Thread by @AutSciPerson

Non-disabled people who may or may not think they are allies to disabled people,

Please read:

You do not get to decide what is good or bad journalism, representation, or media about disability. You are not the decision-maker on what is "good representation."

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The same goes for if you do not have that disability.

As an autistic person with other disabilities, I don't get to decide whether that chronic illness piece was awful or not - people with chronic illnesses do.

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I don't get to decide whether the piece on wheelchair users with spinal cord injuries and caregiving is good representation or not - only people with spinal cord injuries and wheelchair users do.

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But especially non-disabled people -

Please stop pretending like you have to have an opinion about a piece or media, especially when it's created by a non-disabled person about disability!

Platform the voices who -should have- been in the room, who should have been hired.

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You cannot be a "good" non-disabled ally to disabled people if you speak over disabled voices and decide not to listen to the disabled people who are impacted by that media. That is not allyship, that's speaking over us.

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