Internalized ableism is when someone with a disability is projecting negative feelings about their own disability onto themselves. Disabled people often struggle to recognize, accept, & come to terms with how disability affects them - i.e. internalized ableism #DEHEM21
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Internalized ableism harms disabled people themselves as it can cause a lot of distress in relation to no longer being able (i.e. not having a disability) or refusing to see similarities between different people with disabilities.
Internalized ableism can also importantly intersect with other forms of oppression (internally and externally) for an additive effect. Other systems of oppression include: fat phobia, racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, etc.
Next week we will be talking about intersectionally so this topic may come up again!
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