Ageism

When certain numbers are literal adjectives

Contrary to dpopular it has nothing to do w/old ppl

Ageism eg. 5 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

by Hello-553669 April 29, 2025

positive ableism

It is basically saying something ableist but masking it with an overall positive tone to avoid getting called out for ableism

Example: “You are not autistic, you are artistic 🤎”
Example: “My family can say a lot of stuff labeled as positive ableism”

by SISTER/NATION January 27, 2024

internalized ableism

It’s not funny, so look it up on Google.

Me (a wheelchair bound man): I’m disabled and I hate myself.
Google: You have internalized ableism.

by anonymous June 6, 2024

Noetic Ableism

Noetic ableism is the systemic marginalization, pathologizing, or suppression of people whose forms of awareness, intuition, perception, or consciousness falls outside dominant cultural norms. It is similar to ableism, but instead of policing bodies and cognitive styles, it polices modes of awareness and ways of knowing.

Core Mechanism:

A culture creates an acceptable bandwidth of consciousness.
Experiences outside that range are:

-dismissed
-ridiculed
-medicalized
-spiritually distorted
-commodified

The goal (intentionally or not) becomes mantaining a narrow consensus reality.

If you have ever experienced noetic ableism you will know in your bones that ridcule becomes a soft form of social control, that others try to claim authority over your self-determined understanding of your own conscious evolution, and that spiritual emergence is often wrongly pathologized and the harm internalized.

by New Earth Ambassador414 March 12, 2026

Scientific Ableism

The practice of using scientific language, concepts, and authority to pathologize, stigmatize, or dismiss people based on their religious, spiritual, metaphysical, or immaterial beliefs. Terms like “delusion,” “schizophrenia,” “needs therapy,” or “needs a psychiatrist” are weaponized to humiliate or silence those whose worldviews fall outside strict scientific materialism. Scientific ableism exploits the cultural authority of science to equate belief in anything beyond the empirically measurable with mental illness, often ignoring that such beliefs are culturally normal and not inherently pathological. It results in discrimination, social exclusion, and the delegitimization of entire traditions.

Example: “He called her belief in ancestral rituals ‘delusional’ and suggested she see a psychiatrist—Scientific Ableism, using clinical language to dismiss a legitimate cultural practice as mental illness.”

by Dumu The Void March 25, 2026

Evidence-Based Ableism

A specific form of scientific ableism that invokes “evidence” to justify prejudice, discrimination, or pathologization of non‑scientific beliefs. Proponents claim that because certain practices (e.g., traditional medicine, spiritual healing) lack peer‑reviewed evidence, those who believe in them are “irrational,” “unscientific,” or “mentally deficient.” The ableism lies in equating “lack of scientific evidence” with “mental defect,” ignoring that people may hold multiple knowledge systems simultaneously and that evidence standards vary across contexts. Evidence‑based ableism uses the rhetoric of empiricism to launder prejudice.

Evidence-Based Ableism Example: “He argued that indigenous healers should be dismissed as ‘evidence‑deniers’—Evidence‑Based Ableism, using the lack of RCTs to justify dismissing entire traditions as cognitively flawed.”

by Dumu The Void March 25, 2026