Rooted in Rights Blog
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My Educational Experiences with Attention Deficit Disorder and Why Accommodations are So Crucial
The following post is part of our series on perspectives from disabled and chronically ill people regarding COVID-19. The global pandemic has affected each of us in ways no one could have imagined. It has exposed the structural failures of…
Facebook Avatars Are Fun…But They’re Definitely Not Disability-Inclusive.
Like many people, I’ve been spending a lot of my quarantine time mindlessly scrolling through Facebook. Amidst the cute cat photos, career updates from writer friends, and selfies of at-home haircuts, I noticed a new trend last week: People were…
We Cannot Neglect the Health Needs of Chronically Ill and Disabled People During the Pandemic
The following post is part of our series on perspectives from disabled and chronically ill people regarding COVID-19. This post is not intended as medical advice. Please note this post only uses first names and some names have been changed…
Using a Wheelchair Shouldn’t Mean I Have to Play “Guess My Weight” at the Doctor
Most people know not to lie to their doctors. Nobody wants to end up like the person in a medical drama on TV who withheld vital medical information and ends up dying because of something treatable. But what happens when…
Accessible Online Job Recruitment Must Be a Priority, Now and Always
It’s psychometric testing time. My excitement at making it through the first stage of the recruitment process for a grad position fades to apprehension at the thought of those multichoice problem-solving or personality quizzes. I’m hardly the only one to …
For the Disability Community, Authentic Representation Makes a World of Difference
When I was in sixth grade, I started a scrapbook of articles about disabled people. Each article was carefully cut out from newspapers and magazines, or printed out from the early 2000s Internet, and slipped into a page protector in…
How Can Parents and Kids with Disabilities Cope During COVID-19?
The following post is part of our series on perspectives from disabled and chronically ill people regarding COVID-19. In the age before the internet when many Autistic girls were misdiagnosed, my mother used to say, “Amy is like any other…
The “Anosognosia” Label is Psychiatric Gaslighting Masquerading as Science
Content notes: mental illness, forced treatment Since the late 1990s, a movement composed of medical professionals, cops, and caregivers has advanced a strategic campaign of psychiatric gaslighting designed to shift public policy steadily towards canceling the rights of mad and…