girlwithalessonplan:

wasps-official:

charlimanderdragon:

lolodapsycho:

this-isnt-my-bra:

Once my friend Henry was accused of wearing wireless headphones by a substitute so she said for him to hand them over so he took them off and handed them to her. Then later on she asked him a question and he didn’t respond so she said it louder and he still didn’t respond. She asked why he was not responding and he said “I can’t understand you ma'am, you took my hearing aids.”

HOLY SHIT

Teachers are such shit with disability. I had a gym teacher that thought hyper-mobility disorder was something my friend made up, so he made her keep running laps and her fucking knee popped out of place… and he didn’t believe that it actually did.

Same friend had fatal scent allergies, and the guidance counsellors made her stay in a class with strong scents because they figured she was making it up to skip math or smth, and she had an allergy attack, and they knew they’d get in shit so they told her to go sit outside the building and that it was just a panic attack, and they wouldn’t let her call any of her emergency contacts, so she had to use a friend’s phone to call her brother out of work to drive her to the hospital. (This was before everyone had a cellphone. She did not, at the time.)

Those same guidance counsellors tried to threaten my brother into coming out to our parents as trans, and they told me when I was first diagnosed with anxiety disorder and depression that they couldn’t even be bothered to look at my required accommodations at the moment because they had “more important things to do.” Even though it was literally their job.

Public schools are absolute shit when it comes to almost everything. You have to fight for basic shit, and even if he told that subsitute that they were hearing aids, I sincerely doubt she’d have paid him any mind. I’ve seen students try to explain similar things until they’re blue in the face, but some teachers just have this mentality of “oh please, I’ve heard these excuses before.”

It’s really gross and entire inappropriate.

@girlwithalessonplan@hipsterenglishteacher

As for the students with the actual disability-handicaps I find it appalling the teacher did not KNOW via just paperwork.  Someone didn’t do their job getting that to the teacher: either the special ed department or the parents. (Like, an email? I even have parents email me to say, “Hey, Johnny used to have an IEP for this reason, but doesn’t anymore and here’s why, just a heads up…)

Like, even if a student is entirely academically capable, their disability/handicap is documented for any accommodation needed even if never used.  I had a student with CP and leg braces once.  He had extended bathroom privileges two times a day, so we know to never count him tardy.  

I know one of my students is allergic to RASPBERRIES for Pete’s sake. 

As for 504 plans for mental health, make sure your therapist directly works with the special ed co-op or the admin to get that done.  They can be a great advocate for you, and make sure your parents follow up.  Parents making noise gets things done.  

Schools are still stuck between a rock and hard place when it comes to trans issues.  And my own school is facing this and I think is genuinely trying to find a balance.  They have a responsibility to let the family know if something could negatively impact your school experience.  If it’s bullying, illness, social problems, failing grades, etc.  How do we handle coming out as trans in the midst of that, which can have negative repercussions on the school experience?  Schools have little to no guidance to delicately handle this.  (Unless you’re 18, and you can tell the school, “Stop calling my parents,” and they legally have to–THANKS FERPA.) 

werpiper:

ghettablasta:

For more than two years, Clarise Coleman faithfully attended every track practice and every cross-country meet for her son, Chase.

A few weeks ago, Chase, who is a nearly nonverbal autistic child, was running in a meet in Rochester, New York, with his team from Corcoran High School - was assaulted by a stranger in the middle of a race.

Coleman was waiting for him at a part of the course where runners would come down a hill but he didn’t appear and she went looking for him. She was shouting his name and then she started to meet people who pointed in the direction of her son. One of them said:

“I see a grown man, who is quite tall and fairly heavy … exit the vehicle and give this young man a shove that puts him back 10 feet and flat on his butt. Like, just shoved him across the road. The kid didn’t seem to be doing anything but standing there, obviously had nothing in his hands and weighed all of 130 pounds. This guy was easily twice that.”

This tall white guy was a 57-year-old man named Martin MacDonald who told the police that the reason he attacked the Black kid was he thought Chase was going to mug his wife and take her purse.

“My son is a minor. [MacDonald is] a grown man,” Coleman said she told police. “He put his hands on my son. Of course I want to press charges.”

However the police was deaf and on Oct. 21, Rochester City Court Judge Caroline Morrison sent a letter to the Colemans that shocked them: 

She had denied their warrant application, and MacDonald would not be charged for second-degree harassment.

