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Christa Riter, MAAA

Christa Riter, MAAA

@christa_riter

Arts Administrator 🎵🎭🎨 | Musician 🎻 | Disability Rights Advocate ♿️ | EDS Warrior 🦓| Goal: educate people about disability | Opinions are my own 🙂

Indiana, USA Katılım Ocak 2015
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Christa Riter, MAAA
Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
I will always find it hilarious when other spoonies try to invalidate your DOCTOR GIVEN diagnosis because your symptoms don’t match their’s. I posted a meme about OH that I experience with my #POTS in a fb group, and I’ve gotten multiple comments invalidating my diagnoses. #NEIS
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Dr. Cait S. Kirby (she/her)
Dr. Cait S. Kirby (she/her)@caitskirby·
If your professor is Timur Kuran at Duke University, and you're disabled, you should know that he says in this tweet he believes many students are faking disability for "status."
Timur Kuran@timurkuran

A audiologist friend observes “an epidemic” of high school and university students claiming to be hearing-impaired. Though they hear perfectly, in audio tests (designed to be hard to game) they fake deafness. Many are after a diagnosis of impairment for the status it would bring.

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Patients with Power
Patients with Power@PtsWithPower·
It always gives me a shock when people assume disabilities like #MECFS aren't as bad as, say, losing an arm. #EDS #POTS #MCAS #pwME
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
Even in classrooms meant to better serve disabled students, #ableism runs strong. As disability pride month comes to a close, this year, we need to take on the ableist education system to ensure disabled people get the education they deserve in a safe space
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
Having this mindset as a teacher who works with disabled children is ableist and she should not be serving disabled students. There’s nothing wrong with being disabled, and having this mindset makes us think you don’t appreciate us for who we are.
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
I just saw a comment from a “SpEd” teacher on a tiktok of a mom who lost her #disabled child saying that she “often has dreams of her students without their #disabilities” and I have thoughts, a 🧵:
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
@ArtBlerd I think Indiana is worse than Texas. They are just more sneaky about their awfulness
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
@MissFuzzball Well that’s good! I hope you’re able to figure it out. I’m in Indiana, so if you’re near there, I can recommend my doctor 😊
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Fuzzicus® Innocuous  🟦🇺🇸🇮🇱💙💛@MissFuzzball·
@christa_riter How great that your GI is a specialist. Mine retired at the end of May and I've actually had to wipe tears a few times. He was as nice a person as you'd ever meet in addition to a great doc. He referred me to another doc whose PA he just loves. I met with her some weeks ago.
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
@MissFuzzball Minebis idiopathic too! I’ve just been misdiagnosed for my entire life. My GI specializes in motility so I’m hoping we can figure out something that works.
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Fuzzicus® Innocuous  🟦🇺🇸🇮🇱💙💛
Fuzzicus® Innocuous  🟦🇺🇸🇮🇱💙💛@MissFuzzball·
@christa_riter I'm so sorry to hear that. I was diagnosed a couple months ago. Mine is idiopathic. I just started throwing up back in November for no discernible reason and I haven't been the same since. On the bright side of it being idiopathic, my GI doc said it may go away.
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
I officially have the best partner ever! He got me this sweatshirt to wear to my upcoming GI follow up for #gastroparesis 🤪
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
When the new #hEDS character on @GreysABC faints the same way you did from #POTS and hits the exact vertebrae you did during said fall. It’s like my life is being reenacted 🤪
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
@ArtBlerd The only reason why I’m staying in Nonprofit for the next 10 years is to have my loans forgiven 🫠
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Evil MoPac
Evil MoPac@EvilMopacATX·
Raise your hand if 105 degrees still sounds better to you than 35 degrees
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
Denying accessibility is like denying a fish water. Everyone needs it, but there are terrible people that think we can go without it.
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
It can happen to anybody at anytime and that’s why we have Disability Pride Month. Disability will affect everyone at some point in their life. Whether you need crutches after breaking a leg or you need hearing aids as you grow old. 🧵
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
Although it’s #DisabilityPrideMonth and I’m happy to be apart of this wonderful and strong community, after receiving official diagnoses of things I have suspected for quite sometime, I find myself mourning the person I was before becoming #Disabled. 🧵
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Christa Riter, MAAA@christa_riter·
It affects everyone. Although abled people set up and rule our ableist society, they fail to realize they will become disabled at one point in their lives. #Accessibility benefits everyone because of these reasons.
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