Notices by Queen Dyspraxia (shoutcacophony@anticapitalist.party), page 10

@polymerwitch It's like "You don't have to fuck people over to survive" in this very literal way (or should be)

@polymerwitch And meanwhile, small pockets of self-advocates are trying to push through, but there's also just a lot of...the kinds of things that happen when you're in the middle of a pile of bodies, trying to survive

Which is why I get really pissy when people start making assimilationist gestures, or one subgroup walks over the top of another (or sub-sub-group and so on)

@polymerwitch Which especially in terms of how revolutionaries like Leslie Feinberg used the term, as well as trans, wasn't the idea at all, but words can be slippery like that

@polymerwitch I think it might be useful for people who aren't familar, to look at the disability rights movement

The disability rights movement as a whole looks like a huge pile of bodies, with The Mighty and Autism Speaks and so on planting this tiny little flag on the top, and claiming it as theirs

Which is true for all other oppressed communities as well, but there's a lot less window dressing at the moment

@polymerwitch this, and for all markers as well

@Laura_I yes! that's right, same episode.

exactly to all of that, same here

@hope

http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/2017/05/why-supported-decision-making-is-better.html

(i don't know that much about supported decision making, but it definitely sounds loads better than conservatorship, especially if someone's parents or guardians are abusive af and leave them out of all decision making and input on their terms)

@Laura_I smh. so completely wrong

@hope one sec, i'll get a thing on this

*Comes back later to bust out the person with Fragile X, which was an obvious swipe at "severe" autistics, as well as the hottie that had rock climbing as an interest that was gate-kept into conservatorship by their crappy parents, as an adult*

We definitely tried watching this ableist trash fire ("The Good Doctor") of a series, but season two was like "seriously? ok, we're out".

"Friends" as in actual friends, not "Friends" as in the TV show

*Busts Shaun Murphy out of his residency*

"You're a field medic for the revolution now. Thank us later"

Watching shitty anti-autistic "look at them" autistic dramas like "Friends!", completely fucking non-ironically, is Autistic culture

@ansugeisler excellent! welcome your thoughts, would be glad to talk about either or both once you've read, as works for you :)

@xenophora @ansugeisler that can definitely be the best approach at times, at least personally.

collectively, eh, but this place...well, ok. hard enough to get people to not make actively harmful shit choices individually tbh

of which this whole "Gab means free speech!" BS is one of the more recent examples

@xenophora @ansugeisler this is a migraine in account profile form, isn't it

@garbados approve and agree <3

@glitterwitch where's the lie or the problem here 💅🏽

@packbat @LexYeen it's almost as if being a "free speech extremist" and a white supremacist are the same thing, effectively. as if one could even tell the difference, or if it matters (it doesn't)

@LexYeen one could even get the impression that they don''t want to responsibility for what clearly is a consistent political stance :thounking: