As a disabled woman myself I don't understand how ableism can exist. Unlike many other forms of discrimination as evil as they are, ableism is one that can affect anyone. At any point someone who was born able bodied and perfectly healthy can become disabled to no fault of their own. It's more likely as you age that you could become disabled. When able bodied people don't include disabled people in their decisions, don't make spaces more accessible for all(which benefits the abled too even if they stay able bodied forever btw), spread misinformation about disabled people, attack them, etc. they could be on the receiving end of that one day. Even the most self centered human being should care since they could become disabled themselves and, they might not be able to advocate for themselves at that point depending on how their disability affects them.
It exists because of capitalism. If you are not as useful or exploitable as they want you to be (i.e. being able to do the work without any sort of accommodations under strict grueling conditions) they don't want you. I agree ableism makes no sense, just like the systems that cause it in the first place.
I was born with Asperger's, septo optic dysplasia, and have always had to always explain. I'm wanting to drive and build classic cars, and my mom, and understand exactly what Abby went through, and I'm here in America! It's really a pandemic of judgement that will only drive the rates of poor mental health, and possibly suicide up. If there are any disabled brothers and sisters who will read this, when someone doubts me and says I won't be able to chase my dreams and that I need to work in a factory full of completely blind people, even though I have great vision from my left eye, I just know that those people who think this about any of us, don't have any clue what we are capable of. Be who you want to be. Stay strong. ✌️
This was a great video--but I also hope they do one on invisible disabilities like chronic illnesses, and late diagnosis (which affects a lot of AFAB people due to medical bias).
Can I please ask what 'AFAB' means? I have ME/CFS, & Complex PTSD...I have witnessed & experienced a whole heap of ableism...that I did not..BEFORE.. the development of these. I would also like to see a video on this subject.
this is so accurate. i’m not from australia, im from the UK. i’m 14 and have autism, but had to go into homeschooling after bullying and no learning support from my highschool. at the time, i was not diagnosed yet, but it was incredibly clear that i did have autism, and struggled so much at school and had extreme difficulty processing things. now that i’m homeschooled, it’s more expensive, but i can do it my way and have the tasks work around my learning abilities. i’ll only have 2 gcses, in comparison to the 7 (i think? i don’t remember) that i would have if i stayed at school. it makes me sad to think about as i’ll have less job opportunities, but it was the best option me and my family had. my dream has always been, and still is, to go to college and pursue acting, though my autism will make this even harder for me ☹️ if anyone has any advice or anything like that i’d really appreciate it. i just wanted to give my input about how accurate this video is, as well as share my story.
I recommend you learn everything you can about acting out and reading body language There's a book called what everybody is saying where someone who works for the fbi breaks down body language.
Don’t let anyone say your acting passion is “unrealistic”. Those are just formulaic responses that “support” workers say to not put effort into supporting your true goals
Abilism is the worst form of discrimination then racism and sexism. Because their has been a lot of myths and misinformation about autism and other disabilities that aren't true and some folks don't know how to interact with someone with disabilities and not all schools are made for disabled children and teachers are not fully trained in special education programs and can be mean to them a lot.
They're all equal. It's sexist / racist to assume that Ableism is the worst type of discrimination . All suffer equally as much. Women get paid less / can't get a job that a man can. People of race can't get a job because of their race and less of their capability.
@@xqamec not quite. You can say they might show similarities to each other, but most will be different. Not all disabilities can be seen easily, unlike race, or gender...for the most part.
@@donaddams8825 i get where you're coming from, but don't you think it's a bit fucked that you can say one minority is worse than the other? They all have their different problems and troubles, but i wouldnt say one is worse than the other. I'm not trying to be ableist, racist or sexist by the way, im just pretty curious on people's opinion on why they think one is worse than the others.
As a disabled guy in Uk (not even 50 yet or in a wheelchair btw), I’ve been verbal abused multiple times by young thugs, in front of bystanders (bus stop etc) and everyone just ignored it despite me verbally saying ‘I’m disabled’. If any, people encouraged the thug. If someone was abusing a person of colour, do you think there would be the same negligence or ignorance ?! Lonely, isolated and no real connections, I’m happier staying home. The risk to venture out isn’t worth the stress. Even reputable stores and services have acted discriminatory. I’m done trying to voice concerns. Even the police are a fart. No one including companies etc are doing the work to grow as people. It won’t get better. Society is narcissistic more and more, and always take advantage of the weak. The rub is like the OP states, could be any of them…… sick misunderstanding of their own humanity.
