Am seeing healthy people celebrate things starting to return to “normal,” as disabled people grieve the loss of accommodations that made social, academic, and work life more accessible to them in the pandemic than ever before.

Always ask yourself - back to normal *for whom*? Better yet, ask yourself if the “normal” of 2019 was actually *good* for people other than yourself. For many disabled people, back to normal effectively means back to ableism. Back to isolation and lack of access. Back to nobody putting in the effort to accommodate.

HOT: Wanting everyone to have access to affordable health care.

NOT: Romanticizing existing socialized health care systems in Europe and pretending they don't screw over disabled people constantly. I want to be clear that no system in the world is *good* for people with my condition (#MECFS, with one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease). But the US is the *least bad* place for people with my condition.

THREAD: Here’s one really simple line I’ve started using in doctor’s appointments that I really like. Ready? I look right at them and say, “I don’t want you to feel like you have to give me an answer.”