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4:48pm July 24, 2013

 "You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": You have to understand. (Written in 2005, largely about a woman who later used her power in a DD agency to falsely...

andreashettle:

youneedacat:

[This is written to expose the real message behind the words of some of the patronizing and controlling people — mostly non-disabled ‘advisors’ — I have met in my experiences with ‘self-advocacy’. Dave Hingsburger wrote about this dynamic in Cutting the Strings: Suggestions for Self-Advocacy…

Would you also have the spoons to post this over at ballastexistenz.wordpress.com? I think this is a good and important post for a wider audience, particularly for people who haven’t discovered Tumblr yet.

It’s been on autistics.org for eight years straight.