Disabled Talk

autisticeagle:

In their description of the shirt:

“You know how sometimes you overhear a conversation between your friends or coworkers, and you keep hearing your name bubble up? Not in a bad way. Just that they’re talking about something you’re working on, and you think, “Hey. That’s my thing they’re talking about. I know a lot about it. Maybe I should be involved in that conversation?” Sometimes being an autistic person is like that, but it shouldn’t be. If you agree, be sure to check out ASAN’s new signable pledge to involve Autistic voices in conversations about autism.”

sherlocksflataffect:

TW: ableist violence & killings.

Today I remember Torrance Cantrell, killed during an exorcism “for autism”.
Today I remember Calista Springer, chained to her bed as her house burned.
Today I remember Scarlett Chen, drowned by her mother.
Today I remember George Hodgins, shot by his mother & erased from initial reportings of his death.
Today I remember countless more, unreported, erased from their own lives. The world is poorer without you.

 

girljanitor:

placeholderbutt:

allisticntprivilege:

allisticntprivilege:

We have until December 14 to get 25,000 signatures on it. You need to live in the USA, and you should seriously sign, signal boost, tumblr bomb, anything you can. Lives are on the line- lives of people like me.

Reminder.

Okay, I am judging you for the fact that this still needs 23,000 out of 25,000 signatures, Tumblr. What the fuck.

Um, do people not understand that this so so people with autism can get life-saving organ transplants, instead of given a death sentence on the grounds that our lives are inherently worthless?

Do you think this doesn’t happen to young adults?

23-Year-Old Autistic Man Denied Heart Transplant at UPenn Hospital

Do you think this doesn’t happen to children with various developmental disorders?

3-Year-Old Amelia Rivera Denied Kidney Transplant

Do you think this doesn’t happen to adults with Down’s Syndrome?

32-Year-Old Sandra Jensen Denied Heart Transplant

UNTIL THE 1990’s, “mental retardation”, meaning any sort of cognitive impairment, was considered “contraindication” for receiving a livesaving organ transplant(link opens as PDF)

“Contraindicated.” That quite literally means that they considered saving a cognitively impaired person’s life HARMFUL.

Thousands of adults with Down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities work in Ohio at jobs that pay less money than a teen-age baby sitter earns.

Some clean hotel rooms for 40 cents an hour. Others sew table linens for 79 cents an hour. Some assemble automotive parts for $2.15 an hour or answer telephones for $3.75 an hour.

The majority don’t earn half of the state minimum wage of $7.40.

A little-known provision in the 73-year-old federal wage law allows employers to pay less than minimum wage if adults have disabilities that limit their productivity.

The Fair Labor Standards Act once dictated how little was too little to pay a worker. But today, there is no floor, clearing the way for some to earn as little as a penny an hour.

[…]

At least 14,600 developmentally disabled Ohioans earn less than the minimum wage for the work they are doing. The number is likely much higher, but wage information is not public in 18 of Ohio’s 88 counties.

Statewide, there are about 21,000 disabled Ohioans who receive services through their counties and are employed. About 70 percent work in sheltered workshops, quasi-industrial settings that resemble factories.

The counties that run sheltered workshops bid on jobs with government agencies and private companies for contract work, such as assembling Christmas packages for prison inmates, bagging stuffed animals and inspecting baby-food jar lids.

Worker pay is based on productivity. A disabled worker who can perform a task at 30 percent the rate of a nondisabled worker would earn about a third of minimum wage - $2.22 an hour.

More than 80 percent of the low-wage work force earns an hourly wage of $3.70 or less.