If someone doesn’t respond to your reblog right away and they explain that they needed to rest because of their illnesses, it’s really self-centered and ableist to say “well it only takes a minute out of your life to respond.”
I am obligated to put my health first. I do not have a choice and it’s not personal. I am in a lot of pain every single day. Please do not place expectations like that on someone who just explained that they needed to rest because of their disabilities.
it’s funny how providing accommodations to a disabled student is “unfair to the rest of the class” yet imposing a standard on a disabled student that is based on the capabilities of able-bodied students is fair and impartial, isn’t it funny how that works?
Do you have no concept of how hurtful these “jokes” are? People love to make light of narcolepsy or crack jokes about it because “lmao it’s so funny people just fall sleep how hilarious and quirky hahahaha”.
Stop.
I see stuff like this floating around and it’s disgusting. My suffering is not your punchline. My insecurity and illness and disability is not your joke. Shut up. Shove off. I am not your punchline.
Breaking News: Tumblr user babiesshoulddie cares more about a cheap laugh than actual people with actual illnesses! 8D Then again, with a url like that, they’re just pathetic clod looking to rile people up. XD Not gonna tag them in this post because I don’t feel like entertaining guests tonight. c:
Do you have no concept of how hurtful these “jokes” are? People love to make light of narcolepsy or crack jokes about it because “lmao it’s so funny people just fall sleep how hilarious and quirky hahahaha”.
Stop.
I see stuff like this floating around and it’s disgusting. My suffering is not your punchline. My insecurity and illness and disability is not your joke. Shut up. Shove off. I am not your punchline.
Zelda fans 1987-2014:
Link is mute and can't talk!! LMAO!! Just yells and sccreams and everyone thinks he's weird! H'es a mUTe SO FUNNY!!! 10/10 BEST FANDOM JOKE!! Nintendo 2014:
Link canonically can't speak, he essentially uses magical sign language. Mute/Selective Mute People:
!!!!! Albelist shits:
UH,,,,M??????? nO THAT'S NOT FU,,C,KING CANON??? NO? HERE'S 6 EXAMPLES OF HIM TALKING IN BASIC SENTEN,,CES (WHICH ARE PRETTY EASILY TO COMMUNICATE NON-VERBALLY), HERE'S SOME EXAMPLES FROM ***WAY*** LONG AGO (easily read as thoughts, not spoken aloud), WE HATE WIND WAKER, BUT HE TALKS IN THAT??? SOMETIMES??? HE CAN'T BE MUTE. NO REPRESENTATION FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!
A child was forced to lay with her dead counterparts and play dead. A five year old little girl had to lay with her lifeless, blood covered family and stop herself from breathing, blinking, moving to keep herself from getting shot. 10 people were shot, 9 were shot to death. People lost their family. Their friends. But this scum gets an excuse? He gets defense for his deplorable actions? He planned this for MONTHS. He shot down a church and said it was racially motivated. He said, “you rape our women. You’re taking over our country. You have to go.” His head was clear. This is not an insanity plea. He was not losing his mind. He planned it for a long time and voiced his opinions. He supported segregation. He openly hated black people. He is a raging racist. This was not caused by some pills. Pills do not make people racist. Pills don’t make people shoot multiple people in a church. Pills do not make you support segregation. Racism isn’t caused by anything but yourself. Get this shit out of my face. This is perpetuating racism. This is white privilege. This is nothing but wrong. Hundreds of black kids are gunned down for nothing but sagging their pants, and he gets off Scott free because it could be these stupid pills? PILLS?! PILLS DO NOT SHOOT INNOCENT PEOPLE. THIS RAGING RACIST DID. “Don’t blame the gun he picked up.” Yeah fucking blame him.
Not to mention how this completely and utterly throws mentally ill people and people on psychiatric medications under the bus. No pill on this earth will make you a violent racist. What an asinine and terrible article.
Okay, but except if you actively exclude DID and schizophrenia from your disability rights activism, you actually are abelist garbage. Just some food for thought.
I mean, if you think you still are an activist or an ally of disabled people while excluding “scary” or “dangerous” mental disorders, you need to go sit in the corner for a timeout because you are not an ally in the slightest.
If you only stand up for certain mental disorders like anxiety and depression but totally give the shaft to people with things like DID and schizophrenia, I hate to break it to you, but you’re an ableist sack of garbage.
one time i saw a disabled person SMILE even tho they were DISABLED!!! truly INSPIRATIONAL!!! now no one has any excuse to be SAD ever again!!! i mean if a handicap can SMILE despite their clearly MISERABLE existance that they must inherently have as a BROKEN person then WHOO BOY us NORMAL people can do ANYTHING!!!
Okay, I just have to get a nice little rant out because I just walked away from a conversation with one of the most senseless people I’ve ever come across on tumblr– and that’s saying something!
Sparknotes version: Used an ableist slur, bashed on nonbinary people, and when I ended the conversation for the sake of my mental health, they said I’m the reason people don’t take nb people seriously.
Yeah. Let that sink in.
First off, I’m not really nonbinary ((I’m somewhat genderfluid but I most often am male and prefer to identify as male)), but that’s beside the point.
So let’s just mull this over: I am the reason an already harassed and mocked group of people are harassed and mocked. Mhm. Because I needed to step away from a conversation for my mental health.
And if I were to explicitly mention that I am coming out of a depressive episode and have bad depression/anxiety, they would likely further look down on me or say I’m being a “Special Snowflake”, which is a microaggression towards the neuroatypical. More ableism, yay.
But let’s not digress too far into hypotheticals.
There was one statement that really just made me walk away from that ludicrous conversation. They outright said that “Ableism does not exist”.
Yes, because people have never murdered disabled people or committed genocide on them. Because able-bodied people have never attacked or abused disabled people because they seem like an “easy target”. Because neurotypical people have never made jokes about crippling mental illnesses. Do I even need to go on?
More than anything, I’m fairly speechless right now. It’s taken me a while to type this up, because there comes a point where you hear something so ridiculous that there is just no appropriate response other than to simultaneously laugh and be furious.
So, in closing, apparently ableism does not exist, nonbinary people aren’t real, the sky is green, I have a pet unicorn, and the US has paid off the national debt.
person:
why are you acting so skittish
person:
just like, take anti-depressants
person:
ptsd? like, what soldiers get?
person:
i think i have anxiety too. i totally was worried about that test today.
person:
but you're really talkative and friendly!
person:
why don't you just...take some xanax or something???
person:
oh, i get ocd. i need everything organized all the time.
person:
but...you talk???
person:
i wish i could skip school
person:
stop cutting or i'll tell the school counselor
person:
you're so friendly
person:
did you take your medicine today or something because you're acting fucking weird.
person:
it seems like you have a new compulsion everyday. are you just, like, making it up?
person:
trust issues? but you're dating someone!
person:
dude. of course i don't hate you. didn't i say this like, an hour ago??
person:
i don't know if i can deal with you
person:
you're not sick
person:
stop [insert compulsion here], you're drawing attention to yourself
person:
you're gonna give *me* an anxiety disorder
person:
you're afraid of what? that's so idiotic. it's just [insert fear here].
person:
a panic attack? like, an asthma attack?
person:
but you're not shy!
