smallswingshoes:
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grimlial:
ok there is something that needs to be talked about
there is a lot of inter-community ableism between the mental illness community and the physically disabled community. as a member of both, it effects me directly.
more specifically its mentally ill people claiming that physical disabilities (including chronic illnesses) are treated better than mental illness, as if our disabilities or illnesses are taken more seriously than mental illness, or that people will more likely accept them as an excuse for something. but they arent treated like that, not at all.
stop acting like the world is more accessible for physically disabled than mentally ill people, its not accessible for either.
if ur physically abled and can reblog this you should tbh
reblogging because i’ve done this – i assumed that obvious physical disabilities got some sort of pass from the assholes.
but it’s wrong. i was wrong. i’m sorry.
That’s what they want you to think, though. “It could be worse - you could be in a wheelchair!”
And then they turn around to someone who’s in a wheelchair, who has (I can assure anyond reading this) absolutely complete and valid reasons to be in the wheelchair and has often felt guilty for being in it, and they go, “If you just tried HARDER…” or “Have you ever considered NOT being in a wheelchair?” or “Are you sure you really NEED it?” or any of a million other snotty things they have no business saying.
But it’s bad for their agenda if YOU know that. Because when they’re talking to you (which feels weird to say because I’m also mentally ill and autistic), they want to hold us up as The Reason To Buck Up Your Ideas. If you know that it’s bullshit, you might get MORE ideas, like thinking that it is absolutely valid and acceptable to be incapacitated by mental illness or cognitive disabilities or anything non-physical.
It is important to note that this is not just screwing us physically disabled people, it is a rhetoric that hurts ALL of us. It is not just screwing people who are disabled but not physically so, it hurts ALL of us.
But it isn’t coming from within the disabled community, it’s coming from the abled people, the doctors, the parents, all the folks who aren’t disabled and want to shut us all up so they don’t have to deal with accommodating people who don’t adhere to the laughably arbitrary “norm.”
The best thing you can do is realise that that’s where it’s coming from and why, and remember that other disabled people are not your enemy.
yes yes all of this yes thank you yes
Basically it’s all constantly moving goalposts.
And that doesn’t even get into the inter-community ableism between neurodivergent folks who do and don’t experience psychosis/have personality disorders/have addictions.