#i dont have to prove why im still valuable in order to deserve community and im not doing that shit no more | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

firefly-fez · 2 years

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me at 8:00: yeah guys i can’t come out tonight. yeah got another insomnia flare-up, really need an early night. have fun tho!

me at 1am: how are we, as a society ever going to destigmatise disability if we won’t even let ourselves say the goddamned word. maybe the reason you think disability is an offensive term is because disability itself offends you. and of course it does, because it is offensive. The notion that a disabled person did nothing to deserve their disability and cannot achieve success the same way you can because of it offends the idea that you are successful because of your vitues, not your luck. It offends the pride you have in uour work, your success, your wealth and whether you truly earnt it. Disability is offensive only because the innate humanity of a disabled person offends the very propaganda our extractive capitalist society relies on to—

#disability #disability rights #look idk how this happened i tripped and fell into it honestly #but i ended up in a position of disability advocacy at my church #so 2023 is the year i say ‘disability rights’ boys #BUT IF THEY USE DIFFERENTLY ABLED LANGUAGE KNE MORE FUCKING TIME I SWEAR #i gag every time #were making meaningful progress and theyre hearts are in the right place and genuinely some disabled church members might prefer that langua #disability is not a monolith etc etc #but as someone who spent the majority of my life compensating for my disabilith to reduce all the ways it affected other people #‘differently abled’ language is SUCH A TRIGGER #i dont have to prove why im still valuable in order to deserve community and im not doing that shit no more #also #shitpost #created at 1:49am #like please do not take this too seriously my friends #just one girls rambled thoughts

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