It’s bad, but IDK about “worse”. I mean, millions of people were enslaved for generations with no rights and sometimes were just murdered by their owners, literally treated by law as “property” in the U.S. during slavery. Ableism is bad, but hard to really say it’s unequivocally worse than that kind of racism that led to lynchings with blacks burned alive and their dead bodies paraded around town. That’s pretty sick stuff and when humans could do that, sure we should expect humans to be capable of hideous things including ableism.
Never assume someone is lower ability regardless of whether they have some form of diagnosis. The best thing you can do is stand back and keep your mouth shut, if you have to believe it also know that you are incorrect and the reality is that you have no way of knowing the inner workings of their mind, you are almost certainly not getting the context or are biased based on faulty information you have been taught all your life. It's perfectly possible for people with disabilities to be not only normal but above the capabilities of someone without a disability. Forget about what you read on a person's test results, for the benefit of the child/teen/adult and their development it's best you keep your mouth shut, and best also go unlearn your view that things like IQ performance, academic performance, atar results and the like are reflective of intelligence and capability. Otherwise your own mentality will lead to bad outcomes for that person
I’m severely dyslexic (I have a lot Of coping mechanisms, it’s why you probably can’t tell), dyspraxic and have ADD. This is pretty much my life too, and people without these types of differences don’t get it and love to use the word “excuse” as if I decided to deliberately underachieve and be traumatised and feel isolated for life. I feel so depressed, argh.
I have a part time job yay can I get a full time job then gets discouraged by the boss and that doctor telling me everything that could go wrong if I wanted to make kids with my future wife is way to relatable I mean you should tell me what could happen so that I can be ready and safe but do it in a nice way and not a doom and gloom way
I love this video and the way it speaks weirdly close to home - from not being allowed to partake in science in high school, to a scanning and filing job because I couldn't get employment elsewhere; currently unemployed struggling with barriers in completing my master's in science!). Buuuuut I worry that the coding in this video risks portraying the 'ableism is worse than racism' argument that white disabled folk often use & already seems to exist in the comments on this video? It feels like an odd choice to use folks who are historically & currently discriminated against as the example of someone who /isn't/ facing any barriers, against a white person with disability. I think I maybe get the intention behind the choice, but I'm not 100% sure if it's entirely going to be perceived this way as racism & diminishing of experiences of racism are still very much issues within the disabled community (from what I've seen as a white disabled person)?
we can try out best to fix both institutionalized racism and institutionalized ableism! we can do it at the same time, both people of color and disabled people have suffered enough
These always frustrate me. While it's true that non-white people also get discriminated against(and it probably wasn't the wisest option to code the disabled character as white and the abled character as non-white) these aren't independent issues. A lot of discrimination gets coded in ableist terms and it's not like only white people are targetted by ableism or disableism. Advocating for racial equality without also including anti-sexism, anti-ableism, decoloniality et cetera only serves to undermine the effort to fix these issues, as the systems just fall back into each other (so if one tries to fix racism without fixing ableism, then race just gets medicalised and shifted into a 'meritocracy' as you can see in works like the Bell Curve). I get the frustration and these campaigns should in no way be used to distract away from the very real issue racism presents in Australia (and honestly in the rest of the anglophonic world or globally) but ableism also needs to be dealt with. The eugenic impulse that underlies a lot of the issues that this video is discussing is the same one that underlined scientific racism throughout the centuries and it's endemic in discussions in some really pernicious ways. Ableism and racism are less distractions from each other than outworkings of the same oppressive systems of 'assumed normal' and othering. And as I've said for non-white disabled people, both fall to form each other. Ableism discourses don't (and can't be allowed) to just mean 'ableism against white people', we have to remember that this is a larger issue
I mean, ableism can be considered foundational to other forms of oppression. In order to justify racism you _have_ to hold ableist ideas most of the time. You can't "fix" just one kind of bigotry, it doesn't work that way, you gotta chip away at all of them all at the same time.
One in five people have a disability. I guess you haven’t heard much about an invisible illness. Lots of disabilities like autism get diagnosed later in life because people are forced to mask themselves in order to fit in.
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As a disabled woman myself I don't understand how ableism can exist. Unlike many other forms of discrimination as evil as they are, ableism is one that can affect anyone. At any point someone who was born able bodied and perfectly healthy can become disabled to no fault of their own. It's more likely as you age that you could become disabled.
When able bodied people don't include disabled people in their decisions, don't make spaces more accessible for all(which benefits the abled too even if they stay able bodied forever btw), spread misinformation about disabled people, attack them, etc. they could be on the receiving end of that one day. Even the most self centered human being should care since they could become disabled themselves and, they might not be able to advocate for themselves at that point depending on how their disability affects them.
