I have cerebral palsy and I'm expected to live a normal lifespan and I have people who care about me. I graduated high school and have done freelance work so I don't know what you mean by a fair shot at life? Do I not have a fair shot at life? Who are you to say?

You can live a good life even without all those things. I just hate how we're treated like we're just these unsalvageable pieces of fucking shit

The way only like 3 of these are actually detrimental and have low chances of a good state of living. Also how the fuck do you gene delete SCHIZOPHRENIA? THE CONDITION THAT CAN APPEAR WITH NO PRECURSOR?

The Anarchist Turtle 🏴Ⓐ🔆 This is such an important reason we shouldn’t conflate “disability” with “sickness”. A lot of those conditions they listed are horrible illnesses that really destroy people’s lives and cause severe suffering. While people with certain disabilities who aren’t severely ill can have

The Anarchist Turtle 🏴Ⓐ🔆 So many of these aren't even strictly genetic 💀 My brother's cerebral palsy was caused by head trauma during birth, my asthma was caused by being born almost 3 months too early and with fused lungs that means my lungs will always be scarred because of that

TheDarkDuchess the problem with “fixing” genetic differences is that it’s very expensive, so it will just slot into the class war, making ableism much much worse, and the wealth gap much much worse. have you genuinely read or watched zero dystopian fiction? try gattaca for an excellent example

i promise rumi loving jinu doesnt make her any less of a "girlboss"

Idk why people are taking this as me speaking for all disabled people. I'm speaking for myself and how language and perceptions like this make me feel and how they're hurtful to me

durability systems are usually way too punishing or entirely negligible and hardly any games have struck the balance well

Hot take but I don't think this is the proper response to a disabled person sharing their personal perspective on a topic

Tear them down and build housing. There is no way this should be challenging. Every abandoned mall should be hundreds of new apartments.

so true maia from last year

The amount of disingenuous people that see disabled folks talking about the eugenics of developmental disabilities & responding smartassery like: "I guess trying to cure cancer is eugenics" "Vacc*nes are eugenics then"

People like this have no understanding what developmental disabilities are. Nor do they care about the differences of these complex disabilities vs a virus/disease. They just want disability and illness as a whole eliminated. Period. It's eugenics.

Dr Helen Ingram They’re well on the way to banning social media and it’s been happening over a long time. I remember a few events happening under Theresa May’s watch and each time she blamed the internet and social media for facilitating radicalisation. They’ll ban everything that allows people

okay now think about how much gene editing will cost and consider who gets access to the technology

barren rock doesn't get colonized though colonization is inherently tied to resource extraction and violence