disabled
Welcome to c/disabled, an anticapitalist community for disabled people/people with disability(s).
What is disability justice? Disability justice is a framework of activism which centers disabled people of multiple intersections. Before participating in in this community, please read the Ten Principles of Disability Justice.
Do I count as disabled/a person with disability(s)? "Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.
Follow the Rules:
- This comm is open to everyone. However, the megathread is only open to people who self-identify as disabled/a person with disability(s). We center the experiences of disabled people here, and if you are abled we ask that you please respect that.
- Follow the principles of disability justice, as outlined in the link above.
- Zero tolerance for ableism. That includes lateral ableism. Ableism will result in a ban.
- No COVID minimization.
- Do not offer unsoliticed health advice. We do not want to hear about the wonders of exercise or meditation, thank you very much. Additionally, do not moralize health or "healthy choices".
- If posting an image, please write an image description for our blind/low vision comrades. (If doing this is inaccessible to you, DM one of the mods and we will help.)
- Please CW and spoiler tag discussions of ableism.
- When it comes to identify-first vs person-first language, respect the language that people choose for themselves. If someone wants to be referred to as a disabled person, respect that. If someone wants to be referred to as a person with a disability, respect that.
- Try to avoid using ableist language. It is always good to be mindful of the way language has been used to oppress and harm people.
- Follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct.
Let's kick back and have fun!
As of December 2025, there is a Matrix Chat Room that adheres to the same rules as the community. If you want to join, it is an invite only server. Just knock to join. Should you have trouble with the link, you can contact the mods for help: https://matrix.to/#/#Hexbear_Disabled_and_ND:matrix.org
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The very first thing that happened to me on this site when I joined was that I brought up an issue (expired warrant canary) and I was accused of being a wrecker and banned. It wasn't malicious on the part of the mods (they thought this was a throwaway account and I did make a joke about the feds spying on this place), it was reversed on appeal, and in the end it did no harm (and doesn't bother me). But I think this shows that the accusation of wrecking has really been used as a quick explanation for many things here, from the very beginning, and it's harmful to the community in the long term. We've created (actually this has been lessening in recent times, thankfully) a strange culture of suspicion around the idea of "wreckers".
I think that after many struggle sessions and bans we've been conditioned to overreact, it gets tiring when every day there's a struggle session, and mods ban on sight, it's a trait we kept from Reddit me thinks
Marg bar r*ddit!
I also see people often call things struggle sessions when they aren't, though. There can be a thread of good discussion, even one where almost everyone agrees, and someone will drop in and call it a struggle session just because there are more than 50 comments.
Hai, you called? Anyways, yeah, I agree with you. Siege mentality comes from siege reality, but as noted, that doesn't mean we can't have candid discussions about our own site instances. But this is not my jurisdiction; this is yours. I bid you well
lmao, I did think of your username as I was typing that.
Thanks! It's fine for you to still participate, IMO fediverse users that participate a lot here are just as much Hexbear users as those who use Hexbear accounts.