#Disability

Starting a new thread in response to a conversation about sign language interpreters... here's my hot take. Abolish undergraduate programs in sign language interpreting. There are many complex layers to
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It's going to be even harder for disabled people to safely talk about medical abuse after this. If this concept isn't on your radar, it's probably because it's hard to
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October is #ADHDAwarenessMonth in the US but let me use this opportunity to do a tiny thread on living with ADHD. I was an obedient child and I was above
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Is a far-right white nationalist Republican candidate who is a white male SCI wheelchair user a good time to talk about why I think eugenics explains society's greater comfort with
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#COVID19: A Thread on the Danger of Small Town Stigma Over the last few weeks, I have had the pleasure of watching #PEI report 0 (!) new #SARSCoV2 cases again
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Dear friends, my wife will die without her anti-stroke meds & she takes her last dose at 10a tomorrow. Her meds cost $175/week or $700/month. We have no income at
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People love to say that racism has to be taught. I'm not so sure anymore. I think we are swimming in a racist environment and kids pick up on it
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New #DisabledArtists ! Share your work if you have a disability below! (physical/emotional etc)Introduce yourself! Share your links! Websites, comms, shopsRT, like & reply when you can! Abled folks, share
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Well, I'm 2 1/2 weeks into the semester and have finally encountered my first ableist remark by an instructor. Usually it takes longer, but this is an unusual semester so
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Thread...Title : ....and then the fight started.My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.She asked, 'What's on TV?'I said, 'Dust.'And that's when the
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Sign the petition to stop the "triage" protocol in Quebec that values only abled #Eugenics #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #Justicehttps://triage.quebec/signez-la-petition/The petition is only available in French so English detai
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[CN: murder of an autistic child, parent-victim fallacy]Yet another autistic child has been murdered by a parent, who claims the child is in “a better place.” F*** that. I’m not
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was talking with a friend about it this morning and I realized that the public education system failed me, a blind student, in a lot of ways, so here is
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THREAD:1. Very good question, especially in view of the latest tragedy of Col NS Bal. During earlier times, when the rules were incepted, cancer was not treated "attributable/aggravated by military
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This is, to be quite clear, a violation of the human subjects research protections that emerged out of World War IIhttps://twitter.com/npr/status/1248946409556062208 Since 08/20/1947, the day U.S.A. v Karl Brandt, et
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Special Ed in Ontario is in a bad place. The funding has been severely cut. The gov’t decided that getting twice what other depts got was “unfair” & they just
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