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KnowNothing
KnowNothingTV
The case for infanticide. Seriously. (1/8) TL;DR some disabilities are severe enough, that if an infant is born with one and killing it would allow a new infant to be
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Chris Hatton
chrishattoncedr
Thread on new statistics published today by @NHSEngland on COVID-19 deaths of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in hospitals in England. It's a new table in their daily
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Alexa Kolbi-Molinas
Alexa_KM
Today, the full 6th Cir. Appeals Court upheld a law criminalizing doctors for providing an abortion if they know part of the patient’s reason relates to a Down syndrome diagnosis.
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Liz
jesslinworld
Thread: It is very good news that health and social care workers are to receive mandatory training in learning disabilities and autism, named after Oliver McGowan who died after being
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Ann Memmott PGC🌈
AnnMemmott
So Mr Cummings has the right to break lockdown because of an allegedly autistic son? Some 2000 autistic children & young people are locked away from their parents in care
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cherry thompson 🧬
cherryrae
A reminder that racism and bigotry has very little correlation to intelligence. Everything that tells you otherwise is institutional and systemic ableism that harms intellectually and cognitively disabled people most
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Matt Wolf
MattWolfAB
AISH = Assured Income for the SEVERELY Handicapped. But 1000s of ppl with diagnosis for anxiety, ADHD, etc. on lifetime AISH coverage. AISH rolls growing at 3 times rate of
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【Al】
xNerdyWriter
Not fully grown ass adults not understanding screen readers can't read fancy fonts I understand it's an aesthetic, but some people have certain disabilities that don't alliw them to SEE
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The Tweedy Mutant ♿🌈
the_tweedy
I want to push back on this term "invisible disabilities" because so much of the time it is actually just a nondisabled person's failure to "perceive" someone's disability. It is
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🐌 deep sea cryptid 🐌
swampflora
Yes, listen to disabled people. But also listen to disabled PoC, Black & Indigenous disabled people, houseless disabled people, queer & trans disabled people, fat disabled people, people w/ cognitive
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The Tweedy Mutant ♿🌈
the_tweedy
Accessibility is not for those who need it "the most". It is for those who need it -- FULL STOP. You cannot claim to support accessibility while also rationing it.
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Maria Town
maria_m_town
There’s been a lot of great coverage about the significance of the disability vote and the barriers and suppression faced by voters with disabilities during this election cycle. A thread!
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Chris Hatton
chrishattoncedr
In this terrifying @nytimes article are the first stats I've seen about people with 'developmental disabilities' (the term used in the article) and COVID-19. I find them profoundly upsetting, so
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Chris Hatton
chrishattoncedr
So, here's a thread on the data on deaths released by @CQCpressoffice to @BBCBreakfast this morning - thanks to @KatieLangton1 of @BBCBreakfast for tweeting the stats, which were not included
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Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸
wagatwe
It's ableist to associate sexual harassment with mental illness. And it's particularly disgusting to bring it up in the context of defending the harasser. Ableism causes disabled people to be
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Anny (they/ey) is still recovering🖋🏳️🌈♿️
annyinacastle
#WritingCommunity It's #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth , #EDSAwarenessMonth and #HSDAwarenessMonth, so let's have a #ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday for books with characters or by writers with mental illnesses or disorders, invisible illnesses or phy
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