#all that being said dont use the c slur for yourself if youre not physically fucking disabled

[ink-asunder]

I think the one thing about the mentally vs physically disabled argument, the wheelchair bound vs healthy passing argument, the "why am I as an able bodied but neurodivergent person not allowed to say the c slur" argument is just that...

The threshold to be physically endangered via ableism is just really fucking low. Someone who cannot move at all without a wheelchair cannot enter or escape areas that are not ADA approved. But also someone with dietary restrictions and fatal allergies (the most invisble illness of all, it feels like) are CONSTANTLY endangered by negligence, laziness, and malice. You need the privilege of money or benefits to access healthcare, but if you have ANY problem that is not GUARANTEED to get 100% better within 6 months, you are fucked and abandoned by the healthcare system. (Because the healthcare system is NOT designed to treat sick people. It is designed to keep healthy people healthy. But I digress.)

Autistic and psychotic people are physically endangered via saneism and ableism in situations like interactions with police. Anybody who has ANY physical condition that impairs their physical ability will face apathetic or malicious negligence. Anything from food allergies to mild joint pain to literal paralysis, you can be gaslit by a doctor, assaulted in some form, or have a near-death experience that is the result of ableism.

The sooner people figure this out, the sooner a lot of people will stop clowning about the various aspects of disability.