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(Image text: Disability Problem #134: When parents and siblings of autistic people are “experts” but autistic people aren’t)

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(Image text: Disability Problem #107: Need to see doctor to get disability. Can’t afford to see doctor without disability.

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Tags: disability ableism disabled mental illness chronic pain chronic fatigue chronic illness chronic fatigue syndrome myalgic encephalomyelitis cfs/me learning disabilities developmental disabilities autism spectrum autism
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(Image text: Disability Problem #101: Mental age)

Tags: ableism ableism kills actuallyautistic autism autism spectrum cerebral palsy cp developmental disabilities developmental disability disability down down syndrom down's down's syndrome downs downs syndrome mental age mental illness pdd pervasive developmental disorder physical disability wheelchair wheelchair users disability problems disability problem
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(tw ableism, institutionalization, dehumanization, abuse) chavisory's post-it notes: goldenheartedrose: ceilingvriska: While I love my little brother with...

youneedacat:

feliscorvus:

goldenheartedrose:

ceilingvriska:

While I love my little brother with all my heart and wouldn’t have him any other way, can I just point out that a few years ago, the percentage of children with autism was about 1 in 300, and now it’s dropped to 1 in 88?

It’s been at around 1…

Yeah, a lot of this (what chavisory wrote, still figuring out this “reblogging” business) is similar to my own experiences…

I had very similar receptive language development to yours. And similar quirks of expressive language, except I had a noticeable delay. I don’t think you actually qualify for AS in the current system because even though you had language it was largely echolalic and non-communicative, and falls well into the autism (or PDDNOS if you didn’t quite fit that either) criteria for communication problems.

This is very long but be aware it has all the criteria for autism and all the other PDDs since they were put in in 1980.

(Source: calamitycalliope)

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(Image text: Disability Problem #88: “Why can’t you just act normal for once?”)

Tags: disability problem disability problems disability ableism condescension physical disability mental illness chronic illness chronic pain chronic fatigue autism autism spectrum actuallyautistic
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(Image text: Disability Problem #65: “Why are you being so rude to me? I was only offering advice!”)

Tags: condescension abled people know best disability disability problem disability problems ableism physical disability developmental disability mental illness mental health chronic illness autism autism spectrum
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(Image text: Disability Problem #63: “What’swrongwith you?”)

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Tags: disability problems disability problem ableism shaming disability physical disability autism autism spectrum developmental disabilities mental illness
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(Image text: Disability Problem #58: Ableist “awareness” campaigns)

Mod Note: I believe the submission was about Autism Speaks specifically, but I’ve tagged it under mental illness and physical disability as well not because of autism but because I believe the meme is also relevant to other disability campaigns. Just want to clear that up before I post!

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Tags: disability problems disability problem ableism autism speaks autism autism spectrum actuallyautistic mental illness physical disability
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(Image text: Disability Problem #52: “Autism Speaks”)

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