#disability isnt some sorta superficial ugly paint you can put on someone and thats it christ | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

luxraydyne · 2 years

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inhaaaaale if i had a quid for every time a stranger has tried to condescendingly overexplain to me how a use of X ableist trope isn’t abelist at all Actually bc it’s supposed to be about Love and looking Past disability i’m just being mean and/or stupid. i mean it’s not as if i wouldn’t need my disability benefit anymore but like. i could order a takeaway innit.

#tfw ur reaching so hard to be hyperpositive abt disabled ppl it loops back around and starts dipping into like old timey horror tropes #totally unironically like #sometimes i just want to like put a halo style forcefield around disabled fictional characters #like step back! no gesturing at em! no turning to the camera and doing a moralising soliloquy! enough! just leave em be!#intrusive thought egging me to reply to every mansplain with a plain ol skill issue.#disability isnt some sorta superficial ugly paint you can put on someone and thats it christ #i feel like this might be a consequence of hyperpositive shallow no nuance media #ultimately arriving at the bland totally tone deaf conclusion that 'disability doesnt matter were all different'#like itd be swell if it were true but for me. a disabled person. its not lmao! thats a ridiculous thing to say #of course it matters. of course its more than looking different. it's not my entire being but it IS a fundamental part of my selfhood #society made that inevitable

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