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“For someone who has ADD, being bored is like being asphyxiated. It cannot be endured for more than a minute or so. When bored, the person with ADD feels compelled to do something immediately to bring the world back up to speed. Adrenaline”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

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“People with chronic illness, pain, and fatigue have been among the most critical of this aspect of the social model, rightly noting that social and structural changes will do little to make one's joints stop aching or to alleviate back pain. Nor will changes in architecture and attitude heal diabetes or cancer or fatigue. Focusing exclusively on disabling barriers, as a strict social model seems to do, renders pain and fatigue irrelevant to the project of disability politics.”
― Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip

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“Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, abusers, child-abuse, psychology, trauma

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“Disability fluctuates, growing visible, then invisible, then visible again, becoming both ever-present and haunting. Such a problematizing of physical life added a new wrinkle to the genre's double/secret identity trope: the characters now interact with their shifting bodies as bodies with all the complications involved.”
― Jose Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond

tags: bodies-as-bodies, body-image, dc-comics, disability-studies, invisibility, jose-alaniz, literary-criticism, marvel-comics, physical-disability, physical-impairment, silver-age-comics, superhero

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“Sometimes disabled people overcome specific moments of ableism—
we exceed low expectations, problem-solve lack of access, avoid nursing
homes or long-term psych facilities, narrowly escape police brutality
and prison. However, I’m not sure that overcoming disability itself is an
actual possibility for most of us. Yet in a world that places extraordinary
value in cure, the belief that we can defeat or transcend body-mind
conditions through individual hard work is convenient. Overcoming is
cure’s backup plan.”
― Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

tags: ableism, disability-studies

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