as small as a world and as large as alone

1:24am July 26, 2014

karalianne:

nekobakaz:

karalianne:

karalianne:

So I just wrote a book on Twitter.

We’ll see if anything comes of it. I am not holding my breath, I have talked to him about this before and he dismissed me as being in a negative spiral.

Ugh, I just realized I got something wrong in that and I’m going to have to add to the list. *sigh*

and so the book continues?

Yup. Just two new tweets.

I’m going to add them to the original post.

Here’s the link to the convo on Twitter.

Most of the time, when people try to deny that something is “a disability”, they’re showing a lot about what they think a disability is.  They tend to think that admitting to a disability is a 100% negative thing, that disabled people have to 100% hate being disabled, etc.  And some of us do see our disabilities that way, but a lot of us don’t.   A lot of us see both good and bad sides to being disabled, I’d even say most of us, if we aren’t forced to see it as 100% bad.  But to these people, disabled means 100% bad, it means broken, it means all these things that it doesn’t actually have to mean.  So they say “autism/ADHD/whatever isn’t a disability” when they mean “autism/ADHD/whatever isn’t 100% bad and/or doesn’t fit my other stereotypes of what being disabled is”.  So I find such remarks much more revealing about the attitudes of the people who make them, than they are about the nature of the condition they’re describing.

And I notice it’s only certain disabilities that get treated this way, and I’m not sure why.

(There’s another sense where people say something isn’t a disability, but that’s not what’s going on here.  That’s when people define disability narrowly as physical disability, and then try to say things like “Depression isn’t a real disability.”  But that’s a totally different thing they’re saying there, for totally different reasons.  Equally fucked up though.)

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