I am really fucking sick of seeing trailers on YouTube that I cannot skip of the ableist trash film Split.
| Jan 11, 2017 — 6 notes — Tags |
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Fucking PSA
Unfriendly reminder that having an anxiety disorder isn’t cute or quirky
Unfriendly reminder that chronic and severe depressive disorders aren’t something to be glorified or glamorized
Unfriendly reminder that eating disorders are legitimate problems for millions of people and have taken so many lives, and it’s not some cute fucking fad
Unfriendly reminder that it isn’t okay to romanticize depression, anxiety and eating disorders but still continue to stigmatize and stereotype Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Borderline Personality Disorder, etc
Unfriendly fucking reminder that mental illnesses aren’t for your aesthetics or to be thought of as some cutesy quirk or quality, they’re legitimate problems that people struggle with every single day and are to be taken much more seriously than they are
Boycott “Split.”
This is a horror movie that’s not out yet but just seeing the trailer really pissed me off. The trailer basically described a movie about this mentally ill man that kidnaps these girls and its heavily implied he’s going to kill them. The man is said to have a ‘personality disorder’ (It’s not actually a personality disorder it’s been reclassified as Dissociative Identity Disorder) and that alone already gives people the impression mentally ill people are dangerous. However, they go on to say that the man has 23 different personalities, which the woman diagnosing him claims that she’s “never seen a case like this” when in reality there are people recorded to have many more identities than this, and someone treating DID would know this. Overall, the movie really portrays the symptoms wrong and it’s another movie that demonizes mentally ill people. Please save your money and see another movie.
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drwhothefuckyouthinkyoutalkinto:
Police Shoot Unarmed Man and his 6-Year-Old Autistic Son in the Head Multiple Times Killing Son
As of Thursday morning, at least 834 people had been shot and killed by American police officers so far this year.
Six-year-old Jeremy David Mardis is the youngest among them.
The autistic first-grader was sitting in the front passenger seat of a car being driven by his father, Chris Few, in Marksville, La., when city marshals “allegedly” attempted to serve the man a warrant about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night. But when checked with the County Clerks office, no warrant could be found in the database.
Police claim Few fled, eventually turning down a dead-end street. And that Few then attempted to back his vehicle out, striking officers’ cruisers, prompting an exchange of gunfire between the officers and driver that left him hospitalized and his son dead.
However, An official briefed on the shooting said that Few was unarmed when two officers opened fire, shooting between 13 and 18 bullets combined. Five of the officers’ bullets pierced Jeremy’s body, Mayeux said, with the two fatal shots hitting him in the head and chest. That official said it is unclear if the shooting was captured on camera.
The police involved in the shooting all had criminal records including rape.
After the officers names were released, It didn’t take long for local press to uncover extensive rap sheets for both officers:
- Derrick Stafford, the officer indicted for rape, also has five pending civil suits against him for various complaints of excessive force, including breaking the arm of a 14-year-old girl on a school bus as well as assaulting and pepper-spraying a 15-year-old boy at a Fourth of July celebration.
- Norris Greenhouse Jr., the other officer implicated in the murder of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis, is named in several of the same suits for acting in tandem with Stafford.
Louisiana State Police announced on Wednesday that they had launched an investigation into the incident at the request of the Marksville Police Department.
#StayWoke
This is heartbreaking.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
fuck
Where are the all lives matter people? I have only seen BLM blogs cover this.
White people dont care about this. They just want to make sure Black people don’t complain.
Benedict Cumberbatch has publicly stated that he thinks people viewing protagonists in media like Sherlock Holmes as autistic is ‘dangerous’ & ‘lazy’ because it ‘offers false hope’ that autistic people could be ‘brilliant’ or heroic…
so yeah i’m gonna give a pass on his superhero movie, because he doesn’t think people like me deserve heroes, or that we could ever be them.
Oh my god I thought this was made up but it’s real.
Hey, no offense, but can we stop making up childhood cartoon conspiracy theories? Let’s be real; they’ll all basically the same. That’s not the problem, though. What ticks me off is that almost all of them involve trying to prove a character as mentally ill. Now, I love to headcanon mentally ill characters, but in conspiracy theories, it’s usually thought up by an NT who knows nothing about mental health and thinks it’s okay to use mental health to creep other people out and ‘ruin’ their childhood. If you can’t make a decent theory or creepy story without throwing mental illnesses under the bus, you’re a shitty author.
| Feb 19, 2016 — 13 notes — Tags |
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Okay so one thing that stuck with me from high school is that I had a friend who would get seizures. One day, someone had the gall to walk up to us and ask him: “So, have you ever faked a seizure to get out of class? That would be so convenient.”
