THIS THIS THIS!!! I am so sick and tired of people trying to push this fantasy that disability is some figment of our imagination, insisting that disabled folk are just “differently abled” is such a misplaced notion that only hurts the community. people need to be able to acknowledge and address their disability in a healthy manner, not avoid and cover up the issue!
ideas like this manifest in so many toxic ways.
it can cause abled people to disregard disabled needs, saying that they’re simply being “overdramatic” or just need to “look at it from a different angle.”
or it can form the exact opposite, people who look down upon disabled folk who decide to own their disability as their identity rather than rush to get the newest (uber expensive) solution to their woes, claiming that they’re becoming “complacent” with their situation.
guess fucking what. disabled folk owe NOTHING to people like this. they don’t get to tell us how to live our own damn lives if they won’t spare a moment to wonder what it’s actually like to be us. and if they had done that, they wouldn’t have this twisted “positive” outlook in the first place.