Ableism in Politics

Even the Left should be ashamed of questioning Biden’s speech

I am 43. I most assuredly have no dementia.
Yet I sound just like President Biden in front of a crowd.

I am non-verbal autistic and have severe social anxiety. When my anxiety spikes, I stutter, trip over words, struggle to remain sounding sensical. Internally I can barely breathe. I feel lightheaded, my heart and thoughts both race. Trying to keep things straight while fighting off going into a full blown panic attack.

For those who have never experienced that, it is easy to pass judgment. I have been asked if I am stupid or slow, and mocked, even told what’s the matter, can’t come up with an answer, shows how you don’t know what you are talking about. As if confidence in my knowledge could pull someone out of an anxiety attack enough to issue clear eloquent speech and inarguable points and statistics. That’s not how that works. I forget my own damn name during an anxiety shutdown. The name I’ve had my whole life. I’m pretty confident I’m confident in my knowledge of it.

President Joe Biden has never, at any point, hid the fact he has a stutter and has struggled with speech in front of a crowd. Yet the media, politicians, and just all around ignorant ableist people, insist on mocking it as dementia. Making…