Productivity Expert & Life Coach for Neurospicy Spoonies POTS, hEDS, C-PTSD, ASD, Ace (Asexual) 🌈
Portland, OR
Joined September 2010
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Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
Asexuality is little to no sexual attraction.
There is a spectrum of how we each feel about having sex, from repulsed to favorable. But it’s really not about if we do or not. It’s an orientation, not a choice.
Attraction, not action.
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT): in other words, changing someone's behaviour by changing faulty thought processes. Well, what if my thought processes are fine, & it's my environment that needs fixing🤔? Then CBT is not going to work, & could make things much, much worse.
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
Disabled/high risk people have been completely left for dead. We are abandoned, discarded, and pushed aside. Our mental health is almost nonexistent now. Please be easy on us. We’re doing our best in a society that doesn’t care about our wellbeing. It’s so exhausting. 😔
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
i didn't know you can convert ebook texts into bionic text. jesus christ i shouldn't have sold my kindle. and i just bought two books. ive been reading them but it's been a struggle.
app.bionic-reading.com/
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
How many of your previously abled friends have reached out to you in the past two years, telling you how hard being disabled is with the paperwork and frustration on top of everything?
Every time I’m like: remember in 2013 when *I* became disabled and you thought I was overreacting?
Gets really quiet on the phone. Of course I help anyway, but I want them to know the effects their words had on ANOTHER disabled person. And I want them to think more about the way they address people when they’re in crisis.
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
Them: Autism is way overdiagnosed today. Also, lots of people are saying they're autistic because it's "in."
Me: No. People are finally discovering their very real MISSED diagnoses from childhood because better information about autism is being shared in accessible ways. \1
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
I was not prepared for the inevitable fracture among the most vocal disability advocates around pandemic ableism as some of us continue shielding as we have been for the last 3 years, and as others openly end shielding without a word and just... move on.
It's a gut punch.
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
5 ways you can support a chronically ill loved one:
1-Learn about our condition(s) by research/asking questions
2-Don’t give unsolicited advice, just listen.
3-Accept our limitations
4-Avoid toxic positivity when speaking with us
5-Don’t minimize anything we’re going through
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
everyone’s so surprised that people don’t care about their friends or acquaintances enough to pick them up at the airport.. i hope y’all never become immunocompromised during a pandemic
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
3+ years into a pandemic, the general public is still generally confused about what to do when they test positive for COVID19.
So let me walk you through what I, an infectious disease epidemiologist public health nurse, am doing since I tested positive on a rapid antigen today.
ALT Photograph of a COVID19 rapid antigen test that shows results indicating a positive result. In the foreground is a hand wearing two rings making the thumbs down gesture to indicate the epidemiologist's extreme displeasure at the situation.
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
Lol at the CDCs recommendations that high risk people avoid crowded areas. So I'm supposed to lose access to healthcare, education, and work? If we're going to bar high risk people from public spaces then at LEAST pay us universal basic income and grant quality home health care.
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
On May 11th, 2023, the Biden administration will end the national emergency and public health emergency related to COVID-19. This change will harm people with disabilities and worsen the pandemic.
autisticadvocacy.org/2023/02…
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
Hi.
Disabled (including immunocompromised) people don't feel left behind by your pandemic ableism.
We. Have. Been. Removed. From. Public. Life.
That's not a feeling. That's a fact.
And we have feelings about the fact.
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
It's okay to use products to make your life easier as a disabled person. If you need straws, paper plates, mobility aids, shower chairs, whatever, you have no reason to feel guilty. I spent way too long making my life more difficult by not using things that would help. Use them
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
Pro tip when writing image descriptions for folks: You're not writing a professional newspaper caption of a stock photo.
Just let blind and low vision users know what they might wanna see! For example:
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
Say you go to a party with your friends. No one masks.
You go about your life for the next few days. Maskless, of course.
You wake up 5 days later with a sore throat. You test positive. You bounce back in a week.
That’s your experience…but it goes far beyond you. 🧵1/10
Cassie Winter (she/they) retweeted
The reason you aren't seeing many masks in conference and holiday party photos is because the people smart enough, responsible enough, and/or vulnerable enough to wear them can't or won't attend inequitable, unsafe events.
