Thread by @Mae_DayJ

PSA for writers:

Before you write that scene where a villain stands up out of their wheelchair and reveals They Could Walk The Whole Time... I'm going to quickly explain to you why that trope has serious and dangerous real world consequences

Disabled people are publicly confronted by strangers that don't believe they are really disabled, because we can walk, all the time.

Violently and aggressively confronted. Threatened even.

This reaction is doubtlessly tied to the media erasure of ambulatory wheelchair users and these wreckless and abelist plots

This repeated trope programs people to associate seeing a person stand up out of a wheelchair with deception and evil.

This is very harmful to the Disability Community.

Please before you write this awful trope (or write it again) just don't.

Anecdote: Once a metrolink train conductor lied to me about their being Disabled Person seating.

I had a Disabled Person ticket (which he didn't know) but I guess I didn't "look disabled enough" for this guy.

These tropes effect our lives in such subversive ways

While you're here...

https://twitter.com/Mae_DayJ/status/1338913622232186885?s=19

https://twitter.com/Mae_DayJ/status/1378098767816101888?s=19

Thanks to everyone who wants to learn from marginalized voices

Thanks to yall that didnt feel the need to be condescending, ie."sure that's bad writing but let bad writers flex"

🖕🏽🖕🏽To everyone that thinks disabled people are wrong for asking our existence be respected

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