“Don’t accept accomodations for things you could use help with, just git gud scrub” is one of the more ablist things I’ve seen on Lemmy. Congrautlations on being the biggest fucking prick I’ve seem today.
Right, that might be the case for me (though I’m not sure how I’m supposed to significantly improve my memory, everyone’s gets worse with age, kinda a fact of life)
But for the percentage of people with neuro-divergencies where this could help, surely this would be them working against their faults? Using appropriate tools to make their lives easier is a much more viable solution than telling someone to change something about themselves that they ultimately might not be able to.
You wouldn’t tell a leg amputee to figure out how to hop around, you’d tell them to get crutches or a prosthetic.
I’m pretty active in ADHD spaces and seeing “then try to improve” set my teeth on edge.
I grew up with assholes trying to tell me to just “work on it.” Makes me crazy we live in the future and there are still people so entitled that they’ll tell disabled people “tough cookie.”
Then work against you faults to make yourself better.
That’s not an excuse. It’s going to be harder for you then for some - tough cookie.
If someone had tendency to, IDK, cut themselves, the attitude shouldn’t be “oh so sad” but helping them to change.
“Don’t accept accomodations for things you could use help with, just git gud scrub” is one of the more ablist things I’ve seen on Lemmy. Congrautlations on being the biggest fucking prick I’ve seem today.
Right, that might be the case for me (though I’m not sure how I’m supposed to significantly improve my memory, everyone’s gets worse with age, kinda a fact of life)
But for the percentage of people with neuro-divergencies where this could help, surely this would be them working against their faults? Using appropriate tools to make their lives easier is a much more viable solution than telling someone to change something about themselves that they ultimately might not be able to.
You wouldn’t tell a leg amputee to figure out how to hop around, you’d tell them to get crutches or a prosthetic.
Thank you.
I’m pretty active in ADHD spaces and seeing “then try to improve” set my teeth on edge.
I grew up with assholes trying to tell me to just “work on it.” Makes me crazy we live in the future and there are still people so entitled that they’ll tell disabled people “tough cookie.”