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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜

@adamfare1996.bsky.social

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UK. Trying to muddle my way through life. Equity, AuDHD, Disability, Mental illness, Stomas and Eating Disorders. Ace 🖤🤍💜 Views are my own. (He/Him) This is a bigot-free zone. https://linktr.ee/adamcfare

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 3h

Not quite, but it’s the same sort of purple-washing

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 13h

The "Disability Confident" scheme is a voluntary scheme that employers can sign up to be a part of.

It's meant to signal an inclusive employer.

But in reality it's little more than a tick-box exercise so they can pretend to care, giving them good PR.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah this too

Reposted by Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜

sel-bsky-social.bsky.social @sel-bsky-social.bsky.social · 16h

youtu.be/ui2h_pHDDmk?...
This is quite a good video on the subject

"Aspie Supremacy" - A Deep Dive

YouTube video by Ember Green

youtu.be

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah I can understand this take. I'm certainly not proud of most of this country, past or present.

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 15h

Fascism doesn’t just come out and announce itself by killing people…

It starts with subtle dehumanising, subtle rhetoric, bits of propaganda…

Then it latches on to a crisis moment to double down on the rhetoric to get people on-side.

The killing is the last part.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 17h

This doesn’t make it okay (though an inaccessible system and fear may be very valid reasons not to contact DWP)… but it’s not this hardened criminal who is sitting on loads of riches…

For some, that “fraud” may be the difference between surviving or not.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 17h

A significant amount of the “fraud” in the disability benefits system, is not what most people would associate with fraud…

Rather a disabled person who has just slightly embellished their condition or hasn’t contacted DWP to report a change for whatever reason.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not even safe for people to get a diagnosis of some conditions in many countries right now due to discrimination.

This is especially true with things like Autism, where you can’t move to many countries if you have a dx.

So we should never “require” a diagnosis for support.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

Because there’s quite literally a savings limit for those on means-tested disability benefits… one which hasn’t changed in nearly 20 years.
Fuck off

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

One of the big reasons I hate the "superior" angle some Autistic people believe, is that it feeds into the Nazi rhetoric that Asperger created to justify his eugenics.

It's just ableism in another guise.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

To me, being "proud" of the country I'm from, includes acknowledging all the awful stuff we've done, and learning from that.

If we don't do this, we end up going round in cycles where we keep making these huge mistakes and atrocities... Like we are now

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

Did you not read the post or...

If you mean the "where possible" true definition, sure.
If you mean avoiding all animal products.... I physically can't, so...

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

Being disabled costs a lot more than not being disabled.

Disabled folk are more likely to be in poverty, and many aren't allowed to accrue any savings.

So they have to resort to expensive, often unregulated, credit to survive... Costing even more. It's a horrible reality.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

Accessibility is about flexibility and options where possible.

Whether that's physical access, environment, communication, or otherwise.

It's not just "we've got a ramp" and job done...

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

That’s cool. It does both for me (at least in part)

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

“My disability doesn’t define me!”

Well good for you.

My disabilities do define me in so many ways.
They define and dictate my entire life.
They define what I’m able to do.
They define my goals for the future.
And lots more.

None of this is “negativity”… it’s just the truth.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely agree. I think anyone who wants it should be able to get it personally.

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow managed to blag it to get the Covid booster at the same time
as flu jab, as the pharmacist was questioning it…

I think me having major abdo surgery soon tipped the balance for him…!

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

Work should not be a healthcare outcome.

It should be the last step of "recovery" for those who are able to get to that stage and for whom it is a positive step.

Employment and healthcare should not be conflated, ever... And if someone can't work, they can't work.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 3d

If the wealth of those at the top doesn't sicken you, you need to get into reality.

No one deserves that much money. No one can amass that much wealth ethically.

Look up, not down.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 3d

It looks sooo shit

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 3d

This should be treated as terrorism.

Two people fortunately managed to escape, otherwise it would have killed them.

The different in response is stark.

BBC News - Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.com

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 3d

Many of the struggles faced by disabled people are also faced by abled folk.

But they don't have the added issue of being disabled on top... Which makes every issue harder to deal with, and sometimes impossible.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 3d

By***

Speak to text fail, apologies