Hand Over Hand

Why do we use “person with a disability/disabled person” in our bio description on Twitter? It’s simple - our members choose how they want to identify, and we as an organization don’t get to say what is right or wrong as an identity.

Hi disabled and/or chronically ill friends, What's your most helpful purchase which has made your life more accessible in some way?

We’re so excited to welcome our members with disabilities and our community to join so that we can see @brielarson @TeyonahParris and @imanvellaniii on the big screen 🤩! . Please share and get a ticket to join us and support our grassroots nonprofit! hohmarvels.eventbrite.ca

We’ve rented out a whole theatre for EVERYONE to join! Cineplex Cinema Markham, this Thursday November 30 at 6:30pm - a private screening of The #MARVELS in a #disability positive space! Buy tickets to support our #accessible programs 🙂! . Tickets: hohmarvels.eventbrite.ca 🎟

Our next social group event is next week on November 30th!!!! Come on down to the Markham Cineplex and watch some fun superhero action with us at our PRIVATE screening event!! Grab your tickets at: HOHMARVERLS.EVENTBRITE.CA

There can be no justice for disabled people until it includes all disabled people and all disabled people at every intersection of disability.

It would be nice if someone else other than disabled people would also advocate & fight for access, accommodation, rights, freedom & justice for disabled people. Unfortunately, too often, disabled people have to wage this fight ourselves. If we don’t do it, it will not get done.

Reminding my #ActuallyAutistic comrades that you aren’t broken, too much, loud, quiet, overly dramatic, or other words thrown at you by others. People tell you those things because of their own inability and intolerance, their own lack of desire to understand you. I see you.

Wow. This email from a UK hospital instructs healthcare workers not to test for COVID because it might keep them out of work for longer. What happened to "do no harm"?

Forced psych hospitalization has notoriously poor patient outcomes. However, these 5150 holds *do* allow politicians & cops to "clean up" cities & remove unhoused people without actually having to provide shelter, housing, or other essential resources. #CripTheVote @GavinNewsom

In honour of #WorldMentalHealthDay, I thought I’d share with you some self-care ideas that I’ve collated specifically with autistic people in mind (many of which non-autistic people may find helpful as well). What helps you when you’re feeling low? 💙⬇️

A big part of executive dysfunction is not having control over what tasks our brains focus on or for how long. Sometimes it's struggling to get started, sometimes it's not being able to stop, and other times it's not completing the task before our brains gives up on it

No one wants “a life on benefits.” No one “chooses” not to be able to work. People get sick. And then they are forced to live in grinding poverty whilst exhausted and in pain - and watch rich, healthy ministers knowingly lie about the easy life these scroungers have chosen.

disabled ppl: *always compromise & sacrifice their health, wellbeing & safety for others' comfort, benefit & convenience, b/c of societal pressure, expectations, requirements* disabled ppl: *finally seek accommodations* ableist nondisabled ppl: "You aren't being a team player!"

🚝It’s been a very long time since I rode @SFBART and now that I live close to a station it has been liberating to get around the Bay Area without asking people to drive me around! Freedom, baby!

it is very clear that the vast majority of people still genuinely think that adhd is just a minor annoyance and it’s like no my brain physically never stops, i am unable to do things, i am constantly overwhelmed, it’s not just “no big deal” !!!!!!

WE'RE HIRING! Send us your resume to volunteers@handoverhand.ca Where can you learn more? Checkout our full description on Charity Village in the links below! shorturl.at/kpzRZ shorturl.at/guFY6 When is the deadline? September 22nd! #volunteersneeded #volunteers

Wild that autistics are called lazy when most neurotypicals won't even bother to understand autism