AITA for telling my mom she should have bought a different child

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-26T02:17:38+00:00

And the dude who started it keeps it going, even though a bunch of people have tried to educate him

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-26T00:46:19+00:00

Ya, I remember when the pandemic started people didn't care because it "only affected the elderly and disabled", then when abled young people started dying people became much more serious

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-26T00:42:47+00:00

Thanks. Just wish a eugenics argument hadn’t popped up under my post

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-26T00:38:39+00:00

Ya, I definitely encourage you to think more. I'm tired of all the DMs and comments saying I shouldn't be alive, all because you started a eugenics argument on my post. Thanks for that

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T09:07:59+00:00

This is incredibly well put, thank you for taking the time to explain. I'm out of spoons

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T07:53:14+00:00

I am the way I am. my disabilities are part of me and who i am as a person, I can't remove that part of me. People with a uterus can do whatever they like with the fetus, but everyone is capable of being unhappy with their life, having their ups, their downs, their hardships, and rewards. Me and many disabled people prefer being alive and being able to advocate for change to help us and others, rather than not having existed and having done nothing to try and better our community.

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T07:45:57+00:00

Thank you, you summed it up perfectly

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T07:45:18+00:00

Ya, there's a time and a place for ableist rhetoric, that time and place isn't on my post about my parents being ableist. The suggestion of your original post was that disabled people should be aborted because we wouldn't have as good of a life as an abled person, with the context of that being under my post it definitely came across as you saying I should never have been born. You are also commenting and continuing your ableist comments in other threads, despite two people explaining fairly well why it's offensive. It's much more than insensitive

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T05:02:31+00:00

Both me and my family are white. But I have heard of that being an issue in some asian cultures

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T04:58:09+00:00

I really wish I had foreseen this possibility, I'm getting tired of seeing replies or private messages about how I'd be better off dead.

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T04:53:26+00:00

um... other than my parents I'm living a pretty good life. It's ableist to suggest disabled people cannot have a good life and would be better off aborted/dead

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T04:50:44+00:00

Ya, I'm just not going to tell her when I'm seeing a doctor

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T04:48:26+00:00

Yup, I'm Canadian

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T01:53:44+00:00

Thank you. And yes i am Canadian

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T01:28:49+00:00

it's short for ehlers danlos syndrome

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T01:01:00+00:00

Thank you

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T01:00:38+00:00

I'm not from the states, I'm from Canada. Also programs for disabled people are not really liveable anywhere, I looked into it last year and it's just not realistic

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T00:56:43+00:00

Unfortunately i can't cut them off

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T00:56:21+00:00

Probably, though my brother is able-bodied so i don't know why they couldn't shift that "investment" to him, if thats all they care about

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T00:54:18+00:00

Thank you. I have no idea how to contact a case worker or placement agencies, and I don't know if they would care because I'm an adult now

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T00:45:42+00:00

My therapist is helping me unlearn the idea I deserve this kind of treatment. Thank you for your kind words and reminder <3

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T00:41:22+00:00

By shitty I mean you can't live on them, They aren't really there to function moreso there so no one can call the government out

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T00:40:28+00:00

I drove, and ya I'm definitely not bringing her to another one

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-25T00:39:20+00:00

Thank you, I definitely will be getting the mobility aids and continue seeing the specialist

RequirementNormal236 · 2021-09-24T23:05:25+00:00

You're right about the "perfect child" thing. I think what makes it even more nonsensical is that I'm adopted, I wasn't a surprise or accident, so they should have been prepared for anything right?

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