I consider myself a kind individual and would never treat anyone cruelly. However I have a innate revulsion for people with disabilities. Both physical ( if it is severe. I have no problem with someone in a wheelchair who otherwise looks average) and intellectual like Down's Syndrome. I fight this inner feeling and still treat everyone with respect and dignity. But I just never feel comfortable or at ease in the presence of the disabled. Am I ableist?

I spent months documenting a company’s fraudulent practices to warn others. I used Claude AI as assistive technology because I have multiple disabilities affecting memory and communication. It helped me organize information dumps into clear, readable timelines.

My post was removed from a subreddit for “AI-generated content.” When I explained I’m disabled and use AI the way others use screen readers or speech-to-text, the moderators called it a “victim stance” and “guilt/shame tactics.”

This is why blanket anti-AI policies are ableist. Many disabled people rely on AI tools to communicate effectively, structure thoughts, and make our voices heard. It’s adaptive technology.

You don’t have to like AI. But penalizing disabled users for using communication assistance is discrimination. These policies create barriers that silence the people who need these tools most.

I posted in r/ChatGPT about being a disabled user losing the only ChatGPT model/workflow I can reliably use for high-stakes admin, benefits, legal letters, complaints and organisation. I expected some disagreement. I did not expect quite such a clean Ableism Bingo card. 🧑🏻‍⚖️⚖️🔨

I mean, I rely on it to assist me with the day to day tasks of living, managing appointments, and all of the other things I have mentioned. I am completely burned out, not just with Audhd but also other health issues as well so I do not have many spoons. And I have been using it in order to assist me in getting practical support, from OT services so that I can sort out assistance with all the above.

The model I am currently using goes away on the 14th of this month, I have tried contacting the company to see if they have any reasonable adjustments. I am simply not well enough nor do I have enough EF or Cognitive bandwidth to learn another new model or interact with the upgraded ones and not really understand how to use them or prompt them.. that means I would be more likely to make mistakes that could impact badly on sensitive subjects.

But genuinely, I am horrified by the comments and the discrimination I encountered on that subreddit, and by being downvoted for saying I could not manage suggestions I had already explained were inaccessible to me.

I feel really gutted by the whole thing. It was not just disagreement; it was watching people repeatedly reframe an access need as preference, laziness, emotional attachment, poor planning, or refusal to adapt. I wish I could adapt instead I just got pitchforks and a mob coming at me. 😓

feel really disheartened right now....

So DeuxRAMA has a thread mocking me for my ptsd and my neurological issues. And yeah, they pinged me.

https://np.reddit.com/r/DeuxRAMA/comments/bcg1k0/rgendercynical_tranny_needs_trigger_warnings/

Hi.

I am seeking some tools or ideas of how I can have better results in public - if I can.

I live in a place that is majority Black people. I am white and I am invisibly disabled. I am also pretty severely disabled right now because I havent gotten any treatment for a lifetime of a chronically worsening condition yet. My condition is also primarily cognitive and nervous system symptoms, which I find to be the least understood conditions.

What happens very often, is when I go out, I need an accomodation or to ask for assistance, and people profile me as an entitled white woman and they are rude, dont help me, go out of their way to make things harder, and/or refuse to do their job, which can leave me in a bad place. For example, this happened at the dmv last week. When I told the woman that what she was saying didnt make sense to me, she replied, "That's because you are choosing for it not to make sense!!!"

She called the security guard, who stood above me with 1ft of space, and I had to ask 8 times to step back so I had space to stand up to leave. ​Now, I will likely get a ticket for having an expired registration and I cant get help to fix it at all so far. This is just one example of so many.

This is so bad and frequent in my life that I am going to move. I can't live here. My meds are left upstairs where I cant go, my SSA office falsifies my paperwork and hangs up on me, my landlord wont respond to accomodation requests. None of this is legal, but it doesnt seem to matter because nobody I have contacted has helped me to stop them, unless I open an entire civil suit against any of them.

I understand that racism exists and why people are lashing out at me. But it is ableism and I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this or has any ideas on things to say or how to get people to take you seriously and stop abusing and harassing you, etc?

Does this also you that ick (not sure how else to put it) feeling for being ableism?

I'm new to this subreddit and I did read all the rules but I do apologize if I mess up. Please let me know if I am being ableist or not regarding my stance on this.

For context, I am a nursing student. I have autism and have a harder time than most if not all of my classmates at understanding basic human things like facial cues, tones, and certain instructions.

Our instructors are constantly stressing safety and fidelity in and of our work. I have a classmate who is constantly calling things by the R-slur. However, another thing about the same classmate, is that she is SEVERELY dyslexic. To the point where all of her exams have to be read out loud to her in a separate room. Why use that slur if you'd be called the same thing by someone else?

Where my question comes in, is that I don't think someone THAT dyslexic should be a nurse. When we get to our licensure exam she won't be able to have that accommodation. And then we get into the real world, what if she misreads a medication label (in regards to TALLMAN lettering), or an order, or a chart note, then what? I haven't told her I think this but I just want to know if that makes me ableist.

