CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@aetataureate @mekkaokereke

Right. The shoving tic example was clearly a demonstration of someone who intentionally pushed someone off a height or into traffic.

See ya.

@aetataureate @mekkaokereke

If that’s the point I’m “missing,” it seems like a rather false dichotomy to go from mekka’s initial post that assumed lack of intent and discussed even lack of intent causing harm and having a discussion based on that premise to “assuming that a disabled person is a saint is ableism,” but if that’s what you want to go with, go ahead.

@aetataureate @mekkaokereke That’s fair. As I understand it (admittedly as someone who was waiting for AKOTSK to air rather than watching the BAFTAs), the substance of the film about him is exactly this. So based on that context and mekka’s post, I was operating under the assumption that it was a symptom, not an excuse. Of course, if that assumption is faulty, then it’s not hard at all.

@mekkaokereke

Can I just recognize that this is really hard? Like really hard?

As you know, I don’t have your experience, but there are words about me and my people that I think come close and I can understand what you’re saying.

But there’s also a difference between a person uttering a word and a person saying it when they mean it. Both hurt, but the latter is so much worse.

I remember when I was in high school a Black friend asked me what a certain slur about me meant. Hearing them utter it was hurtful, but knowing they just didn’t know was mitigating and gave me an educable moment.

Tourette’s is obviously different and it isn’t an educable moment about the word, but it’s also a situation where the intent to be hurtful isn’t present.

So, yeah. You’re right. But also this is just really hard.