I think a lot of people in social change spaces have a really colonial & extractive view of “community” where community = a group with shared characteristics that they can opt in or opt out of as it affords them utility and is a source of comfort.

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Whoever figured out that cold exposure & singing helps migraines is an absolute genius 🙌🏼. My neighbours may disagree, but it just saved me a trip to Emergency so I’ll call it a win!.

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But I do think that the question warrants research and looking into - I just think that needs to be done with extreme care and leadership from both disabled community as well as neurology and psych and sociology researchers etc. so it doesn’t reinforce ableism.

Maybe people don’t have the financial/time/other resources to contribute as much to collective and positive causes. Maybe people are quite literally traumatised and struggling because there’s been no real support or recovery - just straight into “back to normal”.

And I know I’m not the only one observing this. Of course it could all be explained sociologically - maybe it’s just that people are burnt out, or economically things are still tough since the early days of the pandemic so people are more in survival mode.

need to put things in writing, or use accommodations / techniques I’ve learnt in collaborating with with friends and colleagues with learning disabilities on family members and friends who don’t consider that they have any long term Covid impacts.

I am Covid cautious and seeing loved ones and others I know change with their 2nd, 3rd, 4th infection I *do* worry there are real challenges we need to face as a collective. I notice MANY peoples’ memory is far worse than it used to be - and am often shocked at how much more I.

AND at the same time, as a disabled person who has had neurological symptoms (but not TBI or learning disability) from my other conditions as well as Covid, I do think there is a very real need to understand the long term impacts of Covid on our societal conscience and movements.

It increases the ableism & barriers they have to face in society, and also stops us recognising their amazing contributions to our society and collective good - with mental health & brain disabilities having been the strongest allies & activists for positive change.

It also causes harm to disabled people by reinforcing the disability = bad stigma - particularly for people who do have mental health and brain injury disabilities.

It makes it easy for people to see themselves as apart from the problem “I’m a nice white person, I’m not like *those* nasty racist people. They’re cr*zy” = “I don’t need to think about my role in a racist & fascist society or consider how I might uphold this oppression.”.

Both and. When people call fascism, racism etc. a “mental illness” or attribute it to brain injury it is grounded in ableist and negative assumptions about ppl with said disabilities AND it also avoids accountability individually and collectively.

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