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uncanny-tranny · 1 year

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I think more people ought to accept the idea that mobility aids do not always look like they're specifically "for disabled people." An aid is, at the core, something that helps to empower disabled people to live more comfortably, more easily, more pain-less/pain-free, maintain quality of life, or anything else.

A disability aid might not be obvious to you. It might even seem silly to call some things "disability aids," but that doesn't change the fact that they are helping that person live more comfortably and freely. Not every disabled person will have aids that are "not standard," but for the disabled people who do have non-standard aids, we ought to treat them well and include them in spaces. We can accommodate a vast array of disabled people, and the effort to include them is worth the time it takes.

#disability #i was thinking about this because i'm getting gloves to help my hand pain and joint problems in my hands #and i don't think people would conceptualize that as an 'aid' because... they're fucking /gloves/#but (hopefully) they will minimize the amount of pain/anxiety/fear that i get when my hands start acting up #so in my mind they will aid in my quality of life and my overall physical and mental health #because it is so scary to me when my hands act up because... if you have hands that function like 90% of the time you RELY on them #and the times that they fail you are deeply unsettling and almost horrifying #anyway rant over: if somebody says something is an aid believe them <3

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