People talk about benefit scroungers and disabled people not contributing to society. Here's my take.
I wasn't born disabled but I am now impaired whereby the social and physical structure of society results in my physical & mental impairments being that I'm now Dis-abled by YOU.
I wasn't born disabled but I am now impaired whereby the social and physical structure of society results in my physical & mental impairments being that I'm now Dis-abled by YOU.
Surprised by that? Yes, not all of you obviously, but by those of you who create material structures that prevent me from accessing basic things that non disabled people are privy to every day of the week.
The language some of you use to refer to us has a detrimental effect.
The language some of you use to refer to us has a detrimental effect.
Terms like invalid, let's unwrap that as In-valid. See what I mean? It all works towards us feeling marginalised and unaccepted within society.
Terms change all the time and it's only by communicating with people you will know which terms are acceptable, I'll answer questions
Terms change all the time and it's only by communicating with people you will know which terms are acceptable, I'll answer questions
About my impairments to anyone who wishes to know rather than you make assumptions about me. Don't ever think I was never in a high paid, well respected job. Don't equally think of the things I can't do, rather than the things I can, just by looking at me. And most of all....
Don't judge me on my walking stick, ableism takes many forms. Sympathy is not something any of us look for, it's patronising and just amplifies ableist attitudes towards dis-abled people.
I've more to add but will leave it there for now. Thanks for reading x
I've more to add but will leave it there for now. Thanks for reading x
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