This is the problem. Many of you don't, and wont ever, see me as human. To you, I am a non-human, without agency of my own. Without thought of my own. Because to you, I am mentally "sick". So you want to push me out of social interaction or any space where I'd have an opinion.

All of you disregard me pointing out ableist behaviour, because again, to you, I am a non-person, I am simply a crazy "dumbass" who needs to be told what ableism is and isn't, despite the fact that I live this every day.

I call this shit out like in the original thread because its in my experience always been a dog whistle of further ableist behaviour, because the fundamental logic behind it is ableist. And it always continues beyond a shitty meme too.

If I hadn't lived through so many ableist people harming me, do you think I would have noticed these patterns? Or bothered to point them out? I don't think I would have. So of course these things come off as ableist to me and make me uncomfy, because its always ableists doing it.

On top of schizophrenia and autism, I also have EDS and a few other physical conditions. Throughout my entire life, I have had to deal with ableism because of all this. Ableism is systemic, it bleeds into everything it can.

And subsequently, there is no space for me anywhere. Be it on the left or not. I have nowhere to go. This world isn't made for people like me. Every social interaction I have is permeated by ableism, transphobia, etc. I can never live out in peace in this world.

Even those who are supposed to work with me for my liberation just sit there getting uppity when I call them out for their behaviour. Because in their mind, they can do no wrong. But the fact is we've been socialised into a deeply ableist society.

As a result, quite literally everyone is ableist to some extent, all of us have internalised it. The only difference between people is some try to combat their deeply rooted oppressive view points, and others deny they exist, which just protects said view points.

So, I ask this question, what are you doing to combat your ableism? What are you doing to acknowledge it? are you doing anything? Or are you denying it?