Annie in wonderland

This is going to be a bit of a different post due to the controversial nature of it, and this is something that we need to be aware of when people are talking about “inclusion, equality, and diversity,” something that has been hijacked and politized to the core in universities, at its core it’s about including everyone in the conversation. However, I see that there is a group of people who are often left out of the conversation until it becomes critical because someone has been harmed and people start to realize that there is very little education or training around disability in schools and higher education facilities, except that they do have some forms of what they call disability accommodations, but one look on Reddit we see that many professors don’t accept them or don’t even realize they exist. This is because they have been abused by people who don’t need them, so what is it that I am rambling on about, well it’s disability erasure and mainstreaming of disability. This is a good...

  What is the digital divide and how is it relevant in disability care? I So let’s start by breaking down what is the digital divide, it is basically those who have access to stable, internet that isn’t blocked by the state or other bad faith actors.   However we do see that people need to be able to afford to pay for the service and this can be another issue if you can’t access the internet then how do you, do most things that people do online these days? Like job searching, like watching streaming services or on-demand TV, we see that this is distinctly different from those who for ethical, health, or religious reasons have chosen to go screen-free In saying that we see that in being screen-free in their home they might have access to screens through other places like their work or public libraries, They understand what is a conscious decision and they can work around it.   However, what I am talking about is those who don’t have a choice in the matter because t...

 This is a hard one to talk about because the internet and googling have saved many a disabled person at the hands of a time-poor doctor and they have been able to self-medicate but this is the issue that in doing this you might actually cause yourself or another person harm by doing this.  There has been an explosion of people gaining access to medications through googling and getting access to medications that are meant for others' medical condition the big two I can think of is people gaining ADHD medications for study drugs and people using some types of insulin for weight loss when you don't have diabetes or another condition that causes weight gain.  So you make it harder for yourself to have good health care by not trusting doctors or by pushing the doctors to make a diagnosis so you can get what you want, it harms everyone and this isn't a good thing in a way that we see that people want to help themselves but we see that if you are saying things like everyon...