Olivia Clawson

Twitter was popular with POPULAR disabled users. Can’t even remember how many unpopular users have been shut out of the space entirely because of a dissenting political viewpoint or calling out the ableism of being pro-military or pro-police.

Popularity is a hell of a drug.

Face to face reopening “prioritizes the losses that our most privileged students fear over the losses that our most vulnerable students face.”

While disability takes many forms, the doctors had much to say about people who use wheelchairs. Some doctors said their office scales could not accommodate wheelchairs, so they had told patients to go to a supermarket, a grain elevator, a cattle processing plant or a zoo to be weighed, or they would tell a new patient the practice was closed.
One said he didn’t think he could legally just refuse to see a patient who has a disability — he had to give the patient an appointment. But, he added, “You have to come up with a solution that this is a small facility, we are not doing justice to you, it is better you would be taken care of in a special facility.”
The doctors also explained why they could be so eager to get rid of these patients, focusing on the shrinking amount of time doctors are allotted to spend with individual patients.
“Seeing patients at a 15-minute clip is absolutely ridiculous,” one doctor said. “To have someone say, ‘Well we’re still going to see those patients with mild to moderate disability in those time frames’ — it’s just unreasonable and it’s unacceptable to me.”

Disabled workers who are employed were paid an average of 74 cents on the dollar in 2020 compared with nondisabled workers.

And it costs us 27% more to have the same standard of living as an abled person.

results of a national survey of physicians: only 56% reported that they welcome patients with disabilities to their practice; 36% said that they know “little or nothing” about the ADA; and only 41% were confident that they could provide similar quality of care to patients with disabilities as they could to those without disability.

The CDC says disabled people should just die already.

A deaf blind person was denied an ASL interpreter at a medical facility on several occasions, so she had to go elsewhere for care, and SCOTUS ruled against her, saying it’s only discrimination if someone suffers economic harm.