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“YOU PATHOLOGIZE MY EMOTIONS TO INVALIDATE MY REALITY.” / 2012
if only i could of found words like this in my defense, when im sitting in that chair and that dr. is spoon feeding me the medicine to make my compass work.
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Just ‘cause this isn’t twitter doesn’t mean it’s not trending. Stop the trend. Say ‘No’ to Underage Implanting.[“I don’t have time to learn ASL. Why change my life to fit him, when I can just fit him .. with a cochlear implant?” said 80% of parents who had a Deaf child in 2012.]
Statistics are scary.
i read a really great book exploring the politics of cochlear implants. i could rant on about this for awhile…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7itywQNqP1qavk9qo1_500.jpg)
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Just ‘cause this isn’t twitter doesn’t mean it’s not trending. Stop the trend. Say ‘No’ to Underage Implanting.
[“I don’t have time to learn ASL. Why change my life to fit him, when I can just fit him .. with a cochlear implant?” said 80% of parents who had a Deaf child in 2012.]
Statistics are scary.
i read a really great book exploring the politics of cochlear implants. i could rant on about this for awhile…
It is often assumed that sexuality is a concept that simply doesn’t apply to people with disabilities. I wasn’t asked by a doctor if I was sexually active until I was 27. I always had to volunteer that information. Some doctors even responded with blatant surprise. This isn’t exactly encouraging from some of the most highly educated members of our communities, is it?
— Don’t look past my disabled body - love it by Stella Young
(Source: theage.com.au)
In this article one of the quotes from the artist reads “And that the art audience in turn learn something about their very structure, of what it takes to be a human without confusing them with science. “
…it got me thinking.
when we make the distinction between being human and science it truly highlights the way in which science as an institution of power imperializes over our bodies, our selves—-and when science and self are talked about synonymously it important to ask, what got lost in this translation, at what expense and who is profiting?
(Source: CNN)
A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, “So does God, that’s why you can see the Grand Canyon from the moon.
— Andrea Gibson (via brookeellen)
perhaps, its the discrimination embedded in medical practice that makes fat folks “sick”. see below.
It’s shit like this that leads to the appearance of higher rates of illness among fat people, which then feeds the idea that chronic disease is critically tied to weight. however, as you can see in this article, perhaps it has nothing to do with weight at all, maybe it has more to do discrimination and disempowerment fostered by a medical community, which reveals nothing, but disdain for those who do not adhere to the body norms.
put differently, if fat folks are being “banned” from certain medical arenas due to their size, their exposure to high quality care is diminished, thus leading to higher rates of “sickness”. again, this trend does not get attributed to discrimination, but rather weight, which feeds the obesity epidemic beast and fuels more discrimination, and fat hatred.
FUCK THIS MAKES ME ANGRY.
