Archive for 'Power'
Trying again, the sysadmin tests away on someone else’s blog
but since that someone wants a blog that works I guess it’s okay, yes? :)
Posted: under Blogs, Computers, Jobs, Linux, Power, Self-injury, Uncategorized . Comments: 1
Identical behavior, contrasting responses
This post has been forming itself in my head ever since I went to both a DD self-advocacy conference and MIT within the same week last May. I’ve just for whatever reason not had the chance to actually write it.
I really enjoyed spending time at MIT. People there accepted me more or less [...]
Posted: under Cognitive disability, Degradation, Developmental disability, Disability Rights, Disability gulag, Disgust, Ethics, Fear, Happiness, IQ, Inclusion, Institutions, Integration, MIT, Migraine, Politics, Power, Psych, Segregation, Self-Advocacy, Special ed, Staff . Comments: 46
Kassiane’s privacy is being violated in (literally) obscene ways, please help.
Feminist bloggers in particular, we might need your help on this.
Jerod Poore has now posted sexual pictures of Kassiane Sibley ( http://crazy-meds1.blogspot.com/2007/08/naughty-naughty.html ) without her consent, in fact with her express non-consent, because of whatever dispute they are having. He’d apparently been threatening to post these pictures for awhile.
Please note: There is no [...]
Posted: under Abuse, Auties, Autism, Blogs, Degradation, Disability, Ethics, Feminism, Feminist Blogs, Hatred, Medical, Power, Privacy . Comments: 118
Shrinking us down.
I’ve noticed a few things where I know what I’m seeing but I’m not sure quite what to call it.
I keep coming back to the reactions to “In My Language” (which, remember, I didn’t know would get more than a few people even viewing it, I expected no wider an audience than any of my [...]
Posted: under Auties, Autism Communities, Cognitive disability, Communication, Defiance, Degradation, Developmental disability, Disability, Disability Rights, Discrimination, Do-gooders, Education, Ethics, Institutions, Medicalization, Mental Age, Movies, Non-Autistic People, Parents, Physical disability, Power, Prejudice, Psych, Public Dissections, Self-Advocacy, Stereotypes . Comments: 14
Irit Shimrat in trouble
Just got this comment from Irit Shimrat:
Please contact me. I’m locked up and being given harmful “medications” in a town called Comox in British Columbia. I can no longer access my main (gmail) account on the computer for use by patients so I googled myself and found you. I can be phoned at 250-339-1490 but [...]
Posted: under Abuse, Fear, Forced drugging, Institutions, Power, Psych, Solitary Confinement . Comments: 32
My clumsy attempt to talk about wide-scale American politics.
I don’t usually post about large-scale electoral-type politics on this blog. I follow it, but it’s one of those topics that I have more understanding of than capability of writing about. The number of those topics far outstrips the number of topics I actually can write about, giving the illusion that I only [...]
Posted: under Communication, Language, Politics, Power . Comments: 35
Addition to library: And people still fail to get it, again and again.
And People Still Fail to Get It, Again and Again
By a student who’s been fighting for accessible education for a long time.
Quote from it:
These things– accomodation, and related issues– are rights, not privileges. But even if I can acknowledge that intellectually, I’m so used to having to shut the hell up in order to get [...]
Posted: under Accessibility, Announcements, Articles, Auties, Autism, Blogroll, Cognitive disability, Developmental disability, Disability, Disability Rights, Disability shame, Discrimination, Education, Fear, Links, Politics, Power, Prejudice, School, Self-Advocacy, Services, Stereotypes, autistics.org . Comments: 8
“Been there. Done that. Preferred to grow.”
Found through a post at Moggy Mania:
The other story from a ‘Pillow Angel’ Been there. Done that. Preferred to grow.
I’ve read McDonald’s (auto)/biography before. And she has a webpage here
A quote from her article:
At the time of the initial publicity about growth attenuation, Ashley’s parents wrote on their blog: “In our opinion only parents [...]
Posted: under Abuse, Articles, Cognitive disability, Developmental disability, Disability, Disability Rights, Disability gulag, Eternal Child Stereotype, Ethics, Feminism, Institutions, Links, Medicalization, Movement, Neglect, Non-Speech, Outside Perceptions, Physical disability, Power, Prejudice, Self-Advocacy, Typing . Comments: 20
On psychiatry, privilege, and parlor games.
The concern has been growing in my mind lately that a lot of autistic people see psychiatric classifications of people as a value-neutral system that is essentially benevolent, scientific, accurate, and probably useful in understanding the way that human beings operate. A few of them have actually experienced psychiatry, but mostly in a cursory [...]
Posted: under Abuse, Autiebiographies, Auties, Autism, Autistic Community, Blogroll, Degradation, Disability, Disability Rights, Disability gulag, Disability shame, Discrimination, Ethics, Forced drugging, Hierarchies, Homelessness, Institutions, Life Skills, Medicalization, Neglect, Outside Perceptions, Politics, Power, Prejudice, Prison, Psych, Self-Advocacy, Staff, Stereotypes, Terminology . Comments: 68
Self-consciousness, and meaningfulness, and meaninglessness.
I talked once before about how self-conscious I get, before and after I give talks. I don’t give a lot of talks, but when I do, I’m well aware of people’s responses to the way I look. When I gave my talk on the panel at AutCom last year, for instance, it was [...]
Posted: under AutCom, Auties, Autism, Cognition, Communication, Disability, Disability Pride, Disgust, Emotions, Fear, Language, Medicalization, Neurodiversity, Non-Speech, Outside Perceptions, Overload, Perception, Performance, Politics, Power, Prejudice, Self-Advocacy, Shutdown, Typing . Comments: 20