Do Not Resuscitate: learning disabled people deserve to live and exist let alone thrive in this country. The disabled community has been aware of these DNRs for decades, they come and go. News outlets realise they haven't written about us for a while: DNRs! Outrage! Well! 1/?
I have spent the morning in tears. I raged on my instagram and deleted it due to emotional labour. non-disabled queers reaching out with gestures of support with no action or accountability. You are still having your queer parties. You are still hooking up. Crips gotta shield 2/?
because of you. Tories have wanted us dead since the day we were born. Disabled people have been shouting about eugenics and a fucking genocide against us for decades and only now are people throwing the word around. It's exhausting to be in a country where our rights are 3/?
up for debate. We knew what it meant when 'vulnerable' arrived. They could get away with mass murder so everyone else can go back to the pub. We are the party poopers. We are the burdens. Liabilities. We are repetitive. We have ramps and captions now? So what's the problem? 4/?
Reach out to your disabled friends. You are never enough of an ally. A lot of us are suicidal and have little to motivate otherwise. We aren't suicidal because we don't want to be disabled, we are suicidal because we're being told things would be better off without us. FAKE NEWS.
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