#Ableism

I believe that an emphasis on punctuality in medicine is likely to be discriminatory to #DisabledDocs Let's discuss, #MedTwitterThread Let's say you're a college student with well-controlled epilepsy. You've
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I don't normally talk about this but I'm in a reflective mood. I got fully off ODSP around 4 years ago after getting 2 part time jobs: at HCCI &
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Ableist jokes you need to cut out right now, a thread I'll keep adding to:- Making fun of slow walkers- Making fun of someone walking 'weird'- Jokes about wheelchair users
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Hi Deafies (and everybody). It's time to talk about privilege. I've been thinking a lot about Adichie's talk "The Danger of a Single Story" and how it applies to the
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The child's school day is structured exactly like an adults work day. 8 hour day, 15 minute break at 10.30 and, 45 minutes for lunch. In the class they must
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CW: ableism.I’ve said this before, but why is it that nearly every movie with an autistic main character character is about the fact that that person is autistic? Why not
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I am deeply allergic to cooking smells and onion and garlic due to #MCAS. To accommodate me, my family set up a full second kitchen (with a stove, toaster, instant
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TW: Transphobia, Anti-semitism, Racism, Ableism, and moreSo you might now Evil Eye? Turns out he is a pretty deplorable person covid denier, ableist, transphobic and more. This is him His
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Wow, good morning. Just saw another person call veganism "classist" in front of my poor Black vegan ass, who is currently getting food support through MA to fill the gap
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Okay so, a thing I keep seeing people elide:The puberty blockers case was specifically started around AFAB trans people. Same with the refusal of surgery one in Canada. That's not
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I used to be quite pragmatic around slurs involving learning disability. My aim was to deter new casually ableist terms like “retard”. I reasoned it was too hard to reprogram
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normalized ableism (specific to autistics) ABA (applied behavior analysis) as a form of “treatment” allistics saying they have a special interest telling us to “just get over it” in response
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IQ is a racist and ableist idea. The concept of IQ is connected to a history of deprivation, sterilization, incarceration, and death. I see a lot of people linking mask-wearing
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Hey I'm sure most people are unaware of the patronizing ableism that has been pretty frequent at the nightly actions:- people with visible disabilities chose to be there- ask if
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debunking myths about screenreaders not reading location, what emoji spam sounds like, general accessibility, and fonts: a thread i'm legally blind and can't see a foot in front of me
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Thread on ableism in vegan communities. I asked the other day if people would be interested in this, and the answer was a resounding yes. I'd like to make some
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