A quick (and Arisia-related) poll

[yendi]

Note that only I can see the results of the poll; I'm not interested in forcing folks to admit how much or little knowledge they have; rather, I'm trying to get a baseline to see if familiarity can reasonably be expected.

[Poll #1669399]

Comments

[sdaisyk.livejournal.com]

Direct result of both a Medical Sociology Class and Sociology of Disability class in college.

[ioianthe.livejournal.com]

my experience is that it's really common knowledge in my social circles, but when I used words like ableism or privilege in a class on pedagogy (adult students, all walks of life, Lesley University) I did need to explain myself.

[sterling-raptor.livejournal.com]

I got diagnosed with Fibro about 10 years ago. I noticed I got treated differently or had able expectation made of me even after explaining I couldn't do ABC or D. I found out it had a name a few years later in a workshop.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Lifelong recipient of it here.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I'm familiar with the concept, and the word makes sense. It's not in my principal-use vocabulary, though, and I'm not 100% certain I've seen it before. In my work, however, the word 'accessible' covers some of the same ground.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

*googles word*

Oh! Ok. I was misreading it as a-ble-ism rather than able-ism and wondering what the root word "ble" meant. I'm with you now.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Partly, because I have done a lot of work with ageism in the past.

[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

Direct result of my friend Miss Conduct mentioning the Evelyn Evelyn thing and me not knowing what it is, finding out, then reading some of the response to it from differently-abled people. This happened a couple of months ago. Prior to that, I had never heard the term.