It is literally impossible to explain ADHD task avoidance to people who don't experience it, I think.

It has to sound absolutely insane to just sit around, filled with dread and anxiety, not doing a small thing you "could do any time" that really needs to get done. And to just continue that way for hours, days, weeks, months, even fucking years.

Like, who lives that way? How can anyone live that way? (I live that way, but I don't know how I survive)

every fucking time someone talks about Nazi Germany and "first they came", they always, ALWAYS fail to mention disabled people.

they always forget to mention how disabled people were among the first people to be explicitly targeted. they were deemed "unfit" to the "Aryan" image.

(strange parallel: a lot of people became disabled as a result of the Great Flu. a mass death and disabling event. kind of like what we've got going on today with COVID, which isn't over...)

(another strange parallel: a lot of people already believe that disabled people are a "burden" on society, and that they should have their benefits cut to serve some "greater good." a lot of those people either already believe, or could be convinced to believe, that disabled people should "just die" for the same reason. this rhetoric was also popular back then, given the economic turmoil that the world - and, in particular, Germany - was in.)

(one more thing: these attitudes - and some of the actions - towards disabled people were in no way unique to Germany at the time. and they are in no way unique to any one country now.)

in 1933, forced sterilizations began on disabled people. pretty much immediately upon the Nazis claiming power.

as for when people started getting killed en masse: look up "Aktion T4". fucking sit with it. absorb it. they emptied the fucking hospitals and asylums. where do you think those people went?

how many of our precious "leftist" voices even bother to look into this, let alone inform people of it - and not as a gotcha or some quick aside?

no, instead, we remain silent on the atrocities done to disabled people. every fucking time.

this is not said as some sort of """oppression olympics""" bullshit, this is said because so few people bother to remember this.

they aren't even in the goddamn poem.