andreashettle:[Image description: A series of tweets with the header, #AbleismExists. I don’t know h
andreashettle:[Image description: A series of tweets with the header, #AbleismExists. I don’t know how that header/hashtag sounds via screen reading software so let me split that up into the two words indicated so it is clearer: ableism exists. In transcribing these tweets, a space will be used between the @ and the Twitter handle so Tumblr won’t mistake them for any Tumblr pages: Tony Snark @ toni_snark: When potential employers see you as a liability, not an asset. #AbleismExists.Q X @ qx_11: #AbleismExists when people are certain most people on disability income are gaming the system because the disabilities don’t sound severe.Elsee @ Lizbeth_City: #ableismexists When I get unsolicited *help* on the streets that doesn’t end when I say ‘No, thanks.’Heather Ure @ riotheatherr: #AbleismExists when I ask after a relative long ago institutionalized, and people are surprised by the question, and don’t have any info.Finn G. @phineasfrogg: My parents once recorded me having a meltdown when I was 12 in order to shame me into not having them again. #AbleismExistsGregg Beratan @ GreggBeratan: When your boss tells you you aren’t really disabled you just don’t apply yourself enough #AbleismExistsCarly Findlay @ carlyfindlay: #ableismexists when ppl say ‘don’t let your disability define you’. Let it define us. Be proud. It’s part of our identitites, we can’t ignoreN. @ iROLLwitdacrips: #ableismexists random folks come to me and say that Jesus will heal me in heaven. Hey man, if heaven ain’t ADA compliant, I don’t wanna go.][Image description ends here, the rest is commentary from me.]Providing an image description because the #AbleismExists hashtag belongs to blind people too so they ought to be able to access this conversation even if they don’t want to use Twitter! For those who do use Twitter, the conversation is still pretty active, so head on over there and check it out and maybe contribute a few tweets. You also can find people using it in Facebook, for those who use that. For those not wanting to use Twitter or Facebook (or who find Facebook too inaccessible), let’s pick up the same conversation here in Tumblr.Other hashtags to check out in Twitter and maybe Facebook: #ableism #ThisisAbleism #TheAbleistScript all about ableism.@image-descriptions -- source link