Being the caregiver of an autistic / disabled person does not give you free reign to mention they still wear diapers.

butterflyinthewell:

You aren’t educating anyone when you do that. You’re pity-seeking and you’re embarrassing the disabled / autistic person unless they gave you permission to mention their diapers. If the person’s development progresses in a way to let them be mainstreamed in school (even if part-time), their peers will be relentless. Yes, the stuff you blog is seen by everyone unless your blog is strictly private.

But most caregivers never friggin’ consider that. (Sarcasm) It’s all about them and how they are affected by living with an autistic / disabled person, right? (/sarcasm)

Stephen Hawking managed to go through the last years of his life without the internet knowing what’s under his trousers. I think you caregivers can afford the same dignity to the autistic / disabled person in your life.

If they want to mention their own diapers, fine. That’s their choice. Stop taking it away from them.

memecucker:

oh yeah also non-citizens shoul be given the right to vote in American elections otherwise “taxation without representation” & whatnot

funfact it wasnt until 1928 that non-citizens were totally barred from voting in election. this is literally an area where suffrage in the United States has been reduced which kinda messes with narratives of an inexorable progressive march in American history bc could you imagine the reaction if people pushed for this? like the idea that all adults living in an area for an extended period of time should have the right to vote for a politician to represent them is just far too radical and unprecedented