It exists because of capitalism. If you are not as useful or exploitable as they want you to be (i.e. being able to do the work without any sort of accommodations under strict grueling conditions) they don't want you.
I agree ableism makes no sense, just like the systems that cause it in the first place.
Is that why doctors prescribe antipsychotics to the disabled, to shorten their life expectancy?
stupid, I ain't readin all that🗿🍷
Preach this to the Feminazis & Trumpublicunts & anyone with an IDGAF attitude.
@@sharonjensen3016Whoa. No wonder antidepressants lead to bad omens.
I was born with Asperger's, septo optic dysplasia, and have always had to always explain. I'm wanting to drive and build classic cars, and my mom, and understand exactly what Abby went through, and I'm here in America! It's really a pandemic of judgement that will only drive the rates of poor mental health, and possibly suicide up. If there are any disabled brothers and sisters who will read this, when someone doubts me and says I won't be able to chase my dreams and that I need to work in a factory full of completely blind people, even though I have great vision from my left eye, I just know that those people who think this about any of us, don't have any clue what we are capable of. Be who you want to be. Stay strong. ✌️
This was a great video--but I also hope they do one on invisible disabilities like chronic illnesses, and late diagnosis (which affects a lot of AFAB people due to medical bias).
Can I please ask what 'AFAB' means?
I have ME/CFS, & Complex PTSD...I have witnessed & experienced a whole heap of ableism...that I did not..BEFORE.. the development of these.
I would also like to see a video on this subject.
@@jo-annahicks3324 AFAB means assigned female at birth
Really appreciated this one. I like the focus on systemic ableism rather than offsetting onto individual failings. Absolutely brilliant
this is so accurate. i’m not from australia, im from the UK. i’m 14 and have autism, but had to go into homeschooling after bullying and no learning support from my highschool. at the time, i was not diagnosed yet, but it was incredibly clear that i did have autism, and struggled so much at school and had extreme difficulty processing things. now that i’m homeschooled, it’s more expensive, but i can do it my way and have the tasks work around my learning abilities. i’ll only have 2 gcses, in comparison to the 7 (i think? i don’t remember) that i would have if i stayed at school. it makes me sad to think about as i’ll have less job opportunities, but it was the best option me and my family had. my dream has always been, and still is, to go to college and pursue acting, though my autism will make this even harder for me ☹️ if anyone has any advice or anything like that i’d really appreciate it. i just wanted to give my input about how accurate this video is, as well as share my story.
Keep going for what you want to do! Find some local theatre to see if it is something you like.
I recommend you learn everything you can about acting out and reading body language
There's a book called what everybody is saying where someone who works for the fbi breaks down body language.
Don't let the ableists get you down. Prove them wrong.
Don’t let anyone say your acting passion is “unrealistic”. Those are just formulaic responses that “support” workers say to not put effort into supporting your true goals
14 in highschool youngins 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Abilism is the worst form of discrimination then racism and sexism. Because their has been a lot of myths and misinformation about autism and other disabilities that aren't true and some folks don't know how to interact with someone with disabilities and not all schools are made for disabled children and teachers are not fully trained in special education programs and can be mean to them a lot.
They're all equal. It's sexist / racist to assume that Ableism is the worst type of discrimination . All suffer equally as much. Women get paid less / can't get a job that a man can. People of race can't get a job because of their race and less of their capability.
@@xqamec not quite. You can say they might show similarities to each other, but most will be different. Not all disabilities can be seen easily, unlike race, or gender...for the most part.
@@donaddams8825 i get where you're coming from, but don't you think it's a bit fucked that you can say one minority is worse than the other? They all have their different problems and troubles, but i wouldnt say one is worse than the other. I'm not trying to be ableist, racist or sexist by the way, im just pretty curious on people's opinion on why they think one is worse than the others.
As a disabled guy in Uk (not even 50 yet or in a wheelchair btw), I’ve been verbal abused multiple times by young thugs, in front of bystanders (bus stop etc) and everyone just ignored it despite me verbally saying ‘I’m disabled’. If any, people encouraged the thug. If someone was abusing a person of colour, do you think there would be the same negligence or ignorance ?! Lonely, isolated and no real connections, I’m happier staying home. The risk to venture out isn’t worth the stress. Even reputable stores and services have acted discriminatory. I’m done trying to voice concerns. Even the police are a fart. No one including companies etc are doing the work to grow as people. It won’t get better. Society is narcissistic more and more, and always take advantage of the weak. The rub is like the OP states, could be any of them…… sick misunderstanding of their own humanity.
