Purposeful Steps Away From Ableism | Alyson Seale | TEDxChilliwack

Doctors shame and verbally abuse those of us with chronic illness and pain. I honestly don't want to exist anymore.

Thanks this was a wonderful lecture. Very well spoken and persuasive. This is also super helpful for a paper I am writing on ableism.

so true!!! there is no disability books EVER.

Accept people who refuse food. Not everyone is able to eat everything you can.

Wonderful talk. I will have to check out more of your work. Tabs is a new one I will use.

You have a gift for articulating what PWD systemically go through on a daily basis.

That's awesome 😍😍

i am so much less bothered by the labels and words that people aim at me rather than the actions they take that shut me out of the every day world.

YES. EVERY WORD.

Wowzers,bravo,excellent talk and a very important analysis

That is an amazing lecture on ableism! This ableism lecture is going to be a very handy resource when I co-write a blog on ableism! Kudos

I worked with the late great Dr. Margaret Condon, professor of psychology, who was a quadriplegic and worked on drafting the Americans with Disabilities Act. She would deplore what you are saying in this video. She hated the way that some people, like you, tried to instill the idea of victimization into disabled people's minds. She often said "stop being a crybaby" and she lived what she said. She NEVER felt sorry for herself and certainly didn't encourage it in others. It's not that she didn't recognize obstacles, she just got on with overcoming them.

I loved this discussion on ableism. However, based on her language and dismissal of the other isms, i can tell she voted in favor of banning abortion rights, as well as shouts ALL LIVES MATTER. It would have been beetter if she had acknowledged intersectionalities of disabled people. Because the disabled can experience racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia all on top of ableism.

ableism is a huge drag on potential economic growth.
throw away materialism in relationships

If you chew your resentment like a cud, you can make a career from it.