Just a reminder that people who still live with their parents as adults deserve respect and for you to stop being ableist. There are multiple reasons someone could still live with their parents! From invisible to visible disabilities, finance issues, and more!
Stop using the “well they’re gonna turn into a creep living in their parents basement” punchline! It’s disgusting. STOP. BEING. ABLEIST. STOP. FORGETTING. THE. POOR.
Actually reminder that some people just live with their parents. They may not have any issues. You don’t need to justify their reasons. It’s not morally incorrect to live with your parents for fucks sake. In some cultures it’s even expected.
The usamerican cultural belief that everyone who reaches a certain age is not “independent” until they move out on their own serves to feed into the individualistic focus of capitalism. That’s why you have it so ingrained in your brains. But humans used to live comunally. It’s not weird or off-putting or nothing you need to justify. It just is. Deconstruct your minds.
Thinking today about a post I saw some time ago about how wearing glasses shouldn’t be considered a disability because it’s “socially acceptable” and also about how I haven’t been able to update my prescription for 2 years because I just cannot afford an optometrist visit or new frames.
I understand the impulse to say bad vision doesn’t count because glasses are such a normal part of our society we don’t even think of them as a disability tool anymore, bur the fact is if something happens to my glasses, I am Fucked. I can’t drive. I can barely do everyday tasks. Working is going to be impossible. Even if I scrounge the money to get new frames, I have to wait WEEKS for them to arrive. And what happens to me in that time frame? Nothing good, I can tell you that. I literally need this tool to function on a daily basis, because my vision is bad enough to seriously disrupt my life without them.
If anything, glasses are a great example of what society could be if we took MORE disability seriously. If we had actual tools so readily available and normalized you saw them everywhere. But that doesn’t make me not disabled, because the minute I lose access to that tool, I can’t function.
Glasses wearers: often cannot legally drive without glasses or some form of vision assistance because our vision is impaired without them
“Okay but are you really disabled?”
A couple years ago I broke my glasses to the point of being unwearable. I happened not to have any backup pairs nor contacts.
I became ABRUPTLY aware of how disabled I actually am, visually. I’d had brief moments of “lol I’m so near sighted” before but all those times I’d had backup pairs (old prescription, but still let me SEE) or contacts (my eyes don’t like them, but again….)
This time, nope.
It was STARK.
There’ve been school districts that institute programs to make sure every child who needs glasses gets them, and the reading ability and test scores ALWAYS improve.
“It’s not a disability!”
I found out I needed glasses at the age of 7 when I knocked myself unconscious by running at top speed into a rope divider I couldn’t see, which ricocheted me backwards directly into blacktop. I thought my eyesight just blacked out for a few seconds, but it turned out that I was unconscious for over a minute.
My helpful brother and grandfather (and onlookers) failed to inform me of this and just continued on buying ice cream at the restaurant as planned, while I wondered when my vision would return from the war.
It took hours for it to go back to “normal”, but it turned out that “normal” was actually severely fucked up, and that’s why I’d been so jealous of the kids in the first few rows of the auditorium at school assemblies—because they could actually see what was happening on stage.
I should receive financial compensation every time someone says “post covid” we aren’t post shit cases are ramping up so high we are approaching 2020 levels and people are becoming permanently disabled by long covid every goddamn day “post covid” you’re about to experience post LIFE
With the WGA announcement of the possible end to the strike, I do want people to remember that the union’s general membership still has to vote for the deal. The workers still have to agree to it.
This isn’t the moment to stop paying attention, especially while SAG-AFTRA is still on strike, and let’s not forget that The Animation Guild’s contract negotiation is right around the corner.
