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6:32pm August 12, 2014

lichgem:

I wish there was some kind of list of “best places to live if you’re disabled” with examples of how the places in question can help and accommodate disabled people, and how likely they are to actually follow their own laws with regards to disability rights.

I tried to do a search a while back but everything turned up “places with the most services.” Services doesn’t mean shit. Where I live now has plenty of services and they are brutally ableist and that’s why I’m leaving.

(Also, it was always by parents of disabled people looking for services.)

Yeah and services really depends on what kind of services.

Mental health services are shit pretty much everywhere.

Physical disability and developmental disability services are shit in some places and amazing in others, and in others can vary from amazing to shit in the same place depending on all kinds of factors.

Sometimes “services” means institutions, and sometimes it means community institutionalization, and sometimes it means actual community-based services aimed at helping people function wherever they want to live.

I don’t understand why it seems that the last kind don’t exist for mentally ill people ANYWHERE that I’ve ever heard of.