I’m coming to the conclusion that ignorance of invisible disabilities partially stems from the combination of capitalism and the Ugly Laws that legally penalized disabled people for being seen in public.

You see, capitalism requires easy segregation of who is seen as profitable
And who is not. People with physical disabilities that are visible can easily be segregated from the general public and demonized for not contributing to the capitalist structure and using benefits, the same cannot be said for those with invisible illnesses. They’re gaslit about
Their disabilities because by all appearances, they SHOULD be contributing to the capitalist structure and their identifying invisible disabilities is seen as a betrayal of this centuries-old system. They’re also forced, however possible, to hide they’re diagnoses until the last
Moment possible because capitalism demands it of them. It’s why this pandemic has been such a turning point for disability, because for the first time, there were people with invisible disabilities who hadn’t previously identified themselves as such that needed to to be protected
By the Americans with Disabilities Act (which in itself was its own irony, but I’ll talk about that later).

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Ok, It’s later and I’m ready to talk about it:

Other than the fact you all left us to die one of the most infuriating aspects to 2020 is that during the 30th anniversary of the Americans with disabilities act, you all were so incredibly inept when it came to discussing the law.
There will always be a certain number of people who will never be able to use masks, but the way anti-maskers toyed with the ADA to spread disease is unconscionable on for them AND FOR THEM. Yes, I blame you both.

Allow me to put it this way: neither side knew the ADA well
Enough to engage in this level of bullshit: Anti-maskers didn’t know the ADA well enough to use it and you all didn’t know it well enough to defend it. And you all can use the excuse that “you didn’t know the law because it doesn’t pertain to you,” but that’d be a lie, because it
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Many more have an active hand in perpetuating it. I am begging you all to listen to disabled people on how this would be used.

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After the passage of the civil rights act, the Republican Party could no longer rely on racial division as the party’s brand strategy so they made the decision to court evangelicals who were mostly
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