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Ya know, I can understand that some people who are disabled want to keep working. They don't want to apply for SSI or SSDI. And that's fine. More power to them.
What bothers me though is when they say things like "I don't want to live off the system" in a very derogatory manner.
Some of us can't work. And SSI and SSDI don't really give us enough to live on. So we need food stamps. Some of us rely on subsidized housing. We struggle to get through each month. And we don't need people being derogatory to us because of our disabilities. We don't need people acting like we're "less than" because of our disabilities. And we especially don't need this coming from other disabled people.
me when the disability disables me: oh what the fuck? this sucks. what the hell man!
Reminder for disabled and sick folks, or anyone with a disabled or sick or elderly person in your home, as seasons change whether it's getting hotter or colder for you:
If your power grid is being overtaxed by too many people in your community using their air conditioners or heat, and your leaders tell you something like it's "your civic duty" to lower your AC to an unbearable and dangerous level for you (or to reduce your heat use to unbearable and dangerous levels for you), ignore them.
That's right, I said ignore your civic duty. Let the ableds who can tolerate too hot or too cold with just mild discomfort take on the burden of society for once. You may feel guilt, but you're not saving the world by courting heat stroke or freezing to death because you're more vulnerable to either.
Eco fash and eugenecists will be blocked on sight
I want to make charms and shit for my hearing aids but i have no idea what I'm supposed to do and I don't want to accidentaly damage my aids since they're not cheap and I need them. Does anyone know how to make this sort of stuff?
Autistic Matt Murdock
Ok look. This may just be my autistic ass projecting but Mr. Matthew Michael Murdock is 100% autistic and you can fight me on that.
He is literally like /always/ stimming. You can see it in the show he fidgets with his hands or cane all the time, also that little hop jump thing he did in the college flashback.
Also, I know he has super senses but they read to me a lot like autism/sensory processing disorder. I mean think, he’s not the only character with enhanced senses. Steve, Bucky, T’Challa and Peter all have them too (I’m sure there are other but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head) and other than Peter (who is also autistic and you can fight me on that) none of them have the same problems that Matt does. We see Matt having multiple sensory overloads throughout the show and honestly they are kind of similar to mine. Everything is too much and I get overwhelmed. Steve/Bucky/T’Challa don’t have that problem. Also “cotton feels like sandpaper on my skin” I mean come on.
*Season 2 spoilers for the next paragraph* When he looses his hearing after Frank shoots him in the head and he’s sitting on the floor screaming and smacking his hand on the wall? That is a meltdown. While I don’t scream during mine I do curl up in a ball and sometimes hurt myself. It’s a meltdown.
His sense of Justice. Ok, so not every autistic person has a strong sense of right and wrong but a lot do. We can also see it in the fact that he would rather help people than make lots of money. I heard of a study done (Ok so this study is not without faults, it uses functioning labels and try to patholigize autism despite the results) where there were a group of autistic people and a group of neurotypical people. They were both given a choice, they could donate money to a good cause that would help people but would loose them money, or they could donate money to a not so good cause that would make them money in the long run. There were two tests run, one that was observed one that was not. The autistic group where much more likely to pick that good cause in both. Neurotypicals, on the other hand, were more likely to pick the good cause when they were being observed but the bad cause that would make them money when they were not. Matt literally chooses helping people over money every single time. Hell, he chooses to help people over his own safety every time.
His special interests! He has two big ones: law/justice and protecting Hell’s Kitchen. I mean he basically spends all of his time either working a case or on patrol. He maybe also has a smaller one on catholicism.
Scripting. I think he does a lot of that in the show. He describes his senses as a “world on fire” multiple times and uses “I’m blind” as an excuse for his injuries even when that excuse doesn't really fit said injury. He is also extremely eloquent in court when he can rehearse and know what he is going to say but often trips on his words in regular conversation.
So ya, Autistic Matt Murdock y’all!
-Phoenix
Edit: OMG How could I have forgotten Matts giant special interest on Thurgood Marshall???