Society’s Perception toward the Disability Community Needs to Change!
This is Society now: Much of society is very Ableist and needs to get it right to understand; most people believe that disabled people are scarred for life needing to be pitied, waiting for them to...
View ArticleRecognizing Good Relationships is Important When Networking
It’s important to recognize the people willing to help us after we have helped them. It’s important to know what encourages us to network with people who are willing to walk a two-way street with us....
View ArticleRespecting and Recognizing Others is Important for Humanity
Identifying ourselves… In order to identify ourselves, we have to remind ourselves what we do, where we came from, and who we are. The poll question on the side column of this website expresses just...
View ArticleThe Disability community needs services to ensure success in life
Either we have services or we don’t have services, but what happens when we do or don’t have services… It’s a CATCH-22! Needing services and using the services: 1) Not having your own voice 2) Having...
View ArticleAlways Remember It’s Okay to Feel what we Feel as Individuality
Being who I am, I am easily swayed to think one way or the other. Organizations like Autism Speaks and the media know how to easily manipulate people to think their opinion is the right opinion. No...
View ArticleMy Disability and Music paper from “Disability and Embodiment”
The song that was attached to a YouTube video a few years back was recently deleted, but intrigued me. The song tried to lift the barriers that the medical model of disability conveys. The song used...
View ArticleHOLIDAY SPECIAL: A Presentation on Autistic Artifacts from my project partner...
TRIGGER Warning for everyone: We had used artifacts that were a part of the medical and charity models of disability towards the end of the presentation. This was only to show that they are artifacts...
View ArticleA Poem Called “To Please Yourself is to not think of anyone else”
To Please Yourself is to not think of anyone else, by theamazinJ It’s my life, and no one else’s, it’s my life, even when people disagree, it’s my life, even if anyone disagrees with me my whole life...
View ArticleA Poem Called “I am not retarded”
I am not retarded, by theamazinJ I can think for myself, I have a mind of my own, I am a Masters student, I am a filmmaker, I am an artist, I am a poet, I am a person, I am not less than what you...
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