THREAD📌 I'd really hoped that the #pandemic would make folks more conscious of #disability & recognize how suffocating it is to be isolated from society by illness, but instead non-disabled people just wrote about how hard it was for them to not go where they wanted whenever.
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Today is Day 1,611 since the hospital sent me home after I was paralyzed. I can count the times I have been out of the house since, and every single time was to the hospital. For 4yrs I've been trying to get a wheelchair lift and an motorized chair so I can escape this prison.
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The US does less than nothing for #disabled people. Being disabled is a daily fight for survival and the most basic care. If I didn't have a loving, committed and non-disabled spouse, I would likely not have survived that first year. Most disabled people are not so fortunate.
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Whenever I tweet about #disability, I lose followers, get ignored, or both. Yet there are 81M #disabled Americans--THE largest minority group in the US. I was paralyzed in seconds. The same could happen to you. We should be more aware of and compassionate towards disabled people.
Complications of #COVID19 is leaving 40% of victims with disabling damage from the virus. There should be more effort made to recognize how the number of #disabled people is expanding daily and that a truly just society cares for its most vulnerable and marginalized members.
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