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slippery-minghus · 1 year ago

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happy disability pride month to disabled folks who were medically neglected as children.

happy disability pride month to people who were disabled as kids, but told their disabilities weren't "really disabling" or enough to stop them from reaching their "potential".

happy disability pride month to people who were never taken to the doctor as kids, never given adequate care for their disabilities (even when it was accessible).

happy disability pride month to people who were only taught about their disabilities as a method of fear mongering. "that kid over there, who obviously has it worse? that could be you."

happy disability pride month to people who were told as children that it was their own fault they were disabled.

happy disability pride month to the people who sat alone in the nurse's office at school when their disability flared.

happy disability pride month to the people who could have had a wildly better quality of life as children, if only their guardians had bothered to care.

#i still forget sometimes that my asthma counts as a disability #it was so drilled into my head as a kid that it wasn't a *real* disability #but in the same breath i would be forbidden from running and playing #when i found out about IEPs in college and how it could have meant i could have been excempt from high school gym class... i'm still so mad #sophomore year no one bothered to take me to the doctor #and that was the year the gym teacher had us running miles 3x a week #i had to use my (expired of course) rescue inhaler almost daily #i remember being so afraid that it was going to keep getting worse and never get better #it did. but not until i got old enough to take my medical care into my own hands #and all of this is just about my asthma. not even touching on the painfully obvious neurodivergence and trauma that went untreated #disability #disability pride month #mine

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