Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing?

Hope you're getting through the week.

It is Disability Rights Month.

Love this.

So we're going to be talking about ways to be an ally to the disability community.

Why?

Well, because it's a human rights issue, social justice issues.

And all those are mental health issues because oppression and violence, all of that does not allow us to have mental health.

We can't have mental health while in the midst of systems, right, and institutions that

harm, right?

And culturally, we don't know how to really integrate people with different needs,

differing abilities.

I want to focus more moving forward on talking more about neurodiversity, which is this beautiful

area of the field that helps us understand that there's no right way to think.

There's no right kind of brain to have that all of our brains are different and diverse,

and that leads to beauty and creativity.

But let's talk about ways to be an ally to the disability community.

Number one, educate yourself.

And that's what I'm always trying to do here at Loveline, right?

Educate, educate, educate, educate.

That's how we empower.

That's also how we end bigotry and prejudice.

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