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7:15pm June 30, 2014

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dendriforming:

The most important thing about AAC isn’t that we can use it to prove people don’t have intellectual disabilities. That’s not the point. Communication gets people’s needs met.

Everyone deserves to communicate.

#the implication when people do this seems to be that if the person had ID#then it would be ok not to give them AAC!#that the harm done to someone without access to communication isn’t that they lack that access#it’s that someone might think they’re YOU KNOW when they’re not (via littlemissmutant)

THESE ARE THE WORDS, thank you.

YES THAT.

I am so sick of the anti-ID prejudice in so much of any AAC community I come into, including the actual AAC users who are sometimes the worst about it.  Which yes I know comes from somewhere but after a point you have a responsibility to other people.  And I know a lot of AAC users, both with CP and autism, who seem to think that their main mission in life is to say “At least I’m not retarded.”  And I’m not going to change that word to ID because that’s a direct fucking quote.  I know a disability rights activist who did a bunch of research into what “disability pride” constituted for a lot of physically disabled people and it basically came down to that same sentence, too.  She was surprised.  I wasn’t.

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    There’s a tendency to go from “this person can’t speak, so we know they can’t really have anything to communicate" to...
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    *nodnod* There’s also a form of cognitive ableism that’s about aspie hate? Like, making up these imaginary people called...