ADHD is so weird. Want to watch a one hour movie? You need a special pill, three coping mechanisms, a stim toy, and somebody to slap you in the face if you look away from the screen

I'm so sick of having to say this over and over again because no one fucking listens.

If you use phrasing like:

and anything else like that

You are being ableist and sanist

You are inherently saying with that phrasing that mental illnesses are not disabilities and not neurodivergencies.

You are pretending that "disabled" solely means "physically disabled."

You are saying that the only neurodivergent conditions that "actually count" are autism and ADHD.

Stop. Supporting. Disability. Exclusionism.

I shouldn't have to scream this from the rooftops and make five million posts about this.

On the same note:

"Able-bodied" is not the opposite of "disabled." These two words are not antonyms. The opposite of "disabled" is "abled." Stop pretending only physical disabilities are "real disabilities." Stop saying that only a single type of disabled person matters.

People with mental illnesses are given no support. We're not welcome in the disabled community nor the neurodivergent community despite mental illnesses counting as both. Do you know what that's like? To be shoved out of communities that are supposed to care about you and then be left with nothing?

And because exclusionists are going to froth at the mouth if I don't say this: Yes, I have mental illnesses. Yes, I have autism and ADHD. Yes, I have physical health disabilities. Yes, I even have mobility issues because of hand tremors that affect my fine motor skills. So don't try to @ me or pretend I'm "just a whiny abled-bodied who doesn't know what REAL disabilities are like." I've had to see you exclusionists literally start using "able-bodied" like a derogatory term because THAT is how much you hate mentally ill people. That is how much you believe that mentally ill people experience nothing.

The exclusionism in the disabled community is so bad that it's arguably even worse than the rampant exclusionism in the queer community, and that is a feat to accomplish. (And yes, I'm queer. Don't tell me I know nothing about queer exclusionism when I have been putting up with said exclusionism forever.)

Disabled exclusionism is so bad that exclusionists attempt to rewrite history so they can erase mentally ill people from it. They pretend mentally ill people have never been included in the word "cripple" and also pretend being called that word is the be all end all of whether you're oppressed.

They say that it's okay for cripplepunk to be an exclusionist movement because the person who invented it is now dead, so we gotta respect their wishes no matter how bigoted. It doesn't matter that the original cripplepunk rules literally call "able-bodied" people the opposite of "the disabled." Since we apparently can't fix bigotry when it'll make a bigoted person who's not even alive anymore sad, I'm assuming disabled exclusionists also think we shouldn't change the constitution because "It's what the Founding Fathers wanted." They took the original John out of Papa John's due to his bigotry too. Sorry for your loss. I know how much you believe things shouldn't be changed, especially when they solely benefit yourselves.

Disabled exclusionists even try to erase mentally ill people from issues like ableism. I have seen so many posts that talk about ableism or even disabled representation and SOLELY talk about physical disabilities. Do you know how bad exclusionism has to be in the disabled community to pretend that there's no ableism against mentally ill people in horror movies? You know, the genre that almost every single plotline depends on fearmongering about mentally ill people? Funny how mentally ill people face no ableism when I have heard of countless movies involving mental hospitals but have never once heard of a horror movie in a regular hospital. I wonder why?

I have to hear people say that mental illnesses are INHERENTLY "less bad" than other disabilities, that you apparently know MY body and MY life experiences SO WELL that you know I don't "have it bad enough." You claim that mentally ill people are "overrepresented" in the disabled community because we "don't even have it hard." Meanwhile, I have to fight just to even be included. I have to see posts about disability and disability-related blogs and even progressive organizations and events for disabled people, and I'm so excluded that I have to literally ask if my mental illnesses "count" every time.

You make social hierarchies in this pitiful excuse of a "community" to put yourselves on top. You even did that with "visible" and "invisible" disabilities, all while ignoring that mental illnesses can be just as visible as anything else. Whatever you can do to put one type of disabled experience on a pedestal.

These communities are not communities at all. They're exclusionist circle-jerks. And I'm done being forced to defend my right to exist to these people.

"Mental disabilities are so much easier because you're not visibly disabled."

Mental disabilities:

"You guys do realize that mental conditions can express physically, right?"

"Oh yeah? Well physical conditions can express mentally!"

Then maybe we shouldn't be so focused on dividing the disabled community into who is "actually disabled" and realize that the lines between disability types are blurred? Just a thought.

The brain is a physical part of the body. It is a physical entity just like how a kidney or the stomach are physical parts of the body. It physically exists there. There is a physical aspect to a brain not functioning properly. You cannot draw a line in the sand that completely separates mental and physical disabilities from each other. A person convulsing on the floor will be looked at with judgement by others regardless of if that person is having a breakdown due to sensory overload or is having a stroke. A person who cannot shower due to a mental disorder or due to needing physical help to shower are both going to be judged by society.

It's time to stop throwing people out of the community based on who you think deserves to be cared about and instead make space for everyone.

Just had to see yet another post that phrases “able-bodied” as the opposite of disabled :) I am so fucking sick of this. And the post was about disabled people using tools to help them with their disabilities and health issues. Gee, I wonder if mentally disabled people ALSO use tools to help them with their disabilities/health issues and that this isn’t solely relevant to physically disabled people.

If you want to make a post just about physical disabilities, do it. But don’t then say “Able-bodied people don’t understand disabled people!!!!!!” as if physical disabilities are the only disabilities that fucking count and as if your post about disability-related tools isn’t relevant to literally EVERY SINGLE TYPE OF DISABILITY.

Having multiple chronic mental illnesses is interesting because which one you struggle with most changes. In high school my depression hit me hardest. From the age of 17-21 it was my OCD. And now it's my phobia. Of course all of my mental illnesses still affect me, but it seems which one has the spotlight changes every few years.

Because there's so much exclusionism in the disabled community to the point that it is never a given that any post about disabilities includes neurodivergence/mental illness, I doubted the disabled pride flag included us either. But I looked up the flag's meaning and thankfully it does actually include neurodivergent/mentally ill people. This is our flag too.

This is a pretty nice video about cooking with disabilities. It mainly focuses on physical disabilities.