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our-unpopularopinions:

It’s a horrible thing to say but that’s why I’m here.  We give and give to people who will never be able to give back to their society.  They’re bottom-less pits of sympathy and money and I don’t mean to say “let’s go kill all the retards,” I’m just saying we need to try harder to destroy mental incapacity.  We could abort fetuses threatened with mental illness or try to discover cures for ones that may go undetected and treat victims at a young age.  

“Ableism isn’t a real problem,” people say. “Ableism doesn’t exist,” they say

goldenheartedrose:

foroneandall:

goldenheartedrose:

Also lol at anon for thinking that it’s impossible for autistic people to ever consider that something might be difficult and frustrating for us. Because Jfc, some of us are nonverbal all the time and some of us are nonverbal sometimes and even when we’re not, communication difficulties are enormously frustrating and yes, we understand that autism can be hard. I am Autistic and being autistic is difficult sometimes and being misunderstood hurts and having people think that they know what you need hurts.

Allistic parents who say they hate autism don’t just use these words. They show it through their actions when they abuse and kill us. They do so when they administer bleach enemas and chelation and hyperbaric oxygen treatments to “cure” us because Jenny McCarthy told them it’d work.

I’m pretty sure parents don’t hate their autistic children

like, what the actual fuck for even suggesting that

Really? Really?

Read this link (tw for followers on vicious, vile hate for what being autistic entails).  I’m particularly interested in the line that says “I would change him in a heartbeat.I would sell my soul to the devil to get rid of his autism.  I want him to have the exact personality he has now minus the autism.” 

Which to me fucking screams “No, you don’t love your child, because you’re wishing for something impossible.”  Being autistic is a part of your kid’s personality.  It makes them who they are, and wishing that away means you are literally wishing for a different kid.  Not just a not-autistic version of your kid, because that is fucking impossible. But an entirely different person.

Here, have some more “I hate autism” sentiment. 

Autism does sucks alot! We should be painting our nails, putting on makeup, playing with Barbie dolls, instead my daughter screams and cries all day and plays with her feces!!

So basically, instead of trying to figure out why those things are happening (and I guarantee you that your daughter is in some sort of discomfort that you are ignoring), you’re going to whine about the child you should have had.  Because you clearly deserve a better one, amirite? (that’s sarcasm at the end,by the way).

And I already mentioned other ways in which allistic parents show how much they hate their kids, but let me give you some concrete examples.

FDA on “bleach enemas”

The use of chelation for autistic children.

How about these parents who locked up their autistic kid in a dog cage?

How about this parent who killed her six month old child because she thought she was beginning to show the signs of autism?

Or, how about we look at a promotional video created by Autism Speaks, where a member of their board talks of a murder/suicide plan in front of her autistic daughter, as if her daughter couldn’t understand? And the only reason she chose not to was because of her neurotypical child.  

And the above example is the person who founded the Autism Science Foundation.  So, you know. Still doing harm there, clearly.

There was also a segment of the Dr. Phil show where a mother claimed that she hated her autistic daughter.  I can’t watch the link again myself because it makes me feel ill, but I think it’s this one. 

So yeah, foreoneandall, maybe you should, you know, listen to autistic people when we say that some of the people who are supposed to be taking care of us (our parents, our guardians) are the ones we are most in danger of.  Yes, allistic parents hate their autistic children.  And not every single one if them is going to say that they do, but the vast majority show it in the way that they treat their kids.

When you hate one of the things that makes an autistic person who they are, well, yes, you hate them.  That would be like saying “my son is gay, how sad.  I wish he were who he was without being gay”.  That isn’t wishing for the same kid with the same personality and interests.  That’s wishing for a whole different kid.  Being autistic is as essential to me as being queer.  I wouldn’t change a thing about either, except how society treats us.

marshmallowknight:

marshmallowknight:

abortions should be available to all who want one, but being pro-choice and uncritically supporting the abortion of disabled fetuses is eugenics plain and simple i hope you all realize that

if you want more information about ableism in abortion and the pro-choice movement then go here perhaps

the article is fairly densely written, which is disappointing since an article about ableism should be more accessible to the disabled, but basically focus on the statistics and the bullet points

basically anti-choicers love to use the disabled as pawns in their bullshit debates but don’t give a fuck about disabled children living in poverty or being murdered by their own parents

and pro-choicers would rather claim “oh, we just want to keep people from ever having to suffer” than work to convince the abled that disabled people are human beings whose lives are worth living

not to mention how racism ties into ableist abortions, since PoC are more likely to seek abortions and less likely to be able to support a disabled child due to poverty

so basically, if you uncritically support the abortions of disabled fetuses, you are supporting the culling of people who are poor, disabled, and of color

and that’s eugenics

congratulations.

realtakane:

People who think that cisphobia, misandry, anti-allism, hating abled people, reverse racism, allophobia, and heterophobia are real never cease to amaze me.

People that are trans, women, PoC, disabled, asexual or aromantic, or not hetero are often

• Murdered
• Tortured
• Excluded
• Bullied
• The butt of jokes
• Not represented
• Infantilized
• Treated like monsters
• Abused
• Raped
• Erased
• Silenced
• Told they’re confused, unnatural, have no point in life, or are making it up

Meanwhile, none of this ever happens just because you’re a white cis heterosexual/romantic NT abled man.

A joke or vent on the internet isn’t going to harm you. Being afraid to step outside the house or speak up is.

ufod:

heres an idea: instead of trying to “fix” autism try to fix the way allistic people react to austic people because saying you want to cure autism and trying to find a way to make sure autistic children arent born is just like saying that you want to cure gay people and thats :///////

airbornwhale:

I have a problem with liberal interpretations of ableism that don’t account for how the end goal of ableism is to kill some disabled people and “fix” the other disabled people so their labor can go back to being exploited. It’s obviously individually useful to figure out how to navigate our personal disabilities and how they work, but as a group it’s a lot more important to support the most at risk members and detail exactly how capitalism tries to break down disabled people in categories of “useful” and “not useful”

autistiel:

I can’t believe that we’re still debating the ethics of using devices that send electric shocks as “treatment” (TW graphic torture at link)

Autism Speaks is absent from the hearing— Which isn’t all too surprising considering their partnership with the JRC in the past.

Read ASAN’s testimony here, watch responses in real time on Twitter here.

For more information regarding the Judge Rotenberg Center and how horrifically it treats people with disabilities, click here (peruse links therein with caution).

cyrodiil-burns:

The militant queer/trans/gay vegan crew on tumblr really amuses me. If the people you hate so much (everyone else basically) were as violent and threatening to you, as you are to them, your tears and cries of injustice would never end.

Good thing you’d never say or do any of those things in the real world, or you’d all be extinguished.

What the heck.

 "If the people you hate so much (everyone else basically) were as violent and threatening to you, as you are to them"

They are WORSE, actually. 99.9% of posts against non-marginalized groups are slightly facetious or a vent. Have you seen people being killed or seriously told to kill themselves over being cis? Heterosexual? Heteromantic? No. It doesn’t happen, and it’s actually erasure of big issues of race, class, and disability to claim so.

People in marginalized groups are killed for that. Told to kill themselves. Raped. In smaller cases, but still gross, they are bullied and their existences are ignored. So yeah, they ARE that violent and threatening.

“Good thing you’d never say or do any of those things in the real world, or you’d all be extinguished.”

I feel the word choice here says an awful lot. Extinguished, like the Nazis did to countless groups of people. Extinguished, like many people with various disabilities are.

Seriously, this is gross. I can’t believe people think like this.