Disabled adults should get to choose to go to bed whenever the fuck we want, even if the support we need to do so is inconvenient or expensive.
Disabled adults should be able to go on nights out with friends until 5am then sleep in until the afternoon if we want to.
I really shouldn’t be turning down social invites because my care provider and local authority say I need to be in bed by 10pm at 26 years old.
This also applies to disabled adults who live in nursing homes or supportive housing, especially intellectually disabled adults who are often treated like children with strict bedtimes and mealtimes and punishments if they wish or need to sleep or eat on a different schedule or want to enjoy the same flexibility as any other adult person.
There needs to be an extraordinarily compelling reason to control people and remove their autonomy about things as simple as sleeping and eating (and toileting which is a whole other post). "But it's not convenient to the workers" isn't compelling at all.
Definitely!
“Stay up Late” is an organisation in the UK campaigning to end bedtimes for people with learning disabilities (US English: intellectual disability).
They also have gig buddy volunteers who can go with learning disabled people to live music or sports events.
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written in blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
this asshole had the entire city scared he was going to lead some kind of klan march and rampage through an immigrant neighborhood. he showed up yesterday with about 5 people and "marched" less than one city block before counter protestors super-soakered his ass in 10⁰ weather, pushed him back to his hotel, and ran him out of town. so so so proud of my city
Jean Dubuffet
