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Dear young disabled people,

You didn't deserve this.

Ableism sucks and I wish there was free medical support for everyone (and shorter wait lists).

It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to grieve. It's okay to be angry. It's okay to be sad. It's okay to mourn what you lost to your disability.

On the flip side, it's okay to have fun with it. It's okay to decorate your mobility aids, wear fun disability awareness pins. It's okay to be proud of your disability.

But it's okay to hate it too.

Celebrating your disability, and the disabled community, while hating what your disability puts you through are things that should, and can coexist.

Sending love

~ 💜

"low support needs disabled people are often not believed to have a disability at all and therefore struggle to get accommodations."

"high support needs disabled people's accommodations are often seen as 'too much' and therefore are not met."

"neurodivergent people's needs are often dismissed because nothing is physically wrong with them."

"physically disabled people people often cannot physically access buildings and people refuse to do anything about it."

"invisibly disabled people are seen as lazy by society."

"visibly disabled people are ostracized from society."

IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE DISABILITY

able bodied neurodivergents thinking physically disabled people have it easy will never not be so frustrating to me. “but they wouldn’t treat someone in a WHEELCHAIR like this!!”

yes. yes they would.

hilarity is being yelled at by another neurodivergent person “imagine if someone treated you badly and dehumanized YOU for your spinal cord injury!!!!” but the exact situation they’re describing happened to me already like 15x