#ablebodied — Public Fediverse posts
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It's always surprising to me how quickly a ~certain kind of person~ gets angry if you refer to them as 'Currently Abled' or 'Able Bodied'
No matter what, it's perceived as a threat.
You can see peoples brains trip-over the concept.
I suspect it's tied to some peoples cognitive bias around sickness and morality where sick / ill = Moral failing.
#Disability #Accessibility #AbleBodied #Calvinism #Christianity
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And to those who are #AbleBodied and feeling complaint fatigue from those of us who are #Disabled, we sympathize, and it's your damn fault. if you'd learned your lesson when a bunch of us got together to pass the ADA and started designing things to be accessible as part of the building process, we wouldn't have to keep having these exhausting conversations. Since you collectively haven’t learned, here are the take aways.
- We want access to the world.
- We're not going away. (1/2) -
CW: medical issues, elder care
Being even a part time #caregiver for someone suffering from #dementia is draining, emotionally, and physically.
Always good to remember, being #AbleBodied is always temporary...