Disability, Chronic Illness, & Culture
Rebecca UptonDisability & cultural analysis from Rebecca, a chronically ill Disability Studies student
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Ableist Rhetoric in the World of “Brain Retraining,” “Neuroplasticity Programs,” and “Recovery Spaces”
Like many others, I was infuriated by the new Wired article “The Painful Truth About Long Covid” by Alan Levinovitz. This article promotes brain retraining as something that has “cured” many Long COVID patients. I have been wary of these br...
"Illness Fakers"
On the dark corners of the Internet that exist just to harass chronically ill people
Note: I don't recommend EVER looking up this subreddit I’m about to discuss. I did years ago and made myself miserable because I couldn't believe the amou...
Willowbrook State School & Judge Rotenberg Center: Legacies of Institutional Abuse
Content warning: Severe abuse & neglect of disabled children.
NOTE: I originally published this in April, but I have seen people mentioning Willowbrook a lot in light of the recent DOJ memo about Olmstead, so I thought I would publish it a...
From the “Mind Cure” Movement to the Psychologizing of Long COVID & ME/CFS, Part One
“Don’t talk of sickness and disease. By talking of these you do yourself harm and you do harm to those who listen to you.... Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true.” -Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Inf...
Medications Are Not Magic
And I'm tired of able-bodied people expecting them to be.
Medications aren’t “miracle cures.” They don’t magically make all of our symptoms disappear. They don’t make the world accessible. They don’t remove our disabilities. Finding a medi...
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She/her. Writer with a degree in Disability Studies. Chronically ill, bipolar, autistic. Writing about disability here. Still masking. Free Palestine, Sudan, and Congo.
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