Hello disabled comrades! This week, I am feeling very relieved for the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Palestinian hostages. I hope we are all doing okay. If you’re just surviving, barely making it through — I see you and I’m proud of you; and I hope this week brings you a little joy.
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“Disability” is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.
Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
seeing the amount of upbears some guy got for calling me a wrecker and a fed for politely calling out ableism is making me want to just delete my account and quit the site ngl. mods got on the case but it’s obvious a lot of folks on here are ok with that shit. between that and the misogyny it’s harder and harder to feel like this site is a safe space outside of this mega and the trans one. when are we getting a purge of class reductionist brocialists fr
I went to check the thread (and modlog) out of morbid curiosity, and I still don’t get why certain posters almost imploded bc of your very kind and frankly, simply correct comment.
It’s ridiculous how aggressive some people get about a hint “Hey, what you said is ableist, please take that into consideration and don’t do it again”, to which they could just apologize.
I get wanting to delete the account here. This shit is depressing. Just know there’s people here who appreciate you calling that person out.
Unfortunately neither this site nor lemmy are safe spaces. A good friend on this site quit recently after having her suicidal ideation triggered on hexbear to the extent she ended up in hospital. A few days ago I had someone on lemmy advise me to commit suicide along with helpful suggestions on how I can do it, and how I can obtain the means.