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I wish this country had the energy for positive liberty that it does for negative liberty.Some of you are absolutely terrified mask mandates equal police state but you don't give a single gd if the state forces disabled people to their deaths by denying us the means to live.— Gabrielle Peters ♿️ 💚 (@mssinenomine) February 23, 2022

Stop portraying disabled people as wanting something unreasonable. What's unreasonable is in 2022 you all are still fine with building housing that doesn't work for a significant chunk of humanity. What's unreasonable is capitalism deliberately deciding to sacrifice us for profit— Gabrielle Peters ♿️ 💚 (@mssinenomine) February 23, 2022

I have always argued the carceral work that social workers can play within CPS. The foster care and adoption apparatuses help prop up structural discrimination. Foster care is not a solution to abortion. It's the tool for structural oppression and cultural eugenics. https://t.co/fdMzuaWMVO— See Mia Eye the Tiger 🐯 (@SeeMiaRoll) February 23, 2022

TRANS KIDS: You are loved. You are valid. You are wonderful.PARENTS OF TRANS KIDS: You are not alone. We are with you. We're going to fight this shit.— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) February 23, 2022

I would like to honour all the autistic people who survive the care system somehow.All those who survive extreme 'therapy'.All those who are brought to their knees, reading hellish descriptions of their loved people.And all who did not survive this onslaught.— Ann Memmott PGC🌈 (@AnnMemmott) November 29, 2021

URGENT:I need hotel funds for the week ($70/day) plus $25 to order a replacement bank card before it expires in 10 days. Also need $180 for storage. Please RT this #MutualAid post. https://t.co/jOyIhBrcfn#DisabilityTwitter #ActuallyAutistic pic.twitter.com/oyzctMeJvs— R.C. Murphy (@RCMurphy) February 18, 2022

Student learning can not be boiled down to a letter grade.— Sybil (@ihaveabug) February 21, 2022

"You wouldn't need ADHD meds if we weren't living in a capitalist hellscape."What if I told you that I also have trouble initiating things that I LIKE to do?— Space Grace, the temporal anomaly 🕰️🌌 (@dreamsofskies) February 22, 2022

Autistic people aren’t emotionless. In fact, some #autistic people feel emotions stronger than the average human being but we struggle to express it facially, personally, I’ve to use visuals to express how I feel. #autism #ActuallyAutistic— AutisticPB #KindnessMatters 💙 (@AutisticPb) February 22, 2022

We need to drastically think abt how the 1.2 mil more disabled ppl will impact our safety net programs & infrastructure. Long COVID must become a key issue govs tackle. We are facing a literal cliff & yet too many cont ignoring this in order to focus on the current economy— See Mia Eye the Tiger 🐯 (@SeeMiaRoll) February 22, 2022

Showing up at work without expending all of your energy to assimilate is a privilege. Imagine the emotional effort required to analyze, monitor, and perform to consciously assimilate into a workplace. https://t.co/xV3rxoGENV— incluu (@Incluu_us) February 22, 2022

Music News? https://t.co/mOtGvZ7rP1— Josephmooon (@josephmooon) February 22, 2022

Maybe making individuals responsible for raising funds for charities to fund research that should be publicly funded and expecting disabled people to be inspiring is not actually good for us on individual or collective level. RIP— Gabrielle Peters ♿️ 💚 (@mssinenomine) February 21, 2022

Announcing the next free resource from HRP: the Sharing Power with Students Handbook!How do we create equitable, co-created spaces at school?Coming later this year! (And one of multiple free resources this year from HRP.) 🚀 #restorehumanityhttps://t.co/ydjDXoAxjp pic.twitter.com/wMTolNRzJg— Human Restoration Project (@HumResPro) February 19, 2022

https://t.co/8QFDwd9CeV New research into enforced normalisation of autistic children using ESDM (Early Start Denver Model). A seemingly friendly play system that still treats autistic children as deficient, broken examples of real children.To their astonishment/— Ann Memmott PGC🌈 (@AnnMemmott) February 20, 2022

