Ableism and Silencing
Jan. 30th, 2016 04:40 pmI have a hard time dealing with sensory beatings, the inability to escape the beatings, and the attitudes that enable the beatings, such as the idea that it’s not violence if it wouldn’t affect abled people, and the idea that we’re exaggerating or even lying.
I am being beaten again and again, and I feel like I’m being gaslit by many people the rest of the time.
P.S. Maybe I could use resources on coping with gaslighting? resources for autistic people coping with society-wide/structural gaslighting, because it could be different for allistic people or anyone dealing with one-on-one gaslighting?
P.P.S. Or whatever you want to call it, but abled people insisting that our experiences aren’t real, that talking about our experiences makes us “selfish liars,” that talking about our rights and needs is “deciding for other people,” etc.
I am being beaten again and again, and I feel like I’m being gaslit by many people the rest of the time.
P.S. Maybe I could use resources on coping with gaslighting? resources for autistic people coping with society-wide/structural gaslighting, because it could be different for allistic people or anyone dealing with one-on-one gaslighting?
P.P.S. Or whatever you want to call it, but abled people insisting that our experiences aren’t real, that talking about our experiences makes us “selfish liars,” that talking about our rights and needs is “deciding for other people,” etc.