2:17pm August 22, 2014

Stop passing the unperson ball

madeofpatterns:

phineasfrogg:

madeofpatterns:

Forms of passing the unperson ball that really need to stop:

• Autistics who can speak saying they’re high functioning and therefore shouldn’t have been eugenically aborted, unlike broken ~low functioning~ people
• People with autism who can’t speak saying they’re just stuck in uncooperative bodies but they don’t have cognitive problems relating to people, unlike those soulless aspies
• Autistics going out of their way to emphasize that they don’t have a mental illness
• People with physical disabilities going out of their way to emphasize that they don’t have cognitive or intellectual disabilities
• any number of other forms

Just don’t do it. Seriously. We’re all people.

I hate this too… dehumanisation is never acceptable, no matter how severe somebody’s disability is!

Or how severe it *isn’t*. 

Like, this isn’t ok either:

• “I’m disabled; you’re just lazy.”
• “Stop taking resources away from people who ~really~ need them”
• “It’s appropriative to use ASL/AAC/mobility equipment if you can walk or speak at all”

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