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murffyslurtz
Fun story: I failed kindergarten So I’m like 6, right? And I’m in kindergarten, and it is NOT A VIBE. I have to do NUMBERS instead of playing with BARBIES?!
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Jay Pitter
Jay_Pitter
Undeniably a provocateur & advocate for public spaces, Jane Jacobs wrote her landmark book The Death and Life of Great American Cities amid the civil rights , disability rights &
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John MD
John1MD
1...A peculiar paradox was revealed to me today. AiSH, a govt support program, makes doctors the face of their bottlenecked entrance screening process. Docs have no training in this, they
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Beth Shelton
SheltonBeth01
Inclusion: a thread. (And picture)I recently worked w/ a company who offers a custom avatar in their software. They said everyone could make a replica of their own likeness. I
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kerima Cevik (On partial health hiatus)
kerima_cevik
#AutisticWhileBlack Autism mom calls mom memoir author "cerebral" for things like answering the ableist inappropriate question "Can a profoundly intellectually disabled person have a relationship to God?" First, define &
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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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Ann Memmott PGC🌈
AnnMemmott
"But autistic people are likely to be in care for life!" Let's have another gallop past some real info.https://files.digital.nhs.uk/publicationimport/pub16xxx/pub16133/comm-care-stat-act-eng-2013-14-fin-rep.pdf is community care info fo
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Black Disabled Lives Matter
riceevans
Seeing some brilliant thoughts on microaggressions in academia, so thought I would list some I’ve noticed against disabled scholars #AcademicAbleism (It’s important to say that academia purposely keeps disabled Black
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Lilo the Autistic Queer
A_Silent_Child
I live in Seattle. We have statewide regulations determining that it is ok for doctors to deny lifesaving care to #COVID19 patients if they have underlying conditions. I am afraid
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Disability Vancouver
DisabledVancity
December 1, 2020The Dishonourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Disability Exclusion, said during her side event at the United Nations that her government took longer than it should have to provide
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Lynne Grace Fetter
LGFetter
A small list of my (not so) favorite euphemisms for disabled people/people with disabilities: - special needs- differently-abled- people with diverse abilities- handicapable- challenged"Disabled" is a perfectly acceptable word. #S
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Advocate Geza 🇿🇼
phyllisgeza
Thread: MY EXPERIENCE WITH PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION.My relationship with social media, particularly Twitter, has been messy for the past couple of years mainly due to the fact that I was suffering
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Annie Haynos
HaynosAF
Thank you @ABCTNOW for turning a painful moment into an opportunity for education & growth. I hope we all continue to work towards acknowledging & supporting the many faces of
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The Road to Omerardo
ArdoOmer
The disability community is often left out of the conversation when it comes to advocating for marginalized communities especially where the language we use is concerned. We need to be
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bean
christapeterso
ADHD is probably the most common disability universities need to accommodate, & they mostly just don't. 1 student after another falls on the same problems, bc of the same core
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Logan Manes
logan_m_manes
As an abled advocate for disability rights, it’s important that I defer to and communicate with people within the community. (a thread: 1/6) A person with a disability is going
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