Medicaid cuts are so scary that an office of The Arc (the old, moderate U.S. disability rights group) is calling for the kind of social media raiding we used to do against Autism Speaks. Let’s oblige them. Facebook and/or Twitter. Your senators. 10:30 PM your time. If you can make phone calls, make the phones ring tomorrow. Suggested talking points: family values, how Medicaid keeps people employed.
Cuts mean less healthcare, less personal care, more and worse institutions, early deaths, and families impoverished. I don’t know if there’s hope, but I know there are lots of us. We’ve done this before. Maybe our actions matter. Maybe you can save our disabled siblings’ lives and liberty, shape our grandchildren’s history books. If you’re willing to pick up the wonderful, terrible possibility that what you do might mean something and see where it takes you, let’s try.
Look we can email them! Those of you who don’t do phone calls, let’s do this!
If you can, please do. If not, please signal boost. if not either of those but you wish you could, just send us your strength as best you can and we’ll do this together.
Yes! Also, you can participate in ASAN’s phone bank on June 27. If you can’t call, get someone else to call on your behalf. If you can call, you can volunteer to call on behalf of someone who can’t.
This is also a prime time to use tools like Resistbot, and Stance!
Yes! Please do all of these things. Medicaid policy is painfully dense and complex, but the TLDR of it is that less Medicaid = more institutions. Higher-support Autistics with intellectual disabilities would be terribly affected by cuts, as would lots of other people with physical or intellectual disabilities. Don’t let the loss of personal care aides put people in nursing homes and other awful places!!!
The @autisticadvocacy phone bank is TODAY, June 27, 2017. You can get help making a phone call if you need it. If you can make phone calls, please take a minute to help someone who can’t.
Day: June 27, 2017
“YOU DON’T LOOK NATIVE” – is something that bothers me greatly. I see it happen all the time, especially to Natives in the US & Canada.
Telling any Native person that they aren’t Native because they don’t fit your superficial stereotype is RACIST! Every single person pictured above is a NATIVE.
This is something that all non-Natives need to understand, there is no “Native look”.
– Not all Native women look like Disney’s “Pocahontas”.
– Not all Native men look like a Plains NDN with long flowing hair.
– Not all Natives have high cheekbones.
– Not all Natives have black straight hair. Some have brown hair, some have curly hair, some have light hair and so on.
– Yes Native men CAN grow beards and have facial hair.
– Not all Natives have brown eyes. Some have blue eyes, some have grey eyes, some have green eyes and some have hazel eyes.
– There are tall Natives and there are short Natives.
– There are dark skinned Natives, light skinned Natives and pale skinned Natives.Happy Aboriginal Day
We’re autistic, we’re human, get used to it
Some dehumanizing descriptions of autism are negative. For example, some people believe that we are incapable of love, or incapable of imagination, or incapable of understanding anything of importance.
Some dehumanizing descriptions of autism are positive. For instance, some people believe that we are incapable of lying, incapable of being manipulative, and that we always say exactly what we mean.
Autism doesn’t work that way. We are fully human, for better and for worse. We are fallible. We make communication mistakes. We don’t always know what we mean, and we don’t always express ourselves clearly. For instance, sometimes we say things that feel direct but that are actually very confusing. That’s human.
We are capable of treating others well, and we are capable of treating others badly. We are capable of caring about others, and we are capable of indifference. We are capable of being kind, and we are capable of being cruel.
Autism means having disabilities that can affect how we communicate, how we move, and how we understand things. Autism doesn’t make us better than other people, and it doesn’t make us worse. We’re not subhuman, and we’re not superhuman. We’re just people.
At Heart of Health Bill Is $800 Billion Medicaid Rollback
“Limiting the amount that the federal government would pay for each person would leave states with difficult choices”
hey mutuals try this fun thing at home
pet your cat for me and tell them I love them
Listen, if you give me only verbal instructions, understand that I will not understand a word you said no matter how good they were if it’s more than one or two steps
Dear Britain, Congratulations on your independence. Here’s what happens next. –The Global South.
On the first anniversary of the Brexit vote, many in Britain
are celebrating their ‘Independence Day’. We in the Global South have been
through this before, after we achieved our independence from, er, mostly
Britain. But we bear no grudges, so let’s start by saying hearty congratulations
on your independence, we are very happy for you. In order to make your
experience smoother, we will share some lessons and advice we have learned in
the post-independence era. So here’s what comes next.Valuable lessons there.
“Despite your best intentions, we all recognise the difficulty of negotiating a successful post-independence path. As the old saying goes ‘half of all newly independent states fail within the first few decades’. But failure is not something to despair about, it’s part of the process of growing and learning.
So at some point it’s likely that we will have to declare you a failed state. This will automatically trigger a number of procedures that you are probably familiar with by now. Firstly, we will organise some conferences in Mumbai, Dubai and Abuja with titles like ‘The UK in the Post-independence Period: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions for a Failed State’. These conference will be attended by UK experts, there will be thousands of these within months of the first signs of trouble in Britain, who will work very hard to come up with ideas that will get invited to these conferences.
Secondly, columnists will start writing opinion pieces describing in 500 words how to solve all of the UK’s problems. They might spend as long as one full-day in Newcastle talking to ordinary people as research for their columns. They will generally advocate supporting youthful entrepreneurs to help create a better future for the UK.
Should these opinion columns and conferences prove ineffective, it will be necessary to invade Britain to bring about regime change. We will do this reluctantly and with a heavy heart, and later make films about how the experience of occupation scarred us, so don’t worry it will all be done in good taste. In time, we will write you a new constitution and organise elections, but until the situation is stable enough we will need a pragmatic local leader to appoint as a provisional ruler. We’re thinking of Tony Blair.
That’s about it. Happy Independence Day from your friends in the global south. ”
Dear Britain, Congratulations on your independence. Here’s what happens next. –The Global South.
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