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This, like THIS! 

Not just for physical disabilities but for mental health.  Like yes, I am glad that you got the support you needed and with time and meds you were able to contribute just as much as everyone else.  But also, if you can’t take the meds, or you take them and they aren’t effective, or you have good days and bad days for the rest of your life it isn’t because you aren’t trying hard enough, and you still deserve the accommodation and compassion you need to get by.  It shouldn’t be on some form of arbitrary timeline, and we shouldn’t start this with a metric for, you need to produce this much work to have value.

Stop talking about capability, and start talking about worthiness

disability advocacy went wrong when it became about inspiration porn and “differently abled” and savants. its incredible that that guy with no legs did a triathlon but your sister with no legs will not and she doesnt need prosthetics or five hour training days to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. its incredible that that autistic guy can look at a city from a helicopter for an hour and then draw the entire detailed skyline from memory when he lands but your autistic friend cannot and they dont need to have a special Autism Power to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. 

activism framed around “we are just as CAPABLE” means that when people genuinely are less capable they are left behind. activism framed around “we are just as WORTHY” is fundamental to radical compassion.