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Pink collar jobs are working class jobs. Pink collar jobs are working class jobs!!
Sara Luterman
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Sara Luterman
@slooterman
Disability and aging reporter @19thnews. Opinions are my own. Send tips to: [email protected] or slooterman.18 on Signal.
- Just so everyone understands, wheelchairs are often custom-fitted devices that cost thousands of dollars. Fixing them can involve specialty parts and a complex approval process for the majority of people who can’t just pay out of pocket.Wheelchair users have been trying for ages to raise awareness about their wheelchairs being broken so often when they fly, and the devastating impact this has on them. @AmericanAir baggage handlers decided to give a demonstration of how much they enjoy breaking them 😡
00:00 - Kids should be allowed in most public spaces even if they’re not spectacularly well behaved. Socially isolating parents until their kids are older (or indefinitely if their kids have certain disabilities) is bad, actually. Adults can suck it up and deal.
- I…. I do not think this is going to please anyone, actually.
- The fight for marriage equality isn't over according to disability advocates. Disabled people who rely on programs like SSI face steep penalties if they choose to tie the knot. I wrote about it @19thnews.
- My therapy practice just announced is no longer doing televisits. Telehealth has been a godsend for me in terms of my mental health. It’s not the kind of medical appointment where I need to get a blood test. There’s no physical reason to go to an office. This sucks so hard.
- The first person to ever have received an autism diagnosis, Donald Triplett, has died. He lead a full life in a community that supported and appreciated him. wlbt.com/2023/06/16/don…
- Some personal news: I am now officially @19thnews’s aging and disability reporter. I am still mostly covering the same things, but now there’s more room for the parts of aging and disability that are beyond or apart from caregiving. I’m excited for this evolution of my beat.
- In four states, you can’t get divorced if you’re pregnant, and they have now also banned abortion.
- My spouse is moderately to severely immunocompromised (takes daily high dose corticosteroids) and just got turned away for a second bivalent booster at our local pharmacy. So that’s frustrating. The new CDC guidelines don’t mean a lot if pharmacies aren’t following them.
- Churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, etc. are not required to be accessible to people with disabilities — A carve out in the Americans with Disabilities Act. This is an even bigger problem than usual when religious institutions are polling places.Something you may not know: religious institutions like churches are exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act. But 20 percent of all polling places are in religious institutions, meaning many people with disabilities are denied the right to vote msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…
- The word “retard” is a highly derogatory term for people with intellectual disabilities. You do not have an intellectual disability. I do not have an intellectual disability. Autistic people without intellectual disability don’t get to “reclaim” or use that word.ATTENTION DREW HATERS: To all the haters who claim I am not neurodivergent enough to reclaim use of the word “retard” in a progressive and liberating fashion, I just dug up my old kindergarten records - EXPLAIN THIS. I was basically the GOAT of being on the spectrum as a kid.
- Replying to @emeriticusAh yes, the extremely apolitical era after 9/11 and during the early phase of the Iraq War. Nothing political happened in schools at all during that time.
- Replying to @fodderfigureI am just laughing about the fact that the wildest achievement neurotypical people can imagine for us is giving a TED Talk about Living with Autism.
