r/ableism

So I frequent a Certain sub for some things everytime an autistic child is brought up and posted their parent is accused of being entitled and having a horrible child am I overreacting? I wonder what’s the difference between advocacy and entitlement?
Example a child starts melting down in a public space and people only care about the child being potentially disruptive

To me ableism largely exists without being checked because

a) people can’t handle thinking about their own weaknesses and vulnerabilities

b) media and history haven’t taught society that ableism is in the same concept as racism, sexism, etc.

One of the most annoying things to me is an ableist liberal, as they’re supposed to be taking pride in equality and having more concern about systematic issues that contribute to this type of discrimination.

Of course ableists of any political affiliation suck, but the hypocrisy among some liberals in this regard is still kind of shocking to me.

Pardon my rant, but I recently had a VERY liberal friend say some ableist things, and it still kinda sends me.

So, how to we get this type of discrimination to be taken more seriously? Even the types of groups that are supposed to be supportive really kind of aren’t in many ways.

I've never expressed hate online or in real life, but I would never find myself hanging out with an autistic person who's sensitive or unintelligent, i don't really have this with other disabilities

Hi Everyone, I'm going to cross-post this, but I'm not sure who in here is in the Metrowest area of Massachusetts outside of Boston?

Somerville/Cambridge/Medford/Watertown... that neck of the woods.

I'm working on building a network of people who can live "interdependently" with others who have invisible disabilities. If you're interested in helping me start something so we can help each other out, please let me know so we can put our spiky skill sets together and help each other when we can.

I'd have to come up with some guidelines... ex. any support autism but low-support requests (ex. driving, grocery store trips/buddies, etc.)

If you're in this area and think this would be helpful, please feel free to DM me.

Thanks!