This is just a basic principal for many groups like the Black Panthers historically, it's obviously much harder to do a revolution if you're always getting drunk or high.
For an able bodied person, yes. For a lot of disabled people, being able to contribute is predicated on them being at a functional high. For me, I can’t contribute without my amphetamines.
Can’t you appreciate that you’re the exception to the rule?
I navigate life every day appreciating that I’m the exception to the rule as people talk about drug use. That’s kind of the point. It’s exhausting and whenever I bring up like, “hey you’re discussing or enforcing norms that would personally effect me or my friends or would have personally effected me in the past, so maybe I can offer some perspective,” I get told that I’m not who’s being discussed. Because I’m one of the good addicts. I got sober and I only take the drugs that my doctor says I can and I am able to pass as neurotypical long enough to go canvas or attend a meeting without being disruptive.
Thank you for the clarifying edit above. I see what you’re getting at, yeah. My concern is mainly that there are, indeed, people acting on this intuition about sobriety and dysfunction. It’s good most of the time, but a slight change to the framing makes it more inclusive and has allowed several of my org’s best members to participate with us without any sort of disruption on our part or dysfunction on theirs.
This is just a basic principal for many groups like the Black Panthers historically, it's obviously much harder to do a revolution if you're always getting drunk or high.
For an able bodied person, yes. For a lot of disabled people, being able to contribute is predicated on them being at a functional high. For me, I can’t contribute without my amphetamines.
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Don't be so sure about that. Lots of people are really weird about medication and disability. Straight edge kids, for one.
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I navigate life every day appreciating that I’m the exception to the rule as people talk about drug use. That’s kind of the point. It’s exhausting and whenever I bring up like, “hey you’re discussing or enforcing norms that would personally effect me or my friends or would have personally effected me in the past, so maybe I can offer some perspective,” I get told that I’m not who’s being discussed. Because I’m one of the good addicts. I got sober and I only take the drugs that my doctor says I can and I am able to pass as neurotypical long enough to go canvas or attend a meeting without being disruptive.
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Thank you for the clarifying edit above. I see what you’re getting at, yeah. My concern is mainly that there are, indeed, people acting on this intuition about sobriety and dysfunction. It’s good most of the time, but a slight change to the framing makes it more inclusive and has allowed several of my org’s best members to participate with us without any sort of disruption on our part or dysfunction on theirs.
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