Purposeful Steps Away From Ableism | Alyson Seale | TEDxChilliwack
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- Imagine a world without sexism, racism and ageism, an amazing place where we embrace each other’s gifts and proudly claim all of our identities. Ableism is a hidden ‘isms’ embedded in society-a belief in the superiority of typical able bodies/able minds over bodies/minds falling outside our definition of normal. What if we deconstruct the binary able/disabled and construct differences of body/mind as part of our beautifully diverse human continuum? How would that look? Where do we even start? Let’s not get theoretical-let’s get real. By purposefully examining ableism, we can take action improving our society. TEDxChilliwack 2018 took place on April 13, 2019 at G. W. Graham Theatre in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. The theme of the event was "On Purpose". Learn more at tedxchilliwack.com. Alyson Seale is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley instructing in the Workplace TASK program, a pre-employment program for adults with disabilities. She has worked with people with a wide variety of disabilities including in a post secondary Disability Resource Center providing supports for students with disabilities through their post secondary studies, and 10 years as an ASL/English Sign Language Interpreter. She has taught for the departments of Upgrading and University Preparation, the School of Social Work and Adult Education. Alyson is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Educational Studies, Leadership and Policy Development with her research focus on the experiences of employees with intellectual disabilities in the workplace. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
i am so much less bothered by the labels and words that people aim at me rather than the actions they take that shut me out of the every day world.
Thanks this was a wonderful lecture. Very well spoken and persuasive. This is also super helpful for a paper I am writing on ableism.
You have a gift for articulating what PWD systemically go through on a daily basis.
Wonderful talk. I will have to check out more of your work. Tabs is a new one I will use.
Wowzers,bravo,excellent talk and a very important analysis
YES. EVERY WORD.
Accept people who refuse food. Not everyone is able to eat everything you can.
That is an amazing lecture on ableism! This ableism lecture is going to be a very handy resource when I co-write a blog on ableism! Kudos
Doctors shame and verbally abuse those of us with chronic illness and pain. I honestly don't want to exist anymore.
Michele avyou found a better doctor yet?
I'm so sorry to hear but there are lots of great doctors out there. so hopefully you'll find a good one soon. you don't deserve that.
Dude I feel you. It's so freaking unfair. It doesn't matter what I say, what proof I have or if I bring an advocate. I'm constantly treated like im making sh*t up, and brushed off like oh it's just ur feelings, ur feelings aren't fact or reality.
Thank you for your perseverance. So many seek community. I hope your community embraces you like they should in future while you embrace the others who don't feel like they belong.
That's awesome 😍😍
so true!!! there is no disability books EVER.
its called brail you moron or audio books
@@StarsSoBright. Usually people with disabilities have to write their own books.
ableism is a huge drag on potential economic growth.
throw away materialism in relationships
I loved this discussion on ableism. However, based on her language and dismissal of the other isms, i can tell she voted in favor of banning abortion rights, as well as shouts ALL LIVES MATTER. It would have been beetter if she had acknowledged intersectionalities of disabled people. Because the disabled can experience racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia all on top of ableism.
nah i don't think so. parents/"caregivers" actually do kill their disabled children. google "disability day of mourning." and i don't think she was dismissing anything else? just pointing out that disability doesn't get the same treatment and it's true. and that makes people uncomfortable.
She had me until 7:35... "Parents are killing their own children because of their ableist perspective on the quality of life".. The word choice "killing" in particularly bothersome. Which makes this video unusable for my purposes.
consider how many fetus are aborted because they have Downs and other developmental disabilities.
It's true, though. That happens all the time.
but it happens... the truth hurts, but it doesn't make it any less true...
There are children murdered because of it, so shut your yap about that. The hate group “Autism Speaks” had commercials where a mother spoke point blank about doing that to her autistic kid.
I worked with the late great Dr. Margaret Condon, professor of psychology, who was a quadriplegic and worked on drafting the Americans with Disabilities Act. She would deplore what you are saying in this video. She hated the way that some people, like you, tried to instill the idea of victimization into disabled people's minds. She often said "stop being a crybaby" and she lived what she said. She NEVER felt sorry for herself and certainly didn't encourage it in others. It's not that she didn't recognize obstacles, she just got on with overcoming them.
If you chew your resentment like a cud, you can make a career from it.