Comments on: Blogging Against Disablism Day, 2009 http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2009/ Parenting, privilege, and rethinking the norm Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Blogging Against Disablism | Mental Health Camp http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2009/#comment-7824 Blogging Against Disablism | Mental Health Camp Sun, 02 May 2010 00:50:13 +0000 http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2009/#comment-7824 [...] "Bipolar/postpartum depression/post traumatic stress disorder/social anxiety dismissed as a quack dia..." Blogging Against Disablism Day, 2009 « Raising My Boychick [...] [...] “Bipolar/postpartum depression/post traumatic stress disorder/social anxiety dismissed as a quack dia…” Blogging Against Disablism Day, 2009 « Raising My Boychick [...]

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]]> By: Arwyn http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2009/#comment-321 Arwyn Wed, 13 May 2009 06:06:00 +0000 http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2009/#comment-321 I too sometimes struggle with whether it's "really" a disability -- and the horrible thing is, the more disabled I am by my disease, the more the Crazy Voices try to tell me it's really /not/, thereby cutting me off from the help and support and community that I would need to get/stay sane. I eventually decided (not that the Crazy Voices don't still try to speak up) that I can say, yes, this is a disability, and yes, I am a bonafide member of that community; I only need to remember that /my/ experience with /this/ disease doesn't mean I can go without examining the multitude of ways I exist with more privilege than other persons with disabilities. I can own my own reality and my own disability without dishonoring anyone else's.<br /><br />Of course, that's rather easier said than done. I too sometimes struggle with whether it’s “really” a disability — and the horrible thing is, the more disabled I am by my disease, the more the Crazy Voices try to tell me it’s really /not/, thereby cutting me off from the help and support and community that I would need to get/stay sane. I eventually decided (not that the Crazy Voices don’t still try to speak up) that I can say, yes, this is a disability, and yes, I am a bonafide member of that community; I only need to remember that /my/ experience with /this/ disease doesn’t mean I can go without examining the multitude of ways I exist with more privilege than other persons with disabilities. I can own my own reality and my own disability without dishonoring anyone else’s.

Of course, that’s rather easier said than done.

]]> By: Broodmother http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2009/#comment-309 Broodmother Mon, 04 May 2009 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2009/#comment-309 I didn't even think of bipolar disorder as an "official" disabling disease until I read this, but oh! how it is. This is fabulous, and very sad. I didn’t even think of bipolar disorder as an “official” disabling disease until I read this, but oh! how it is. This is fabulous, and very sad.

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