Seriously, able-bodied people baffle me to NO end.
| Feb 19, 2016 — 6 notes — Tags |
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since halloween is coming up, here’s your reminder from your local psychotic person to not dress up as an escaped mental patient or someone in a straitjacket because it’s super ableist and demonizes psychotic people
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i swear i am so sick of able-bodied mentally ill people acting like physically disabled people have it so great and get all this imaged respect from abled people. fuck you, no we don’t. stop stealing our words to describe yourself because you think we have it so much better than you. we are not more respected or listened to than you are. and by using the word cripple to describe your symptoms you are being ableist. end of story. if you are not physically disabled you have no earthly idea what it is like to be crippled. stop using the word cripple. it is a violent slur and it is not yours to use.
Um also, can we stop with the fucking articles about “If physical illness were treated like mental illness”? Especially when the people don’t actually have a physical illness? I actually have multiple physical and mental illnesses.
I’ve had doctors tell me to get over my physical illness, to not call myself sick, all the things these articles say people DON’T say to the physically ill…I literally have almost died twice because doctors have dismissed chronic deadly physical illnesses.I am SO DONE with healthy able bodied mentally ill people using a comparison they haven’t lived that is literally erasing my experience.
I used to support those comparisons, but over time I learned it was so wrong. Disabled people aren’t treated better or worse because of disability. We’re all treated awfully, one way or another. I am physically and mentally ill at this point in my life. I have invisible illness, and there are people who treat me like shit when I need accommodations ((thankfully less so now that I’m in college)).
Please don’t try and compare mental and physical illness. Ableism doesn’t choose favorites. We’re all affected, and we should be supporting each other, not using one another to make a point.
TW: ABLEISM
Since being diagnosed with BPD, I’ve begun looking for resources to figure out more of how I can best help myself as I’m able, or at least how I can ask others to support me. I’ve found some great resources, but I’ve found a disturbing amount of other resources mixed in, and it’s horrific. It makes my stomach twist, and I honestly don’t know how to respond. Below, I’m going to list just a few of the pages I found when looking for support resources.
A Guide to Leaving a Partner with Borderline Personality Disorder
At Any Cost: Saving Your Life After Loving a Borderline
Divorcing Borderline Psychopath
I feel sick. Normally I would have a long, well-articulated rant in response to something as awful as this, but all I feel is ill. I have no words for this. This is what people think of BPD.
| Oct 22, 2015 — 30 notes — Tags |
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Here’s the quote from Paper Towns that if you want to hate John Green, you can hate him forever because of this:
(background, the parents are therapists)
““Well,” my dad said, “he was a bully. And his behaviour was deplorable.” This was typical of my parents: in their minds, no one was not just an asshole. There was always something wrong with people other than just sucking: they had socialization disorders or borderline personality syndrome, or whatever.
HIs parents explicitly have told their son that the people who have bullied him his whole life are doing it because they have BPD or are mentally ill. But BPD is specifically singled out. John Green made two characters he created, who are THERAPISTS, explain away abusive and bullying behaviour as BPD or mental illness.
Major side characters also use the r-word a number of times.
I will never forgive John Green for that quote on page 198 of Paper Towns. John Green, regardless of his own anxiety disorder, is not an ally to mentally ill people and he repeatedly throws us under the bus in his books.
You know what? MARGO displays at least 5 borderline symptoms. But she isn’t demonized for being mentally ill (which I think she is). Because she’s not a “bad character”. Only “bad characters” in Paper Towns get diagnosed with heavily stigmatized mental illnesses or are called ableist slurs.
It kind of boggles my brain when a post clearly about mental or physical illness is reblogged by neurotypical and able-bodied people respectively, especially with tags like #me and #about me and #omf this is soooo me.
No? This post was not meant for you?
If a post is clearly about chronic illness, don’t reblog it even if you identify with whatever it is if you’re able-bodied.
If a post is clearly about mental illness, don’t reblog it and jabber about how that’s sooooo you if you’re neurotypical.
Do not take the voices of disabled people and make it about you.
Stop it.
| Sep 8, 2015 — 4 notes — Tags |
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Me:
//is chronically ill//
Some Able-Bodied Person: How come you're sick all the time? You need to drink more water, maybe take some vitamins and work out? :))))
Some Able-Bodied Person: How come you're sick all the time? You need to drink more water, maybe take some vitamins and work out? :))))
| Sep 6, 2015 — 43 notes — Tags |
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I will always 100% staunchly and adamantly support all disabled people. Every mental illness, every physical disability, every disease, every type of neurological divergence. No exceptions.
If I ever say something ableist or make a mistake along those lines, please let me know. I want this to be a safe space for people of all abilities and disabilities.
| Aug 28, 2015 — 16 notes — Tags |
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my english teacher accused me of plagiarizing an essay i wrote about my own life
my friend got accused of plagiarizing in junior high because she used the word “sweets” instead of “candy” and our teacher thought that the word sweets was “too advanced for our vocabulary”
I know a girl who got in trouble for plagiarizing the sentence “Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president.”
An english teacher accused me of plagiarizing an essay about my life because I was “too young to have cancer.”