Now the autistic Black boy refused to go to practices and skipped running in his last meet of the season. He turned his running uniform in to his coach, who gently encouraged him to change his mind. Chase refused.

“We just keep telling him, ‘You didn’t do anything wrong. Chase is good. There are mean people and there are nice people and this person was just a mean person,’ ” Coleman said. “We just keep apologizing to him that happened. Especially me. I kept apologizing to him that I couldn’t keep him safe.” 

The attack deeply traumatized him and he lost one of the few things that gave him a sense of pride and belonging.

Please, make a shout out to this outrageous accident! The white man still didn’t receive any punishment for ruining life of the Black boy. THIS IS HELL!

#StayWoke #BlackChildrenMatter #WhitePrivilege

this is the saddest :(

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

thatjayjustice:

I am a comic book fan.

I am permanently disabled.

I use a mobility scooter if I have to walk long distances or stand for long periods of time.

I am working at New York Comic Con and only able to see 1 or 2 panels, so I was really excited for them.

I was removed from my seat at the Women Of Marvel panel because they are unable to accommodate two wheelchair users in one aisle.

Because there were wheelchair users in every aisle at this point I had to leave the panel.

I had waited in line and went to the front to see all of the talented women I look up to so much. I made sure that I wasn’t in anyone’s way. Unlike other conventions, there is no dedicated wheelchair seat, you just have to pull up to the end of an aisle and try not to be an inconvenience.

Moments before the panel was to begin, a convention staffer in a blue t-shirt told me that they could not have two wheelchairs in the same aisle. She didn’t see who had arrived first. I believe we had been there nearly the same amount of time.

The other person asked if she could perhaps sit closer. That was refused as a solution. All of the other front row seats were full or would not accommodate a wheelchair. Neither of us wanted to sit in the back of the panel room. The staffer decided that I would be the one who was ejected, because I was alone and had no one else who would be inconvenienced, whereas the other person had a friend seated next to her.

This was a very disappointing end to my NYCC experience. I don’t post this to vent or complain, but to provide awareness to this problem and encourage the con to develop solutions to prevent this from happening to anyone else.

New York Comic Con needs to have dedicated reserved wheelchair accessible seating in every single panel room. This is not difficult to implement. Remove a chair from the end of the first six aisles. Place a disabled logo on the floor. There are MANY fans with disabilities. Without a doubt these spots will be filled, and without inconveniencing others with having to walk around a wheelchair in the aisle.

I hope New York Comic Con 2017 is more accessible for everyone. Thanks for listening.

THIS

ALL comic book fans who can get tickets deserve to be able to attend a comic convention…making it so that conventions are only accesible to people who aren’t disabled in some way means that people who love and want to take part in this are left feeling like it doesn’t matter if they’re left out

maidsuokasenpai:

Dear Hollywood,

Stop making movies about people with disabilities “finding love against all odds” as if people with disabilities are unlikely to find love unless it’s in some “inspiring” story.  Our struggles are not your plot device.

marauders4evr:

marauders4evr:

I keep getting hate from abled people who wanted to watch Me Before You and didn’t like the fact that I spoiled the ending in my posts where I talk about how disgusting it is to have the main character kill himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. So, in an effort to stop the hate, I will minimize the amount of time that I talk about the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. It’s not fair for all of these abled people to have to read the spoiler that the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. In fact, it’s downright mean for me to keep talking about the fact that the ending to the book involves the main character killing himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. After all, I respect the wishes of the abled community and if they want me to stop talking about an ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled, I will stop talking about the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. Even though the ending, the one wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled, is horrendously disgusting and offensive to the disabled community, who are currently protesting the movie because of the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. And as a disability advocate first and foremost I would argue that it’s my job to also protest the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. In fact, I have received many messages from disabled people who didn’t know that the book/movie ended with the main character killing himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. And those people have expressed gratitude that I warned them of the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. Because had those people seen the movie wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled, they would have been extremely upset, and not just because a character killing himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled is sad but because it truly is offensive and sickening to have an ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. Be that as it may, I do owe something to the abled community probably and because of this, I will henceforth put a spoiler alert in my posts so that they don’t have to read about the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled.

Spoiler Alert:

The main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled.

You folks have to stop reblogging this.

Otherwise some poor abled person is going to see the spoiler that (Spoiler Alert) the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. And we can’t have that.