#Disabled

This pandemic has really shone a light on how abelist society is. For example being able to work remotely during covid-19 however a disabled worker who is able to complete
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[CN for entire thread. No details, but mentions of abuse, violence, neglect]These last few weeks have seen a rising tide of violence against us being made public. Disabled people dying
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Brooke has another great thread on #AcademicAbleism. Disabled youth in college simply do not get the same experience as non-disabled students. 1/4https://twitter.com/brookevitti/status/1280262919951806464 I got involved in my lawsuit in my
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Funny, everyone was fine with it when only us chronically ill lazy benefit scroungers were banned from having savingshttps://twitter.com/mirrorpolitics/status/1245487355697471489 I need to correct my tweet. It’s not true that only
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1/5 I just watched the @sra_solicitors webinar on reasonable adjustments on the new Solicitor's Qualifying Exam. There are numerous issues with it. Firstly, there wasn't any openly disabled people discussing
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TW: genocide Thread...A lot of Ableds are getting overly excited that his treatment of disabled vets is the thing that will finally “get him.”But as black disabled people can tell
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When you remember that during pride month everyone makes videos and blog posts etc recommending queer books, they’re everywhere! Well, guess what, it’s the last week of July which is
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Hello, my name is Imani and many of you have followed me and other disabled people in recent weeks—out of panic. Well, as a treat, here’s a thread around why
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Something is happening that you need to know about. The Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts is still using painful electric shock devices to punish autistic & disabled people. The devices
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Never feel u have 2 question ur own disability status 2 me. Im not the gatekeeper. I dont care abt where u r on the sliding scale of med conditions.
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Psst hey chronic illness twitter,I know it's really frustrating when we've been yelling about a thing for ages, and now that people are experiencing it themselves they suddenly get itBut
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The narrator has spastic CP with very little mobility and no speech. However, she doesn’t have any apparent learning disabilities, so she is “locked” in her body. Hence the title.
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Thread about how our systems discriminate against disabled people during this pandemic firstly, people with disabilities who are unable to work and aren’t already on PWD are still not eligible
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In addition to all this, this pandemic should have put paid to the "laziness theory" forever. You just have to read around Twitter to see how bored and twitchy everyone
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I would love to use digitally secure applications like Jitsi and signal and wire.. etc etc.But each time digital security activists bring it up, I'm forced to ask - is
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I don't have the stomach to tweet this yrs Leder report http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/sps/leder/LeDeR_2019_annual_report_FINAL.pdf I barely have the stomach to read it. I'm just going to highlight coroners and inquest
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