Keep Calm and Fight Hydra

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This week we are taking on how people can be an ally. The world is not people with disabilities against people that do not have disabilities. The reality is that in an ideal world there would be no difference, we would not have to fight Hydra. If you are confused Tremors has recently brainwashed me in to watching Agents of Shield, and yes that is where we get the name Tremors from, but more importantly is where we got our title. As you may have guessed if you watch Agents of Shield or any Marvel movies our post might be slightly easier to follow but if not we are going to explain. Sorry if you don’t watch and we end up giving you a new obsession.

First thing is that you need to understand the different players in this complicated world. We (people with disabilities) are inhuman which represent a small percentage of the population that is different. Hydra are those who judge, put down, and create stigma around having a disability. Shield represents allies; while they may not be inhuman they are trying their best to understand.  Then there is the rest of the world, they are not  shield or hydra

Currently we have been having some trouble with Hydra. This is hard because they are powerful, mean, and very clearly don’t care about people with disabilities. Sometimes when people in a position of power don’t understand what having a disability means it cause you to feel like there is no hope. It is always easy to give up walk away and never give back but this lets the bad guys win.

One major issue that we have had with Hydra is intentional sabotage. This means that the higher ups have made it clear that we do not have a future or a place in society. We are not as good as everyone else, even if we prove to be more productive. They are always waiting for us to fail. We are essentially expendable. There are several problems with this.

·      Acting upon the hydra mentality is illegal

·      We are just as much people as anybody else

·      We may be “inhuman” but that does not make us inhuman

·      Nobody is perfect so who is to say what normal even is

The main point is we are STRONG and are going NOWHERE so do your worst

Now that we have taken care of Hydra we are here to tell everybody else (which by the way we realize is most people) how to be a great ally. One disclosure: Each person is different, if you want to know how to help ask nicely like you would for any other person.

·      Join forces, stand with people that are being treated as less than

·      Be inclusive, nobody likes inner agency conflict

·      Know that nobody is perfect but if you work together each of you can be 1% of the larger solution

·      Don’t stare at people that you feel are different, even if you don’t understand why know that it hurts like hell

·      People believe what they need to believe to justify their actions but we are here to say that just because Hydra can justify it does not make it justifiable.

·      We are not made of glass, we will not shatter, as Inhumans we have already proven our power is greater than it seems, in some ways its even more powerful than human.

What people with disabilities go through on a typical day proves how strong we are. We do everything that everyone else does and more. Sometimes we do it differently, sometimes it takes longer, and sometimes we use our special adaptation powers but we are doing the best we can given who we are. Nothing can be done to make us “normal” so we all have to learn to work and live together.

Right now we are just two people sitting in our room, but we know there is support for our cause out there. We live with to other people who have proven over and over again that they are true agents of Shield.   We also have our family, that while best intentioned they don’t understand the full capabilities of Hydra because they are living in it. That being said our family members are always manning the control center as backup in case anything goes wrong. True allies are the best resource, we would not be where we are today without them. Even if you don’t know anybody with chronic illness know that anybody and everybody has the ability to be an ally.

We wanted to end this post by giving a shout out to our biggest allies and if you are an ally to somebody WE RESPECT YOU SO MUCH. My biggest allies are my sister, my mom, family friends, close friends, and obviously Tremors. Tremors closes allies are her parents, brothers, grandmother, close friends and Nemo.

           

INHUMANS ASSEMBLE, WE BELIEVE IN YOU!!!

Agents Nemo and Tremors

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