as small as a world and as large as alone

12:28am May 24, 2014

thefaultinourspoons:

‘Inspirational porn’ is offensive to people with disabilities. We are not making excuses. 

Not everyone is capable of becoming a doctor.
Not everyone is capable of becoming a teacher.
Not everyone is capable of being the Prime Minister or the President. 
Not everyone wants to collect money for charity.

All disabled people are different, there are so many different things that make people disabled. Just because someone who is disabled doesn’t become an Olympic athlete it doesn’t mean they are giving in to their disability. 

We are not defined by our disabilities. Being disabled isn’t a bad thing. Yes people who are in car accidents can learn to walk again, but that doesn’t mean that every disabled person can learn to walk again, mainly because not every disabled person can’t walk. 

But for those with chronic illnesses walking is painful, it’s dangerous, some of us would end up collapsing if we walk to far, walking makes us extremely fatigued, walking can make us sicker.

Inspiration porn is when disabled people are called inspirational or brave for doing all the things that regular people do.  It’s a problem because it assumes that anyone with a disability must have it so much worse than the rest of us.  And because it uses disabled people to make us non disabled people feel good about ourselves, or to make us do something, like exercise or whatever.  And disabled people aren’t tools, they’re people.

'The only disability in life is a bad attitude’, no, the only disability in life is people who don’t want to adjust the word to help those with disabilities, but want to adjust those with disabilities to the world.

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