Max tweets,

' This is an exploratory THREAD about community medicine, how #AccessIsLove, & what #InaccessibilityMeans to abled & disabled people. '

https://twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1124261526309883906?s=19

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Nourishing, supportive, consistent, relationship-building interactions with individuals surviving severe conditions...

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...*innoculate* privileged, denial-afflicted ableists...

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...against their own unfortunate experiences of destabilizing stress, life-threatening obliviousness, #AbledsAreWeird, confusion, paranoia, & unwitting cruelty.

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These nourishing, supportive interactions are essential community medicine -- only available if one treats survivors well + respects disabled & marginalized people.

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Without the kindness & respect of this community medicine, unwitting ableists don't understand why their lives are so difficult.

Their world is legitimately falling apart *because* it is disabling to individuals.

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#InaccessibilityMeans the community medicine disappears -- not just for disabled people.

#InaccessibilityMeans the community medicine disappears for everybody.

#InaccessibilityMeans we have only scapegoats in its place.

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All of this happens only because we lost track of how to care for human beings.

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#AccessIsLove helps us remember again.

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Please follow + support twitter.com/MiaMingus twitter.com/IntersectedCrip twitter.com/DisVisibility (#AccessIsLove), twitter.com/Emily_Ladau (#InaccessibilityMeans), & twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin (#AbledsAreWeird), the progenitors of these beautiful hashtags.

Thank you for making spaces for thriving.

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Othering & exclusion are uncomfortable feelings -- but are eased by a sense of community safety & belonging.

For all people, #AccessIsLove.

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#AbledsAreWeird when they inhibit their own functioning, safety, & recovery from hardship.

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Able-bodied people feel othered & excluded only because they haven't discovered yet how to extend community to disabled & marginalized people.

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That's the antidote.

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It's a great antidote.

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When we restore + support the community medicine of caring for one another...

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...we find that a lot of things are easier than they were before.

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Problems are solved more efficiently.

People are able to access their most personally healing, meaningful, & sustaining work.

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We feel connection + relief.

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This is medicine for communities.

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If you want to be free of stress, Abled People, build supportive community relationships with Disabled People.

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(What, you didn't think it could be that simple?)

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