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To All The Children In Severe Pain Tonight (BADD 2015) | Ballastexistenz
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To All The Children In Severe Pain Tonight (BADD 2015). May 1, 2015. This is my post for Blogging Against Disablism Day. I will also have a post on my poetry blog, once I get around to rounding up all the poems I’m going to put in that post.]. I reach out for my body. It’s an instinct, all young ones must have it. But instead of feeling hands and feet, I feel a blast of burning pain, like stepping into an oven. Because you’re in severe pain and you don’t even know it. You may not even recognize it as...
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Goodbye, Ron. | Ballastexistenz
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March 7, 2015. My favorite picture of my dad, farm boy to the core and grinning from ear to ear. Once he found out I liked the overalls, he wore them every time he visited me. But last time we visited… call it a premonition, call it whatever you like, it was the first time we cried when saying goodbye. We both knew we’d never see each other in person again. Neither of us could say it. But we knew. 50 years 5 months 10 days How can I say they were not enough. When they were filled with so many adventures.
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Gossip-Free Zone | Ballastexistenz
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Gossip is the enemy of any community. Anyone who believes similarly to me is welcome to use the graphic on their blog and link back to this page, if they want to. I know some people may cringe at the wording of the following, but it conveys the message better than I can, it’s a poem I’ve seen floating around on anti-gossip websites:. My Name is Gossip. My name is Gossip. I have no respect for justice. I maim without killing. I break hearts and ruin lives. The more I am quoted, the more I am believed.
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Words that bite my brain | Ballastexistenz
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Words that bite my brain. June 24, 2011. I can’t stand these words. Words that cause a range of cognitive pain for me. Not as in “feel like doing”. There’s a reason, though, that I’ve abandoned the idea of writing most of these words down in public, in this post. Because when I’ve brought it up in the past, I’ve gotten a variety of pretty offensive responses. They treat me like not knowing these words is a sign of some kind of privilege. They assume because I can’t handle or don’t understand ...They sugg...
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The Summer Thing | Ballastexistenz
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February 20, 2010. I want to start out by explaining what this is, and what this is not. Blog carnivals tend to bring in unfamiliar readers. People tend to misunderstand topics like this one. So here goes:. This is for the disability blog carnival. The theme is relationships. It might take awhile to explain how it fits into this theme, but I’ll get there in the end. I have always experienced the world in ways that mesh up with neither language nor most people around me. But even without neuroleptics, con...
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Mel Baggs | Ballastexistenz
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Author Archives: Mel Baggs. There is ableism somewhere at the heart of your oppression, no matter what your oppression might be. May 1, 2016. If you are oppressed, then you face ableism. It’s that simple. You’re probably not used to this concept at all, so I’ll explain (1). Bear with me, because this is quite important whether you know it yet or not. So now I’m going to describe some specific examples of ableism in the forms it takes when it’s embedded in other forms of oppression. These ...When people o...
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Comment Policy | Ballastexistenz
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I can’t do a strict comment policy with specific rules, because my brain won’t work like that. Everything depends on context. But here are some basic guidelines:. Positive comments are almost always okay. Negative comments and disagreement are also almost always okay. Malice is never okay, even when it tries to be sneaky and hide behind ideas like ‘disagreement’. I have no tolerance for malice and bullying. This includes malicious gossip. Anger is okay. Attacking people in certain ways, is not okay.
