Plurality is equally a Disability issue Not all disabled people are on a same page. Forget about this classifying generalizing little helpful illusion. The barriers differ, the barrier experiences differ, the political stances are just as different as they are generally in society. No accord but it’s also not necessary…Continue readingPlurality is equally a Disability issue
Category: Social spaces cannot be a neutral terrain
We are looking for terms that describe the form of ableist and disablist discrimination that we are discussing here, in part: To discriminate someone on an ableist basis that she or he speaks differently To the level of unravelling concepts of language and communication. Loquiism – might be used but…Continue readingAbleism: The distinction between language values
I supported a young woman with a severe condition that brought with it similar effects as a complete paraplegia. By the time she could only move her face – not even her head anymore herself – she virtually had NO friend. She had a university degree. The basics of “society”…Continue readingCommunication Rights and fighting social exclusion
Sind Diagnosen die das geistige Leben anbetreffen hinterfragbar? (Fragment weiter unten.) Mind the Diagnosis? Diagnoses about the mind are > medicalized biologisations and > limitations in other broadly sociologistically and philosophically still adaptable terms > that claim a critiqueable objective terrain of knowing someone else’s ‘life of mind’. Psychologically it’s…Continue readingMind the Diagnosis? Sind Diagnosen die das geistige Leben anbetreffen hinterfragbar?
Social classism and character assassination, as drops, hollow social stones > observations > It is an interesting social phenomenon to be wary of: People who want to pathologise you at all costs, in layman’s terms to boot. Often this happens in a soft, friendly way. The question is, where do…Continue readingWhen others ascribe you an image (1)