In my opinion this article is offensive. ( Cut for ablism )

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Here's my contribution to Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD) 2016.

This wheelchair user has a voiceby Sam Mason ( Read more... )

Our recent discussion here about 'diversability' reminds me of Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD). That's on May 1st each year, so if you want to write about 'diversability' for BADD 2016 I hope you'll do that.

Here are BADD 2014 and BADD 2015. Each includes a piece that I wrote. At least one other member of friendly_crips has been writing for BADD many ( Read more... )

A website called "Autism Daily Newscast" has printed a piece by an ABA therapist about the supposed "perks" of being bullied for autistic kids. Here is the article, but I've used "Do not link" because I don't want to improve the website's traffic count ( Read more... )

I like this article about reverse integration. (Does it come up on your screen from the link I've given?)

A basketball player called Danielle Peers invented the term 'reverse integration' and tells us how she's used it with athletes, students and people in general. I'm impressed.

If you use a wheelchair or any other equipment for your disability, how do you feel if somebody says you're 'normalising your disability'? If that person calls it an 'achievement' to leave the equipment behind? If that person writes to your doctor with per judgement about you? If that person is a professional employed by the main support ( Read more... )

A shoutout to
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Here's how ablism (aka disablism) feels. We're not prejudiced! We treat everybody the same!


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If you received a pre-course reading list for an MA and it was in the following inaccessible format - poor quality mono image scan of faxed-text pasted as images into a word document...

What subject to you think this MA might be in???

I will put the answer in comments.