Dialectical Dryad

It's really scary to have to ask someone for help in general. Especially when you're disabled and need accommodations. The expectation that disabled people have to ask and beg for help is messed up. Help should already be available from the beginning to anyone that needs it.

Imagine living in a world where you have to ASK permission to go into a building, ASK permission to ride public transportation, ASK to go shopping, etc.

Welcome to the world of disabled people.

When we have to ask for accommodations, we are asking permission to simply exist

Many get more upset at this than actual abusers and rapists, and we are treated like we are horrible people for not excluding ourselves from social events (yet people so often defend horrible behavior).

I am once again asking everyone in the universe:

Do not make me ask for my accommodations twice.

I was afraid to even ask once.

The ADA: If you are disabled, you deserve accommodations

Autistic person: Asks for an accommodation (after a lifetime of struggling with no support and finally building up the courage to ask)....

Robust, visionary DEIA efforts are important - but point is that this isn't just targeting newer, more progressive programs. We're going back to *pre civil rights act* levels of training and support and transfer dollars are going to be wasted defending avoidable lawsuits

So when they are going after offices that rename themselves BACK to the names they had 4 years ago, that means they are shutting down programs that operated for decades incl under Trump 1.0, & without which PWD can't get accomodations, and they can't do basic anti-discrimination trainings

I don't think these people understand that federal "DEIA" offices are mostly just mainstream HR programs that oversee disability accommodations & tell people stuff like don't use the n word at work, don't ask your admin assistant for a date. (Thread)

it shouldn’t surprise me when people do not give a fuck about accessibility but sometimes the magnitude of it still does. just the ways you get forgotten, ignored, deliberately not thought of, shut down when you ask for accommodations. it makes me feel like less of a person.

Disabled people shouldn’t have to ask for access, accommodations, or basic civil rights.

The ableist system puts nondisabled folks in charge as gatekeepers, controlling what rights we get.

That’s not justice — it’s exclusion.

#Disability #HumanRights #SDGs #Poverty #Technology

Disabled people shouldn't have to be perfectly nice or kind when we ask for accommodations and inclusion. We shouldn't HAVE to ask.

Furthermore, we usually ARE being nice when we ask; ableds just take any request that they do the bare minimum for us as if it's a great slight to their honor.

Most accommodations in school or the workplace are almost entirely free and have little to no impact on anyone else.

The fact that we need to ask for them, or formally request them, is often nothing more than an added burden for disabled people

Also, just having to ask for accommodations is exhausting and energy consuming on a good day when everything is going right which…lol.

It's common when asking for accommodations that people will ask for specific examples of situations so they can "understand better" or something like that.

That's what they say.

And so I end up having to tell stories I'd rather not share.

Which all felt unnecessary.

#AutChat A3

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

Omg. This is the height of absurdity given how many people are on the verge of losing lifesaving medical care!

One thing I really think needs to be hammered into “libertarians” & other right wing freaks is the cost of helping other people is almost always less than the cost of not helping them. Because we live in a society & we are all connected & you are SO MUCH CLOSER to being sick and poor than you think!

brad lander primary chuck schumer

Men who think they can get away with sexually abusing women can EAT SHIT

As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”

I am weeping

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

“We’re on the precipice of now being able to deliver the greatest prevention option we’ve had in 44 years of this epidemic... And it’s as if that opportunity is being snatched out of our hands by the policies of the last five months."

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

Reminder: always but especially during stressful, uncertain times, it’s psychologically protective to have something specific to look forward to.

On Thurs, I’m birding with a friend before work and playing D&D with friends after work.

Choose to put light at the end of tunnels wherever you can.

Welp. Senate version of the #MAGAMurderBill would slash Medicaid even MORE. via Politico: Senate GOP tax bill would hit politically explosive Medicaid provision The Finance Committee is due to brief members on its megabill draft text Monday night. Senate Republicans are seeki...

🚨🚨🚨 Welp. Senate version of the #MAGAMurderBill would slash Medicaid even MORE than the House version.

h/t @edwincpark.bsky.social for the rundown (you should follow him for Medicaid wonkiness stuff):

acasignups.net/25/06/17/wel...

When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

Politicians love saying they value the Constitution and “rule of law”. If so, they should abolish ICE. “Rule of law” depends on those given power to enforce it. ICE has made clear they will violate the Constitution and ignore laws. If politicians won’t stand against ICE, they shouldn’t be in office.