It’s bad, but IDK about “worse”. I mean, millions of people were enslaved for generations with no rights and sometimes were just murdered by their owners,
literally treated by law as “property” in the U.S. during slavery. Ableism is bad, but hard to really say it’s unequivocally worse than that kind of racism that led to lynchings with blacks burned alive and their dead bodies paraded around town. That’s pretty sick stuff and when humans could do that, sure we should expect humans to be capable of hideous things including ableism.
This video brought me to tears...it's very shocking in it's accuracy!
Never assume someone is lower ability regardless of whether they have some form of diagnosis. The best thing you can do is stand back and keep your mouth shut, if you have to believe it also know that you are incorrect and the reality is that you have no way of knowing the inner workings of their mind, you are almost certainly not getting the context or are biased based on faulty information you have been taught all your life. It's perfectly possible for people with disabilities to be not only normal but above the capabilities of someone without a disability. Forget about what you read on a person's test results, for the benefit of the child/teen/adult and their development it's best you keep your mouth shut, and best also go unlearn your view that things like IQ performance, academic performance, atar results and the like are reflective of intelligence and capability. Otherwise your own mentality will lead to bad outcomes for that person
It's past time for so-called normal society to stop making assumptions about the disabled and make improvements.
I’m severely dyslexic (I have a lot
Of coping mechanisms, it’s why you probably can’t tell), dyspraxic and have ADD. This is pretty much my life too, and people without these types of differences don’t get it and love to use the word “excuse” as if I decided to deliberately underachieve and be traumatised and feel isolated for life. I feel so depressed, argh.
I have a part time job yay can I get a full time job then gets discouraged by the boss and that doctor telling me everything that could go wrong if I wanted to make kids with my future wife is way to relatable I mean you should tell me what could happen so that I can be ready and safe but do it in a nice way and not a doom and gloom way
I love this video and the way it speaks weirdly close to home - from not being allowed to partake in science in high school, to a scanning and filing job because I couldn't get employment elsewhere; currently unemployed struggling with barriers in completing my master's in science!). Buuuuut I worry that the coding in this video risks portraying the 'ableism is worse than racism' argument that white disabled folk often use & already seems to exist in the comments on this video? It feels like an odd choice to use folks who are historically & currently discriminated against as the example of someone who /isn't/ facing any barriers, against a white person with disability. I think I maybe get the intention behind the choice, but I'm not 100% sure if it's entirely going to be perceived this way as racism & diminishing of experiences of racism are still very much issues within the disabled community (from what I've seen as a white disabled person)?
Yep. Thats me to a T.
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where are the men in all of this, not partaking in this absolute balderdash
sounds like what nonwhites have dealt with for centuries - you haven't fixed that so don't talk to me about fixing this
we can try out best to fix both institutionalized racism and institutionalized ableism! we can do it at the same time, both people of color and disabled people have suffered enough
These always frustrate me. While it's true that non-white people also get discriminated against(and it probably wasn't the wisest option to code the disabled character as white and the abled character as non-white) these aren't independent issues. A lot of discrimination gets coded in ableist terms and it's not like only white people are targetted by ableism or disableism. Advocating for racial equality without also including anti-sexism, anti-ableism, decoloniality et cetera only serves to undermine the effort to fix these issues, as the systems just fall back into each other (so if one tries to fix racism without fixing ableism, then race just gets medicalised and shifted into a 'meritocracy' as you can see in works like the Bell Curve).
I get the frustration and these campaigns should in no way be used to distract away from the very real issue racism presents in Australia (and honestly in the rest of the anglophonic world or globally) but ableism also needs to be dealt with. The eugenic impulse that underlies a lot of the issues that this video is discussing is the same one that underlined scientific racism throughout the centuries and it's endemic in discussions in some really pernicious ways. Ableism and racism are less distractions from each other than outworkings of the same oppressive systems of 'assumed normal' and othering.
And as I've said for non-white disabled people, both fall to form each other. Ableism discourses don't (and can't be allowed) to just mean 'ableism against white people', we have to remember that this is a larger issue
I mean, ableism can be considered foundational to other forms of oppression. In order to justify racism you _have_ to hold ableist ideas most of the time. You can't "fix" just one kind of bigotry, it doesn't work that way, you gotta chip away at all of them all at the same time.
One fifth of Australia deals with disability? Come on!
What's wrong with that.
@@anthonycostanzo7649 He means that the social services and the suburbs are creating or absent to prevent most of that disability or make it less bad.
One in five people have a disability. I guess you haven’t heard much about an invisible illness. Lots of disabilities like autism get diagnosed later in life because people are forced to mask themselves in order to fit in.
Disability can happen to anyone.