?fbclid=IwAR0u8DfRIP4cLRQu_t0uA7MqwJfNTE9WQPwUFHzms7AQ7hbS9z4B226gDko_aem_Abdvn_RWjUPuiUr977ry7-2Dm1fT1OTQR4WSHVutATg7Y9n0HiugSwNLeguoMzZY_x0

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Hashtag Intro.
Click here 🧠 to expand.
The Proverbial list Evolved:

#InvisibleDisabilityRights #IDR
#LandBack #Indigenous Kahnawá:ke Nia:wen kowa

Behind and beside: #CivilRights #MentalHealth #EndRacism #LGBTQIA #BLM #WomenRights #EqualPay #StopViolence #StopAsianHate #POC Eater of clean foods Anti-AntiSemitic #EndBigotry for #everyone
#BeYou #BeKind #BePatient
#UnityConquers #TearDownTheWall :solidarity: union.place ✊🏽

Focus: :ir:
#DisabilitySolidarity #DisabledCommunity #EndAbleism #StopAbleistHate #DisabilityAdvocacy #passionate #DisabledVoicesUnite #CrossDisabilitySupport #inclusion #ListeningEar #Here4All #NeurodivergentThinking #neurodiversity
#ConcussionAwareness #TBI #ABI #AnoxicBrainInjury #BrainInjury #SpineInjury #fibromyalgia #LimbDifference #ActuallyAutisic #OrthopedicDisabilities #SticksAndStones #BrokenBones #NaturesPharmaceutical #DisabilityAcceptance #EndAbleistHateCrime #StopAbleistSlurs #DisabilityEconomicJustice #CripTheVote #DisabilityLobby #HumanInterest #NonPartisan #research #Education #Knowledge
#UnityConquers #TearDownTheWall
✊🏽 :solidarity:

Un peu de moi?
Je ne parle pas couramment Français. I like using #HashtagsNobodyWillEverSearch
#FilmMaking #Writing #poetry
Ex-#musician #Songwriter Passé
💐⚘🌺🏵 #GardenCreator extraordinaire. #FlowerGardens #PhotorealisticImagination
Et Bien plus encore.

🙏, ✌️, 💛, :solidarity: #accommodation for "👥👩🏽‍🦯👤👨🏽‍🦽" with #InvisibleDisabilities
Just like many of us, this list is incomplete and still evolving. (he, him)

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Two waves (1950s & 1970s) of systemic deinstitutionalisation and there are more “beds” than before; they just look different.

#MadLiterature

Busting the Deinstitutionalization Myth: We Actually Have More Beds Than Ever Before
New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/busting-deinstitutionalization-myth/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Mad Crip doula: offering holistic and emotional spiritual bodymind care, mixed with practical and crisis support (and plant medicine). moving from a liberation-centered and anti-oppressive lens. a transition doula with skills in: abortion, death, grief, Madness, and Disability.

#MadLiterature

https://www.stefaniekaufman.com/madcripdoula

endorsing: non-carceral, peer-led mental health care systems that exist outside of the state, reimagining everything we’ve come to learn about madness, and intervening in systems that oppress, disappear, and kill Disabled and mad folks.

Please Note: I don’t know Them in any capacity and They sure look bad-ass

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Disability doula. Peer support. Social support. Physical support. Cultural roots.

#MadLiterature
Newly disabled people aren’t given a ‘how-to’ guide. Disability doulas are closing those gaps.
The community care practice, pioneered by queer women of color, reorients newly disabled people to a different life

https://19thnews.org/2023/07/disability-doulas-support-newly-disabled-people/

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Open Minded Online
sharing ideas and resources about holistic approaches to emotional and social wellbeing

We are two people who both have a great passion for holistic approaches to mental health. This passion has grown out of our own experiences of receiving traditional psychiatric treatment and finding it lacking.

We believe that it is possible to make sense of intense states of mind often described as psychosis.

#MadLiterature
https://openmindedonline.com/resources/

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#MadLiterature in progress:
RD Laing, David Cooper, Ervin Goffman, & Thomas Szaz
Interesting. History.
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Enclosure and debilitating restriction.
Enmeshing of care & treatment & dehumanization and loss of agency.

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Institutions Often Treat Disability and Mental Health Not With Care But Violence
by George Yancy
https://truthout.org/articles/institutions-often-treat-disability-and-mental-health-not-with-care-but-violence/

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Nonnormativity.
Resist compulsory able-mindedness.
Chronically dysregulated.
Tenderness.
Inclusive neuroqueer feminist communities.

