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Why do able-bodied men feel the need to police disabled women’s disabilities?

Context:

I have chronic, episodic bone pain in my left leg. Not sure what exactly it is but it stems from the osgoode schlatter (extra bone) in my knee and an untreated sprain from years ago. Episodic basically means some days I can’t move and others I am totally fine.

Now, I got a cane yesterday. My first mobility aid. I also live in a supposedly “accessible” college campus.

The dining hall on campus just got renovated so instead of a single entrance and exit, theres now one entrance with turnstiles and one exit with turnstiles on separate parts of the caf.

There is only one elevator and its outside the entrance which means disabled people have to take exit via the entrance.

Well today, on a scale of 1-10, was about an 8 on the pain scale. So yes, I had my cane and my limp was more pronounced because of how much I was relying on my cane for support. So I go to lunch in the caf and when I go to leave, this fucking white dude (who’s apparently the manager of our school’s dining hall) PUTS HIS FUCKING HANDS ON ME and tells me to go out the exit. The exit with stairs. The exit with THREE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS.

I look him dead in the face and said “I’m not an idiot, I know where the exit is, but you WATCHED ME WALK OVER HERE and you’re going to tell me I have to take the stairs?”

Y’all I am fuminggggggggg at his response.

He SCOFFED and asked why I was FAKING a disability. If it wouldn’t have gotten me charged with assault (or had me falling over) I would have taken out his shins. Anyway, shoutout to this one girl who was coming in when she heard that and started yelling at him as I got on the elevator.

Anyway if he does it again I WILL be whacking him in the shins and claiming self defense :D