Join us at Conference to Restore Humanity! 2022: System Reboot 🚀Featuring keynotes from Henry Giroux, Denisha Jones, and one unannounced (exciting) collaboration + 4 incredible learning tracks. All designed for virtual.July 25-28; $150Learn more at https://t.co/Ock93KJuYa pic.twitter.com/NErbHrBLH8— Human Restoration Project (@HumResPro) February 18, 2022

Neurodiversity & pathology paradigm are not compatible. Like Queer people before us we would do better to seek liberation & equal rights, not submit to gatekeeping diagnosis in hopes of getting support & acceptance which in a decent society would be a given for any needing it.— Flora (@FloragreenFlora) February 15, 2022

If autistic people didn’t have a Theory of Mind, we would literally not care what others think or whether we’re being misunderstood.. yet that is one of the most common shared and central experiences. #autism #ActuallyAutistic— dr steffi suhr (@stuffysour) February 17, 2022

Waaay ahead of you buddy 😉— Mis/Matched 🍓Dis/Ordered (@MamaRage) February 17, 2022

This is interesting too. A University with a Childism Institute. pic.twitter.com/sKQEPQd10S— MakeWalesAChildPovertyFreeZone💙 (@ElspethWebb) February 17, 2022

“Underrepresented” sounds like a random accident rather than what it is, the result of a deliberate plan of exclusion.— Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD | 道 (@taoleighgoffe) February 14, 2022

🚨I wrote about immunocompromised people—what they’ve been through, their frustrations, and their hopes.This is a plea to think about those who don’t get to be done with the pandemic, and to prioritize them as a matter of moral and medical urgency. 1/https://t.co/DBI6ssL1a5— Ed Yong (@edyong209) February 16, 2022

Add an option for alt text to be displayed for the sighted users.Add an option for people to request an image that is missing alt text be described, and a mechanism to notify the requester when someone has described it.— Katie Mixtochtli Conundrum (they/them) (@Conundrum9999) February 15, 2022

I'm a software developer by day; none of these suggestions are complicated to implement. Notice the explicit lack of an AI based solution. Keep it simple. Give us and our allies the tools and we'll make this place accessible.Non-exhaustive list; feel free to add.— Katie Mixtochtli Conundrum (they/them) (@Conundrum9999) February 15, 2022

I propose we make the 2022-23 school year about learning deceleration.Let's slow learning down; let's enjoy it; let's give kids time and space to reflect and make decision.Because the sense of urgency is squeezing all of the humanity--and the joy--out of learning.— Paul Emerich France, NBCT (he/him) (@paul_emerich) February 16, 2022

Yo #DisabilityTwitter, I've been asking @TwitterA11y to improve twitter for the blind for nearly two years. They keep not listening. I'm going to tweet this thread everyday so they hear what blind twitter users are actually asking for. Join me?The simplest: alt text reminders.— Katie Mixtochtli Conundrum (they/them) (@Conundrum9999) February 15, 2022

"a picture is worth 1000 words" -- unless you're a blind person, on twitter. Then a picture is worth 1000 characters (which is about 167 words on average).Pictures are often used because they can communicate so much, so quickly, without words. Blind people deserve more.— Katie Mixtochtli Conundrum (they/them) (@Conundrum9999) February 15, 2022

Make it visible across all platforms whether or not an existing image has or does not have alt text.Along with the reminder popup and the ability to edit after the fact, this would raise awareness of alt text across the platform.More people know it's an option more do it.— Katie Mixtochtli Conundrum (they/them) (@Conundrum9999) February 15, 2022

Being autistic is getting a daily reminder and a weekly crash course that Other People Are Not Like You.I think allistic people having a better understanding of this on a foundational level would really improve things for everyone.— AutisticSciencePerson, MSc (@AutSciPerson) February 14, 2022