#MadLiterature
Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder

By: Merri Lisa Johnson
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1086/712081

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Politics of madness;
racism. institutionalization. story of place. history of schizophrenia.
#MadLiterature
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
by Jonathan Metzl

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What to do with the mad people?
Outta sight outta mind.
History. Treatments. Surgery. Sterilization.
#MadLiterature
The Rise and Fall of the Asylum
PBS series: Mysteries of Mental Illness
About an hour long
Aired: 06/23/21
Expires: 07/22/24
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-asylum-mbvisj/

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Super cool resource & literature. Need more time in a day!!! I just read the interview with Sofia Jeppsson
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The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers about a range of topics, including their philosophical work on disability; the place of philosophy of disability vis-à-vis the discipline and profession; their experiences of institutional exclusion and personal and structural gaslighting in philosophy, in particular, and in academia, more generally; resistance to ableism, racism, sexism, and other apparatuses of power; accessibility; and anti-oppressive pedagogy.

#MadLiterature
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Dialogues on Disability

https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/dialogues-on-disability/

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carceral logics.
carceral sanism.
victim-blaming.
coercive policy approaches.

assumes black, poor and unhoused people are disposable—
specifically those in “mental health crisis.”

Article includes links to multiple intersectional grassroots organizations.

#MadLiterature
Psychiatric Incarceration Isn’t Treatment — It’s Violence, Survivors Say

https://truthout.org/articles/psychiatric-incarceration-isnt-treatment-its-violence-survivors-say/

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Sanism is nested within and alongside neoliberal virtues. Colonization. Ableism. Racism. and and and.
State violence is the central theme
Upholds the normal/abnormal binary
Historical pathologization of marginalized groups

#MadLiterature

Radical Disability Allyship, Mad Activism, and Black Mental Health

https://www.invisibledisabilityproject.org/new-blog/2020/6/29/radical-disability-allyship-mad-activism-and-black-mental-health-xb4cy
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Mad Studies (or the organization of mad people around literature and learning) needs to be more than just wypipo with wypipo ideas and wypipo histories

Anti-black violence has a long history with sanism

#MadLiterature
https://truthout.org/articles/jordan-neely-is-being-blamed-for-his-own-death-due-to-sanism-and-racism/
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Student with Downs Syndrome Excluded:

A post by @JDS linked an article about an Alabama elementary school girls basketball team that won the championship in a boys league.  Despite defeating all the boys teams they faced enroute to the top, the league refused to award the trophy to the girls team.  As if this example of “exclusion by bigotry” was not enough to get the juices flowing, the article linked another #disability related story that I couldn’t pass up.  So much for easing back into it.

Morgyn Arnold, who lives with down syndrome, worked as the manager of her Junior high school’s cheerleading team. The cheer team at Shoreline Junior High School in Layton, Utah, chose to take two team photos; one with Morgyn and one without.  The photo excluding her is the one used on social media and printed in the yearbook.  Her name was not even mentioned as part of the team.  Despite all of her “hard work and dedication to the team”, she was excluded .

 According to a relative of Morgyn's,  this “was the second time in three years” that she had “been left out of the yearbook” and had been left off the class list of students by the school in the past.  The school issued a statement on social media that was later deleted.  Is that the “swooshing" of brooms I hear?

I personally have had a similar taste of this elixir of exclusion during my time broadcasting for one university hockey team.  Among the numerous discriminatory and ableist acts I experienced, I too was never mentioned or thanked in anyway by that team.  I felt as if I was a dirty secret or that the team that raved about my broadcasts, was ashamed of me. 

The big difference? Down Syndrome is not one of my disabilities and I was not 14 years old like Morgyn.  Even with my experience, I can’t imagine how she must have felt being subjected to these patronizing, demeaning and deplorable ableist acts of exclusion.

In the mind of the offenders, exclusion, discrimination and bigotry doesn’t have to make sense.  Oftentimes, they assume the people living with invisible, developmental or intellectual disabilities to be clueless or lacking reason and intelligence.  In actuality, this type of behavior and “stigmatude” suggests that perpetrators may be lacking in some of these areas.

For this blatant act of ableism and oblivion to inclusion, Community Intergration and equality I have no cheers, only jeers.
“HIP HIP! Shame on you.”

OutOfExile_IDR #InvisibleDisabilityRights

Link to the article and photos: https://www.ibtimes.sg/utah-school-under-fire-after-leaving-student-down-syndrome-out-cheerleading-team-photo-claims-it-58223?utm_source=Internal&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=related

#EndAbleism #EndBigotry #InvisibleDisabilities #IntellectualDisabilities #DevelopmentalDisabilities #DownSyndrome #CommunityIntergration #inclusion #equality #stigmatude

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