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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 I'm not surprised. Stay tuned for the rant, but content warning for ableism in regards to schooling. 1/?
CW: also for family issues and financial stuff and a bunch of other things; sorry, didn't realize this thread would go that route until I had it all written out. 1.5/?
I'm taking a Stats class this semester and normally I wouldn't consider doing an online/video conference class, but I've taken this instructor before and he's actually really nice. Great at explaining math in a way that I understand. Anyway, we were talking about how to 2/?
calculate weighted grades in class and the example had the student earn a D in phys. ed. My instructor likes to make little jokes about our curriculum-provided examples, so he said, "Idk how anyone could get a D in gym class! That's ridiculous!" 3/?
And I'm sitting there like
hi, I was given an F in phys. ed. because I couldn't participate because of my disability. Of course I didn't say that during class (wouldn't have mattered anyway bc tech issues made it so he couldn't hear any of us). 4/?
hi, I was given an F in phys. ed. because I couldn't participate because of my disability. Of course I didn't say that during class (wouldn't have mattered anyway bc tech issues made it so he couldn't hear any of us). 4/?
But I'm so, so disappointed and sad. I've been seeing a lot of stuff about people posting about how certain classes of people (hi, cishet, abled whites) have their fundraiser goals met very, very quickly while the rest of us are just left floundering. 5/?
There's been a lot of stuff that's piled up on me lately; frustrations with family, a knock-down-drag-out fight with my bio-mom recently where she crossed some lines a parent *objectively* shouldn't ever cross, like threatening to take me off her insurance 6/?
and saying she was okay with me and my daughter ending up homeless if I got my SSDI benefits taken away (actually told me I should refuse to take payments from a government I hate, but that's down a whole other rabbit hole lol). My dad is being an asshole toward my 7/?
autistic brother, who is going to be moving in with me at the end of this month, and my brother and I are both very angry about some things Dad and our bio-mom have said about the situation. I have to pay ~$220 to have my car windshield fixed because a tree branch 8/?
destroyed it, and I'm being forced to get a loan at my bank for my electric wheelchair since my GFM never reached its goal and it's a time sensitive issue. My (actually good) neurologist is moving and she's going to the VA hospital, and even though I'm a vet I'm not sure 9/?
I can follow her for complicated reasons. I'm struggling with a new diagnosis and learning how to adapt my routine to it and it's a pain in the ass for multiple reasons. I'm still being denied getting custom fitted braces made to help with the alignment and pain in my legs.10/?
tl;dr, I'm just very frustrated about a lot of stuff and I want to withdraw and seclude myself but I can't bring myself to do it. -faceplants- ugh, this sucks
