Hello disabled comrades! I can't believe we're entering a new year... which is year six of the pandemic, hooray. I'm a firm believer that we must always have revolutionary optimism, but I can't say it hasn't been hard for the past few years as more and more leftists have abandoned COVID precautions. But as disabled people, we keep agitating, we keep organizing, and we keep going. Solidarity in the face of pandemic eugenics, always.
As always, we ask that in order to participate in the weekly megathread, one self-identifies as some form of disabled, which is broadly defined in the community sidebar:
"Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.
Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
I’m pretty sure ableism has done more to reduce my quality of life than my autism ever will.
“You lack social skills” - maybe some actual peers could have some patience and not turn their nose up at me when I want to be their friend? Then I can learn how to socialize? Just a thought.
“You’re unemployable” - Then maybe college should be affordable so if something bad happens in one semester my life doesn’t get permanently ruined and I just try next semester? No, stop telling me to start my own business. I will function best under the stability of a 9-5.
I know I’m preaching to the choir; but disability issues are class issues too.
I couldn't agree more, friend, and if nothing else, I hope you at least find peers irl that will treat you with the respect and love you deserve