Dr. Martin Luther King said, "As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.” I feel like working through our #InternalizedAbleism is part of setting the mind free. It's an ongoing process, & no one ever truly arrives. I'm still working on it, for sure! I've been helped along in my journey by so many wonderful disabled people, & I'm so grateful. So, I'm paying it forward to my community by trying to be an example of a bold, proud, fearless, take-no-shit disabled human.

struggling so much with #InternalizedAbleism as of late, and I hate it so much

I am a putzer. Wherever I am, I'm putzing around it. Putzing around the kitchen, currently.
#internalizedableism

What unconscious messages are hiding in your mind?

One of the most important things you can do for your overall wellness is to think about your internalized messages. There are several components to the messages about ourselves that we take to our subconscious, and all of them deserve examining. Doi

https://chickenyogi.com/2023/02/05/what-unconscious-messages-are-hiding-in-your-mind/

#hiddenbias #internalizedableism #internalizedfatphobia #internalizedmisogyny #subconsciousmessages

And I've learned from discussion of this series that not only was V. C. Andrews #disabled, her mom was a restrictive and abusive caretaker, and GOSH that explains some more disturbing and repetitive themes in her books a lot. #InternalizedAbleism

@bobreeduk @actuallyautistic no confusion here, I can resent self-imposed structure just as much. It's the #InternalizedAbleism that makes me think I can tolerate it

Call it #InternalizedAbleism and you'd probably be right, but I'm extremely hesitant to frame anything as "I need".
I think I'm about to finally step into that realm at this point though.
I need a treadmill desk if I'm going to be "productive" at all because sitting and standing hurts but extremely slow walking is tolerable in 30 min stretches.

The environmentalist in me is crying at how we drove to the voting place a 12 min walk away, so I’m just gonna tell her to shut up because it hurts to breathe right now 😮‍💨
#InternalizedAbleism masquerading as social justice is shit, y’all.

#indroduction part 2

Also, I am #fat, specifically a #superfat, and #fatphobia has colored my entire life. I have a congenital heart birth defect and asthma. I have spent a lot of time unlearning (and am still unlearning) #InternalizedFatphobia and #InternalizedAbleism, and am pretty fkn unapologetic about my body at this point.