Car culture ruins so much for so many people. "Did you know we’re allowed to drive" - and so many assholes would be like "Well don't let these neurodivergent people drive!" - but in modern society that's like saying why don't we simply cut off someone's leg! Civilization is built around the assumption of private car ownership and there's nothing you can do about it. It makes me so mad. It touches so many things! A person being tired in public is fine. A person being drunk in public is mostly not a problem. But since we have to drive to get anywhere, suddenly it's a life or death problem.
One of the dirtiest tricks capitalism pulled was framing mental health as a personal issue. This is what disability advocates mean when they say the ableist environment is what limits neurodiverse people much more than their mental state.
i'm dyspraxic and the world expects me to pilot a tonne of metal and plastic at 60mph everyday for the rest of my life without killing anyone? fucking hilarious :agony-deep:
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Hell, my generalized anxiety disorder was enough to get me to move to a city and give up driving. I understand, comrade.
Car culture ruins so much for so many people. "Did you know we’re allowed to drive" - and so many assholes would be like "Well don't let these neurodivergent people drive!" - but in modern society that's like saying why don't we simply cut off someone's leg! Civilization is built around the assumption of private car ownership and there's nothing you can do about it. It makes me so mad. It touches so many things! A person being tired in public is fine. A person being drunk in public is mostly not a problem. But since we have to drive to get anywhere, suddenly it's a life or death problem.
One of the dirtiest tricks capitalism pulled was framing mental health as a personal issue. This is what disability advocates mean when they say the ableist environment is what limits neurodiverse people much more than their mental state.
i'm dyspraxic and the world expects me to pilot a tonne of metal and plastic at 60mph everyday for the rest of my life without killing anyone? fucking hilarious :agony-deep: