as small as a world and as large as alone

4:42pm July 31, 2014

andromedalogic:

 mostly i dislike ‘allistic’ as the word for non-autistic because of the way people use it. it gets us out of saying ‘neurotypical’ or ‘nondisabled’, it separates us out from the disability community. ive never actually seen a post saying ‘don’t reblog if you don’t have a mobility impairment,’ or anything like that. people who aren’t physically disabled use ‘crip’ to talk about disability activism rampantly. (which would indicate we’re all united, all people with disabilities, regardless of whether that language really applies.) but for some reason Allistic is supposed to be a thing, a unified group of people Against Us. it doesn’t work that way. we’re not special. we’re fucking disabled, and sometimes it just seems like another way to distract from that. or to distance ourselves from ID/DD people in general hahaha i mean what.

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