And not even as her classmate with outward bias but thinking about it from the patient's perspective. I as a patient in a hospital, would not want a dyslexic nurse. That's like having a blind optometrist or a deaf audiologist. Please let me know and if you could possibly provide a reason why it's ableist or a valid reason, and what you think of this issue that probably isn't really an issue and I'm being histrionic. Thank you.

who people think they are exactly to tell me what I am and what I'm not just because I'm not diagnosed ? I can't diagnose 'cause I don't have enough money, and I can't even work for that money' cause I can't work, and I don't wanna get harrassed, abused or shamed for my autistic traits nor do I wanna mask. plus not everyone can afford it and a diagnostic isn't available to anyone and it takes a lot of times, keep that in mind ! so what if I'm self-diagnosed ? I am still valid ! no one gets to tell me what I am and what I'm not, especially when they don't even know me, my life or how my brain is ! I know myself, you don't ! thoses people never saw the meltdowns, sensory overloads I had, all the traits I had through out my life, they never saw me so why do they think they have the right to tell me I don't have autism !? and also, I don't have to be medically trained to know my own life and brain. plus, therapists in a therapy group I went to litteraly agrees that I do have autism.

edit : for the comments dismissing my self-diagnosis, you can diagnose someone as not autistic even if you don't know them, but God forbid someone who knows their own life self-diagnose themselves ? what even is that logic ?

I’m here because I upset someone I care about and I am seeking to build a better perspective. We were discussing the topic of giving presentations, both in universities and careers. I’m of the opinion that the existence of giving presentations is an essential part of many careers or is your entire career and there is no real way around it. How you give a presentation will affect how it’s taken and thus presentation centric jobs will seek out good presenters, a contractor giving a bid presentation to a company wants to be successful.

Is there an ableist issue here? Is there a feasible means by which presentation culture could be changed such as to lessen the ableist impact?

I’d love to hear some takes on people that have been affected by this and your thoughts on how I can change my mindset

Would you take the blue pill, and subject yourself to the current reality, or the red pill, and wake up in a hypothetical real world, and maybe escape the stigma of being disabled, but maybe not.

Not mine just really loved it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/rCuMbDeWDLw?si=c0T7oYB8pMPQCQN4

u/etymology_nerd on YouTube

How does society make the environmental Justice, disablity justice? People don’t like a world of plastic, and bendy straws being banned made some people angry. And some people want a plastic free world, but there is a lot of medical plastic, and plastic jugs of juice to not shatter when dropped like glass.

But now , AI acess is disablity acess , even if it is environmentally destructive.

I do get told there can be a green future where nobody is hurt, but I am skeptical. Those who want a world as itbwas “ pure” before all these technology and mega cities.

Can we have a perfect earth friendly world, while augment the world for assessablity, attempt harm reduction, preserve and compromise? Some people have to eat meat, but others want a vegan world, or the earth and the future generations will suffer of evosystem destruction.

Keyword is unintentionally.

So, you know that the main mechanic of the game is "If you hear breathing at the door, close it."? Well, that mechanic makes the game impossible to play for deaf fans. Low-hearing? Tough luck on the pre-update version, because the sound is so quiet, you can barely hear it.

it feels like mockery

it feels like there are mocking us

they take over oue our support spaces and speak over us constanly

they leave us out of siscussin disccussions

they ignore us

they trivial ize our very sevrre disablitys by makeing it seem like a quirky funny trendy thing fhat that somehow to them doctors who are trained arent qualiyed to diagnose yet for some reason these people feel they are more qualifyed?

They speak over and attack us who aye are most vulnerable wirh with high support needs autism such as my self i usve have expereinced

they say harmful things like "severe autism no exist" or "low fuctioning is effensive" ( i have low fuctioning autism and it describes me good cause compare to high fuctioning autsitics i am very low fuctioning)

they are try to reclaim the R word i had see this month and it make me upset and thwy they dont even have intellectual disan disabilyty ( i do 51 iq)

they take away our support spacea online and in rwal real life from my experience

they particepate in autism and other disability reserch despite not being confirmed autistic or what not rhis this makes all reasrrch invalid unreliable

they bully me wnd and others with low fuctioning and or sterotypical autism as i have experwince

they cause so much harm to us and they make harm a lot it is very not kind it is fe y very bad it is not good

it is ableism mockery and bully

it is wrong

and when ever me or other confirm disabled speak out a out about these this issues we are silenced harassed bullyed punish threaten and harmed

it is wrong it is mean abd and it ahoud shoud not be happen

from a girl with low fuctioning autism intellectual disabiltty fnd learnig disubiltys and other professonal diagnoses (Me)

thank tou you for let me share here

it is importent for all us ro to share how we are effected no natter our views.

Wapecially especially those of us with confirmed profesonal diagnosed disabilitys

rnank jank thank you all dor for let me share

stay happy everrone

It is anti AI sub. The poster decided AI lovers are "low IQ" and made a cartoon of how. Awful. Including one figure wearing the helmets that people with balance problems wear. And everyone LOVED IT. It's exhausting.

I use AI to help me learn, and to better communicate. For some reason, I've been attacked for this behavior. and I tell them I have a physical disability as well as dyslexia. They don't care. I point out that they're being an ableist and they become even more angry, yelling at me constantly. Telling me I just need to try harder.

Many of these people claim to be liberals, feminists, or against racism.

This is not a troll post. I am just overly cautious and paranoid and don't want to accidentally offend someone.

Like an example of visual humor is much Sr. Pelo's works where the humor is often derived from the heavily distorted visuals and how they correspond with the audio. My overly cautious side would say yes, that it is abstractly ableist because you are lauging at how the distorted and strange the drawings are similar to how someone back in the days would laugh at a people with physical deformities in freak shows.

Again, I am not a troll, just too cautious and am making sure.

am i crazy or is this ableist as fuck??? i’m heartbroken and pissed.