We live in a massively ableist society and I loathe the stigmatisation and othering of disabled people, the notion that disabled people represent a burden at both a family and societal level, and the general lack of support and understanding of disability that there is in the world. That said...

... I am disabled and…

World sure would be great if we didn’t have people running around with Down Syndrome, deformed limbs, paralysis, visual impairments, learning disabilities, diabetes, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, etc., is that what you’re saying?

The way to address the gender imbalance problem is with gender equity, rather than placing restrictions on women’s access to reproductive health care. Similarly, I’m all for continued improvements and enlightenment re: attitudes toward and resources for people with disabilities. If we have a society where having a…

Hmmm.... Gypsies? Lepers?

God I love when they’re all directly confronted with what inclusion means. If you’re gonna let one religion in, you have to let them all!

Anyone else use "I love her to death but..." I've noticed this one is being used more and more. I use it at least once a week.

Why would Ralts be a dissapointment? That's one of my favorite pokemon. :( I spent 5hrs just the other day trying to find a shiny one by chaining. Best I got was one with perfect stats, the hidden ability, telepathy, and synchronize as an egg move.

CLAM. NO.

Vulva seems unseen too. And also sounds like a pokemon.

Or how about a Georgia O'Keefe?

Like wearing a white hood.

If you systematically prevented the birth of say, black kids or gay kids, would that not count as a kind of genocide even if you weren't killing those who were alive? And in case you think that's a false comparison, there were times when "science" deemed black people to be less intelligent and "less human", and it…

And that's a perfectly rational decision. If you couldn't handle raising an autistic kid, I agree that it's better not to bring them into the world. It's just if you'd thought that we suffered so much simply because of being autistic, well, to us it's about as absurd as aborting a child because pre-screening showed…

Because you value cooking and pooping skills over the many voices of severe autistics who say "even like this I have a high quality of life"? I mean, if you couldn't handle raising such a child, that's one thing. But if you're deciding that solely based on thinking that severe autism automatically (or even just…

I'm sorry, but this is one of the most common silencing tactics used against autistics and it is utter bullshit. "You can speak/write/express an opinion, your opinion disagrees with ours, so you're obviously not autistic enough to be part of the discussion". I've read blogs by people with far more severe autism than…

I'm autistic and it doesn't stop me from living a happy life. In fact, even if it's meant I don't have the instinctive social intelligence non-autistics seem to have (but which can often be learnt by autistics), it's given me scary good intelligence with things like computers, maths, science, pretty much any complex…

"Maturing is realizing how many things don't require your comment."

Okay, I'm going to stop trying to explain things and try to actually help you.

I'm in the middle of this company tech thing, but I want to say this: this is exactly the right thing to do when people aren't paying proper attention to a real problem; it's not something I completely ignored but I obviously didn't give it proper attention, and I'm sorry about that; give me about 24-48 hours to…

I'm forever grateful that GSUSA is not like this. I'm sorry for the LGBTQ boy scouts that have had to deal with this crap. It's complete bullshit.