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nostalgia-tblr · 2 years

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anyway i just feel As A Disabled Person(TM) that the correct response to "jules bashir could never have lived independently as an adult" is not to downplay the extent of the kid's disabilities (which TBF the episode itself is all over the place about) but rather "so what?" because accomodations for one's disability should not be a source of shame. this child can't tell a tree from a house okay but is he happy and have you even thought to ask him what he'd like you to do about it?

(though having seen the state of things like "let's institutionalise molly o'brien when we know exactly how to keep her happy but we're just not going to bother with that" and "what do you mean spock is in a MENTAL hospital? :O :O" and also "none of these medical professionals have any clue about the fact that you shouldn't just change someone's wheelchair without asking them first" I am not actually very confident that jules would have been given the best of support etc so there's that too.)

#ableism #society in general has a massive blindspot about accepting people with intellectual disabilities as real and valid people #so i can see why the instinct is to go 'oh but he wasnt THAT disabled'#but anyway yeah #actually has anyone analysed melora in the light of julian as a formerly-disabled child?#if so i havent seen that so link me to it pls thnx #humans are a social species none of us lives independently anyway u kno?#also yes i am very into that post where pike gets a betazed interpreter

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