(Image text: Disability Problem #91: When people talk to your aide instead of you)
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~ Friday, June 15 ~
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~ Tuesday, May 22 ~
(TW: ableism, reproductive rights) Disabled couple fights for right to care for newborn son
(TW: ableism, reproductive rights)
A new mom and dad in Mississauga, Ont. who both have cerebral palsy are fighting to keep their newborn son at home, after social workers threatened to take the boy away over concerns about their ability to care for him.
Maricyl Palisoc and Charles Wilton became parents to a healthy baby boy named William last month. But before the child was even born, the social worker at the hospital had called in the Peel Children’s Aid Society.
CAS workers told the couple they were not convinced they could care for William and threatened to remove him from their home unless they found an “able-bodied person” to offer 24-hour care.
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~ Saturday, May 5 ~
(Image text: Disability Problem #66: When people assume that whomever you’re with is your carer)
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~ Thursday, May 3 ~
Caregiver abuse takes many forms (detailed discussion of caregiver abuse of disabled people)
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caretakers
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disability
physical disability
developmental disability
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This article discusses the use of the components of abuse in the wheel below, with detailed examples of each one. For obvious reasons, it might be extremely triggering to disabled people who’ve survived abuse, but possibly also to non-disabled people who’ve survived abuse as well.
An incredibly informative article & graphic on caregiver abuse. We’ve placed the entire thing under a cut because of the triggering topic matter, but please be warned before clicking through that there is a graphic outlining different forms of abuse below, and descriptions of lived experience with caretaker abuse.
Specific trigger warnings: abuse, emotional abuse, medical abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, institutionalization, restraints, chemical restraints, caregiver abuse, dehumanization, abuse of power, infantilization.
Basically, be careful: this is a very important post, but it can easily be triggering and it’s very difficult to read.
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