#a weaponized invocation of disability that if i'm being honest feels very flippant about the actual difficult lived reality of disabilty | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thepoisonroom · 11 hours ago

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can i make a post about being irritated by antimaskers as a disabled person without annoying people trying to condescendingly explain accommodations for my disability to me! btw!

#like how poor is your reading comprehension that you don't understand that what i'm mad about is antimaskers' BAD FAITH invocation of #a disability that i have #like with these customer freaks i am making good faith attempts to accommodate them and they are rejecting those attempts and #refusing to work with me to identify and enact an accommodation #and instead just double down and harangue me for wearing a mask and keep insisting i take it off #which like. does not make me feel like these are good faith attempts to request accommodation #and are more likely antimasker customers trying to badger me into compromising my safety with like #a weaponized invocation of disability that if i'm being honest feels very flippant about the actual difficult lived reality of disabilty #so to be honest it feels VERY annoying to be condescended to by people on here lack reading comprehension and think that i #simply do not know enough about accommodations!#also to the person who brought up sign language in the replies it's actually a know language education and rights problem that #many Deaf/HOH don't know ASL or their contextual sign language and may not have access to opportunities to learn/practice/use it #so tbh i'm sure that person meant well but it did make me feel the exact same strangled rage #as when white people speak a bit of mandarin are like 'oh teehee i guess that makes me a better asian than you' like fuck OFF #at least no one has pulled a full how dare you say we piss on the poor yet but can people actually read things somewhat or at all #and not try to tumblrsplain hearing disabilities to me!!!!!!!#i'm soooooooo irate when i should be having pizza movie night with my beautiful girlfriend i think i'm gonna turn off reblogs on that post #the horrible temptation to reply really rudely then block #personal nonsense #eta: also to be clear the sign language issue is that even if i hadn't studied asl (i have)#it wouldn't actually be a silver bullet for communicating with people who rely on lip reading #so like......that just comes off very ignorant to act like i'm too stupid to think of that #or like it's a simple solution that people with hearing disabilities are just forgetting about

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