chronicallyisajennie:

Image Description: A bingo card with ABLEIST BINGO at the top (courtesy of @chronicallyisajennie​  

Under the B:

• “Have you tried Yoga?”
• “Everyone can go vegan!”
• Assigns neurotypical motivations to a neuroatypical person’s behaviors
  
• “I think you mean person with Autism”
  
• “People have it worse”
  

Under the I: 

• Compares acute illness to chronic illness
  
• “You take too many medicines!”
  
• “You don’t want equality, you want special treatment!”
  
• Plays Disability police
• Uses disability, mental illness, etc, as a metaphor

Under the N:

• “Big Pharma”
  
• “Language changes!“ "You’re policing my word choice!”
  
• Free Space
• “Neurotypical? Non-Disabled? Don’t you mean normal?”
  
• Accusations of faking

Under the G:

• “You’re derailing”
  
• “You don’t look sick/Disabled!”
  
• Uses ableist slurs
• “I wish I didn’t have to work”
  
• “I don’t see disability”
  

Under the O:

• “Everyone feels that way sometimes”
  
• Special needs/ differently abled/ handicapable
  
• “You’re using your disability/mental illness as an excuse”
• “Exercise!”
  
• Pathologizes/medicalizes bigotry